A WALKDEN head-teacher has been given a glowing report by education inspectors. Geoffrey Jones, Head of North Walkden County Primary School, has been praised by OFSTED inspectors in their report on the school. The report states that Mr Jones and his deputy
LABOUR would cut vital missile contracts devastating British Aerospace Dynamics which has a key factory in Bolton, Defence Secretary Michael Portillo has warned. Speaking at Samlesbury in Lancashire, he said military spending would be the natural target
A CHARITY worker was forced to borrow fund-raising cash to pay a cold-hearted wheel clamper to release her car. Debra Higson, who works for the National Children's Home family centre in Breighmet, had just stopped on the car park behind Stanley Casino
A DISABLED Bolton woman has been landed with TWO £300,000 phone bills after a British Telecom computer blunder. And today red-faced BT officials admitted other mobile phone customers have received faulty bills. June Fogg could not believe her eyes when
SIR: Mr S R Morgan makes a pretty big assumption when he states that G.Baxter has 'little sympathy' for the mentally ill (BEN, January 25). Just because G Baxter highlighted the mental state of Mr Hamilton as one of the contributing factors behind the
Parbold and the Beacon THIS week I'm telling 'half-a-fib'. I went not to find the living world but to look for part of a long dead world. In the end I failed to find just what I was looking for which was a fossil tree said to be more than one million
EVERYBODY, according to the song, needs somebody - and Westhoughton is sorely in need of bodies right now to meet the needs of a growing number of lonely people. Westhoughton, apparently, can be a very lonely place. But now a befriending service has been
A BOLTON-born author and illustrator has rewritten the Isle of Man's most famous folk tale, devilishly well. David Livesey has just published his first book, The Buggane of St Trinians. It tells the traditional Manx tale of Timothy the Tailor's battle
WHEN that winter quarter's bill for power lands on the doormat with a dull thud, spare a thought for the disabled Bolton woman who found herself with two £300,000 phone bills, after a British Telecom computer blunder. Other mobile phone customers have
BOLTON General Hospital used to have 800 car parking spaces, while the recently-closed Bolton Royal Infirmary had 238. So when the massive new £45 million Royal Bolton Hospital was on the planning boards, it wouldn't have needed a transport expert to
From the Evening News, February 1, 1972 THE Labour Party this afternoon split with the Tories over the handling of the Ulster crisis. The decision to end the bi-partisan policy came at a meeting of Labour MPs at Westminster, when the Party agreed to force
WANDERERS are keeping tabs on Aberdeen's Scott Booth as they continue their search for striker. Burnden boss Colin Todd ran a personal check on the transfer-lists 25-year-old Scotland international last week and is understood to have contacted the Dons
HUNDREDS of teachers and parents were marching through the streets of Bury this morning in protest at huge cuts in the town's schools. As reported recently in the BEN, more than 400 teaching jobs are under threat because the local authority is being forced
OFFICIAL complaints about Lofty the Lion have finally been sent to the Football Association by Wolves fans - almost two weeks after controversy flared. The FA will be able to consider the accusations levelled by furious fans of the Midlands club early
THE British Army's supply trucks are being kept on the road in Bosnia with the help of Bolton soldier Corporal Gary Paterson. Gary, aged 27, is a vehicle mechanic in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers working with the Royal Corps of Transport
AN ANGRY motorist is threatening to take Bolton Council to court in a row about damage to his car. Nigel Crompton claims that a window in his Renault was smashed by stones churned up by council workmen tidying up in the grounds of Bolton Parish Church
A LEGAL loophole has cost a Westhoughton mum part of her maternity pay. By taking two weeks holiday before leaving work to have her first baby, Julie Heaton, has effectively reduced her pay by 25pc. Instead of being paid her entitlement of 90pc she has
PROSPECTIVE Parliamentary candidate Ruth Kelly has Labour very much on her mind at present - she's five months' pregnant! The 28-year-old prospective mum is due to contest the marginal Bolton West seat for Labour against Government Minister and sitting
THINK BEFORE... There are 13 vapour trails slicing through the blue. Some seem several hours old, the remainder look quite new. A hazy golden backcloth surrounds the sleepy town, With a billowing cloud of whiteness floating upwards from the ground. The
he house... SIR: In the BEN (January 18 1997) I saw a picture of the Bolton Lads' and Girls" Club and they had a Cabaret Night with members', mothers and fathers there.The report said there were over 100 people who went. Seeing that picture took me back
PHIL Larder and his Sheffield Eagles assistant John Kear left Hilton Park none the wiser last night. The Eagles coaching duo had been hoping to pick up some tips on Leigh before next Sunday's Challenge Cup clash but what they saw was a mish-mash of trailists
SIR: Michael Heseltine's outburst against the report published by the public policy and British business shows how desperate the Tories are becoming as even their traditional supporters desert them. The group of leading city and industrial executives
SIR: With a view to a General Election that is appearing closer by the month, I am surely pressed to make mention of the large poster depicting the dear old lady showing sadness about her plight to come, should the Conservative Government be ousted from
POLICE are probing a blaze which destroyed the roof of a Chapel of Rest at Leigh Cemetery last night. Firefighters were called to the cemetery on Manchester Road, Leigh, at 9.30pm last night when flames were seen coming out of the building. Someone had
BOLTON eye unit's teaching facilities have been given a major boost by the WRVS. The highly praised Royal Bolton Hospital's ophthalmology unit has been given camera equipment which will be a boon for teaching and training. The Women's Royal Voluntary
