STAFF at two post offices are on cloud nine after scooping national prizes for producing the best foreign currency sales figures over a twelve month period. Tyldesley Post Office and Edge Green Post Office, Golborne were each awarded £300 worth of travellers
A BOOZY day at the races turned into a night on the tiles for a Chorley builder who got stuck on a hotel roof. Reveller Kenny Burns, of Silvester Road, thought he had been locked out when he returned at 3am from a day at Doncaster races with drinking
THE father of murdered security guard, Ian Foster has welcomed the overwhelming backing from MPs for a total ban on handguns.. Cllr Jack Foster, whose 26-year-old son Ian was gunned down during a raid on Farnworth Town Hall in 1992, said he was "very
BOLTON is doubling for Dorset for a new television production of Thomas Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd. Hall i'th' Wood is one of the locations being used for the Granada TV production which will be broadcast in four episodes in the autumn. The TV
THE long-awaited link between Bolton and the M6 is set to be one of the first roads in Britain to be built with private cash. Construction giants AMEC are in secret talks which could lead to the the axed A5225 being finally built ... after more than 40
HEALTH watchdogs have demanded extra cash to help Bolton's over-stretched casualty unit to cope with an influx of patients from the Leigh and Salford areas. Since the new hi-tech accident and emergency unit opened at the Royal Bolton Hospital staff have
SIR: On Sunday June 8, I visited Overdale, it being the anniversary of my mother's death. My intention was to put flowers in the chapel and more importantly to view the inscription I had placed in the Book of Remembrance, it being on display each year
TRADITIONALLY tidy Chorley villages will come under the microscope this summer as judges inspect local communities for a countywide competition. Every nook and cranny of 17 villages in the borough will be put to the test as part of the Lancashire Best
LEADING conservationist Dr David Bellamy has praised the efforts of local campaigners who battled to save Red Moss from being turned into a supertip. Dr Bellamy, who is President of the Wildlife Trusts, visited the ancient peat bog at Horwich yesterday
CHORLEY taxpayers have been praised by the council which is happy to do business with them. For the borough council has topped the tax collecting league of Lancashire for its business rates. Figures published by the Department of the Environment show
CARING primary school pupils have put their young hearts into raising cash for a brave little cancer sufferer and others like her all this week. The youngsters from St John's CE School, Coppull, are taking part in a week of fund-raising for Royal Manchester
What were the things men used to do When pretty women they had found? Like walking on the outside, or Just spreading cloak on ground. Or how about the duels fought For love and Honour dear, When each man paced it out And felt that Death was very near?
A FATHER and son who lost contact almost 50 years ago, have lived in Bolton just five minutes apart from one another for 10 years without either ever knowing. Now, thanks to an appeal for help to the Evening News, they have been reunited. Mr Frank Howarth
TWO veteran soldiers from twin towns in England have recently been reunited after 51 years. Sgt Doug Taylor, from Horwich, and Cpl Bill Leach, from Horwich's twin town of Crowborough, Sussex, last saw each other in Germany in 1946. They met up again at
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 12, 1972 THE home tourist industry now faces its strongest ever threat from the increasing popularity of continental package tours and holidays. A report from the North West Tourist Association says: 'The holiday
REDUNDANCIES have been announced at Eurodis HB Electronics in Bolton. The Lever Street business is to shed 13 jobs in operations and administration - 10 of them in Bolton. It follows a re-structuring of the Eurodis Electron Group's UK operation, which
BOLTON has staged "a bit of a coup" in attracting the sixth annual national mills conference. This is the view of Steve Burns, Bolton Council's Head of Economic Development. The conference attracts about 120 delegates from all over the country - mostly
STAFF at Parklands High are celebrating after an inspectors' report praised the school for its "potential to achieve excellence". An OFSTED team found teachers' standards at the Southport Road school were "good value for money" and hailed GCSE results
BOLTON Tories are having their own facelift ahead of the party's predicted national revamp. Local Conservative Party workers will leave their town centre offices on Princess Street this week. And Bolton West Conservative Association have set up their
PLANNERS were due to meet on Tuesday to juggle one of the hottest political potatoes in Chorley - the revamping of Lever Park. Pressure groups opposed to North West Water's plans to extend the park, restore the terraced gardens and build a visitor centre
STRESSED-out council employees don't have to suffer in silence. Councillors will tomorrow consider ways in which workers can get help for stress. Bolton Council has a policy for helping employees take "all reasonable steps" to minimise stress in the workplace
LABOUR MP Janet Anderson has been asked to take on a surprise new post - playing for the Lords and Commons Rugby Team. The Labour Whip and MP for Rossendale and Darwen, was stunned to get a letter from Captain Lord Addington asking her to take the field
A WEEK is a long time in politics, but the last month has been hectic for Chorley MP Lindsay Hoyle. First he was elected to Parliament in Labour's landslide May 1 victory. Then he became Mayor of Chorley, taking over the chains from Mel Coombes. And this
FURIOUS residents are mounting a campaign against speed freaks who are turning a country lane into a racing track. Homeowners on Back Lane, Charnock Richard, which joins the A49 Wigan Road, are fed up of cars crashing on the narrow road. Campaign organiser
SIR:I refer to the news item 'RSPCA Honours' (BEN June 6 1997). I would like to point out that I was honoured to receive the award, but the last paragraph of the story, stating that I went to considerable expense, was not strictly true I initially paid
AS a best-seller, it's hardly up there with "Valley of the Dolls" and "Hollywood Wives." But "Heavy Vehicle Technology" by Bolton man David Leeming is still selling steadily 25 YEARS after he first signed the publishing contract! David, from Riding Gate
PROFESSIONAL counsellors are set to move in on a drug-hit Chorley housing estate to help residents break the habit. The drop-in centre, to be based at a North British Housing Estate in Clayton Brook, will be staffed by an experienced community worker
SIR: The closure of a private nursing home in the North West region, at 24 hours notice clearly illustrates the dangers of reliance on private provision for the care of vulnerable members of the community. At obvious detriment to their well being, infirm
A SHOWDOWN between Euxton residents and county planners following proposals for a sand and gravel quarry off Runshaw Lane will take place early next year. A public enquiry into the scheme will be held on February 24 after a petition with 2,500 signatures
TWO knights will meet in a duel to the "death" at Westhoughton Summer Show and Carnival this weekend. And the victor in what promises to be a fiercely fought contest on Sunday afternoon will have the honour of placing the crown on the head of Carnival
SIR: Well done the police! Reported crime in Bolton has fallen by 9.4 per cent, but the police can only manage to detect 23 per cent (BEN, June 5). This means 77 per cent remains undetected, and Chief Superintendent Bartlett says he's 'pleased'. Bolton
SIR: Many hedgehogs arriving at the hospital are suffering from dehydration due to the warm spell of weather we are now having. A hedgehog out in the daytime is in trouble in some way. Hedgehogs don't sunbathe as many people believe, they are night-time
A CHORLEY school is just g-RRR-eat . . . So good, in fact, that eager pupils arrive before the start of school to learn more! Southlands High has become one of just 18 out of 4,000 in the entire country to win a prestigious quality award for its success
FOUR members of the Wigan team which scored Britain's only victory in the first round of World Club Championship have been named in the Australasian Super League Magazine's team of the week. The four were the pick of the Warriors' line-up which beat Canterbury
SIR: 'Don't choke Britain' I am told, I have been trying not to since 1989. 1 operate special excursion trains from local town and village stations in Pennine Lancashire and Yorkshire and am one of the few charter train operators left in the North. Why
LEIGH Centurions are facing the prospect of going into Sunday's promotion crunch game at Carlisle without top prop Andy Pucill. And to add to Leigh's problems loose-forward Neil Jukes is struggling with ankle and knee injuries. It would be a massive blow
SIR: The views of Lynn Williamson on animal research (BEN, May 24) would find very little support from mainstream medicine and science. A recent British Medical Association survey showed that 19 out of every 20 doctors agree that animal research is important
St Annes CC 172-8 Chorley CC 46-1 SATURDAY'S potentially attractive Vaux Northern League clash with reigning champions St Annes at Windsor Park was ultimately ruined by the weather when a fierce storm forced an abandonment shortly after 6.30pm with both
SIR: Further horrors of the treatment of animals in vivisection laboratories have again been exposed this week. An undercover investigation has revealed that a contract laboratory abused and killed monkeys during product development tests this year. The
TWO most deserving groups have scooped £200 each after being chosen as the May and June monthly winners of the Chorley Citizen-Kwik Fit Community Bursary Awards. Clayton Parish 5-a-side Committee kicked off the cash handouts by taking the May award followed
SIR: James Marshall Bridge's arguments do not become very much clearer on his second attempt (BEN June 4). His original letter attempted to blame anti-social behaviour among the young on the prevalence of the culture of "Political Correctness" (PC) and
THE murder mystery is a genre which appeals to a certain type of reader or viewer. The intricate plot structure and the suspense teases the mind and the suspense makes for superb drama. Unfortunately, I think Walmsley AODS chose the wrong play to display
TIMING is of the essence in this wickedly witty play by Alan Ayckbourn. Under producer/director Dave Eyre, the supremely well cast actors are equal to the split-second exchanges, both verbal and physical. The comedy, which in Eyre's hands, does not overstep
A GRAVE digger had to be freed by firemen today after falling into a grave at Ridgemont Cemetery, Horwich. Craig Farrington, aged 25, who lives in the town, and a colleague were digging when the earth gave way beneath him. He was trapped waist deep. Two
IT'S a potential killer, it's on the increase - and it's waiting in every kitchen in the country. Food poisoning claims lives every year and peaks in June and July, just as we happily take our food into the garden for a barbecue. And in National Food
A £100,000 project to brighten up some of Bolton's dreariest council estates has come under fire. Housing chiefs have given the go-ahead for the plan to develop community art schemes. But Tory Cllr John Hanscomb hit out at a housing committee meeting,
DENMARK striker Miklos Molnar wants to follow in the footsteps of Per Frandsen and Michael Johansen. The 27-year-old Lingby goal star says he would choose Wanderers ahead of Premiership rivals Barnsley ... if he is offered the chance of a move to England
