DEXTER Nonwovens of Radcliffe has received the British Safety Council's Five Star safety award at a London reception. The Sion Street company was among 38 businesses which received their awards at the ceremony in the Stationers' Hall. Sir Neville Purvis
THOMSON'S Group plc has appointed Jeremy Thomason as Group Finance Director. Mr Thomason, 41, who lives in Greenmount, Bury, and was raised in Bolton, was educated at Rossall School and Hull University before training in London with chartered accountants
A YOUTH who subjected a young girl to a "traumatic" sexual attack at a Bolton recreation spot calmly walked off with two young schoolboy anglers, police revealed today. The hunt for the attacker, who struck as the seven-year-old girl was walking near
WitnessesA MAJOR new initiative aiming to encourage more witnesses to give evidence at court is being introduced in Greater Manchester this month. Stricter guidelines for agencies involved in the criminal justice process have been drawn up. A working
ANTI-BLOOD sports campaigners demonstrated outside North West Water's Bolton offices yesterday in protest against the company's land being used by huntsmen. The demonstration by the North West Campaign Against Blood sports launched a new campaign to have
A MAJOR police search was launched when a teenage Bolton boy disappeared after an argument with a fellow pupil on a school trip to Yorkshire. About 50 officers were called out and the force helicopter alerted after Daniel Bretherton, aged 13, ran off
A BOLTON doctor is pioneering a unique programme of sex education in an attempt to prevent gym slip pregnancies. Dr Dominic Stevens has devised a system in which he advises and informs mothers of daughters - aged about 10 years - about problems they may
GERMANY has decided to press ahead with the Eurofighter - safeguarding thousands of British jobs which depend on the project for survival. The future of the project was seen as vital to the Matra British Aerospace factory at Lostock, where missile guidance
THE Government has dropped plans to ban or increase the tax on alcopops in favour of tough new controls on their sale, marketing, and advertising. Final details of a deal between ministers and the drinks industry will be hammered out in the next two weeks
inMANCHESTER tonight stages a speedway Ashes Test for the first time for 45 years, writes JOHN TURNER. Holders England meet Australia at Belle Vue (7.30pm) in the first of three matches. The last time the old enemies met in Manchester was at the old Belle
SIR: 'Disgruntled Motorist' (BEN July 7) is not the only one to notice the efficiency of our traffic police. They stop motorists for "travelling too slowly" and "driving too carefully" and are very keen on prosecuting drivers of cars with minor defects.They
SIR: This is partly a way of imparting information, but also in the hope of getting answers to questions raised, especially from Bolton based members of the government, or even members of the council. What is nett pay? Since leaving school I am sure that
AFTER a blast of 1950s foot-tapping music in the first half of what purports to be the story of 50 years of the Manchester dance scene, I was in mellow mood. During the interval there was a 1970s interlude on stage during which energetic members of the
THIS week - Veggie Week in the BEN - we're looking at local vegetarians and finding out why they adopted this increasingly popular food/lifestyle, and how it has changed their lives. Here, ANGELA WILSON, a fitness teacher at Bolton Health Studio in Mawdsley
POLICE are hunting for a hit and run driver after a 77-year-old man was mown down and killed in Bury. Cyril White, of Burswood Avenue, Bury, suffered a broken leg and internal injuries in the collision yesterday afternoon. Mr White was crossing Walmersley
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, July 11, 1972 ALMOST a year ago Mr Anthony Barber Chancellor of the Exchequer, made an announcement which started one of the biggest business bonanzas of this century. He removed all restrictions on hire purchase sales
BT has announced that it has landed the contract to keep Bolton's new Reebok Stadium in touch with the world. The company beat off strong competition to provide the complete telecommunications system at the new £30m Premiership home of the promoted Wanderers
A PENSIONER was fighting for his life in hospital today after he was thrown from his motorbike in a crash with a van. Police believe the 65-year-old rider is from the Bolton area. possibly Astley Bridge or Breightmet. But today, they were still trying
BOLTON'S Mayor is looking for energetic local people who want to pit themselves against the country's most famous assault course - to raise charity cash. Cllr Peter Birch wants teams of four to take part in a sponsored charity fund-raiser at the Krypton
BOLTON'S Consumer Advice Centre helped out a record number of people last year with problems ranging from clocked cars to counterfeit clothes. The centre, in Ashburner Street, helped nearly 10,000 consumers, protecting them from unscrupulous traders and
SIR: The country desperately needs individuals to be self-sufficient and to save for the long term. I cannot understand why the Government has decided to take £5bn a year out of our pension funds? This act defies logic. G Jones Westbank Road, Lostock
SIR: Once again Paisley and Trimble have got their way again by intimidating not only a Tory Government but also a Labour Government. What Mo Molam is actually saying when she says there will be less bloodshed backing the Unionist Orangemen, is that the
WIGAN coach Eric Hughes is preparing for a dog-fight when his side line-up against struggling Paris tomorrow night. The Warriors have been forced to field a much weakened three-quarter line and will be up against a side desperate for points to avoid the
SIR: I refer to the letter headed: Route out of traffic agony, by Jim Alker (BEN, July 7). Might I suggest Mr Alker takes a 500 yard walk to the Lyons Industrial Estate (at Kearsley) and looks very carefully at the Railway Bridges at the rear of the Industrial
Summer, What Summer when did we see you last? Was it a brief spell last year, or sometime in the past We remember you in seventy-six when your sun was oh so strong There wasn't a breath of air all night and all day long. You often come and bring the rain
DRINKERS at a town centre pub don't have to wait for a change in the law to guarantee a full pint in their glass. The Dog and Partridge is one step ahead of government plans to force all pubs to disregard the head of froth and serve a full measure of
A BOLTON school's band scooped the top national prize at the Music Festival for Youth at London's Royal Festival Hall. Smithills School Senior Percussion Ensemble with North Bolton Sixth Form College Performing Arts, were the first of four bands from
A RADCLIFFE family had a lucky escape after firebugs threw a petrol bomb at their house early today. Neighbours woke the couple and their new born baby at 3am after the petrol bomb landed on their Rover car parked outside their Holland Street home. Fire
HORWICH firemen are ready for the move into a new £1m fire station next week. The crews will begin operating from the new building on Monday, although the official opening will not take place until October. Building work on the new station, which stands
WANDERERS could be about to add to their summer recruits. As latest signing Arnar Gunnlaugsson met up with his new team-mates following his £100,000 capture from Iceland's top club Akranes 48 hours ago, manager Colin Todd stepped up his bid for fresh
