THE FA Carling Premiership Trophy is to be on display at the Bolton Bury Business Show on Thursday, October 23. The event at the Excel Centre, part of Bolton College in Manchester Road, is expected to attract interest from all over the North-west. Show
A LOCAL health service could need five times the expected extra cash for 1998/99, if it is to fund all the identified pressures and developments. A report to the Bury and Rochdale Health Authority highlights the pressures on the budget and stresses that
THE man who runs the North West Wildlife Hospital hopes to branch out. Tom Morris, aged 43, has run the hospital and rescue centre from the back garden of his home in Vale Avenue, Horwich, for seven years. But, he says, the time has come for a new centre
PLANNING chiefs have finally been forced to end their long fight to stop a massive Westhoughton housing development. They have given Redrow Homes permission to build 128 homes . . . because they could be left with £25,000 costs if they refused. Two years
A DISABLED couple claim their well-earned holiday in Turkey was hell and ended with a home-coming they would rather forget. James and Margaret MacDonald, who suffer from asthma and arthritis, flew to Marmaris with their family. But they say they had to
SOCCER superstar Ryan Giggs made a flying visit to the Allsports USA store in Bolton yesterday. Hundreds of fans queued outside the Market Place store to catch a glimpse of the Manchester United winger, recently immortalised in Reebok's five minute animated
SIR: I think that the refusal to close offices etc. on the day of the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, has nothing to do with being out of touch, unfeeling or republicanism. Such silly actions by some councillors and officials are the main reason
SIR: I sympathise with your correspondent Anne Entwistle and I am also concerned about the standard of our local postal deliveries. I recently wrote to the Royal Mail as our postal service (after 20 years of excellence) was becoming erratic, late, our
SIR: On Saturday, September 20, Nathen Blake and Gary Pallister were sent off for fighting during a soccer match. After the intervention of Alex Ferguson, Pallister had his punishment reduced to a booking. In retrospect, after viewing the video, the referee
HUNTER Mariners boss Graham Murray has ordered his players to kill off Wigan's World Championship hopes tonight - even though his own side is under shadow of the death sentence. Australian Super League have already wound up top side Perth Western Reds
SIR: I would like through your column to show my disgust to some of the residents of Horwich. On a recent visit to pick up my son from the football match, I actually witnessed around seven to eight residents gloating to the fact that a whole line of cars
SIR: May I bring you your readers attention the facts behind the sale of exotic meats, namely Ostrich and Kangaroo now being sold here. Ostriches are the oldest living birds on earth. They can run up to 40 m.p.h. covering 25 feet in a single stride and
SIR: I refer to your article of August 12, 1997, concerning the lady pensioner who was robbed of £400 after allowing into her house a conman who was posing as a gardener. Unfortunately, the home contents insurance policy she has with the Council did not
LEIGH RMI manager Steve Waywell will hold a roll call before tomorrow's home game with Frickley and hope he can turn out 14 players. The injury situation is compounded by a three-match suspension for Dave Ridings, who was sent off at Blyth and the departure
A DRAMA group which was forced to close because of too few helpers may resume in the New Year - with a little help from the Evening News. Following an article in the BEN readers have stepped in to help the group based at St Bartholomew's Church at Westhoughton
RADCLIFFE BORO manager Kevin Glendon recalls centre back David Bean to his squad for tomorrow's Unibond Premier Division trip to Gainsboro Trinity. The highly-rated defender missed Tuesday's 3-0 League Challenge Cup home win over Great Harwood Town with
A TEENAGE boy is in a critical condition in the intensive care unit at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital after cycling the wrong way up a busy one way street. Police said the accident happened at 9.30pm yesterday, when Michael Barker, 14, of Derwent
DURING these National Lottery days, when everyone has become used to thinking of a win in millions, those six noughts after the first figure seem to have lost some of their previous impact and magic. But Bolton Council have certainly got to conjure up
THE sister of fatal car crash victim Brian Ivill has named her newborn baby in memory of him. Vicky White, 27, of Argyle Street, Atherton, gave birth to healthy 8lb 9oz Lewis Brian at the Princess Anne Maternity Unit of the Royal Bolton Hospital. She
BURY is to get the chance to fight for more funds for education at the highest level. The Minister for School Standards, Stephen Byers, will be in the town for a one-day School Improvement Conference on Thursday, October 16. Following constant representations
BURY boss Stan Ternent believes midfielder Jason Peake can revive his career at Gigg Lane. The Shakers boss hopes to iron out a snag in the 26-year-old's free transfer from Brighton today and then get the skilful former Leicester City, Halifax and Rochdale
LOCAL MP Brian Iddon unveiled a plaque to commemorate the £2 million re-furbishment of a top Bolton hotel. The famous Pack Horse in Nelson Square is now the New Pack Horse. Attempts to re-name it the Grosvenor Hotel were abandoned in the face of public
A NATIONAL call centre in Bolton will be involved in a new employment and training initiative announced at the Labour Party conference. Centrica, which trades as British Gas, is to organise the programme as part of the Government's Welfare to Work initiative
A TEAM of chartered physiotherapists from The Beaumont Hospital, Bolton, are taking a mobile unit to the town's Market Place Shopping Centre, next Friday. The unit will specifically provide advice and information for back pain sufferers and will be stationed
COUNCIL house arrears in Bolton are now running at more than £1 MILLION. The amount of money owed to the council has risen by an alarming £134,000 in the last 12 months and housing chiefs are set to take tough action to make sure more cash is collected
A SCHOOLGIRL'S poetic tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales, is selling fast. The tribute by 15-year-old Rachael Taylor has so moved the local community that she has sold copies of it for charity. Rachael, a pupil at St Joseph's RC School, Horwich, has
SIR: Recently I attended the Royal Bolton Hospital for a blood sample to be taken and for a flexi-scope test to be conducted. On both occasions I was seen promptly and dealt with kindly and efficiently. I am most grateful to all the staff concerned. S
PLANS for a Drop-in Centre for young people in Westhoughton are set to get off the drawing board. Westhoughton Town Council has agreed to negotiate to buy a terraced house to be converted into a suitable centre. The council is also supporting a Lottery
THE deputy leader of Bolton Council has dismissed the threat posed to the town centre by the new Trafford Centre at Dumplington as "short term." Cllr Guy Harkin, speaking at the launch of the Bolton Town Centre Strategy, said that the new development
SIR: I refer to the letter (BEN: September 22) by Mr Kenneth Lucas, of Hindley, Wigan, regarding UFOs. In the beginning of his letter, he mentioned seeing huge bright lights on Rivington. I can explain this "sighting". On June 18 and July 1, we were filming
SIR: I'm sure that your readers will be as shocked as I was to hear that as many as one in seven children currently have asthma and that this figure has doubled since the 1970s. I've decided that I want to help make a difference and, as the National Asthma
BURNDEN Park has been given extra time by Bolton's planning councillors . . . before it is bulldozed. They deferred a decision yesterday on an application from Bolton Wanderers to knock down the famous old stadium and build a Co-op supermarket. But planning
LOCAL historic architecture is coming under the spotlight in a series of lectures at Bolton Central Library. John Smith, who has carried out archaeological surveys at both Hall i'th' Wood and Scotson Fold, Radcliffe, is giving weekly illustrated lectures
DETECTIVES investigating the death of a 61-year-old Ramsbottom man found in the River Irwell at Ramsbottom have discounted foul play, an inquest has been told. Evidence of identification at the opening of the inquest into former cook and casual pub worker
PARITY Margaret was Prime Minister for Heaven knows how long. "Defender of the Faith", even longer by the Queen. So isn't it time women bishops came along, Letting parity with men being heard and seen? By Ernie Grundy Memorial Road, Walkden Previous news
WHAT does the future now hold for Westhoughton, following the end of the battle to stop a further massive housing development in this district? We can only echo the fury and frustration of Westhoughton councillors and residents who opposed the idea of
A GIGANTIC advertising sign - as tall as the Reebok Stadium - has been ruled offside by Bolton's planning chiefs. They have refused permission for an American-style hoarding which would have been almost EIGHTY feet high on a roundabout in the Middlebrook
A MAN who calls himself "Professor Fire Freak" was being questioned today by police investigating a spate of more than 60 fires at Bolton's bus and train stations. For more than 18 months, police and fire officers have been trying to trap an arsonist
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, October 3, 1972 MEMBERSHIP of the jet set will soon be open to everyone for just £2. That is the price of a return ticket for a 15 minute, each-way, flight in a British European Airways BAC 111 jet between Manchester
WANDERERS fans may have to wait to see £3.5 million record signing Dean Holdsworth in action. The striker completed his transfer from Wimbledon yesterday and was registered as a Bolton player before today's 12 noon deadline. But Wanderers were sweating
WANDERERS fans will be reminded tomorrow of a great talent that was lost but never missed. The likelihood is that Sasa Curcic will make an appearance at some stage - even if it is only warming up as one of Brian Little's substitutes. Thoughts will flash
COLIN Todd wants Glenn Hoddle to give Alan Thompson his England chance. The Wanderers boss, who has successfully snuffed out any suggestion of his midfield ace joining Spurs, has now formally recommended him to the national boss. Todd had talks with John
