SIR: This is a letter to the people who took my Volvo wheels and tyres recently. If they will return the one missing wheel nut then I will return their car jack and wheel brace complete with a nice set of fingerprints. Can you also note that if you walk
A BOLTON primary school has been singled out for glowing praise by a man widely regarded as the scourge of the English education system. St Thomas of Canterbury Roman Catholic Primary School is one of just a few of schools in England praised for its examination
A WORLD champion brass band from Bolton will be travelling to Blackpool's Winter Gardens to take part in a national competition. Smithills School Senior Brass Band will join bands from all over England, Scotland and Wales at the Youth Entertainment Brass
YOUNG business tycoons have scooped a dream trip abroad - and they are still at school. The financial whizz kids from Westhoughton High School won a trip to Malta after their high-flying company scored top marks in a competition. The fifth-form business
COLIN Todd believes personal pride and derby determination can help Wanderers beat the odds at Old Trafford on Saturday. The beleaguered Bolton boss sees the showdown with the Premiership leaders as the ideal spur for his relegation haunted players. "
THERE will be a strong Bolton presence when Vigil 98, an evening of music prayer and silence, is staged at Manchester Cathedral this Saturday. The New English Orchestra will be playing under the baton of their Artistic Director and Principal Conductor
TWO staff members at a special school on the outskirts of Bolton have been charged with the neglect and assault of a pupil. A third staff member at the NCH Action For Children Crowthorn Special School was today still the subject of a police inquiry. Members
WANDERERS are in the Premier League for food as well as football. A new guide book rates the Reebok Stadium 16th out of England's 92 professional clubs for quality of their half time grub. The Colman's Football Food Guide, out next month priced £4.95,
ELECTRONIC ticketing has been introduced for the first time on British Airways' international routes from Manchester. It is available initially on all routes between the UK and Germany and will eventually be extended to other European routes. This includes
SIR: How fed up we are, of the usual Council 'opt out', no money for the Metrolink. Everyone knows the Metrolink will pay for itself within a few years, and bring prosperity and an influx of shoppers to Bolton town centre, which will be much needed, when
BOSSES should help workers get on their bikes by providing extra facilities for cycling staff. Bolton's cycling supremo believes more people would leave their cars at home if pedalling to work was made more attractive. Cllr Stuart Murray is convinced
A MANCHESTER United fan has made a direct appeal to Wanderers supporters to behave during the Munich Disaster commemorations on Saturday. In an open letter to club president Nat Lofthouse, United supporter Stewart Kay has called for restraint from Bolton's
THE Lancashire Authors' Association is to honour Lady Hulton, who died recently, by launching a special prize in her memory. Lady Hulton's sister, Judy Cooke, approached the Association suggesting she could be remembered in that way because both she and
A GROWING Golborne business is seeking to recruit 100 full time sales people. Direct Line Energy is based on the enterprise park created on the site of the former Golborne colliery. The company, which was started three years ago by Wigan-born managing
DISABLED people can go for a day out to Blackpool . . . but they can't get back again! The railway station at Blackrod has access for the disabled on the Blackpool-bound line. But passengers cannot get off on the way back - instead they have to travel
PART-time karate instructor Alex Snowden has swapped her black belt for a green belt as she trains to be a weekend soldier. Alex, aged 22, left, from Astley, confesses to being hyperactive but thinks she has found something to match her energy. Slightly
ST THOMAS of Canterbury Roman Catholic Primary School has been highly praised in the latest OFSTED report. Headteacher Peter Dempsey is at pains to point out that a team effort brought about the school's success. We are sure that must be so. The OFSTED
Into his enigmatic soul. His life is but a paradox of which He perceives only part and not the whole. Consider the quintessential 'ur' which created us From evolution's morphological past. We bow to nature's majesty, But how long will life's quintessence
THERE'S a family feel about the latest Harwood Hams pantomime. They present Jack and the Beanstalk this Saturday and then from February 12 to14 at Christ's Church School Hall, Stitch-mi-Lane, Harwood. There's a cast of 50 including Graham Worthington,
HIGHWAY chiefs say it will be at least three years before they will be able to higher railings on a Bolton bridge where a man plunged to his death. Engineers have pledged to take into account lessons learned from the death of Philip Warburton, who died
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, February 2, 1973 BRITISH Leyland have announced price increases for two Triumph sports cars. The Spitfire goes up by just over £30, to £1,083.02 for the soft-top version and £1,125.31 for the hard-top. The increase
D RAMA workshop, run by Anne Collins, plans a special production of A Country Where There is Peace, based on the Brecht poem Children's Crusade with profits going to a children's charity in Romania. And actress Sue Twist, probably best known for her role
SIR: I refer to the letter from Alan and Pat Moss, Wigan Road, Bolton (January 24 ) regarding the future of Bolton's High Dependency Units. I am pleased that the my attendance and that of my colleagues at a meeting at Merton High Dependency Unit in Deane
A TEENAGER was rescued by firemen from a blazing house early today. Julie Bailey was discovered slumped in a bedroom, overcome by dense smoke. Firefighters arrived at the scene to be confronted by flames shooting out of a bedroom window. The firemen rushed
BOLTON Council is consulting with the Sports Council over the possibility of selling off part of Deane School's playing fields. Education bosses say more than a million pounds could be raised to refurbish facilities at the school if grazing land and part
A BUSINESSMAN visiting his native Bolton from South Africa lost nearly all his blood - and survived! Tom Brady was so ill with internal bleeding he lost NINE pints of blood after collapsing soon after watching a Wanderers match. But doctors beat the odds
SIR: For weeks now I have been waiting to see the most expensive and popular film of all time - Titanic. It has been advertised all over Bolton and on television, but I can't understand a film being advertised in a town that has no cinema. Just as I had
A MAN was fighting for his life in a hospital's intensive care unit today after an horrific accident in Bolton town centre. Pedestrian Paul Wilson, aged 26, was catapulted into the windscreen of the single decker bus as he was crossing Great Moor Street
A BOLTON toddler has died of a rare brain tumour after a brave four-month fight. Little Matthew John Battersby was 21 months old when he died in the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital on Wednesday. His parents, Jackie and John, were at his side. Matthew
THE Guide Dog for the Blind Association has produced an education pack aimed at helping primary schoolchildren develop an understanding of what visual impairment means and how it affects many people's daily lives. Featuring Goldie the guide dog and guide
SIR: I am sure that the needy and taxpayers of our borough will be delighted to know Tony and Cherie Blair have just spent £100,000 on a new kitchen. Paul Brierley Prospective Conservative Candidate, Bolton Previous news story Converted for the new archive
SIR: Could someone from Social Services please explain how the proposed changes in the High Dependency Units will save £51,000 per year. At a meeting at Merton, we were assured that there would be exactly the same amount of cover that there is now, so
SIR: It is clear as each day passes that William Hague must reveal the strings attached to the Tory drug donation. He claims that the Tories would not accept any donations with strings attached, yet newspaper reports show that a letter from the Asian
SCRUM-half Tony Smith will miss Wigan Warriors' opening Silk Cut Challenge Cup clash at Keighley. The Yorkshireman, who has only just recovered from a knee injury, tore an hamstring in the friendly against Hull Sharks last week. He misses the trip to
LEIGH Centurions and Sheffield Eagles just can't keep away from each other. The two clubs have been paired together in the Challenge Cup for a fifth time in eight years - and Leigh have lost the previous four. For a second year in a row, the Super League
AN elderly milkman was savaged on his round by a Rottweiler as his terrified grandson watched helplessly. Jack Roberts, aged 64, was attacked after he had delivered five pints of milk to the dog's owner yesterday. The animal's teeth went through the milkman's
CHRISTMAS comes but TWICE a year for one Bolton family who double up on the festive fun. Maureen Walsh, her partner Jack Taylor and her daughter Rachael, 17, celebrate their first Christmas in December like everybody else. But instead of taking down the
LITTLE Lee Mitchell was in the thoughts of a famous Bolton author's widow when she visited the town. The four-year-old is recovering in hospital after being washed away in a Bolton river two weeks ago. The accident came after he'd gone with his dad to
A PRIMARY school in Worsley has earned top marks from Ofsted inspectors. Officials visited James Brindley School in December and praised the staff and standards of teaching. Children were achieving better than the national average in subjects such as
MOST people in the North-west want the Government mark the Year 2000 by scrapping the Millennium Dome and using the money to fight poverty instead. Given the choice between using public money to build a dome or to write off Third World debts, 76pc opted
BOLTON'S Nick Boyd made a winning return to the ring at Old Trafford last night. Out of action for 18 months with a back injury, the light-welterweight quickly shook off any ring rustiness to return a points win over Lincoln's Trevor Tacy. Boyd began
THE splendid buildings and sights of Venice are being recreated - in Deane! The architects are the stage crew of New Rosemere AOS who are busy working on Venetian scenes for the society's next production, The Gondoliers, which will be staged at the Albert
LEIGH RMI travel to Guiseley tonight looking for a semi-final place in the President's Cup. But they will be without central defender Graham Hill, who starts a two match suspension - his second ban of the season. Mark Schofield is the ready made replacement
SIR: G Raffe, (Your views, January 17), seems to have taken my letter about 'sitting in my corner licking my wounds', literally, when in fact, as I imagine, most people would realise, it was meant as a 'bit of fun'. Does G Raffe really think I sit trembling
locked loos WHILE we understand why local people want the toilet block at the junction of Blackburn Road and Crompton Way demolished, we question whether this would be of benefit in the long term. The toilets have been closed for months after complaints
CYCLISTS face one of the toughest challenges in the Tour of Lancashire when one of Britain's top bike races returns to Bolton. Competitors will meet hill after hill as they complete the gruelling 75-mile Bolton stage of the event. It includes a 250ft
A BOLTON secondary school is using telecommunications in a pioneering move to clamp down on truants. Smithills School is handing out pagers to parents whose children are poor attenders so they can immediately told when their child has not turned in for
THE prosecution of the "Bolton Seven" on charges of gross indecency was condemned in Parliament today as unfair and discriminatory. Now the police and the Crown Prosecution Services are being urged to be more careful in how they use the law in cases involving
WANDERERS fans have the chance to put their views to some of the most powerful voices in English football. Bolton supporters, along with all North West soccer fanatics, are being urged to have their say on the state of the game when David Mellor brings
VEHICLE coupling manufacturer VBG Ltd is relocating from Runcorn to a £3.2 million purpose-built plant at Lowton, near Leigh. Sales, engineering and administrative personnel moved in this week. Production will be transferred in phases over the next three
