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  • Mother killer son locked away for life

    A DANGEROUSLY violent killer who almost decapitated his widowed mother by bludgeoning her with a table, has been sent to hospital indefinitely. Andrew Tarry smashed his 66-year-old mother, Mary Helen, over the head with the table during a row causing

  • Grateful Blake thank his fans old and new

    NATHAN Blake would no more forget the people who helped him on the way up than he would ignore the fans who idolise him now he's reached the top. That's why the Wanderers top scorer made the effort this week to travel to Cardiff to pay a personal tribute

  • Hospital gears up for Africa

    BOLTON medics have stepped in with much-needed help for Third World patients. Staff at The Beaumont Hospital amassed a shipment of medical equipment to help set up a new physiotherapy unit in the Dar Es Salaam Hospital in Tanzania. Now crutches, Zimmer

  • Reebok diary

    WANDERERS sign off at the Reebok in style with their biggest Premiership win. The 5-2 crushing of Crystal Palace lifts them out of the bottom three for the first time since January. Andy Todd receives the Supporters Association Player of the Season award

  • You can do it

    SIR: We know you can do it - let Chelsea feel your commitment in the first ten minutes and we'll be getting another trip to Stamford Bridge next year Jeff Neyland, Ealing jeff.neyland@bmrb.co.uk Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images

  • Letter of the week

    SIR: I heard recently on the news (BBC1) that there are such things as 'fake' Teletubbies. Does this mean there are also real ones? I also heard the 'fake' ones, are dangerous. Better stay out of their way then! Alec Martin Breightmet Drive Bolton Converted

  • Cards' worry

    SIR: Could you help? For the past 12 years, at my address, I have received a Christmas card from a couple called Vi and Jim. The card is addressed to Mrs Fearnley (Ethel), unfortunately Mrs Fearnley passed away almost 12 years ago. I have always put the

  • Childhood friends

    SIR: After reading your paper's Looking Back articles, I began to look back myself, and wonder if you could help me to find a couple of friends from years gone by - at least 40 years. One was a Doreen Murray and another Eveline Woodward. We were brought

  • Rival boss joins Leigh fan club

    THE latest addition to the Leigh Centurions' fan club reckons the Hilton Park side hold the key to the Division One title. Respected New Zealander Stan Martin was gushing in his praise for the Centurions after his Whitehaven Warriors side had won 34-12

  • And Chelsea get an official warning

    CHELSEA have been officially warned not to field a weakened team against Wanderers tomorrow. There has been increasing speculation - especially in the blue half of Merseyside - that Gianluca Vialli may not field his strongest team because three days later

  • Daily poem

    I do not own a fax machine, Computers have I none. I don't possess a motor car, How will I carry on? My pots and pans I wash by hand, No dishwasher you see. But is my life a struggle? Well no - it's not for me. I do not use a mobile phone, E-Mail or Internet

  • Pupils paint happy picture for orphans

    BOLTON students will help bring some colour to the lives of sick and orphaned children. A team of 20 art and design pupils at Bolton Sixth Form College's North Campus have produced cartoon murals to brighten up the lives of the Romanian youngsters. The

  • Come on you white men!

    Chris Durkin Sales Engineer Archer Industrial Systems Ltd Gladstone Lane, Scarborough cdurkin@ais-power.co.uk Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.

  • Good luck

    Good luck to the Whites on Sunday. The spirit and effort over the last few games have been tremendous. Let's do it for just one more game. Dave Hales david.hales2@virgin.net Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may

  • Pregnant mums

    SIR: I found out about toxoplasmosis nine years ago, when I did a Watchdog programme about the infection. My son was then a young child, and I identified with those women who - like me - had known nothing about toxoplasmosis when they were pregnant; and

  • OAP golfers in price rise fury

    PENSIONERS hit by a big rise in charges for playing at the municipal Regents Park Golf Club are pressing for the decision to be reversed. Bolton Council's Leisure Department has doubled the price of an annual ticket which enables people to play golf seven

  • My most important game, says Todd

    FOR a manager who has shielded his players from the distractions and pressures, Colin Todd was surprisingly candid when he cast his mind back through his career as a manager and player and admitted: "I've never known a more important game!" The Wanderers

  • From the BEN files

    25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, May 9, 1973 THE Law Commission wants to abolish the calling of banns for a Church of England marriage ceremony. Instead there should be uniform civil preliminaries for all marriages, said a report. PRETTY 22-years-old

  • This could be my toughest decision, son

    COLIN Todd admits to being in the dark over what to expect from Chelsea in tomorrow's do-or-die survival showdown. The Wanderers boss has a selection dilemma for the game he describes as the most important of his career: whether to stand by the defence