HAVING totally sold out their upcoming gig at the BBC Hippodrome, Golders Green last month, Stiff Little Fingers - comprising Jake Burns, original songwriter, guitarist and singer, along with former Jam bassist Bruce Foxton, guitarist Ian McCallum and
THE stage of the Manchester Arena is to be graced by the aristocracy of music in the form of the legendary Riley B King, better known as BB King, right. At 73 years young, this growling blues performer is returning to the Arena. With his enormous stage
BOLTON'S over-stretched ambulance service was pushed to the limit last night as paramedics dealt with hundreds of 999 calls. Bosses at Greater Manchester Ambulance Service confirmed this morning they had taken more than 800 emergency calls since midnight
EVERYTHING is coming up roses for Bolton TV gardener Roy Lancaster after he was awarded an OBE in the New Year honours list. Roy, who was born in Bolton and worked for Bolton parks department for three years after leaving school, says he was "delighted
THIRTYEIGHT per cent of North-west importers quizzed in a survey said they imported goods and services because they could not source them in the UK. The Regional Importers Survey, sponsored by Barclays Trade Services, also prompted the response from 50
FORMER stock car racing ace Harry "Tiger" Holt has died at the age of 79. The former landlord of the Stopes Tavern in Radcliffe died peacefully in hospital on Christmas Eve. Harry, of Ladyshore Road, Little Lever, was well known throughout Britain through
25 YEARS AGO SMOKERS are facing a serious shortage of cigarettes. Tobacco manufacturers are unable to meet the demand and a rationing system has been introduced. In some cases, supplies to wholesale distributors have been cut by as much as 60 per cent
1999 - the very number has a distinctive ring to it, as if the year seems determined to be that bit different. And we don't mean just because it's the final step towards the New Millennium. For most of us it's a time to hope that we can finally leave
UNTIL recently the Waggon and Horses was essentially a good village pub that served adequate pub meals and had the added attraction of a bowling green at the rear. It remains a good local with recommended cask ales and still has the green. However, much
AFTER too much turkey and Christmas pudding, Bury's newly transformed Castle Leisure Centre is offering folk the chance to lose inches the easy way. Toning tables have been installed in the under utilised lounge and bar area, to create a brand new £35,000
A HUGE new wave of traffic calming measures are set to be introduced in residential areas of Bolton and Farnworth. If they are approved, the schemes look set to go head before the Spring and will be welcomed by thousands of parents who fear for their
ONE of the projects from Bolton's national award-winning Roadside Care Scheme may have to end - because the company that operates it has moved to a neighbouring town. Roadside Care is a popular scheme, where local groups "adopt" a roadside area or park
A SECOND strike which threatened to get bus travel off to a chaotic New Year start in Bolton, has been called off at the eleventh hour. Stagecoach Ribble drivers will not be going ahead with a planned one day stoppage on Monday after a pay deal was reached
BOB Taylor is convinced Wanderers will have the edge in tomorrow's FA Cup tie at the Reebok . . . and no Bull! The Bolton favourite, who has seen Steve Bull at close quarters in big West Midlands derbies, is relieved the record-breaking Molineux hero
BOLTON has been given a £336,000 boost to help teachers and parents raise children's standards of reading and writing. The money will be used to help primary pupils improve their literacy in the classroom and at home. Most of the cash will be spent helping
A BOLTON cleric has turned bard, with the publication of his first book of poems. The Rev Gordon Harper has drawn on his life in the ministry as well as his love of the town's surrounding moors to pen the 35 poems. And Mr Harper even financed the printing
MANAGEMENT and staff at a Bolton restaurant are celebrating after receiving a prestigious national award from the British Epilepsy Association (BEA). The Mill House at Middlebrook has been granted BEA's Gold Award for Employment following a BEN story
A CASH-strapped dad-of-three has blasted thieves who stole his daughter's Christmas present and the pedal cycle he needs to get to work. Alan Whittle was so pleased when he landed a steady job after a long period out of work, he got a bike to make the
THERE was just one New Year's baby born at the Royal Bolton Hospital to mark the start of 1999. Katherine Holt of Wigan Road, Bolton gave birth, just one minute before 3am, to a daughter Emma. She weighed in at a healthy 7lb 1oz. Converted for the new
OVERHEAD cables above a picturesque pond are "a death trap" to wild swans, a Westhoughton animal lover claims. Two swans were recently electrocuted after flying into the wires above the pond at Lanns Farm, off Hindley Road, Westhoughton. Mrs Dorothy Hamer
