AS a regular reader of The Bolton Evening News 'on line', an article which I found disturbing caught my eye - "MP Ruth's election education scheme" and I feel I must reply. The Institute of Citizenship wants to educate (brainwash) secondary school children
I AM replying in answer to John Hartshorn's letter in the Bolton Evening News on February 24, when he presented his so-called unbiased statement that Farnworth is represented by three first-class, hard-working councillors and that there is life outside
FARNWORTH Schools String Ensemble is entering the computer age with a programme to help them compose their own tunes. The computer programme has been bought with a £600 Single Regeneration Budget grant from Farnworth and Little Hulton Partnership. It
A GROUP of Bolton teenagers are heading off to London for a star-studded weekend and to appear on a top television show. About 40 members of the Bolton Saturday Club are travelling to London on Saturday after being invited to be part of the studio audience
CASES of tuberculosis in Bolton have risen for the first time in a decade. There were 66 cases in 1999, compared with 59 the previous year. And it has been revealed that a programme of routine BCG jabs for 13 year-olds has stopped in Bolton secondary
TWO women employed by the Asian Elders initiative in Bolton have received introductory awards from the National Examination Board for Supervision. Sabera Mangera and Shabeen Rehman joined the NEBS Management Programme at BTG (Bolton Training Group) in
SCOTTISH student Martin Hutson is working on a Master of Science degree at Bolton Institute -- from home. Martin, an electronics engineer, came to Bolton from Kirkaldy in Fife last year for an induction/awareness day. His next trip here will probably
A DEVASTATED couple are to sue hospital bosses after their toddler son choked to death, a month after being sent home with a piece of cork lodged in an airway. Chest X-rays taken at the end of August were not seen by Royal Bolton Hospital's child specialist
I READ with interest of the 'highly successful road show tour' promoting Bolton as a short break destination, and note that 2,500 people from Belfast and Glasgow 'wanted' to visit the town (BEN March 24). As this figure falls short of the tourism department's
IT brought back memories for us when reading the"Vandals wreck Frank's dream garden" story in the BEN (Monday March 20). More or less the same thing happened to my mum and dad about five years ago. My dad was dedicated to his garden, being in his 70s.
WHY is it always working class smokers who get a raw deal with the Budget? As expected, nothing on cigars and spirits, but 25p on a packet of cigs. The majority of smokers started the habit due to peer group pressure while at school. Now we've got the
NEW Rosemere continue to go from strength to strength and have staged another stunning production with The Pirates of Penzance. As I left the auditorium, I heard the adjectives "brilliant" and "excellent" used and I don't quarrel with either of those
NOW that Bolton Council has brought some dog owners to court for dog fouling, how about declaring war on the litter spreaders? The streets and open land in Farnworth are a absolute disgrace, there is just as much cause for concern about it as the dog
IT occurs to me that a letter written by me, published in the Bolton Evening News on February 4, 1994, is even more relevant now than when I wrote it. It is perhaps ironical that "the adverse circumstances" referred to have actually taken place at a time
I WOULD like to take this opportunity to write a few words of remembrance for Mrs Olive Woodward of Horwich, who died recently. I first met Olive, along with Bill Woodward, her husband, in 1989 when the Horwich New Heart Club was formed and we began raising
AS prospective Labour candidate for Bradshaw Ward, I feel I must reply to the letter you printed from John Evans the prospective Conservative candidate. Mr Evans' tirade is sadly only too typical of the loony right that we have come to expect from the
I AM writing in response to the letter from Mrs B Stuart regarding Bolton's need for an elected Mayor. Mrs Stuart is perfectly entitled to her view, that one all-powerful supremo to be in charge of all the services in the borough, would solve all the
BOLTON nurse Karen Castille was due in London today for a special seminar with the Prime Minister. Karen, a senior nurse in the accident and emergency department at Royal Bolton Hospital, will meet Tony Blair at 10 Downing Street and four other health
SAM Allardyce voiced his concern today over the appointment of David Elleray to referee Sunday's FA Cup semi-final. The Wanderers' boss has no axe to grind with the public school headmaster but he believes recent run-ins with Wembley rivals Aston Villa
FIREFIGHTERS gained a temporary new recruit when they went on a training exercise on the moors above Bolton. Four legged friend Skippy bounded along and made a bid to join the ranks of Blue Watch as they trained in their off-road fire engine near Egerton
TWO care workers at a Bolton nursing home have taken the plunge and done a David Beckham! They have had all their hair lopped off for charity. But George Burrows, 45, one of two carers who have gone bald at Shannon Court Nursing Home on Radcliffe Road
A GAY rights activist -- one of the Bolton Seven convicted after participating in a gay sex video -- has died. Terry Connell's body was discovered on the floor of his living room at his home in Jedburgh Avenue, Heaton, on Sunday morning. His death came
WANDERERS battled it out with Aston Villa, complete with a sending off, in a fiercely-fought contest. The game is still going on -- but without a single ball being kicked! The "football match" was organised by bosses at HB Electronics on Lever Street,
A SNAKE which has been living somewhere in a terraced row of houses throughout winter is probably ready to come out of hiding. And people living there should expect to come face to face with the on-the-run reptile sooner rather than later. Snake expert
THE Chief Constable of Greater Manchester has ordered two senior police officers to have a clear the air meeting in Horwich. David Wilmot acted after the town council expressed its "dissatisfaction" with the local police on behalf of the people of Horwich
THERE were tears in Mark Leather's champagne as he raised a glass to Liverpool's Coca-Cola Cup victory over Wanderers five years ago. Being such a key man in the Reds' backroom team, he shared in the winners' joy but didn't even try to hide his disappointment
25 YEARS AGO f-b f-ioof+zs=13f+bf-zf-bo SIR,- Does the public know the present state and conditions of salaries for district nurses? A State Registered Nurse with special district training, resident in a nurses' homes, receives approximately £9 a month
IF we had to have an elected Mayor in Bolton, who could we trust with that responsibility? Any one of our excellent local MP's would fit the bill, including David Chaytor, Ivan Lewis, Terry Lewis and Lawrence Cunliffe. But these people are doing very
I AGREE with the former Mayor Mr Benjamin OBE, that the Government does nothing to fund facilities for youths and that they have nowhere to go for recreation. This is a very vital problem! Bored youths get up to crime and vandalism and making people's
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EASTER will soon be here once again and with it, sadly, the circus. After the horrors exposed by the Mary Chipperfield chimp abuse case last year, few readers can be unaware of the brutal methods employed by circus trainers to force animals to perform
