IN REPLY to Mrs M Ball's letter, BEN July 19. I have to say that I too, as well as other members of my church, were very disappointed with the Bolton Biggest Birthday Party at the Reebok Stadium on July 2. Considering all the hype and build-up to the
IT seems as though it is going to take more than Sarah Payne's horrible murder to teach some parents a lesson. On Thursday, July 20, my friend was taking her granddaughter to school and she saw a little girl aged no more than six years old on her own,
IN the BEN of July 14, Damon Smith reviews another questionable Hollywood film, The Patriot, and he begins by saying that state barbarism and lack of compassion shown by British officers "are almost enough to make you feel ashamed of belonging to this
INJURIES might have marred Wanderers' first appearance on American soil here on Tuesday night but their performance in the 2-0 win over Indiana Blast left a lasting impression reports Bolton Evening News Chief Soccer Writer Gordon Sharrock. "Blast learn
A LOCAL company is supplying stone cutting machinery to Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament. Automated Stone Machinery (Bolton) Ltd, which has been established for 24 years, is based in the Burnden Works, Burnden Road, Bolton. In the past their
BUSINESS advisers Ernst & Young say the North-west has recorded the lowest number of profit warnings in the country for the second consecutive quarter. The firm's quarterly Analysis of Profit Warnings found there had been just three among regional
FIVE Kosovan refugees have been detained after being smuggled into the country in the back of a lorry. The men ran off when the back doors of the heavy goods vehicle were opened at Exel Logistics Comet, on Ashton Road, Golborne. The police were called
A BOLTON trio, well groomed for success, is turning to the public for help. Jeanette Powell from Lostock is currently riding high with success on Our Blue Boy, a seven year old gelding owned by Alison Thorp from Blackrod. However, despite her success,
THE GMP helicopter is a regular sight above Bolton, just three minutes' flight from its heli-pad. Police statistics show the aircraft was involved in 170 searches over the town last year, in addition to eight car chases. Crew members helped secure the
NURSERY pupils in Horwich are having an early taste of academic success after graduating with top honours. To mark the end of their pre-school years staff at Horwich Parish Playcare in Church Street laid on a proper degree ceremony, complete with mortar
The Mayor and Mayoress of Bolton with the London Transport promotion bus A BIG red bus helped the Mayor of Bolton's charity really roll along when it arrived in Victoria Square in the town centre this week. The bus is touring towns all over the country
TEENAGE yobs are still bringing terror to the streets of Horwich, residents have claimed. And they are calling on the police to put more bobbies on the beat to tackle the problem. A meeting of the first Bolton Council area forum to be held for the Horwich
MAUGHAN FC in the Pioneer League are looking to increase their playing strength for the coming season. Any players interested in joining this team based at Hulton Lane should contact Myra or Paul on 01204 302434.
HAYWARD AFC have resumed training on Wednesday evenings (7pm) and Saturday Afternoons (2.15pm) at Hayward Leisure Centre. First team manager Alan Bretherton invites all existing players and any new members to join the training sessions.
FORMER players of Silcoms FC are hoping to stage a reunion for their team-mates that gave the club a decade of success in the seventies. Barry Calvert who played for the club before going to play professional football in South Africa, has now returned
HE may not have made a tackle or passed a ball in the NFP play-off semi-final on Sunday but Centurions' big second-rower Simon Baldwin suffered just as many stresses and strains stood on the sidelines. Baldwin missed the game as a result of a one match
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, July 26, 1975 MOTORISTS are to lose free parking spaces at the Chorley Street and Folds Road car parks in Bolton, it was decided yesterday. Chorley Street will become a fixed-charge park, and Folds Road a contract-only
NORTH PIER THEATRE, BLACKPOOL, The Grumbleweeds, with Stu Francis. Runs to October 24. Seats £10. Also, Hale and Pace with support from Hilary O'Neil and Steve Rawlings. Starts Wednesday to Friday 8pm and Saturday at 7pm. Also, Roy 'Chubby' Brown, Saturday
LEISURE, SPORT AND KEEP FIT COCA Cola Netball Skills, New Bury Community Centre, Buckley Lane, Farnworth, 1pm-3pm. Tel: 334185. TIME to play cricket skills, Heywood Adventure Playworld Recreational Zone, High Street, 1pm-3pm. Tel: 334185. COCA Cola FA
Cllr John Hanscomb surveys one of the potholes near his home HOW many council workmen does it take to fill in three potholes less than 15 ft apart? The answer is two so far and it will take a third to finish off the job. It may sound like a joke . . .
CRIME-BUSTING bobbies on the transport "beat" are taking to two wheels in their fight against Bolton railway vandals. Officers from British Transport Police have taken delivery of four high-powered motorbikes, for use off and on roads as they chase thugs
Dr Mark Hamilton: 'After spending a few years working in a hospital, I felt like a bit of a change' HE says he doesn't want to become the next Hilary Jones, but Bolton's very own celebrity doctor is proving to be just the tonic for radio listeners throughout
Oscar the parrot is barking mad! OSCAR, the mixed-up African grey parrot looks just like any other bird of his species -- but he thinks he's a dog! And when someone knocks at the door or rings on the phone, he barks his beaky head off. In fact, his owner
Lindsay with some of the small animals which need new homes THE sex of animals is causing problems for animal charities. Kathy Kay from the RSPCA says that there currently seems to be a glut of small animals like mice, hamsters and gerbils. This is because
THE DEATH of a pet is one of the most distressing moments in the life of any animal lover. The bond you have established over the years is often compared to any other relationship within the family -- devastation and emotional upset is a very natural
Fred Eckersley with his bride, Sujittra Seetanoi, on the front page of the Bolton Evening News A PENSIONER who "bought" a Thai bride 40 years his junior for £5,000 travelled to his wedding in style -- on board a bus for 10 hours in searing heat! As previously
Ruth Stubbs, who had a mastectomy exactly 25 years ago TWENTY-FIVE years ago Ruth Stubbs had a mastectomy -- at a time when it was still a taboo subject. Now the grandmother from Sharples wants to tell her story to give other women a message of hope.
I WISH to nominate as 'Rat of the Week', the young man who was with some others near the flats off Hulton Lane. He pushed a wheelie bin over, then spent time jumping up and down on it, what a cruel and heartless way to kill the hedgehog was was underneath
IT was good to read about the recent events that took place in our Parish Church, when C of E, Catholics, Hindus, Muslims and others, celebrated together at the Civic Service. Muslims and Hindus read passages from the Quran and from the Hindu Scriptures
Fly posters on the old ABC cinema in Bradshawgate, including one for The Bolt festival A GRAFFITI war has been declared by Bolton Council following the unveiling of a new advanced "weapon" to fight it. In tomorrow's print version of the Bolton Evening
WANDERERS opening game of the season at home at Burnley has been declared all-ticket. The tickets went on sale to Lifeline members today and go on open sale on Saturday. The prices for the August 12th fixture are: (adult, OAP, child) West and East Stand
SAM Allardyce threw down the gauntlet today to four of Wanderers' most expensive signings. Dean Holdsworth, Mark Fish, Robbie Elliott and Paul Warhurst are all in the final year of their Reebok contracts and could all leave on free transfers next summer
GEORGE Cox & Sons Ltd has become the first civil engineering company in the Bolton and Bury area to achieve the national Investors in People standard. The Farnworth company specialises in high-profile civil engineering schemes throughout the North-west
THE GMP helicopter is a regular sight above Bolton, just three minutes' flight from its heli-pad. Police statistics show the aircraft was involved in 170 searches over the town last year, in addition to eight car chases. Crew members helped secure the
FORMER Coronation Street star and Bolton resident Bev Callard is reportedly heading back to the 'soap'. Last year Bev, her husband Steve and the couple's 11-year-old son Josh moved from their £210,000, five-bedroomed house in Smithills to set up home
FARNWORTH is to receive a £300,000 cash windfall to tackle youth crime. It is part of a package of measures announced by the Government today to target some of the country's most deprived and trouble-hit housing estates. The Youth Justice Board said each
BOLTON health chiefs were today awaiting news of a massive Government plan which is expected to completely change the face of NHS care. Prime Minister Tony Blair and Health Secretary Alan Milburn were this afternoon due to announce in the Commons the
Jayne Hilton, so frustrated with the problem FRUSTRATED residents in Edgworth are blaming a telecommunications antenna for leaving them without any TV . . . for nearly two weeks. The viewers living in Bolton Road are getting desperate after the five terrestrial
WANDERERS boss Sam Allardyce is determined to improve his players' discipline on the field next season. Read Gordon Sharrock's full report in the print version of the Bolton Evening News tomorrow or alternatively look at this web site where his report
BOLTON Boys Federation Under-15s team Bolton County are on the lookout for new players, particularly a goalkeeper. Anybody interested should contact John Rowbottom on 302740 or attend training at Withins School playing fields on Wednesdays at 6.30pm.
RADCLIFFE Borough entertain a star-packed Southport side tonight at Stainton Park. The Conference club last season appointed former Soton, Liverpool and England centre-half Mark Wright as manager and he is set to play alongside other "name" signings in
INJURIES might have marred Wanderers' first appearance on American soil here on Tuesday night but their performance in the 2-0 win over Indiana Blast left a lasting impression reports Bolton Evening News Chief Soccer Writer Gordon Sharrock. "Blast learn
SAM Allardyce threw down the gauntlet today to four of Wanderers' most expensive signings. Dean Holdsworth, Mark Fish, Robbie Elliott and Paul Warhurst are all in the final year of their Reebok contracts and could all leave on free transfers next summer
The start from Bolton Town Hall in August, 1975, of a six-mile race around the town in Bolton's Festival of Sport
Dr Mark Hamilton: 'After spending a few years working in a hospital, I felt like a bit of a change' HE says he doesn't want to become the next Hilary Jones, but Bolton's very own celebrity doctor is proving to be just the tonic for radio listeners throughout
YOU have to go to the pigeon lofts of Hart Common or the allotments of Blackrod to hear it at its most fluent nowadays. But there once was a time when folk round these parts talked proper. It's still rife down Wigan way and in parts of Leigh, but if somebody
POLITICIANS have condemned as "nonsense and perverse" a decision which will transfer millions of pounds worth of grants to create jobs away from Farnworth and Kearsley to affluent Bromley Cross. Bolton Council had hoped to persuade the Government to drop
Ready for action: Sharon Davies out to help Bolton shoppers THINK of an ambassador and the chances are you imagine someone in an expensive embassy dishing out cocktails and small chat at receptions. Sharon Davies's job is nothing like that. Based in Bolton's
The dramatic video footage caught on cameras mounted on GMP's helicopter THE masked man coolly walked from the car, levelled the gun at the police officers and fired the weapon. There was a slight recoil as the bullets left the barrel, and wisps of gunsmoke
FESTIVAL OF SUMMER WALKS, walking event all over Britain this summer. Organised by the Ramblers' Association, runs from August 19 to August 28. There's a Bolton walk on August 19, Winter Hill, 2pm, Colliers Road/Longshaw Ford Road junction, five miles
