I HAVE just read a letter from a Michael S Marsh who bemoans the fact that he got a ticket for not displaying the correct time on his disabled clock. He says he is being penalised for having a bad memory. If he has such a poor memory, how does he manage
I HAVE just read the views of D Fearnley (Your Views: April 23). The writer is absolutely accurate and correct in everything said. Daisy Hill is indeed fast becoming a gridlocked traffic nightmare. The response to the situation from some quarters is simply
DOES Bob Howarth really deserve the honour of Freeman of Bolton? How dare the Council rate Bob Howarth alongside Nat Lofthouse. This career councillor is the man who brought us - One lane dual carriageways. Cycle lanes that are not used. A budget for
I HAVE been reading the reports and letters in respect of the issuing of fine notices for cars parking on Tonge Moor Road on Good Friday morning. The displayed notice reads 'NO PARKING MONDAY TO FRIDAY 8am TILL 9.30am'. There are no parking restrictions
AWLN -- Animal Welfare Liaison Network, part of the 'Only Foals and Horses' Sanctuary -- have prepared two petitions for concerned animal loving members of the public to study and then hopefully sign and support. The petitions are intended to put pressure
THE work of Dr Malcolm Stevens has always been a source of special pride to Bolton, his home town. The former Bolton School pupil first discovered the revolutionary brain cancer drug Temodal. However, he and others involved in the drug's development have
IF you were lucky enough to have a break or a holiday over Easter, it is probably now a fading memory. But, for Christians, Easter itself is meant to be something we remember every day. Easter Day is the special day in the year when Christians remember
IN his intemperate letter, D Fearnley (Your Views: April 23) recognises that "traffic in Daisy Hill in particular is a real problem" and that "a major problem is localised traffic exacerbated by wider traffic." How much greater would such problems be
HAVING found the main roads kind of dangerous to pedal my bicycle (now I've reached the age where a bit of wobbling might occur) I've taken to the back streets where the only traffic one meets are prams. Quite often, after the schools have taken the occupants
IT'S a sign of the changing times at Molineux that some of the most familiar faces are set to sever their ties with the Black Country club. Havard Flo, Mike Stowell and Scott Taylor are all being released as Dave Jones begins the process of rebuilding
THREE cars were set alight at a scrapyard in Waterloo Street, Bolton, at 9.30pm yesterday. Fire crews prevented the blaze spreading. Meanwhile a Vauxhall Cavalier, which is believed to have been stolen, was set alight and destroyed in Lenham Gardens,
BOLTON Independent Living Foundation is inviting people to an evening on Wills, Trusts and Financial Arrangements, presented by Hugh Jones at the Jubilee Community Care Centre, Darley Street, Halliwell, on Monday, April 30, from 7-9pm. BILF is a new,
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a blaze in a derelict house in Great Lever yesterday. The blaze started on the first floor of the semi-detached house in Morrison Street at about 3.50pm. The fire crew spent almost three hours clearing-up after extinguishing
COURT proceedings against a 63-year-old man accused of indecently assaulting a woman have been withdrawn. Magistrates at Bury agreed to discontinue after the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed that they were not to press the matter further against Alfred
AN investigation was underway after an explosion shook a house in Brownlow Fold. Two passers-by suffered injuries after windows shattered in the empty house in Oxford Grove at 11.45am. The explosion in a butane gas cylinder is being treated as suspicious
A TELEVISION production company is looking for Bolton couples willing to talk about their marriage from the honeymoon period to the first baby and from parenthood to coping with terrible teenagers through to retirement. If you are happily married, not-so-happily
ASTON University is calling for all 1976 graduates from Bolton to celebrate their silver anniversary reunion. All those who graduated 25 years ago are asked to don their flares for a final fling at the university in Birmingham on Saturday, June 2. Further
THE Prayer Book Society is holding its annual all-day festival at Bolton Parish Church on Saturday, May 5. Lovers of Thomas Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer are invited to attend all or part of the day, which commences with Sung Mattins, ends with Choral
THE Matra BAe Dynamics factory at Lostock is to be known by another set of initials in future. Consolidation in the European defence industry has resulted in it becoming MBDA. The Lostock operation, which employs about 420 people, is now part of a major
ARSONISTS have been blamed for a blaze which swept through a Great Lever mill. The fierce fire swept through the Grecian Mill, Lever Street, late on Saturday. Firefighters reported signs of forced entry into the derelict commercial property. There was
A MAN hung out of a window and screamed for help as smoke from a chip pan fire filled his flat. Mark Holding was rushed into intensive care suffering from severe smoke inhalation following his desperate attempt to escape. The 27-year-old, of Bradford
VICTORIAN images captured by Bury photographer Roger Fenton are expected to fetch £200,000 in auction next month. Twenty-three original Fenton pictures will come under the hammer at London auction house Sotheby's on May 10. The snaps are part of a collection
A HORWICH man was airlifted to hospital after the car he was travelling in smashed into a telephone post. The 24-year-old, who has not been identified, was a passenger in a Ford Escort RS Turbo car which careered out of control as it was being driven
A BOLTON-born accountant has played a leading role in a £7 million High Street deal. Simon Baxendale of Blackburn-based Pierce Chartered Accountants led the firm's finance team which advised Liverpool fashion entrepreneur Robert Wade-Smith when he recently
A NEW multi-million pound contract has given a welcome boost to a trouble-hit local company. Watson Steel at Lostock, which announced 67 job losses in February, is to build a 34-storey office building at Canary Wharf in London's Docklands area. The major
CHURCHGOERS in Turton are to help paint a picture of Christianity across the globe in a survey. Parishioners from St. Anne's Church, High Street, Turton, and St James Church, Blackburn Road, Edgworth, will join an estimated 250,000 Christians across the
BOLTON Music Centre's young musicians already have plenty of brass . . . but now they have an impressive haul of silverware. The musicians have been sweeping the board at music festivals around the area and are pictured proudly displaying their trophies
NORTH Stand regular Sam Booth, of Bury, topped the bidding in the Dean Holdsworth charity auction. A Holdsworth fan, he paid £250 for the striker's shirt, signed man of the match award from the Norwich game and two tickets for Sunday's final League game
HOWZAT for an idea? Bosses at the Reebok Stadium hotel hope an appealing weekend offer aimed at cricket fans will persuade them to swap their whites for a Wanderers kit. And the weekend package at the De Vere Whites Hotel, based around the home game against
The match report comes courtesy of our sister paper the Lancashire Evening Telegraph ROVERS have one foot in the Premiership after second half goals from David Dunn and Marcus Bent finally killed off brave Pompey at Ewood writes Andy Neild The relegation-haunted
MOTORISTS and homeowners in Bolton are being hit in the pocket by rising insurance costs, a new survey has revealed. A car now costs an average £300 more to insure in Bolton than it did when the Automobile Association's survey started seven years ago.
A FORMER bank manager cleared of setting fire to a house while his family slept admitted today: "I have been to hell and back." Glenn Hunt spoke of his relief after a Bolton Crown Court jury, who deliberated for just 15 minutes, cleared him of two charges
So, Sam Allardyce is urging stayaway Bolton fans to attend home matches? (BEN 20.4.01) Perhaps consideration should be given to a number of issues before his 'frustration' is stoked excessively. Has it not struck him and the board, that the home game
BOLTON boozers could soon enjoy late night drinking on a Sunday for the first time if two town centre bars get their way. Bar Retro, in Mealhouse Lane, and Club Temple and Mondo, in St George's Street, have applied to the town's licensing magistrates
FEARS that many of Bolton's children may be going to school having not eaten for more than 12 hours has prompted health and education officials to expand a scheme to provide them with free breakfasts. Officials from Community Healthcare Bolton NHS Trust
BURY'S Nicky Hill missed the Wycombe clash after breaking his nose in a freak training ground accident on Friday. The defender went up for a header with team-mate Chris Armstrong and both players fell to the floor. Unfortunately for Hill he was underneath
The dictionary version of the word 'nostalgia' is 'a yearning for past circumstances, events, etc'. There was an awful lot of it about at Horwich RMI Club. The occasion was a Glenn Miller/1940s night in aid of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution,
A FEW weeks ago Mrs Christine Adams attempted to draw attention to the work of Dr Iddon in his support for legislation of drugs etc. and other actions, which I class as low-life. I gave her my strongest support, as such behaviour does nothing to uphold
ON returning from a fortnight's holiday this week, I began my catching up exercise by going through the letters columns of the local press. I began, of course, with the BEN, and read the usual crop of letters about the unique imbecility and ineptitude
THE inquest into the death of a violent killer -- who murdered a Bolton mum and her two young sons -- began today. Peter Christopher Hall, 35, was found hanged in a prison cell, nine months after admitting in court he had stabbed and battered to death
THREE blazing beds, propped up in a corridor, were the source of a fierce fire which swept through a Bolton hotel killing two pensioners, detectives revealed today. The beds had been placed against a wall outside the room of Blackpool pensioners William
The most important thing for Bolton was to get the three points NIGEL Spackman paid a glowing tribute to Sam Allardyce for taking Wanderers to the doorstep of the Premiership. The Oakwell boss put aside his disappointment at seeing his injury-hit and
THE champagne is still on ice after a weekend of emotional highs and lows for Blackburn Rovers' promotion hopefuls. But the general feeling among fans is total confidence in the team and optimism that come the autumn Blackburn will be playing Premier
EWOOD chief Graeme Souness saluted his side's phenomenal spirit after their plucky fightback against Portsmouth took Rovers to the brink of the Premiership. Rovers roared back from an early setback to wrap up a priceless 3-1 victory over struggling Pompey
SAM Allardyce drew satisfaction and pride from Saturday's jinx-smashing, record-breaking Oakwell win which kept Wanderers' promotion flame flickering. But he admitted that the 'fear factor' that haunted Wanderers during their winless run at the Reebok
EDWARD VII was on the throne, the North and South Poles had still to be visited and Einstein was yet to share with the world his Theory of Relativity writes Gordon Sharrock It was April 1905 and Bolton Wanderers had just clinched promotion back to the
POSTMEN were today coping with thousands of extra letters as householders posted their census forms. Residents across the borough sat down yesterday to fill in the 20-page form. Many of those have already been popped in the mail and postmen have been
A BLAZING car dangled four feet in the air after it had been rammed into a car park barrier. Firefighters had to clamber onto wet railings to reach the Vauxhall Astra at Kwik Save in Deane Road, Bolton. The car was believed to have been set alight after
BOLTON Women's Festival has taken the plunge again. The annual event kicked off with a group of women taking to the water at Moses Gate Country Park in their kayaks. They started by learning to get in and out of the wobbly boats and taught how to paddle
CHESS champion Jeff Horner beat off more than 140 players from the North-west at this year's Bolton chess congress at the Exel Centre. Jeff, of Hardy Hill Road, Harwood, featured in the BEN Looking Back page recently for winning the same competition 25
BURY is about to launch its annual search for the town's young sports ambassadors. The weekend of June 16-17 will see the running of the giant Greater Manchester Youth Games which this year are expected to draw some 5,000 young competitors and more than
THOUSANDS of people attended a three-day fashion, health and beauty exhibition in Victoria Square. Organisers hailed the event a success with an estimated 6,000 people walking through the doors of a marquee in the town centre. Shoppers flocked to the
TV star John Inman's catchphrase 'I'm Free' will soon be resounding through Farnworth's Barnardo's shop in a re-worked version of Pack Up Your Troubles. The Are you Being Served star is guest rapper on the new Barnardo's song aimed at encouraging people
A FORGOTTEN sign on a lamppost is causing confusion for Bolton's motorists, it has been claimed. The sign remains stuck on a lamppost facing the Thynne Street roundabout. It was left behind after Granada television filmed a new series of hospital drama
A WALKER needed to be stretchered from a Bolton country park after it was feared that she had fractured her leg after tripping over a dog. A passer-by at Moses Gate Country Park raised the alarm yesterday afternoon and ambulance and mountain rescue crews
BOLTON Council is set to be forced to catch up with the best recycling practice in Europe by collecting all electrical and electronic waste separately from homes throughout the area. A new law is now being discussed by Ministers which if agreed, will
A COMPLETE overhaul of the computerised business systems used by staff at Bolton Magistrates Court is needed, according to a report. Alex Carlos, Clerk to the Justices at Bolton, makes the point in his annual report to the town's 200 magistrates. He writes
HORWICH councillors are supporting plans for 102 apartments to be built on the site of an old bleach works. Redrow Homes has applied for planning permission to build the dwellings and at least 30 garages at an industrial site in Chorley Old Road which
THE Matra BAe Dynamics factory at Lostock is to be known by another set of initials in future. Consolidation in the European defence industry has resulted in it becoming MBDA. The Lostock operation, which employs about 420 people, is now part of a major
A MAN has put a £500 reward on the head of a thief who stole cash from his 87-year-old mother. Grandmother-of-twelve Ellen Mills -- who is frail and partly deaf -- allowed the thief into her home in Victory Road, Little Lever, believing him to be a relative
A COMPANY which survived a major fire in 1998 has achieved an 80 per cent growth in business over four years. Prontaprint franchisees Tony and Rosemary Selman are proud of the fact that they managed to keep their customers happy after a faulty night storage
CHARTERED accountants in the North West are urging the Government to set up a means tested hardship fund for all businesses affected by the foot and mouth outbreak. A survey of members carried out by the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICA) found
MILKMEN in Bolton are offering their services to tackle rundown areas as part of a new scheme School children and customers can challenge their milkmen to help brighten up blackspots under the Arla Action Challenge as well as delivering their daily pinta
I WAS totally disgusted with the size of the crowd for the Norwich game. I know that since Christmas Bolton have not played well at home but all but two clubs in this division would love to be in Bolton's position. Only 17,000 people turned up when 10,500
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A WESTHOUGHTON school which has been besieged for years by young vandals has taken a "last-ditch" approach to keep them out -- by fencing the premises off. And while staff at Westhoughton County Primary School stress that they do not feel they are being
SAM Allardyce was checking casualties today as the race for automatic promotion went into the dramatic final week of a roller-coaster season. Wanderers go to Wolves tomorrow knowing they must win to keep the dream alive after Blackburn Rovers came from
WARREN Hegg faces a battle to get fit for Lancashire's Benson and Hedges Cup opener tomorrow after injuring himself in a soccer game. The keeper was playing football with his Old Trafford team-mates when he hurt his foot and had to go to hospital for
From the BEN files: 25 YEARS AGO POWERS for the police to conduct breath tests on a much wider scale, and tougher sentenced for "high risk" and second drink-drive offenders are proposed in a Government report out today. A HORSE-drawn milk float which
SWIMMING is such wonderful exercise it has always amazed me that more people aren't into it! The truth is, ours is an aquatically ambivalent nation where people just don't take to the water too often. With the advent of more attractive, warmer facilities
CARING Inez Gavin died as she had lived -- helping others. The devoted mother and keen biker, 40, collapsed without warning from a brain haemorrhage as she lent a hand to a neighbour repairing his scooter. The generous gesture was totally in keeping with
"DON'T look down" was the cry. And around 40 daredevils from Barnardo's Phoenix project did exactly that on Saturday -- for charity. Members abseiled 60 feet down the side of the Bolton Evening News building to raise £2,800 for the Indian Earthquake Appeal
EVERYTHING has been going wrong for United fans writes Chris Sudlow. Out of Europe, held to a 1-1 draw by the mortal enemy, Roy Keane sent off in absolute disgrace . . . and the Dog and Partridge gutted. The firebombed pub is not the only one. Although
RADCLIFFE Borough goalkeeper Danny Hurst was a major player in his team's 1-1 away draw at second in the table Vauxhall Motors, writes John Bullen. The Wirral outfit, looking for a second successive promotion, suffered a body blow on the quarter hour
Bury 1 Wycombe 1 MICHAEL Nelson normally spends his days fitting blinds in Newcastle but on Saturday he took a few hours off - and ended up a hero writes Steve Canavan Nelson, a part timer with Unibond Premier League outfit Bishop Auckland, is on trial
