SOME things in life are destined to remain a mystery. Among these are the rules of American football, the purpose in life of Geri Halliwell, and the basic plot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Into this category has just fallen the latest big budget Barclays
THE local jokers who challenged TV soccer pundit Mark Lawrenson to shave off his trademark moustache if Bolton Wanderers remained in the Premiership should have asked for more money. Underneath that hirsute walrus look there turned out to be good-looking
HOPEFULLY, Weatherfield Samaritans are standing by in droves. Following the departure of The Street's longtime barmaid Betty Williams from the Rover's Return, there could now be major hotpot withdrawal symptoms. The bar regulars never seemed to order
POLICE are continuing to hunt a three-man machete wielding gang who stabbed an accounts manager. They stole a mobile phone, a laptop computer and a silver-coloured BMW in the attack at Mayfair Creative Products in Lynstock Way, Lostock. The masked gang
BIKER John Phillipson intends to make a big noise for charity at Bolton's Albert Halls tomorrow night. Heavy Metal legends Saxon will be performing in the town as part of a series of fund raising concerts organised by John, who is preparing to set off
TOURNAMENT dark horses Spain scraped a 3-2 victory against South Africa, while 10-man Paraguay beat Slovenia 3-1 to nick the second place in Group B. Spain scored three for the third successive game to take maximum points, while Paraguay's super fight-back
BOLTON pubs and offices opened early as the town caught World Cup fever for the Nigeria game. But by early afternoon it was almost business as usual on the streets as most people carried on at work as normal. There were little signs of the problems created
A MUSICAL extravaganza -- the largest of its kind in the borough -- runs next week showcasing the talents of Bolton's musical youth. The Bolton Schools' Music Association's 2002 annual Festival of Music, sponsored by the Bolton Evening News, will feature
GROUP A FRANCE...0, SENEGAL...1 (Papa Diop) DENMARK ...2 (Tomasson, 2), URUGUAY1 (Rodriguez) DENMARK 1 (Tomasson), SENEGAL (Salif Diao) 1 FRANCE 0, URUGUAY 0 FRANCE 0, DENMARK 2 (Rommedahl, Tomasson) SENEGAL 3 (Fadioga, Diop,2) , URUGUAY 3 (Morales, Forlan
A TOTAL of 54 building sites in Greater Manchester and Lancashire had enforcement action taken against them during a week-long Health and Safety Executive (HSE) safety blitz. The number of sites where action was taken represented more than 40 per cent
BOLTON Friends of the Earth raised £32.13 from a street collection in Farnworth on June 1.
A FLAG day on behalf of the RSPCA held on May 18 in Bolton town centre raised £1,032 from collections and £62 from the sale of goods.
A VARIETY of charities, individuals and good causes are benefiting from The Rotary Club of Radcliffe's 2002 charity funds. In total £10,560 is being handed out. Radcliffe Boxing Club will receive £1,500 for new shower room facilities; £2,100 will help
TWO brothers accused of stealing lager and spirits three times in three hours from the same store have appeared before Bury magistrates. Patrick Roche, aged 21, and Thomas Roche, aged 18, both of Tenby Drive, Salford, are alleged to have stolen drink
HUSBAND and wife team Pam and Gordon Smith will be guest tutors at Lancashire Yoga Association's next session on Saturday, June 15, at the function room at Farnworth Town Hall from 10.30am to 3.45pm. The title of the session will be "Evolution from Hatha
THE Children's Society is calling on football fans and local five-a-side teams to sign up for the "Going for Goals" tournament at Manchester City's Platt Lane training ground, Fallowfield, on Sunday, July 7. To enter, teams must raise £250 in sponsorship
THE NEWLY-formed Walkden Methodist Church (an amalgamation of the St Andrew's and Memorial Road Churches) is holding a Jubilee Family Fun Day on Saturday, in aid of Pendlebury Children's Hospital.
ANYONE interested in volunteering for the Citizens Advice Bureau can go along to one of their Information Sessions to find out more about what is involved -- the next one is on Wednesday at 2.30pm. For more details, or to book a place, call Helen on 01204
LEIGH'S Turnpike Gallery presents Jigar: films by Alia Syed from June 22 to August 3. Alia Syed is well known on the film festival circuit, having exhibited at Tate Modern and the National Film Theatre. This is her first major solo gallery exhibition
ANTI-social tenants -- and how to deal with them -- will be discussed at a one-day conference in Bury. The event, on Thursday, June 20, is centred on a recent consultation paper, entitled Tackling Anti-social Tenants for Local Authority Housing and Housing
BOLTON Hospice is inviting people to take part in a bumper Lottery draw this month. Prize money goes up £500 to £2,000 on Friday, June 28. And, as a one off, anyone can just pay £1 to enter at outlets including the Hospice Shop and Perfect Pizza, both
POLICE have issued security advice for motorists after latest figures revealed car crime accounts for a fifth of all recorded crime in Bolton. Drivers should always lock their doors and windows, remove ignition keys and use immobilisers and steering locks
A LEIGH nursery devastated by fire only days before its 30th anniversary is set to celebrate -- one year late. Last June the Stonehouse Nursery was preparing to party when two classrooms and an outside toy store were destroyed in an arson attack. Now
MORE than 170 children from schools in Bolton will be among more than 12,000 pupils from the north of England to gain an insight into life in the Army, at the UK's largest ever outdoor Army careers exhibition. Army Exhibition for Schools is a three-day
A MUSICAL extravaganza -- the largest of its kind in the borough -- runs next week showcasing the talents of Bolton's musical youth. The Bolton Schools' Music Association's 2002 annual Festival of Music, sponsored by the Bolton Evening News, will feature
THOSE who followed the television adaptation of Stephen Ambrose's excellent book Band of Brothers, about an American Army unit during the latter part of the Secon World War, will need no prompting over Alastair Borthwick's equally engrossing book Battalion
HOME Secretary David Blunkett has told Leigh MP Andy Burnham he will consider a request for more police powers to tackle under-age street drinkers. Mr Blunkett was responding to a question raised by Mr Burnham in the House of Commons to highlight Police
SHAKERS kick off their new season in Division Three at Oxford on August 10, according to the new fixtures released today. The first home game is against Cambridge United on Tuesday, August 13.
MANCHESTER United, without a trophy last season, kick off their season with a home game against promoted West Brom on August 17, followed by a trip to Stamford Bridge the following Saturday. United are at City on November 9 with the return derby on February
MANCHESTER-born Oasis star Noel Gallagher has said he became hooked on valium while kicking a cocaine habit. The singer said he turned to the pills to keep him calm and he admitted they fuelled the recording of the Standing On The Shoulder of Giants album
UP TO 40 people had to be evacuated from their homes when a gas pipe caught fire in the middle of the night. They had to stand at the end of their street for two hours while fire-fighters and engineers made sure it was safe for them to go back to bed.
A MAN was caught by police as he and another man stripped roof slates from a derelict factory. Anthony Long admitted to police that he was stealing the slates so he could sell them to buy alcohol. Long, aged 21, of Fern Grove, Bury, admitted burglary,
MOTORISTS are being warned of motorway closures over the weekend. From 9pm on Saturday until 6am on Sunday the link road from the A580 westbound to the M61 and A666 northbound will be closed. A clearly-signed diversion will be in place via the Kearsley
PATRONS of a town centre pub could swear that there is something different about the atmosphere. Or rather they won't, because if they do they may well be cautioned by one of Ye Olde Man and Scythe's bar staff. The idea to ban obscenities in the bar is
THREE young children died earlier today after a blaze through a terraced house. Emergency services were called to an address at Boothroyden, in the Lancashire resort of Blackpool, at around 4.35am. They found the corner house, two streets behind the Hilton
Marco Players, Lost in Yonkers, Chorley Old Road Methodist Community Church, Runs until Saturday LOST in Yonkers is typical of its writer, Neil Simon -- warm, funny, but also heartrending. It is set in New York and also typical of Simon displays a variety
Saturday LEISURE, SPORT & KEEP FIT CIRCUIT TRAINING sessions for children, 5pm-6pm and adults 6pm-7pm are held at Gibbon Street Community Centre. Admission free. For further details tel: 528786. HILTON TABLE TENNIS CENTRE, Nuttall Avenue, Horwich:
ALL the fuss about Cherie Blair's appearance and behaviour during the Jubilee celebrations seems terrifically unfair. OK. So the woman has the dress sense of a Yeti and appears to totally misunderstand what hairdressers actually do. But there is no need
A CAMPAIGN to raise awareness of badger baiting has been launched by police in Bolton. Posters have been placed in parks and woodland across the town and leaflets are available from police stations. The crackdown is running to coincide with National Badger
MORE than 1,000 postal workers in Bolton face an agonising wait to find out if they will lose their jobs after Consignia announced it is axing 17,000 staff. Postal group Consignia will cut the jobs under a "radical" restructuring plan after losing a record
A NEW version of The Three Lions causing much merriment on the e-mail circuit. Here it is: They're going home, They're going home, They're going... The French are going home x2 Isn't it great, thank God it's true. Although they missed Zizou, It won't
ENGLAND's possible World Cup dates: Second Round: v Denmark Sat, June 15, Niigata, 12.30pm Quarter-Final: Fri, June 21, Shizuoka, 7.30am Semi-Final: Wed, June 26, Saitama, 12.30pm Final: Sun, June 30, noon
A NEW version of The Three Lions song is causing much merriment on the e-mail circuit. Here it is: They're going home, They're going home, They're going... The French are going home x2 Isn't it great, thank God it's true. Although they missed Zizou, It
THE man Sam Allardyce calls his "pocket battleship" has promised England "the game of their life" when the countries clash in the last 16 of the World Cup. One of Stig Tofting's abiding memories is as a 13-year-old watching Denmark beat England at Wembley
HUNDREDS of local schoolchildren have the chance to meet famous authors when the Bolton Children's Book Festival gets under way.. The popular annual event runs June 14-28 and Bolton Libraries and the Bolton Literacy Trust have got together to bring some
A tombola and sale held under the Victoria Square Canopy on behalf of Walmsley Unitarian Chapel raised £601.47.
A FAMILY fun day will be held at St Paul's Church, Peel, on Saturday from 11am to 2pm. There will be bingo, games, a bouncy castle and a barbecue.
A HOUSE in Broadhead Road, Edgworth, could be in line for a new look if town hall planners agree. Plans to build a garage and extend a kitchen will go before planners at Blackburn with Darwen Council at their next meeting.
FOUR fire-fighters wearing breathing apparatus tackled a blaze inside a Bolton factory early today. Workers were evacuated from the Myson's radiator-firm, based at Victoria Works in Nelson Street, Great Lever. Firefighters from Bolton and Farnworth tackled
A MAN who drove through a red traffic light managed to keep his licence because a ban would have cost him his job. Bury magistrates took a sympathetic view after hearing how Howard Kempton, aged 38, was due to be disqualified under the totting-up procedure
EURO-MP Gary Titley is celebrating after the European Parliament voted to ban the sale of cosmetics tested on animals. In a vote in Strasbourg MEPs decided shops will not be allowed to put items such as shampoos, shower gels and lipsticks on their shelves
COMMUNITY projects will have the opportunity to be recognised for their crime reduction achievements with the launch of the Marks & Spencer British Community Safety Awards 2002, run in association with Crime Concern. Five projects will be selected
TWO bands perform in a feast of brass entertainment at one concert tonight. Tyldesley Band will play alongside Fred Longworth Community Brass Band in the Last Night of the Proms from 7.30pm tonight. As well as being a celebration of the Queen's Golden
TRAVEL experts around the borough will be brightening up Bolton Hospice's coffers on Saturday. The five branches of St Andrews Travel -- in the town centre, at Astley Bridge, Chorley Old Road, Horwich, Westhoughton and at Harwood -- will all "Go Yellow
DISCUSSIONS on planned changes to care services for older people in Bury have been deferred to allow as many people as possible to attend. Councillors on the Health, Housing and Social Services Scrutiny and Review Panel decided to arrange a new meeting
BOLTON has been given the largest cash handout in the north west in a major injection of funding designed to help people on some of the town's poorest estates. Nearly £6m will be pumped into the voluntary sector on some of the town's most deprived estates
ORGANISERS of this year's Horwich Carnival are looking for help from the public to make sure the event runs smoothly, on June 21, 22 and 23. Stewards and street collectors are needed for both the cycle race on Friday, June 21 between 6pm and 9pm and also
A CAMPAIGN to raise awareness of badger baiting has been launched by police in Bolton. Posters have been placed in parks and woodland across the town and leaflets are available from police stations. The crackdown is running to coincide with National Badger
WANDERERS, whose dream start - a 5-0 win at Leicester - laid the foundation for last season's successful survival mission have an opening day away game again when the new Premiership season kicks off on August 17. They face Fulham, but not at Craven Cottage
BOLTON Arena tennis academy has got its first students into Wimbledon. Just over a year since it was set up the academy will be represented by David Sherwood and Jonathan Marray at the greatest tennis show on earth. The pair earned a wild card into the
RAILWAYS are in Bert Holland's blood. Born and bred in the Bolton area Bert, is professor of organic chemistry and biotechnology at Brock University in Ontario, Canada, but has fond memories of his schooldays. Steam locomotives rule as far as the former
NEWLY-promoted Manchester City kick off their saeson in the Premiership at Leeds on August 17. This is followed by a home game with Newcastle the following Saturday. The Manchester derby is at Maine Road (Nov 9) and Old Trafford (Feb 8). Big games in
WANDERERS, whose dream start - a 5-0 win at Leicester - laid the foundation for last season's successful survival mission have an opening day away game again when the new Premiership season kicks off on August 17. They face Fulham, but not at Craven Cottage
OSTEOPOROSIS leaves many women in pain, causing brittle bones which are easily broken. June has been named Osteoporosis month to try and highlight the problem which leads to much suffering for thousands of women. It can even cause death. Gayle Evans reports
HUNDREDS of local schoolchildren have the chance to meet famous authors when the Bolton Children's Book Festival gets under way.. The popular annual event runs June 14-28 and Bolton Libraries and the Bolton Literacy Trust have got together to bring some
RICH Northerners are moving away from Manchester and Liverpool because they prefer to live in fashionable areas not in streets of old terrace houses. Lord Best, director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, said there were streets of derelict old properties
FAMILY and friends of murdered prostitute Danielle Moorcroft have left touching tributes at the car park where she was battered to death. Messages tied to lamposts behind Bolton Community College include references to Callum, thought to be the name the
SHOPPERS are flocking to Bolton despite claims that the town is falling behind rivals such as the Trafford Centre . Just a few months ago, the Greater Manchester Research Unit claimed visitors to Bolton had fallen by a quarter and said more investment
MADI Richardson has refused to forget the country she left behind. It would have been easy for her to sever all links with Romania when she started a new life in Bolton. Instead, the plucky 10-year-old has organised fund raising events to help the street
PENSIONERS say they are not eating or sleeping because they are so worried about losing their homes. Bolton Council has sent them letters saying it is thinking about changing the sheltered status of a flats complex on Deane Walk, forcing them to move.
TWIN boys left blind because of a hospital's failure to treat them properly are to share a £1 million compensation pay-out. Daniel and Robert Russell were born 14 weeks early after their mum, Gail, went into Salford's Hope Hospital. Both boys developed
BRITAIN'S oldest independent socialist club is in danger of closing, members said today. The headquarters of Bolton Socialist Club, founded in 1887, are crumbling and vital improvements and repairs are needed. Yet the cash-strapped organisation, better
THE vicar of Bolton chased after two thieves when they stole the cash takings of an orchestra performance at his church. Rev Michael Williams pursued the pair for more than a mile before losing them on Bromwich Street in The Haulgh. They had taken more
FARNWORTH Performing Arts Company presents Trivial Pursuits by Frank Vickery from June 18 to 22, 7.30pm. The comedy will be performed at Farnworth Little Theatre, Cross Street, Farnworth.
Friday LEISURE, SPORT AND KEEP FIT HILTON TABLE TENNIS CENTRE, Nuttall Avenue, Horwich: table tennis all ages, 1pm-3pm; seniors, 7pm-9pm. BOLTON YMCA, 125 Deansgate: junior football, 6.15pm. GREAT LEVER COMMUNITY CENTRE, Parkfield Road entrance, Ju-Jitsu
