A NEW fan database system has helped Bolton Wanderers to notch up record season ticket sales and bring in an extra £500,000. Club commercial director Gareth Moores said that Wanderers had sold 19,000 season tickets, a 10 per cent increase on last season
A HUGE, big, thank you once again to the wonderful people of Bolton who, for the second year running, have shown just how caring they are by raising just over £700 for the National Gulf Veterans & Families Association. We had a great time. A huge
SOME months ago I wrote in criticising the inadequate provision of equipment on the recycling site of Safeway, Harwood, which regularly resulted in overspill on the ground, and thus resulted on Safeway staff clearing the refuse. It is now seemly to write
HAVING read Cllr Williamson's response to "disgruntled 17-year-old", I must, as one of the over-30s to whom he refers, agree strongly with the latter. While he may be correct that there are now more organised, supervised activities than ever, that is
TRY to picture the beauty of the nature reserve on Doffcocker Lodge on a lovely summer evening... Just returned to reminisce. It's about 60 years since I used to wade into the reeds to steal the eggs of the coots and moorhens. Not to collect but to eat
HOW refreshing to read Brian Derbyshire's letter published in the Bolton Evening News on Tuesday, August 12, and his acknowledgement that only the Conservatives can deliver Conservative policies and his confirmation that Labour are only good at one thing
RON Shambley's crusade to provide adequate facilities for disabled people is no doubt admirable (August 14). But he doesn't know a lot about railway finance. The reason why it was so expensive to make Blackrod station accessible to disabled potential
From the Evening News, August 23, 1903: A FRESH massacre of 200 Bulgarians by the Turks near Monastir is reported from that town. The latest accounts of the butchery at Krushevo are conflicting, the number of victims being placed at 300 by one account
Ashgar leads Kashmir to cup win ASHGAR Khan hit a superb 80 to lead champions-elect Kashmir to a comprehensive victory over Red Rose in a thoroughly one sided Walkden Cup final. Asghar showed all his batting qualities to guide Kashmir to a mammoth 206
A 23-YEAR OLD man has been charged with two counts of murder following a fire at the Moat House hotel in which two pensioners died. Lee Paul Carson, of Moses Gate, will appear before Bolton Magistrates on Tuesday morning. The former night porter at the
LATEST details MEN'S RESULTS: Section One: IGW 209 (11) Hollywood Rd 137 (1); Dobbies (H Dodgin 21-1) 210 (12) Bar Lane C 100 (0); Mortfield C (B Tapp 21-3) 189 (9) Bar Lane C 151 (3); Dobbies (A Walsh 21-2) 204 (11) Mortfield C 125 (1); Cross Guns A
GRAEME Souness has revealed how Wanderers' reputation for last-gasp giveaways encouraged Rovers not to give up in Saturday's Reebok derby. Craig Short's injury-time equaliser in the same fixture last season plus a host of other squanderings were high
ALL the action as it happened 1 min: Djorkaeff serves notice, chipping the ball a fraction too high after Okocha robs Tugay to set up an early raid on Friedel's goal. GOAL! 3 mins: Djorkaeff tucks away the penalty after Neill is tricked into a foul on
SAM Allardyce is no longer prepared to be the first line of defence when his players come under fire from their critics. Now in their third successive season among the elite of the Premiership, the Reebok boss says the team must take the responsibility
WANDERERS 2 ROVERS 2: YOURI Djorkaeff is urging Wanderers to use their attacking skills to insure against the last-gasp horrors that have returned to haunt them writes Gordon Sharrock The Reebok is reeling again from yet another stoppage time catastrophe
BIRDWATCHERS are being urged to look out for a rare bird. Nearly 600 of the small moorland finch known as the twite were ringed earlier this year, by United Utilities, to keep track of numbers. Note the colour ring on the legs and report sightings to
STRUGGLING Pizza Express has put a slice of its restaurants up for sale as it tries to rekindle its 1990s success as a favourite for family eating, it emerged today. Bolton's restaurant, in Wood Street, is not among those affected, however. The group,
BOLTON Festival got off to a great start at the weekend as thousands of people descended on the borough. Visitors were spoilt for choice with a wealth of options from a medieval living history day, a moorland history ramble, art on the streets, jazz music
POLICE in Bolton are investigating a spate of more than 10 small fires which were deliberately started in Deane and Daubhill. Firefighters were called out to the first of the blazes in the early hours of Sunday. A wooden outhouse had been set alight behind
LOCALS will be able to drop in for a quiet drink and sample some of the best works on offer from up and coming artists when an exhibition opens in a pub next week. The King's Head pub in Deane will play host to the arts exhibition for one night only on
A THIRD Brazilian name is in the frame as Sam Allardyce counts down the days to Sunday's transfer deadline still without the centre half he says Wanderers must have if they are to avoid another Premiership survival struggle. Agents for Julio Cesar of
WHEN this 1933 picture was taken in Church Road, Bolton, near the junction of Harpers Lane, the bus was the first to run on the No. 1 route, Lower Pools to Lowther Street, Great Lever, replacing the old tramcar. In 1933 the whole journey would cost you
A BUSY scene at Lostock Junction in October 1953, when the mill was a prominent feature of the district. The station closed in November 1966 -- but re-opened in 1988, although not with the buildings shown on this picture -- and Crosses and Heaton's mill
WHERE they play and when National League One August 31 Salford ...A September 7 Rochdale ...H
SECRETARIES please note: the dates of the Section A and Section B finals have been changed. Section A will be on Sunday, August 31 (Over Hulton), and Section B on Sunday, September 7 (Little Lever), both 12 noon start. League Secretary -- new phone number
LATEST details P W L Pts Horwich... 15 13 2 119 Plodder Lane... 14 12 2 103 Dunscar... 14 6 8 66 Over Hulton... 13 6 7 64 Rumworth... 11 6 5 59 Little Lever... 14 4 10 58 Tonge/Bre... 12 5 7 50 Kear/Ringley... 11 4 7 48 Church Ward... 12 2 10 35
ENTRIES are invited for the 2003 Croft Bakery Open Doubles Crown Green Bowling Competition. Prize money £690 (subject to entries, limited to 64 pairs). Winners £250, runners up £120, semis £60, quarters £30, last 16 £10. First and Second Round September
TABLES and results P W L D Pts Bar Lane A... 18 18 0 0 176 Dobbies... 18 17 1 0 171 Bradshaw... 19 12 7 0 130 Turton... 18 9 9 0 116 Tonge Moor... 17 9 8 0 110 Edgworth... 19 8 11 0 108 Dunscar... 18 10 8 0 106 Longsight A... 18 9 9 0 103 Eagley... 19
SECRETARIES please note: the dates of the Section A and Section B finals have been changed. Section A will be on Sunday, August 31 (Over Hulton), and Section B on Sunday, September 7 (Little Lever), both 12 noon start. Section A: Little Lever A 149 (7
LATEST details SECTION A: Longsight B 148 (8) Tonge Pk A 139 (6); Astley Bridge A 139 (7) Longsight A 152 (8); Heywood 125 (5) Longsight A 146 (10); Heywood 158 (10) Leverhulme 124 (5); Astley Bridge C 151 (10) Leverhulme 124 (4); Moss Bank A 149 (11)
LATEST details A & B Cup semi final: Mortfield 186 W/H S,SC A 204. Section A: Red Lion W/H (D Allsopp 21-4) 183 (8) Railway B 159 (4); Red Lion W/H (S Taylor 21-0) 198 (10) Turton A 139 (2); Cross Guns 147 (3) Bar Lane A 195 (10); Horwich CC 153 (
Centurions 78 Dewsbury Rams 18 by Mike Hulme: THE Centurions and Salford City Reds will slug it out next weekend for the honour of the National League One Minor Premiership. Leigh's runaway 14-try win over bottom club Dewsbury and Salford's equally impressive
I THINK I've uncovered a conspiracy. The Australians are destroying their domestic rugby league purely to fund it's resurgence writes Chris Hall Their National Sport Academy has achieved its goal in creating the world's finest athletes in...well, just
Kidderminster 0 Bury 2 by Phil Thorp: AFTER three straight defeats in their opening three fixtures Bury's trip to Kidderminster, who boasted a 100 per cent league record, was probably a banker home win on most punters' fixed odds coupons. But they wouldn't
A WHOLE community pulled together to raise money for a hospital treating a 10-year-old girl waiting for a heart transplant. Amy Morris has been in the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital for 19 weeks waiting for a transplant. Her parents, David and Tracy
WHEN the Stroud-Mort family got a postcard from someone called Bunnykins in Cyprus, they thought someone had got the wrong address. But when four more arrived from all around America they realised the "sender" was one of their garden ornament, who had
A DRESS agency businesswoman from Bolton attempted to obtain goods on the cheap from a store by switching labels, a court heard. Claire Smethurst switched the price tags on items so that the value of the goods she took through the check-out at TK Maxx
RESIDENTS in two crime plagued areas of Bolton are "shopping" criminals in their droves -- leading to a cut in the number of break-ins, attacks and car thefts. Crime rates in Great Lever and Halliwell, have been slashed by as much as a quarter since a
A FARMER who faces losing his home to the developers of a golf course held an auction in a last ditch attempt to raise funds. Arnold Davenport has battled to keep Nab Gate Farm since land owner Christopher Holt agreed to sell the site to Breightmet Golf
BOLTON Festival got off to a great start at the weekend as thousands of people descended on the borough. Visitors were spoilt for choice with a wealth of options from a medieval living history day, a moorland history ramble, art on the streets, jazz music
A*-G N Abdullah 9; N Adam 8; N Adams 9; J Ainsworth 9; D Akcali 8; N Ali 9; S Ali 10; R Allison 9; C Almond 5; L Archer 9; A Ardis 4; L Armstrong 7; K Babariya 9; C Bagdagi 10; T Bancks 7; K Bateson 5; K Belshaw 9; G Berry 9; J Berry 8; S Berry 10; F
A* to G (A* to C in brackets) K A Ainscow 10 (10); P Allen 8; K Allison 9 (4); B Arjan 8 (4); C Aspen 10 (10); F Atcha 10 (10); K J Bailey 9 (1); A Balwant 10 (10); L A Banks 10 (7); D J Barnard 10 (9); S P Baron 8; A Bates 9 (5); F S Benedetto 10 (10
MORE THAN 100,000 are expected to attend the tenth annual celebration of Beatlemania in Liverpool. Liverpool's trbute to its most famous sons also includes performances from tributes bands such as the Fab Four. Music lovers have five stages to choose
WANDERERS could face an FA rap after a fan ran onto the pitch and confronted Blackburn's Italian defender Amoruso during Saturday's Reebok derby. The supporter was hustled from the pitch after racing on following Dwight York's last gasp equaliser in the
I WOULD like to convey a huge thank you to the Commercial Services Events Team for all their hard work and effort in putting together the Bolton Show 2003. Community spirits soared in the sunshine as a record-breaking 90,000 crowd enjoyed the show. A
REGARDING the letter from Prentice Howarth, "Council takes its planning seriously". All very well talking like that, but certain applications have, unfortunately, been successfully sneaked through before the UDP was reviewed. The council, and especially
ON behalf of the organisers of the petition opposing application 65300/03 for a proposed pub/restaurant on Moss Bank Park, I would wish to thank everyone who took the opportunity to sign the petition. The response has been truly amazing, with 1379 signatures
IT is with total disgust that I write this letter. The cause of my nausea is the act of the theft of the bronze plaques which commemorate the war dead of Farnworth. I must confess I do not know what the solution is to such a supreme act of disrespect.
From the Evening News, August 26, 1903: AN extraordinary death has been reported to the Bolton coroner. It is probably the first of its kind, and was connected with a walking contest at Deane. A young man who was pacing a competitor fell en route and
From the Bolton Evening News, August 24, 1903: THE death of the Marquis of Salisbury, four times Prime Minister of Great Britain, took place at his Hatfield seat on Saturday night. The actual time of the distinguished statesman's death was ten minutes
From the Evening News, August 22, 1903: SIR,- I think it is high time the abominable stench that emanates from the Fish Market and the hovels appertaining thereto, was treated more seriously by our Sanitary Committee. I make this appeal, through the medium
BOLTON LEAGUE Saturday: Astley Bridge 158-5 Kearsley 369-9 -match drawn. Bradshaw 156-1 Egerton 155-6 - Bradshaw won by 9wkts Eagley 155-6 214-6 Farnworth SC 253-5 - match drawn Farnworth 124 Westhoughton 126-5 - Westhoughton won by 5 wkts Horwich 91-
WANDERERS coach Phil Brown has given unemployed youngsters hope by telling them all about his struggle to find work during his teenage years. The former Wanderers player gave a speech at the Bolton Prince's Trust presentation evening at The Reebok stadium
HELLO and welcome to my weekly column in the Bolton Evening News Premiership Wanderer supplement If you did not know already, I am the president of Bolton Wanderers Junior Whites. This is my third season as the president and now the Junior Whites is a
KEVIN Davies has started to repay Sam Allardyce for having the faith in his ability to hack it in the Premiership. Cast off by Southampton - soul-destroying for a player once traded for £7.5 million - Davies is on his way back after more than two seasons
HARRY Redknapp will be looking to make it two straight home wins when his Portsmouth side entertain Wanderers on Tuesday night writes Richard Mulligan The ex-West Ham boss saw his charges open their Premiership account with a 2-1 win over Aston Villa
BOLTON motorists faced disruption after Belmont Road was closed following two separate collisions. Firefighters used cutting gear to free a trapped driver in one of the crashes involving several vehicles on Saturday morning. The driver was taken to the
VANDALS in Bolton tore up a grassed children's playing area before setting fire to the car they had taken. Firefighters were called to Barlow Park, Astley Bridge, at 12.15am on Sunday to deal with the burning Mazda 323. It is believed the car, which was
A MAJORITY of child car safety seats were found to be defective when a check was carried out in Bolton. Of the 33 seats checked in Boots car park at Middlebrook, only 27 per cent were found to be correctly fitted. Some 52 per cent of seats had to have
WESTHOUGHTON residents are celebrating after winning a three year battle to put the brake on rat run motorists. Homeowners on Holden Lea and Bamber Croft in Wingates are delighted no entry signs have been installed after years of delay. The signs were
RESIDENTS have spoken of their horror after a 20-year-old man was stabbed to death in Ramsbottom. The victim was found lying at the rear of a semi-detached bungalow in Rostron Road, Ramsbottom, at 9pm on Friday. He was taken to Fairfield General Hospital
A COUNCIL tenant did not know whether to laugh or cry when he was told the guttering to his house could not be repaired -- because the council had no ladders. Gordon Higginbottom, who lives in Ashley Avenue, Breightmet, complained about a leak in the
WANDERERS 2, ROVERS 2: The curse of the late goal struck as Rovers snatched a dramatic injury time equaliser at the Reebok for the second successive season to deny Wanderers a winning start to their home Premiership campaign. Dwight Yorke headed home
YOUTH worker Gerry Luczka has been helping youngsters realise their potential for nearly a quarter of a century. Gayle McBain reports GERRY Luczka's philosophy on life is simple yet effective. He tries, each day, to make a difference in the lives of young
STAFF AND students at Bury Grammar School (Boys) are celebrating big successes in this year's GCSE results. Overall 92.8 per cent of entries were graded A*, A, B or C. While James Forsyth, Lance Rane and William Webster distinguished themselves by scoring
LATEST details P W L D Pt Globe ... 18 12 4 2 170 Bar Lane ... 18 12 6 0 154 R Utility ... 19 9 10 0 150 East Lancs ... 18 13 5 0 146 Colne Cricket ... 18 12 6 0 140 St Andrews ... 18 9 8 1 135 Turton ... 19 8 10 1 133 Darwen Subs... 18 10 7 1 127 Greenhill
THE Harold Jobbins Shield final is on September 23. The Thomas Brindle Trophy is on September 8 at Kearsley. Section A: Ellesmere (13) 177 St Mary's B (1) 107; Parr Fold (10) 161 Brad St A (4) 135; Kearsley A (9) 149 Mytham A (5) 134; Boothstown (13)
LATESTresults and tables SECTION A: Rivington B 111 (2) Horwich RMI A 152 (11); Westhoughton SSC B 156 (8) Bellingham B 137 (3); Hilltops A 153 (10) Adlington CC 88 (1); Lostock BC A 155 (8) Greenwood 126 (3); Whelley LC A 155 (8) Westhoughton SSC A 142
Leigh RMI 1 Halifax 1 by David Magilton: MARK Patterson is never satisfied. The Leigh RMI boss had just seen David McNiven tuck away his fifth goal in four games but was still critical of his star striker. "McNiven is scoring goals and I can't ask anything
RESIDENTS in Horwich are celebrating after hotel owners were told they will have to alter floodlights because they shine into the windows of nearby houses. Owners of the Travel Inn, next to the Beehive pub in Chorley New Road, were refused an application
TWO local women have been appointed to the management team of NHS Direct which covers Greater Manchester, Cheshire and the Wirral. Tahira Parveen has joined the telephone health helpline as Operations Manager for its five call centres in Bolton, Manchester
GATES that have locked drug takers and prostitutes out of the back alley where teenager Carly Bateman was murdered are to become a permanent fixture. Six months ago steel barriers were put up at both ends of Back Crawford Avenue in The Haulgh on a trial
WANDERERS coach Phil Brown has given unemployed youngsters hope by telling them all about his struggle to find work during his teenage years. The former Wanderers player gave a speech at the Bolton Prince's Trust presentation evening at The Reebok stadium
THIS was the scene in October, 1950, when a rail wagon, being shunted in the yard behind the Stag's Head Hotel, St Helens Road, Bolton, jumped the buffer and crashed into an outhouse of the hotel. The side of the building near the railway line fell in
A* to G (A* to C in brackets) C Addis 4; N Ainsworth 10.5 (8.5); A Akhtar 5.5; A Ashton 9.5 (4); S Ashurst 10.5 (9.5); M Aspinall 10.5 (6); L Ball 10.5 (9.5): R Banks 8.5; R Bannister 9.5; G Barber 10.5 (8.5); J Barlow 10.5 (9); S Bickerdike 4(1); R Biggy
THE future of Radio 1 DJ Sara Cox may appear uncertain according to some national newspaper reports, after the station's figures dropped. But Radio 1 controller Andy Parfitt says he is sticking by the 28-year-old. A spokesman who issued a statement on
