NEW Rosemere Amateur Operatic Society open with their production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado tonight at the Albert Halls, Bolton. The show runs until Saturday. Tickets are available from 01204 300666 and 01204 334400.
AN East Bolton company has gained an internationally recognised quality mark. Abbfab Services Ltd, of Windley Street, Mill Hill, offers workshop fabrication and on-site installation of pipework, storage tanks and pressure vessels. The company supplies
DRUG and terrorist money came under a stronger threat this week when new money laundering laws came into effect. Now businesses such as estate agencies, casinos, tax advisers, auditors and retailers who deal in goods priced £10,000 or more are duty bound
I APPLAUD Mr Andrew Dickson and his workforce for taking it upon themselves to clean up Bolton town centre. As one whose work takes me up and down the country, I have to say that Bolton is without doubt the filthiest place I have ever seen and encouraging
ON behalf of the Thursday Social Club at St Edmund's, I write to nominate Joan Foster of Jubilee House as our "Star of the Month". Although Joan struggles with health problems, she has been tireless in her efforts to help us. Being excellent at needlework
PETER Sloan and the Bolton Volunteer Bureau do excellent work in our local community, but there really is no need for them to volunteer to man our police stations! The situation is that the existing police stations in Horwich and Westhoughton are due
I WAS pleased to have the further opportunity to reply to Brian Derbyshire's letter in response to mine on wind farms. I must agree with Mr Derbyshire that clean energy from renewable sources is the way forward. He need not worry about the disadvantages
MR Roy Cavanagh, Secretary of the Bolton Association, has been in touch regarding the old picture of Astley Bridge cricketers which appeared on this page last week. We had established that the club was displaying the Association's Cross Cup and that the
READER John Turner has loaned me some fascinating old postcards acquired by his wife's grandfather, George McGinn, and now handed down in the family. There are more than 300 of them - dating from 1906 to 1920 - and quite a number have relevance to the
St Frances Day - the Patron Saint of housewives, motorists and bachelors. 1562: Kissing in public was banned in Naples, contravention being punishable by death. 1763: William Cobbett, political journalist and author of Rural Rides, was born in Farnham
PURE Productions of Bury is staging a play - For the Love of Bob - written by the company's proprietor Karen Ryder. The bittersweet comedy will be at The Comedy Store, Manchester, on March 15 and 16, starting at 7.30 pm. The play follows the lives of
A GROUP of young people from Barlow Park Youth Centre on Oldhams Estate, in Astley Bridge, took part in a sponsored abseil at Bolton's Crompton Way Fire Station. They raised more than £450 for the burns unit at Booth Hall Children's Hospital in Manchester
IT'S a Knock-Out is coming to Manchester to raise money for the charity which grants wishes to children with life-threatening illnesses. Make-A-Wish Foundation UK is holding the fun day at Heaton Park, Prestwich, on Sunday, June 27. Contact Julie Amos
RESIDENTS in Bolton are being given an opportunity to have their say over how the borough is policed. A short questionnaire has been produced by the Home Office to ensure everyone can contribute to the debate. Response are required by April 5 and can
WORK is under way on Tomlinson Culvert, Horwich. The drain, which runs underneath Chorley New Road just to the west of its junction with Winter Hey Lane, will be reconstructed and cleared in a £120,000 scheme. The repairs are expected to take six weeks
WORK has started on the resurfacing of two Horwich car parks. The smaller car park at Captain Street, off Winter Hey Lane, is already out of action and the bigger site will follow as work takes place to resurface and reline both car parks. Funding for
THE UK's first MS Parachuting Month will take place in June and the Multiple Sclerosis Trust needs people to take up the challenge. The charity is looking to recruit thrill-seeking volunteers to carry out parachute jumps during the Month. There are 22
THE Guide Dogs for the Blind Association has launched an appeal for volunteers in Greater Manchester and Lancashire to help raise the guide dogs of the future. The charity is short of volunteer puppy walkers, who care for and educate guide dog pups from
THE biggest indoor ski slope in Britain looks set to be built next to the Trafford Centre. A £28 million alpine ski complex over 250,000 sq ft is earmarked for the area, just 20 minutes drive from Bolton town centre. The main slope would be 180 metres
WHEN police came across a snake in the grass, there was only one man to call. They tracked down Bolton Aquarium development manager Peter Liptrott, who headed to Wigan to tackle a grey rat snake which was lurking in a garden. The snake - which Mr Liptrott
THE Urbis museum in Manchester enjoyed a record high in visitor figures last month. Since the decision was made to drop admission charges in December last year, visitors to the city centre glass-clad attraction have increased dramatically. There was a
BOLTON Hospice hit the jackpot at a Las Vegas charity night at the weekend - raising a record-breaking £50,000. Around 500 guests - including long-term supporter and ex-Coronation Street star Jonathan Wrather, alias Joe Carter - were treated to a showbiz
A UNIVERSITY professor will be responsible for research into mental health in the area. Professor Karen Luker, Dean of the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting at The University of Manchester, has been appointed as a non-executive director
PEOPLE who are worried about brittle bone disease have the opportunity to have an osteoporosis test in Bolton later this month. Osteoporosis causes thinning of the bones and affects men and women of all ages. It is known as the silent epidemic and more
A FIRE boss has praised Bolton's education bosses for their policy of installing sprinkler systems in new and existing schools. County Fire Officer Barry Dixon said Bolton's local education authority was proactive and he welcomed the steps towards safety
MORE than 100 children have been off sick after an outbreak of an infectious virus at St Joseph's High School in Horwich. Pupils were sent home after viral gastroenteritis spread through the school. The infection is thought to have spread quickly because
COUNCIL workers are on a collision course with their bosses over new pay demands. Town hall bosses have dismissed their calls for a four per cent rise plus other bonuses as "unsustainable", claiming the move would lead to job losses. But union leaders
A WAR has been declared on litter louts who have been dumping rubbish on a street in Great Lever. Residents of Nixon Road have vowed to sweep away the rubbish from their area and spent their Saturday morning filling up a skip with garbage. A dozen children
PETER Andre brought Insaniamania to the Trafford Centre last month - but now he is coming back to play a full gig at the Apollo in Manchester. The singer who had a few hits in the mid-1990s has seen his career soar to new heights over the past few weeks
Newcastle Res 2, Wanderers Res 3: GEORGI Kinkladze should know next week whether he has a future with Bolton Wanderers. The Georgia international, looking to get his career back on track after being released by Derby County last summer, played his third
DENIS and Mary Broadsworth plus Ian Hunter, all members of Tyldesley Little Theatre will appear as extras in a London Weekend Television film. The film will show a reconstruction of a real life incident for the annual Bravery Awards and the results may
THE Smithills School and Bolton Sixth Form College Spring Term Concert 2004 takes place in the newly refurbished school hall on Wednesday, March 17, at 7.30 pm. Featured will be the multi-award-winning Smithills School Senior Brass Band, the Smithills
THE construction industry needs to attract 7,740 recruits in the North-west each year between now and 2007 to keep up with demand for employees. The Sector Skills Council for the industry says that number is needed so that current and future order books
THERE are still places available on a Remembrance Travel battlefield tour titled "Dunkirk and the Fall of France", from May 28 to 30. Participants can follow the triumphs and misfortunes of the British Expeditionary Force in May 1940 as they battled through
I HAVE been reading with interest over the past few weeks the letters that have been published about the behaviour of teenagers in Westhoughton. I am outraged at the stereotype that all teenagers living here have been given due to a few idiots. I am a
THE residents in a number of areas of Birmingham are about to face the consultation exercise promised by the Post Office into the proposed closures of 47 sub-post offices. Being as many people in Bolton have now experienced the closures, it would be a
I HAVE just finished reading the Bolton Evening News of Thursday, March 4, and feel that I would like to voice my opinion on the article regarding Our Lady of Lourdes RC Primary School, Farnworth. I have a nine-year-old daughter who attends this school
A Family History workshop is being held by the Bolton Family History Group in the Bolton Archives and Local Studies Searchroom at Bolton Central Library on Thursday night between 6pm and 7.15pm. Admission is free, but booking is essential on 01204 332185
From the Evening News, March 9, 1904: AFTER sitting up till two o'clock in the morning poring over trashy literature, a young man from the neighbourhood of Chorley died in the county asylum. Referring to the case at a meeting of the Chorley Guardians
A FORMER Bolton solicitor has been killed in an Australian boating accident. Nigel Duncan was riding on a rubber ring being towed by a ski boat on the Hawkesbury River near Sydney when it was propelled too close to the bank and ploughed into a boat. A
BOLTON-born soprano Vanessa Nuttall has recorded a CD - Bach to Broadway - with Nigel Ogden of Radio 2's Organist Entertains. Vanessa wanted to feature accessible music and the 17 songs on the disc include Gershwin's Summertime, Mozart's Allelluia, Gounod's
IT sounds like cushy casting - spending every minute of a play in bed. But for actor Stephen Stubbs who does that in Farnworth Little Theatre's next production Whose Life Is it Anyway - it is not quite as relaxing as it sounds. Because he plays a man
THERE are not many people who would travel more than 200 miles to see the sights of Bolton. But for Peter Kay fanatics Jojo Kilner and Kat Cushion, a weekend touring "landmarks" such as St Gregory's Social Club, Farnworth, and Asda supermarket in Crompton
SMALL businesses are spending more than they need on printing - while believing that they are saving money. A survey by office equipment specialist Ricoh found 55 per cent of small companies restrict their colour printing - and often outsource - because
SCHOOLCHILDREN across Bolton appeared in court over the weekend as they had their first taste of life in the dock. They appeared a little overawed as they stood to answer allegations of fly-tipping. And they looked tense as they were grilled over the
CONTRACTORS are carrying out repair work to Ainsworth Bridge, Bury Road, at the boundary of Bolton and Bury. The work includes the reconstruction of the bridge parapet and repairs to the masonry culvert arch and will cost about £90,000. It will take six
DRIVERS are being hit with massive repair bills after putting the wrong fuel in their car, according to the AA. The organisation says around 120,000 UK drivers are mistakenly putting petrol into diesel-engined cars, and the problem is getting worse. The
A NATIONAL cancer charity is asking people in Bolton to turn the most important meal of the day into a fundraising event. Britain's Biggest All-Day Breakfast, an event organised by Cancer Research UK, is in its sixth year, and this year aims to raise
THE number of working days lost due to sickness for police officers is continuing to fall, according to a new Greater Manchester Police report. A total of 80,604 days were lost during the last 12 months compared with 90,383 the year before. The figure
SAM Allardyce's unhappy Wanderers are banking on their record of rising to the big occasions as they bid to get their season back on track. Three demoralising defeats on the trot and three formidable fixtures to come have cast a cloud over the Whites,
TEENAGE tunesmiths The Banners have just put the finishing touches to their first album of songs. The four-strong band has just finished recording the album at Bury College as part of their BTec National Diploma in Music Practice. The students have also
A DRUG dealer killed a man with a 12-inch sword after a gang of armed robbers slipped into his flat, a court was told. Carl Lindsay, aged 25, swung the sword after he was threatened with a self-loading pistol. Manchester Crown Court was told that Stephen
RAIL users are set to benefit from a £1 million scheme to modernise five train stations around Bolton. Horwich Parkway, Lostock, Kearsley, Blackrod and Westhoughton train stations will be refurbished over the next year. Horwich Parkway will get a £500,000
A BOLTON law firm has been named as one of the best employers in the country. Middlebrook-based Keoghs was listed 25th in the Sunday Times' Best Companies To Work For 2004 list after the newspaper surveyed nearly 60,000 workers across the country. Firms
THE troubled Deane School in Bolton will reopen in September - with both a new name and a new uniform. The school was put into special measures when Ofsted inspectors found it was failing to provide an acceptable standard of education. It was decided
MOTORISTS faced long tailbacks this morning after a fire at a scrap yard in Daubhill threatened to cause a gas explosion. Fire crews were called to deal with a blaze at Critchley's Scrap Yard at around 10.15pm last night after tyres, rubbish and wooden
AN 11-year-old girl has been raped in Oldham. The girl was walking home along Lincoln Street in Werneth at about 1900 GMT on March 2 when a man grabbed her by the arm and dragged her into an alleyway. He then raped the girl before running away down an
