Stories for 3 October 1996
Bolton Business
A SMALL building and repair business is celebrating its 50th anniversary. more...
Bolton News
25 YEARS AGO more...
THE idea of brothers and sisters following each other to the same school is a basic, natural progression in most families. Yet, in Bolton, there is no sibling link and, as Bolton North East MP Peter Thurnham rightly points out, this policy is anti-family. more...
IT is essential that private hire cars should be easily identifiable. At the moment not all of them are. more...
BE prepared to have your taste buds tickled at the World of Food Festival which takes place on Saturday. more...
BRAVE souls from Bolton have drafted in a little help from The Other Side for a chilling charity stunt.
Eight intrepid fund-raisers have plucked up the courage to spend a night in an old mansion, billed the most haunted house in Britain.
The ghostbusting team from Breightmet Labour Club will be bedding down with the spooks at Chingle Hall near Preston as a spine shivering finale to months of fund raising. more...
STAFF and pupils from a Bolton nursery will be skipping lessons next week to pick up a special award for going top of the class. more...
By ANGELA KELLY
WHEN political life gets just too much for Horwich Mayor Cllr Barbara Ronson she retreats into her own small world.
In fact, the nimble-fingered Liberal Democrat creates tiny items for doll's houses that not only delight youngsters but provide a useful fund-raiser for local causes like the Mayor's own charity for young people.
"I used to make these little items years ago," she explained. "But I've gone back to it in the last few years as a way of unwinding and beating stress." more...
A BOLTON comprehensive school is leading the way in the Information Technology field. more...
THIS poem was written by Harry Edge Rigby who died on September 3, aged 83. Before his retirement, he worked for 30 years as a proof reader at the Bolton Evening News.
I wander around the sunny banks, more...
DETECTIVES are searching for a teenage girl who disappeared from her Horwich home two days ago. more...
A THREE-year-old girl suffered serious facial injuries last night after being mauled by a dog. more...
BALLOONISTS will be giving Bolton schoolchildren a lesson with a difference in a high flying visit next week. more...
THE final chapter in the history of Bolton's Royal Infirmary will be closed tomorrow in a symbolic ceremony. more...
CALLS for tighter gun controls have been made by Bury people in a local poll carried out by the Labour party. more...
SIR: We are grateful to Cllr Foster for his comments committing the Council to the establishment of targets and indicators for environmental performance (BEN September 17). We shall be the first to congratulate them when meaningful policies of waste reduction and recycling are put into effect. more...
SIR: Hurray for Mr Sackville, having the courage of his convictions regarding Hell Estate (BEN, September 20). more...
SIR: Your paper's comment that social factors have resulted in a greater willingness to report violent crime - thus accounting for the rise - is a valid one, although it fails to address the wider issue. more...
SIR: I anxiously awaited the recent TV programme The System hoping it would enhance people's knowledge of the ruthless wrongdoings of this barbaric agency namely the CSA. more...
SIR: A few weeks ago, during a visit to some good, old friends living in Bolton, I heard from them that the B.R.I. was about to be destroyed. more...
BOLTON'S police officers have one of the highest detection rates for crimes in Greater Manchester, figures reveal. more...
SIR: I enclose my choice of a name for the new Wanderers stadium. more...
BOLTON'S under-siege schools are being targeted by crooks and vandals who are landing them with bills for thousands of pounds every year.
And tomorrow a Bolton Safer Schools Seminar is being held to try to tackle the problem.
All head teachers and a representative from the board of governors of each school in Bolton have been invited to attend the event at the Last Drop Hotel, Bromley Cross. more...
BOLTON Council is being urged to mark the new millennium by erecting a hi-tech "pollution watchdog" beacon.
Retired civil servant John Smith, of Farnworth, is gathering support for an ecological beacon which would form part of a nationwide network.
And schoolchildren would be involved in projects to increase awareness about ecological issues. more...
HORWICH and Westhoughton may join forces in an attempt to win Government funding for town centre security cameras.
The joint bid, which has the support of police in both towns, is seen as likely to stand out as something new with a greater possibility of attracting a grant under the CCTV Home Office Challenge Competition.
There is to be a meeting at the Carnegie Hall, Westhoughton, on Monday for all interested parties including both councils, police and members of the Chamber of Trade from each town. more...
MANCHESTER Airport leaders today launched an "open skies" campaign attacking government aviation policies.
They held a press conference in Blackpool - scene of the Labour Party conference this week - to unveil a report by analysts which highlights the projected impact of the government's failure to achieve further liberalisation of air services. more...
FIVE Bolton postmen were hailed as heroes today after stopping a runaway bus. more...
CORONATION Street's Roy Barraclough found himself barking up the wrong tree when he visited Bolton to support a Fire Safety Week event. more...
A BOLTON auxiliary nurse turned a physically and mentally disabled patient face down in pillows and left him for dead, Manchester Crown Court heard today. more...
A CRACKDOWN on car crime on estates throughout Harwood resulted in a staggering 50pc reduction in thefts and break-ins. more...
MORE than a third of Bolton shopkeepers targeted in a recent operation using child spies sold cigarettes to youngsters. more...
Bolton Sport
Wolves 1, Wanderers 2: By Gordon Sharrock
THEY have nightmares about John McGinlay at Molineux. more...
WANDERERS' Division One clash at Oxford on Saturday was postponed today when Burnden goal stars Nathan Blake and John McGinlay received World Cup call-ups. more...
COLIN Todd and Mark McGhee look set to escape an FA rap after their flare-up in the duel of the Wanderers. more...
NINE Bolton sides set out in the Lancashire Amateur League Cup hoping to emulate Smithills who won it from a Division One position two years ago. more...
LEIGH RMI extended their unbeaten run to 10 games when they won 3-2 at Billingham Synthonia in the FA Cup second qualifying round replay. more...
THE final BGA competition of the season, the Jack Taylor Trophy, will be held next Sunday. more...
Lancashire Business
A £30,000 award is set to help sell East Lancashire and its products to the outside world. more...
Lancashire Leisure
ELECTRONICS company Shorrock announced nearly 50 redundancies, with 30 jobs axed at the company's Blackburn headquarters. more...
BURNLEY Football Club manager Frank Casper resigned from the club following a slide in the Clarets' form. His assistant manager Jimmy Mullen took charge of team matters until a new appointment. more...
Lancashire News
THE NAME of an Oswaldtwistle soldier carved into the wall is proving a mystery for the owner of a French farmhouse. more...
A SCHEME to create a base for an expanding young rugby club on land earmarked for housing has gained some ground, after local councillors backed the idea. more...
POLICE are to take more time investigating a family of alleged benefit fraudsters who are believed to have netted £200,000. more...
IN response to the remarks of Mr M Nottingham (Letters, September 25), on the standards of driving in the USA, allow me to present a moderating opinion. more...
THE humble Batchelors mushy pea has come of age and is celebrating its 21st birthday this week. more...
A PUBLIC meeting tomorrow will discuss the future of countryside around the Forest of Bowland. more...
THE country's first green tax was introduced yesterday amid fears councils could be facing higher bills for getting rid of rubbish. more...
A 'ONE-DAY-at-a-time' policy is rapidly gaining ground at Burnley hospitals. more...
WALKING around Blackburn, one cannot but help notice the new forms of modern act decorating the streets. more...
RESIDENTS and allotment holders have joined forces to save their threatened "oasis". more...
MORE than 300 angry football fans plan to invade a peaceful East Lancashire village to protest at the way the chairman is running their club. more...
A FORMER East Lancashire brewer responsible for the famous Lancaster Bomber bitter has died of cancer at the age of 52. more...
WHAT a stinking stew we find served up to the taxpayers of Burnley by councillors as the Lancashire Evening Telegraph reveals the scandal of a shut-down café owned by the town hall. more...
THERE'S a lesson for the bosses of all football clubs in the demonstration planned by Brighton and Hove Albion fans on Saturday at the East Lancashire home of chairman Bill Archer over the sale of the side's ground. more...
WHEN are local councillors going to get some police protection for their tenants against persistent yobs? more...
POLICE are looking into the pension scheme at an East Lancashire engineering works - as employees' top-up contributions are delayed after the company hits a cash-flow problem. more...
A MAN whose Rottweiler dogs savaged an 11-year-old boy causing fatal injuries will not face criminal charges, despite an unlawful killing verdict at an inquest into the boy's death. more...
FURIOUS tenants today vowed to fight a feared sell-off of the troubled Within Grove estate in Huncoat. more...
HUNDREDS of unemployed people in East Lancashire are set to lose up to £75 a week in the Government's benefits shake-up, it has been claimed. more...
ISHOULD like to take this opportunity to thank everyone from your area who has contributed to the report of the National Commission of Inquiry into the Prevention of Child Abuse. more...
A TOP East Lancashire restaurant has been praised in the new Good Food Guide for 1997. more...
CONDITIONS on a gipsy camp have been described as deplorable by council chiefs, who have promised to improve the site. more...
MORE patients than ever are being treated by the Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Health Authority and waiting lists are falling. more...
AFURTHER crisis at our sanctuary unfolded when the concrete mixer stopped working. Building work has been in progress over the past few weeks to prepare new stables for the horses, ponies and other animals for the winter months' ahead. more...
Lancashire Sport
DEFENSIVE rock Colin Hendry was today in London facing surgery on a troublesome groin injury. more...
Accrington Stanley 0 Chorley 3 more...
Nottm Forest Reserves 0 Blackburn Rovers Reserves 2 more...
Shrewsbury Town Reserves 1 Burnley Reserves 1 more...
VINCE Overson could be back at the heart of the Burnley defence for Saturday's blood and thunder Division Two encounter against Stockport County. more...
LANCASHIRE championship cricket is set to enter a new hi-tech era. more...
FURIOUS Blackburn Rovers chairman Rob Coar has slammed reports linking Tim Flowers with a £4 million move to big-spending Newcastle United. more...
