Stories for 1 July 1997
Bolton Business
BLACKROD has a new hotel - The Jarvis International, Bolton. more...
Bolton News
25 YEARS AGO more...
BOLTON could be celebrating the dawn of the new century in spectacular style. more...
A BID to heat Bolton's council houses from from "solar energy" has been given a cool reception. more...
A SCHOOL where pupils show an early and sustained interest in learning has won the praise of Government inspectors. more...
MICHAEL Fowles, aged 26, is one of the youngest conductors to be appointed to Wingates Brass Band. more...
FIREFIGHTERS are urging the public to help save lives by thinking about where they park. more...
UPSTAGE Productions, Horwich RMI club's resident theatre group, are holding auditions to find talented performers for their Old Time Music Hall on September 19 and a Christmas pantomime, Aladdin, for five nights in December. more...
A RUNDOWN chapel in Heaton Cemetery could be used for Muslim ceremonies. more...
THE Bolton Youth Orchestra, under their Musical Director Keith Sagar, leaves on Friday for a 10-day tour of France and Germany where they will join the Youth Orchestras from Bolton's twin towns of Le Mans and Paderborn. more...
A MEDIA student from Bolton College has achieved her ambition by hearing her own voice going out over the airwaves. more...
We've been bitten by the bingo bug more...
SIR: We are strongly against the building of both the road and the erection of a business park on the Singing Clough field. more...
SIR: Could I please comment on recent letters concerning a bright schoolboy forfeiting his exam prospects because he choose to ignore the rules of the establishment which were pointed out to him. more...
SIR: Your headline 'Parents turn kids truant for cheap hols' (BEN June 25) suggests that parents are keeping their children away from school illegally. In fact, children may be absent from school for up to 10 days in each academic year for certain purposes; one of which is an annual family holiday, subject to permission from the school. If the education authority does not like this, perhaps it should try to persuade Mr Blunkett to change the law. more...
SIR: I have followed with interest the views and arguments expressed by Mr Alker and Mr Collinson about the proposed industrial estate and road at Kearsley. I would like to give my opinion on the subject. Firstly, when the Industrial Revolution started, the face of the country where we live was changed for the worse. After the 1939-1945 War, the then government brought in the Clean Air Act. Since then, due to the decline of the mills, engineering, and the closure of the coal mines, conditions should have improved. But since 1946, the records of lung cancer have shown an increase every year.
This directly matches the increase in the number of cars and trucks during the same period. Therefore, to build an industrial estate in the middle of a housing estate and more roads which will mean more cars and trucks. I therefore must question Mr Alker's motives in his support of the proposed estate and road. more...
SIR: I refer to the article 'Boy banned from school over haircut' (BEN June 20) more...
EDUCATION bosses have admitted they failed to give effective help to two Bolton schools criticised by Government inspectors. more...
SIR: Many of your readers will have heard that tax relief on private medical insurance for the over 60s is likely to be cut by the Chancellor in his Budget on July 2. more...
ASTHMA sufferers will be hit hard if plans to upgrade Raikes Lane Incinerator get the go-ahead, environmental and health groups claim. more...
SIR: After the Tories preached about family values, it is hard to believe that, after the elections of William Hague as leader of their Party, he stated he wanted a fresh start. more...
A MUM told today how her baby had to be rushed to hospital with the most deadly form of meningitis - hours after being examined by a doctor at home. more...
SIR: The HGV traffic problem on Pilkington Road and Springfield Road, Kearsley arose when the Ministry of Transport built the M61 and A666 spur in the late 1960s. This isolated land, designated industrial, became the Lyon Industrial Estate. The only way to it was through a housing estate, or over a railway bridge built across the M61 and out to a main road through an industrial estate. more...
TWO local secondary schools have been given the prestigious Sportsmark Award for their commitment to sport. more...
SIR: I am also disgusted at the decision of the judge who condemned the little dog Zack to death, even when the young boy the dog accidentally bit pleaded for his life. I lost a lovely little dog, who was apparently fit with a heart attack. It was heart-breaking. So what must Zack's owner feel like hearing that his lovely little dog must be killed. Please think again. more...
A SCHOOL where pupils show an early and sustained interest in learning has won the praise of Government inspectors. more...
SIR: I refer to the "Swarming Bees' (Wednesday, June 18). more...
BOLTON education bosses are joining forces with main players in the jobs market to try and create opportunities for "alienated" teenagers. more...
FOR Bolton's oldest Catholic church, the future is Orange. more...
KEEN green council chiefs have come under fire for turning down a plan at a waste recycling factory. more...
KEEN green council chiefs have come under fire for turning down a plan at a waste recycling factory. more...
A PRIVATE bus and coach company which operates services and school contracts throughout the Bolton area, has been called to a disciplinary public inquiry. more...
Bolton Sport
By GORDON SHARROCK
COLIN Todd finally got his man today when Robbie Elliott moved from Newcastle to become the most expensive signing in the history of Bolton Wanderers. more...
ROBBIE Elliott believes he is joining a club on the up. more...
WANDERERS are set to begin the huge task of allocating new season ticket holders a seat in the Reebok Stadium. more...
ROBBIE Elliott turned out to be the secret signing Colin Todd had up his sleeve while he was trying to tempt Peter Beardsley to join Wanderers' Premiership bandwagon. more...
WHILE Leigh RMI manager Steve Waywell continues his search to strengthen his squad in readiness for the coming season in the Unibond Premiership, the club has moved quickly to retain his services. more...
THREE Wigan Warriors players could face disciplinary proceedings following alleged drunken behaviour on the flight home from Australia. more...
THE handover of Hong Kong was not the only historic moment yesterday afternoon. Less than one hour later, Lancashire won a Championship match. more...
Lancashire Business
LANCASHIRE Enterprises plc has lost its 'red rose' title. more...
A DEAL has been struck to save East Lancashire businesses money on their telephone bills. more...
HELEN Shirbon of East Lancashire law firm Ramsbottom & Co has qualified as a solicitor. more...
Lancashire Leisure
COUNTY councillors approved plans for nine specialist social workers to be recruited in Lancashire, to help combat a steady rise in child abuse. more...
DEFENCE Secretary Malcolm Rifkind launched a campaign to rescue the threatened European Fighter Aircraft. more...
Lancashire News
WAITING lists for drugs services in East Lancashire have been eliminated by the new provider Communicare NHS Trust. more...
COUNCIL bosses are being urged to give their backing to controversial plans to clear 87 homes in the Rectory Road area of town. more...
IT is my contention that the penalty for murder should be both severe and fearful (I would hang 'em). more...
Tuesday Topic, with Christine Rutter more...
FORMER vicar of St Aidan's, Mill Hill, Blackburn, the Rev James McDonald, has died at the age of 66. more...
A PIGEON fancier who helped organise the "race of the century" by royal appointment today spoke of his disappointment that it was ruined by bad weather. more...
I AM an elderly arthritic, walking even very short distances is beyond me. I use an electric battery-operated four wheel invalid car, top speed 4mph. more...
TEENAGER Lucy Geldard and her dad Tony have been left heartbroken after cruel thieves raided their canaries' aviary. more...
A LOLLIPOP lady believes it is only a matter of time before someone is killed on a dangerous stretch of road used by hundreds of primary school- children. more...
ROSSENDALE Search and Rescue, which relies of fund-raising to keep its vital work running, has received a donation from North West water. more...
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown presents the first Labour Budget for almost two decades tomorrow - and may bring the government's honeymoon with the electorate to an abrupt close. more...
GOODBYE and good riddance Flaming June - with the adjective this year having nothing to do with heat. more...
THE ACTRESS who played Becky in Coronation Street is treading the boards in her home town. more...
A RECORD label enjoying global success is set to sail back into the charts with pop superstar Rod Stewart. more...
IT seems almost incredible that in just over a month's time it will be 50 years since I left Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, having been there from 1942 after obtaining a scholarship from Christ Church School, Mosley Street, Blackburn. more...
AN environmental scheme on a Burnley estate has been held up as a role model for the world at the Earth Summit in New York. more...
A FURIOUS line dance teacher and her pupils have been given the boot from a school hall - because they are ruining the shiny floor! more...
Lancashire Sport
A SECOND bid to take control of Burnley Football Club has emerged in the wake of our exclusive story of a consortium headed by a mystery American businessman. more...
SWEDISH World Cup hero Martin Dahlin has reaffirmed his interest in playing in the Premiership for Blackburn Rovers who are also pressing ahead with their efforts to sign goalkeeper John Filan from Coventry City. more...
THE handover of Hong Kong was not the only historic moment yesterday afternoon. Less than one hour later, Lancashire won a Championship match. more...
Off The Record, with Peter White more...
BRIAN Flynn IS available if Burnley want him to replace Adrian Heath as manager at Turf Moor. more...
