ONE hundred and eighty, the number every darts player dreams of, also became a figure on the minds of Europe's women golfers from today. It is the amount of Solheim Cup qualifying points given to every tournament winner in the build-up to September's
Euro-MP Gary Titley is to visit Creams Mill in Little Lever tomorrow. Owners Danisco Paper have invited him along to see the results of a £4m investment programme completed two months ago. First established in 1677 as William Broadbents and then later
CAMPAIGNERS in Bolton have welcomed news that Oldham Council is investigating whether a hospital waste incinerator breaches planning consent. Oldham Council officials are probing councillors' claims that an incinerator operated by White Rose Environmental
BOLTON voters took to the polls today in one of the town's most crucial local election battles. But polling got off to a slow start with poor weather keeping people indoors. Elections officer, John Fielding, reported problems at three of the town's polling
AN ANGRY Bolton man says schoolchildren and workers have been left stranded by the sudden withdrawal of a vital bus service. Mr Ian Kilday claimed the public were never consulted about the changes to two services in the Belmont area. GM Buses rescheduled
SENIOR Bolton probation officer Dorothy Meredith decided to forgo the usual gold watch so that sick children in Romania would benefit from her retirement. Dorothy, of Chorley New Road, Lostock, asked colleagues planning a collection for a retirement present
A YOUNG mother claims her prematurely born baby son was left "in agony" after an on-call doctor refused to make a home visit. Caroline Murphy claimed it was only after making contact with her own GP that she was able to get help for five-week-old Jordan
A BOLTON teacher says he is still being hounded by the CSA for child maintenance arrears months after they were written off by the Agency's boss. Chris Yates, 41, of South Grove Avenue, Sharples, was told he owed £5,000 in payments for children to a previous
FOUR police officers and a Bolton man have been praised by a judge for overpowering a dangerous gunman. Together they managed to stop taxi driver Anthony Lister shooting himself in front of his wife. Manchester Crown Court heard that Lister planned the
SIR: Please help me! I've been collecting stamps from the borrowers of Westhoughton and the Mobile Libraries for over five years and they really do a smashing job. You have sent letters of thanks in the past, which I display in the Libraries. But I hope
EXCLUSIVE by JANET HUGHES BOLTON student Sarah Mayley fears her teenage penpal was mass Tasmanian killer Martin Bryan. She believes the young man who used to write letters to her and phone in the middle of the night is the same person who slaughtered
SIR: After watching the full series of Barrymore, and then finally seeing Michael's superb performance of his show (Barrymore's Back) at the Blackpool Opera House on April 19, it proved what an extremely talented man he is, putting 100 per cent into his
A SCOUT leader is urging adults to be prepared for his latest mission - to revive the Chorley scout movement. Ken Rutter, of Coppull, who is the new district assistant commissioner for promoting the scouts, wants potential leaders to set up groups in
SIR: There is to be a C4 documentary on debt. We want to interview people who have been harassed by loan companies. The harassment may have been verbal or violent and could have come from both legal companies or illegal loan sharks.We are especially interested
SIR: Mrs S Booth complains about the high entrance step on 'the new so-called "superbuses" (Ben April 24). It is claimed that all the new superbuses operated by GM Buses North have a 'kneeling' capacity, whereby the drive can lower the entrance step when
SIR: I thank both Mr Michael Ryan of Kearsley and Mr Eric Holt of Quakerfields in Westhoughton for their kindly comments regarding letters I occasionally submit to the Bolton Evening News. Mr Holt has received Lancashire dialect writing commendations
A PENSIONER was attacked by an intruder who broke into her home and stole £7. Mrs Maria Cubbin, aged 70, of Lord Street, Hindley, suffered head injuries in the incident at about 12.30am today. Det Insp Ian Foster at Leigh police said: "The woman was assaulted
THE argument over who was Bolton's youngest ever local election candidate has been solved . . . by a man who was so young that he had to stand down as soon as he was elected! Peter Swain was barely 21 when he was elected councillor for the Tonge ward
A SPEED camera outside Stephanie Stone's new home is preventing her from building a driveway. She says the first she knew about it was when next-door neighbour John Corston saw it being installed. Stephanie, 32, who will move into the house in Crompton
TUBE bosses who ordered drivers to ignore a dying dog lying in the path of their trains rather than disrupt services were not only heartless but they completely misinterpreted the reaction of most communters. We feel sure the majority of passengers on
NO-ONE should have to make the kind of protest that Elizabeth Coles made when she sat in busy Blackburn Road. She was desperate to stop heavy lorries from parking in a new lay-by outside her home, and felt forced into dramatic action. She returned from
From the Evening News, May 2, 1971 A PROPOSED new Bolton bus turnround point would turn the lounges and front bedrooms of luxury homes opposite into goldfish bowls, residents fear. They claim that the intended location in Smithills Dean Road would create
Wanderers Reserves 2 Birmingham Reserves 0 WANDERERS Reserves have their sights set on a top ten finish to the season after a 2-0 victory over Birmingam City at Burnden Park last night. Both goals came after the interval from Nathan Blake who proved a
BREIGHMET pair Neil Woolfrey (4) and Warren Laverty (6) won the opening Bolton Golf Association competition at Dunscar Golf Club on Saturday. The event was the Four Ball Better Ball Medal sponsored by R J Statham (Peugeot and Nissan Agents) Wigan and
IT'S all change at the top of the local engineering employers' association Stuart Irwin, the Director and Chief Executive of EEF Lancashire, is winding down after a distinguished career and Peter Whitnall took over as President from Peter Weidenbaum at
BURY'S pioneering anti-drugs drive, aimed at high schools, is officially launched next week. Headteachers and senior governors will join council, police and health authority representatives, among others, for the event a week today. It will mark the handing
WHERE there's muck there's someone who's brassed off . . . well, there certainly is in Eccleston. For village resident Richard Knock is so fed up with dogs fouling the pavements near his home he's suggested launching a 'snap trap' campaign. Richard, of
A HOSPITAL patient has slammed the way Bolton deals with the victims of alcohol. Mr Paul Young is an in-patient on Bolton General Hospital's Russell Two ward receiving treatment for his own alcohol problems. But also in the ward are psychiatric patients
CHORLEY'S Don Yates has been elected chairman of Lancashire County Council. Mr Yates, of Jackson Street, Chorley, has represented Chorley east ward since being elected in 1981. He serves on all major committees - education, social services, planning,
BUBBLY comedienne Faith Brown can't wait for her Summer Holiday to begin in her beloved Blackpool. The Liverpool lass is busy rehearsing in London for the first-ever stage show of Cliff Richard's musical movie, which opens at the Opera House in Blackpool
SIR: I suspect there is something not quite right about Bolton's nightclubs and bouncers. I am a respectable businesswoman and social worker and now and again my friends and their partners like to socialise, seeing we all work very hard, paying our way
PARENTS of young drug abusers are calling on others to join them and share the heartache they are enduring. The Chorley-based "Parents in Pain" group is convinced there are many families suffering in silence who could be helped. Some members have tragically
SIR: I am a 70 year old woman. My mother died when I was three years old and my father seven years later. Through the years I have heard stories and have become very curious to the point my thoughts keep me awake until the early hours. One of the stories
A STUNNED community fears the worst following the latest sudden bank closure in the village. NatWest announced it will quit Adlington at the end of the month - just two years after TSB pulled out of the village, leaving just one other bank there. Now
GOLDEN girl Kelly Walmsley will be celebrating the fifth birthday of her new heart by hitting the dance floor. Wythenshawe hospital's youngest transplant patient will be toasting this week's anniversary with friends from Bolton North College where she
A BOLTON community is hoping the magical finger of fate will soon be pointing its way. Residents, youth workers, politicians and residents living in and around the Castle Hill area have submitted a £750,000 National Lottery bid to rejuvenate community
WE back Bolton Council in its fight against North West Water's controversial pre-payment device With seven other North-west councils, Bolton will ask the High Court to block the "pay as you drink" system . NWW say that by making regular payments for a
HINDLEY Green Reserves won the Bolton Combination Division One Cup with a 6-4 penalty shootout victory over Atherton C&N Reserves last night. Atherton fought back after two goals in the first 20 minutes from Westhead had given Hindley Green a storming
DAVID Lee will be the top target for a clutch of Lancashire clubs if Wanderers signal their willingness to sell their star winger. Burnley have shown an interest in Lee, whose future at Burnden has appeared less than secure as the season has drawn to
BURY'S promotion chasing stars today made a plea to their fans to "back us, don't barrack us". The Shakers have one last chance to win automatic promotion on Saturday when a home victory over lowly Cardiff City combined with Darlington's failure to win
