A BOLTON company helped put a spin on things during a Malaysian carnival. A Maxi Carousel made by British Turntable Co. Ltd in Emblem Street, helped to bring 500 years of Malaysian history to life in a night time carnival procession in Malacca. Pico,
A MOTHER-of-five from Hall i' th' Wood has made a desperate plea to the people of Bolton to stand up against drug dealers in the wake of Dillon Hull's murder. Tina Kearns, of Valpy Avenue, lost a relative due to drugs only last year. Now, she says, the
A PIONEERING project to take Bolton's long-term young unemployed off the dole will begin in October. It is aimed at the 500 jobless young people in the town, aged between 18 and 25. The idea is to create "an intermediate labour market" which would be
THE quality of teaching at Moorlands Children's Nursery at Horwich has been praised by OFSTED inspectors. Staff at the nursery in Chorley New Road are said to show a high degree of commitment and the quality of teaching is described as very good. Children
THE 2,200 Fire Brigades Union members in Greater Manchester will be balloted during the next seven days over plans for a series of strikes. Ken Cameron, General Secretary of the FBU, was addressing a mass meeting of the county's firefighters today in
SIR: Now Ashburner Street market has finally been completed, apart from the fact that, after a couple of days, the two fountains in the fruit and veg section ceased to function and were not immediately repaired. It would be interesting to be told by our
WHEN Joan Wright started caring for the garden at Horwich Moor Methodist Church she was determined to make it as lovely as the inside of the building. And after years of hard graft, it's probably true to say that she has achieved her goal. This year,
SIR: We live on a family estate - Lowther Street, Great Lever, Bolton. As you can imagine, there are lots of young children living in our street and all children love to play ball, and where we live there is a large grass square yards from anyone's house
LEIGH Centurions enter the Cougar's den on Sunday with the same line-up that ambushed Widnes Vikings last week. Confidence is sky-high in the Leigh camp after their excellent showing so far in the Divisional Play-off competition and a trip to hard-up
HENRY Paul returns for Wigan Warriors as they look for a double over Sheffield Eagles on Sunday. The Kiwi missed the heavy defeat by Canberra Raiders with a shoulder injury but returns in his favourite stand-off position as Nigel Wright is ruled out for
TRADING experts in Salford are warning shopkeepers to stick to food safety rules - or face the law. In a survey of shops in the city, 16 out of 65 premises visited were found to be selling food which was past its "use by" date. In one case, an item was
CRIME fighters are backing Norweb's new security password scheme to stamp out the problem of bogus callers. More than 6,000 customers in the North-west have already joined the scheme in the last two months and many more are expected to follow. Customers
BOLTON MP Brian Iddon has urged politicians not to "sweep the drugs problem under the carpet" following the shooting of Dillon. Dr Iddon, in whose Bolton South-east constituency Dillon lived, is calling for top-level talks "in the public eye" in a bid
A MOTHER of two claims she nearly fell downstairs with her sick baby because of recurring power cuts at her Breightmet home. Patricia Darbyshire has hit out at the length of time Norweb has taken to repair the fault, which has affected a wide neighbourhood
DEMOLITION expert Fred Dibnah gave a huge sigh of relief as the tower at the former Bolton Royal Infirmary site came crashing down. The celebrity steeplejack, who was called in to fell the tower said at one point he was worried the structure was going
By L A Tweedale, Newquay Avenue, Ainsworth We used to go on holiday To Devon, sometimes Wales, Or maybe down to Cornwall To hear some fishermen's tales. We've been ripped off in Paignton Robbed blind in old Torquay We even went to Blackpool once, 'Till
A SPECIAL sort of spirit is being served up at a Horwich pub - community spirit! For the past 12 months managers Neil and Anne France and their staff at the Blundell Arms on Chorley Old Road have been producing a local newsletter from the pub. And the
BOLTON College is pulling out all the stops to give students help, information, advice and guidance as they contemplate their future plans. The college on Manchester Road, is offering a series of advice sessions to help GCSE and A level students through
A DISABLED man and his wife were furious when they were told they would have to wait more than 48 hours for pest teams to get rid of a bees' nest outside their house. Wheelchair-bound James Meaney and his wife Teresa were horrified when swarms of bees
THE way is now clear in Bolton for six-day shopping in 21 different classes of shops, including departmental stores. That is shown in the result of a referendum of town centre traders, but permission still has to be gained from the Council's Public Control
COLIN Todd has advised Nathan Blake to return to the international fold and draw a line under his controversial race row with Wales boss Bobby Gould. The Wanderers goal star has been named in the Welsh squad for the World Cup qualifier in Turkey on August
AMBITIOUS Wanderers have justified their high hopes of becoming a Premiership force by pointing the finger at Filbert Street. The upstarts from Leicester are excitedly preparing for a UEFA Cup campaign and the defence of the Coca-Cola Cup they grabbed
LIFE after Newcastle holds no fears for Robbie Elliott. Wanderers' record signing, whose £2.5 million transfer brought to an end seven years playing for the magnificent Magpies, is still looking to be among the Premiership's leading lights. "We've got
A FARNWORTH company has moved into part of the former Mellings Bakery in King Street. Alliance Glass, Windows & Conservatories had been at two sites in Longcauseway since 1988. A spokesman said the decision had been made to move to larger, better-equipped
BOLTON Council has appointed economic development consultants Business Environments to look at the future of the west side of town. Business Environments, which is based on the Birchwood Science Park at Warrington, will establish a public-private sector
CLERGYMEN have lost their fight to get a council to ban performances by Bolton psychic medium James Byrne in the Hyndburn area. Councillors at Hyndburn leisure services committee meeting last night rejected a plea to stop performances by Mr Byrne and
SIR: What's wrong with the youth today? They drop litter, they smoke, they spit, they stare at you with arrogance and very few wear seat belts in cars. Take July 30, time 1pm, place a chippy on Radcliffe Road, Bolton. A bunch of boys ate their chips,
ST Catherine's Parish Church, Horwich, is celebrating its centenary this year and has published a booklet to commemorate the event. The booklet, which covers events spanning the 100 years of the church's existence, has been produced with the help of local
SIR: May I through your paper wish Colin Todd and the rest of the Bolton players all the best for the new season and all the best in the magnificent new Reebok Stadium. I have been living and working in Leicester for the past five and a half years and
A JUDGE publicly warned the mother of murdered five-year-old Dillon Hull to protect him from the drugs underworld. Crown Court Recorder Arthur Noble gave Jane Hull the stark caution last year after she admitted allowing boyfriend John Bates to sell heroin
SIR: I was saddened to read that local boy Paul Nicholls, Joe from Eastenders, had accepted a £4,000 fee for appearing at an NSPCC charity event. Recently my younger son, after weeks of practice, travel and no re-imbursement (he is an unemployed under-graduate
IT'S no wonder that June Sneddon's Horwich garden causes passers-by to stop in their tracks. For June's patch at Berne Avenue is a riot of colour with flowers of every conceivable variety vying for attention. There's petunias, begonias, geraniums, fuchsia
A MUSLIM boys' boarding school has been condemned for failing its pupils and putting their welfare at risk. The Al Jamiah Al Islamiyyah Darul Uloom School, on the site of the former Blair Hospital at Bromley Cross, charges parents £1,050 a year to educate
SIR: I refer to the article "Salford Council joins in Kearsley Road row" (BEN, July 29). The statement by Cllr Ben Wallsworth, Chairman of Salford Planning and Development Committee is typical of the misinformation connected with the Singing Clough planning
SIR: Over 20 years the many councillors in office have all agreed that a relief road to the Lyon Industrial Estate was badly needed but, each time we applied, the answer was always the same - "sorry, no funds." Well, as they say in the movies - dreams
SIR: Isn't it about time that the taxi operators in Bolton got their act together. The cabs are dirty the drivers scruffy and surly .They seem totally unable to run on time . I was told last week to book my taxi at least a quartr of an hour earlier than
SIR: I refer to S R Morgan's letter (Your views, August 2). He stated that the standard of living was dramatically increased under the last Tory government. What a laugh. Did he never hear about the Thatcher shakeout of industry and most of our larger
SIR: The Government initiative to help single parents back to work by calling them in to Jobcentres for interview has been well publicised. Another new initiative has received much less publicity for reasons that can only be speculated upon. The unemployed
BOLTON police have moved to reassure the public describing the brutal shooting of Dillon Hull as an "isolated incident". Head of Bolton police Ch Supt Mel Pelham said today: "Although the area sees a certain level of crime, as everywhere else does, this
DETECTIVES hunting the killer of toddler Dillon Hull may already have a sample of his DNA on file. And any clues left at the scene of the tragic shooting could be compared with information already held in police records in a bid to lead detectives to
