MAY I say a massive thank you to all the blood donors. I recently had to be admitted to hospital, where I needed quite a lot of new blood. I don't know of any other way to say "thank you". I can't return the favour because of my age. May I also thank
THE Water Bill at present going through Parliament makes provision for the addition of fluoride to drinking water. It will be recalled that in 1968 a referendum was held in Bolton and the result was that 73 per cent voted against the addition of fluoride
RUTH Kelly, MP for Bolton West, has revealed the Government's latest scam to ensure that Bolton's water supply will be fluoridated, irrespective of whether the people of Bolton want it to be or not. She stated, in her letter to me of September 16, that
IN an article in last week's Bolton Evening News, under the heading "Escape route from noisy neighbours", it could be construed that Bolton at Home was softening its approach to the perpetrators of anti-social behaviour. Nothing could be further from
I AM writing in response to the numerous articles and letters published in the Bolton Evening News, and your reports of the so-called "crisis" in relation to residential care homes. There are currently 45 residential and nursing homes for older people
I GOT a call from Mr Cliff Rogers of Worcester asking if anyone can help with details of the Marshall Cup. He has on a watch chain his father's gold medal which says Marshall Cup, 1914, which he thinks must have been given for football. His father lived
National days of Nigeria and China 1843: The News of the World was first published. 1869: The Midland Railway opened St Pancras station in London. 1870: The first British halfpenny postage stamp, in lilac, was issued for the introduction of pre-paid postcards
From the Evening News, October 1, 1903: A VERY well attended meeting of the hon. secretaries of many of the churches in the Bolton Rural Deanery was presided over on Monday evening, at the Baths Assembly Rooms, by the Vicar of Bolton Canon Henn, who spoke
From the Evening News, September 30, 1903: SERGT. Page, Corporal Frankland, and one trooper, representing the Bolton Troop DLOIY, left Bolton for a route march, commencing last Friday evening. It was arranged that they would ride through Great Eccleston
JERMAINE Johnson's red card in Wanderers Reserves' 3-2 defeat by Newcastle on Monday may have scuppered a loan move to Macclesfield Town. The Third Division side had hope to secure a work permit in time for Johnson to face Rochdale on Tuesday night, but
MARIO Jardel has stepped up his claim for a first Premiership start with his second "double" in the space of six days. The Brazilian goal machine scored twice in the reserves on Monday night, following up his brace in the Carling Cup against Walsall and
TWINKLE toed schoolboy Myles McGrillen danced his way to a prize at Pontin's Prestatyn Sands, North Wales. Myles, aged 10, of Crown Lane, Horwich, has now been invited to take part in the national finals after winning the Freestyle Dance competition while
A FREE festival of fun was enjoyed by families from throughout Bolton. Organised by Bolton Council in the grounds at Mere Hall, the Bolton Community, Parks and Environmental Festival provided entertainment for all age groups. Children enjoyed the rides
THE Bolton Male Voice Choir, are giving a concert at Halliwell Road Free Church, Bolton, on Saturday, October 4 at 7pm. Admission is £4 including light refreshments. To mark the start of the Giuft weekend celebrations
PLANS to build a 2.4-metre high blue metal railing around the nursery play area are to be considered. Councillors and Salford Council's are due to be discuss the plans made for James Brindle County Primary School, Parr Fold Avenue, Walkden on Thursday
DRAMA students are to perform a story based around Civil War events in an atmospheric pub which has the skull of an executioner on display. Performing Arts A level students from Holy Cross College, Bury, are preparing to perform a 30 minute re-enactment
AN Internet expert believes Microsoft's decision to close most of its website chatrooms to protect youngsters from potential sexual abuse will only displace the problem. Rachel O'Connell, director of the cyberspace research unit at the University of Central
THE new police chief in Astley Bridge is looking forward to his latest challenge. Supt Lee Bruckshaw has never worked in Bolton before and has taken over the post from Supt Kevin Mulligan, who left earlier this month. He moved from Rochdale, where he
BOLTON Hospice will hold a fundraising concert at the Victoria Hall this weekend. The Voices for Hospices concert -- this Saturday at 7.30pm -- will feature school pupils from across the borough and will be supported by Bolton Music Service. Smithills
SCHOOL bullies will be brought face-to-face with their victims under a new scheme to cut the number of children expelled from Bolton's schools. A new mediation service is to be offered to secondary schools in an attempt to make young thugs realise the
BOLTON RUFC travelled to Yorkshire in the first round of the Powergen Vase and found North Ribblesdale too strong going down 30-7. Their opponents were relegated last season from the counties top division and an injury-hit Bolton found the going tough
A WOMEN only cultural night held in Bolton proved so popular that up to 100 had to be turned away. More than 300 women from all communities and religions attended the event which provided a showcase of food, music and information. The Desi Night at Horwich
PAUL Rowley will miss Leigh's National League One Grand Final against Salford on Sunday after being suspended for two matches for the high tackle for which he was sent off when the clubs last met. But the good news for the Centurions is that team-mate
A FORMER park-keeper's house has been transformed into a meeting place for the community under a £250,000 renovation scheme. Greater Lever Park Lodge has been fitted with a 15-place creche, meeting room, kitchen facilities, and other community rooms.
STAFF and customers at a Farnworth beauty salon are biting their perfectly manicured nails . . . over things that go bump in the night. The women believe that their salon -- in a building which dates back to 1800 -- is haunted by the ghost of a murdered
IT'S the kind of problem that Hollywood film stars like Julia Roberts and Melanie Griffith have all the time. Now, Mandy the Tortoise has her very own "body double." And the mock turtle is currently wowing audiences with a bravura performce in "Cooking
POLICE probing the discovery of a human skeleton in a Lancashire pond have travelled to the Punjab in an effort to find the man's killer. The body was found in Charnock Richard in July, 2002. Forensic experts have established he was Asian, aged between
BLOOD donor sessions are being held at the Rivington Suite, Horwich Leisure Centre, on Monday, October 13. They are also being held at Christ Church, Mytham Road, Little Lever, on Monday, October 20, and at the Walker Memorial Hall, Ridgeway Gate, Bolton
LATEST details U18 Section: Bolton Lads Club 4 AFC Hindley 2 (Abandoned after 70 minutes); Radcliffe Jnrs 3 Leigh RMI 3; Turton 6 Hindsford Hawks 3. U15 Section: Bradford Rd YC 1 Blackrod Town 6; Leigh RMI 3 Hindsford Jnrs 5; North Walkden 2 Eagley Rangers
BOLTON Hospice will hold a fundraising concert at the Victoria Hall this weekend. The Voices for Hospices concert -- this Saturday at 7.30pm -- will feature school pupils from across the borough and will be supported by Bolton Music Service. Smithills
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WANDERERS take on Manchester City at Leyland's Lancs FA County Ground on Wednesday night in the second of their group games in the Manchester Senior Cup.
THE Bethel Crowd, Westhoughton, who recently staged a successful production of the musical Oliver, are now working towards their next show, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. But they are "desperate" for people to help with sewing costumes. If there are
BOLTON'S Octagon Theatre has announced that audio described and British Sign Language (BSL) performances will be available for each of its home produced shows during the Autumn/Winter Season. The dates are: Cooking with Elvis - Wednesday, October 8 audio
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FARNWORTH actor Paul Flanagan will star in the major multi-million dollar film Olympiad. Paul plays Phaedias alongside Boltonian David Bowles who was featured in Centre Stage recently. Currently living and doing theatre work in Aldershot, Paul recently
BOLTON Sinfonietta round off their first season with new principal conductor Robert Chasey with a Russian theme. On Saturday October 4, at 7.30pm, at Bolton School Arts Centre, the evening begins with Benjamin Britten's Russian Funeral Music, a short
I JUST had to write to the Bolton Evening News to say how very upset I am. After going to see my mam and dad's stone on September 6 at Overdale, the day before I had to go into the Royal Bolton Hospital for a major operation, I found it had been stolen
ON Saturday afternoon while driving past the football pitches near Moss Bank Park, I noticed three lads running towards the road. As they came nearer I saw that they each were carrying fishing equipment and finding something extremely funny. Running after
I HAVE had an e-mail from Chrissie Brooks in the USA asking for help from Looking Back readers. She is trying to track family roots and has so far come up against a brick wall. Chrissie writes: "My family name is Thornley. They were fruiterers who lived
UNTIL a few years ago, Burnden was known to most people as the home of Bolton Wanderers. However, in the past it had another claim to world-wide fame, the works of Roberts Croupline, Ltd. The firm was known in particular for its cough medicine, but in
BRAVE Amy Morris has undergone a life-saving heart transplant operation. The nine-year-old, from Westhoughton, was flown by air ambulance from Manchester to the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle-upon-Tyne before being rushed into theatre. The flight ended
WANDERERS players not on international duty will spend next week in warm weather training at the La Manga resort in Spain. Manager Sam Allardyce is also hoping to arrange a friendly against Spanish opposition.
VETERAN striker Dion Dublin looks set to stay in Aston Villa's back four for Wanderers' visit on Sunday. Dublin was Villa's leading scorer last season, but although manager David O'Leary says he could play up front "for years" outside the Premiership,
LANCASTER City manager Phil Wilson, running the rule over Chorley ahead of next week's big FA Cup clash, must have left Victory Park with plenty to think about last night. The Magpies took their goal-tally to 12 from the last three matches as they recovered
A CAR boot sale is to be held on Saturday, October 11, at St Paul's Church, Railway Road, Adlington, from 10am to 4pm Pitch sale proceeds will go to the Church Restoration Fund. For details call 01257 480253. Admission 20p.
RESIDENTS in Hindley have applied for planning permission to convert stables into a home. The application to Wigan Council is to change part of a coach house and stable at Laburnum Cottage, in Pilkington Street, into a flat.
PROPOSALS to relocate Westhoughton Cricket Club have been deferred while councillors await a report on endangered newts which could block the move. Belway Homes is hoping to build 83 houses on the Cricketers Way site in a deal which would allow the club
THE field is open for Chilean international Jorge Vargas to make a name for himself at the Reebok. The 27-year-old centre-back is the only player left on Sam Allardyce's list of candidates to fill the vacancy caused by Florent Laville's injury setback
THE Bolton Male Voice Choir, are giving a concert at Halliwell Road Free Church, Bolton, on Saturday, October 4 at 7pm. Admission is £4 including light refreshments. To mark the start of the Giuft weekend celebrations
AN EDGWORTH lad could be on his way to becoming the new Owen Hargreaves. Luke Henrys, a 16-year-old former Turton High School pupil, moved to Canada with his parents last year and has developed into a promising footballer. While in this country he showed
WANDERERS' Third Round Carling Cup tie with First Division Gillingham has been arranged for Tuesday, October 28 (ko 8pm).
HOT ICE SHOW at the Arena (To November 2) The UK's longest running ice production, now in its 67th year, starring Olympic, International & British champions, including: 5 times Finnish Champion, Oula Jaaskelainen. MYSTIQUE 2003 at the Horseshoe Theatre
A REGIONAL parliament would hit Bolton's council tax payers in the pocket, say councillors. The warnings came as a new Govenment paper revealed how a regional assembly might operate. A referendum is expected to take place next autumn on whether North-west
OVER the years I have told you about what was supposed to be "entertainment" in the old days of Bolton. Such as cock-fighting (where game-cocks fought each other until one was killed by the cruel, metal spurs of the victor), or putting dogs into "rat
THE funeral of Atherton Cricket Club chairman Derek Bannister will be held at St Michael's Church, Howe Bridge, Atherton on Monday at 12.15pm followed by cremation at Howe Bridge at 1pm.
AN inquest has opened into a man found dead in Rivington reservoir. Phillip Strike, aged 24, of Kent Street, Leigh, was discovered in the water last Thursday, Preston Coroners' Court heard on Tuesday. Coroner Howard McCann said passers-by heard a splash
FATHER Christmas is to boost Bolton Hospice funds -- by chatting to children. The charity is running Santa Calls line in November and December when calls can be booked for children direct from Santa. The calls cost £2 each, £1 for each additional child
FOUR workers at a Horwich-based storage and removal firm have been made redundant. The employees worked for The Moving Group, in Hercules Park, Lostock Lane. The news comes after receivers for the firm, which went into administration before being carved
LITTLEBOROUGH 29 BOLTON 19: LATE cry-offs and late arrivals probably cost Bolton RU their second defeat of the season when they went to Littleborough. Surprisingly though, Bolton started the stronger and should have taken the lead after the forwards powered
Bury 2 York City 0: TERRY Dunfield picked up a bottle of champagne for his man of the match performance on his comeback game - and promptly gave it away. The Bury midfielder handed the bubbly to physio Lee Nobes for helping him regain full fitness after
Parents should "trust their instincts" if they suspect their child may have meningitis. More cases of the killer bug are recorded in winter with children aged under five and between 15 and 17 at particular risk. But meningitis can strike anyone of any
A VETERAN biker who used to exhibit his proud pre-war competition bikes at motorcycle shows up and down the country has died, aged 90. Les Manley, from Regent Road in Lostock, lost his battle with cancer on Wednesday at Bolton Hospice. Atherton-born Mr
A PLAN to give pensions to Bury councillors has been turned down by members of the council's standards committee. They voted unanimously to reject the proposal, put forward by an independent remuneration panel, and will be advising the full council to
WORK has begun on a multi-million development set to bring 300 jobs to Bolton. A derelict seven-acre plot of land in Waters Meeting Road, Astley Bridge, is being transformed into a major office complex. The first tenant of the Navigation Business Park
BOLTON actor Darren Southworth managed to win a part in the hit film Calendar Girls -- and did not even have to take his clothes off. The former Little Lever High School pupil mingled with stars including Helen Mirren, Julie Walters and Celia Imrie as
A REGIONAL parliament would hit Bolton's council tax payers in the pocket, say councillors. The warnings came as a new Govenment paper revealed how a regional assembly might operate. A referendum is expected to take place next autumn on whether North-west
BOLTON actor Darren Southworth managed to win a part in the hit film Calendar Girls -- and did not even have to take his clothes off. The former Little Lever High School pupil mingled with stars including Helen Mirren, Julie Walters and Celia Imrie as
RETRO band The Swing Commanders is looking forward to gigs in the Bury and Radcliffe areas. The five-piece band is fronted by vocalist Peter O"Reilly. Jesse Winter is on Guitar and Steel Guitar, Ray Walmersley on Double Bass, Pat Fitzsimons on Drums and
