WAYNE Rooney's girlfriend Colleen McLoughlin has been nominated as celebrity shopper of the year. Not too sure that she really qualifies as a celebrity but she sure is a shopper. She also lives up to every footballers' wives stereotype fostered on TV
FURTHER to Y Swaries' letter regarding the smoking ban in Bolton, I would be interested to know where she suffers from other people's smoke. Smoking is prohibited on public transport and in shops, and most cafs and bars have designated smoking areas normally
I WRITE in support of the campaign to stop smoking in public places. Both myself and my young son are asthma sufferers, and often suffer attacks brought on by cigar or cigarette smoke. It's bad enough for the majority of non-smokers to have to put up
From the Evening News, October 28, 1904: AT Wigan yesterday two elderly women were summoned for trespassing on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. Mr Daniels, solicitor, prosecuted and said the women were picking coal on the 12th inst. The defendants
THE good citizens of Westhoughton celebrated peace in 1918 with the roasting of an ox which provided 3,000 sandwiches for local schoolchildren. I found this photograph in our files and was able to marry it up with this descriptive account in the Bolton
THE man who fought his way back from a heart scare to revive his career with Bolton Wanderers - is undergoing tests in hospital after collapsing before a match at the Reebok on Wednesday night. Khalilou Fadiga - the man who fought his way back from a
IF ever we needed evidence that money does not buy happiness it is provided by 10 years of the National Lottery. The thumbs-up sign that quickly became what we all believed was the passport to our dreams has proved to be a definite thumbs-down for some
BOLTON Council's social services department is hoping to maintain its three-star status when the ratings are announced next month. A recent report by the Commission For Social Care Inspection found it is continuing to perform well and provides very good
TRIBUTES have been paid to an elderly couple who died when their car crashed into the side of a pub. Neighbours have described John Pilling, who was known to his friends as Jack, and his wife, Edna, known to many as Mary, as "devoted to each other". They
I find the Bolton Evening News campaign regarding smoking biased. Where are the smoker's rights? We should have a form to fill in for a right to smoke. The government wasn't saying anything 30 years ago when I was younger with all the advertising. And
INTREPID football mascot Lofty the Lion is resting his aching paws after a gruelling 57-mile trip across America's Grand Canyon. The lovable lion and 25 companions braved the 100F temperatures to help raise money for equipment for babies at the Princess
DETECTIVES want to hear from a minicab driver who drove past the scene of the brutal murder of father-of-four Rob Johnston in the early hours of October 16. Detectives are trying to trace a light-coloured saloon private hire taxi with a sun roof which
A MOVE to impose a six-month ban on the recruitment of new Town Hall staff to prevent another big council tax rise in Bolton was blocked last night. Conservative councillor John Walsh called on a council meeting to impose the freeze to stave off a projected
THE WAGE bill for Bolton Council workers has shot up by £85.7 million over the past seven years. That is a rise of more than 60 per cent - more than twice Britain's average wage increase since 1997. It has led to a call from the Conservative Party for
WORKERS from the Boddingtons brewery in Manchester are in Belgium to meet trade union colleagues. Owners Interbrew decided to shut the Strangeways brewery last month to reduce distribution costs. The 10-strong group, from the Transport and General Workers
JOHN Peel had a deeper effect on more people's music tastes than any DJ ever. His death on Tuesday has brought tributes from those who worked with him in radio and television, hundreds of bands - some of whom he helped towards fame and fortune and others
FORGET the lurid, violent headlines for one minute - kindness really is king in towns like Bolton. Gemma Feeney, the seriously ill young woman who needs life-saving treatment in America, is the latest recipient of this generosity. Hundreds of local people
I WRITE in response to the £80 on-the-spot fine for anyone caught letting fireworks off. Which bright spark came up with this idea? I went to the shop around 7pm, and heard three go off in the space of 15 minutes. I wondered who was lying in wait to implement
FIRSTLY, may I say I am absolutely appalled at the stance taken by the Bolton Evening News in its Stub it Out campaign. For a newspaper that is supposed to be impartial in its reporting, I can only look forward to future campaigns aimed at banning the
THE Spirit of Sport sculpture may be a brilliant idea which may give a lift to the local economy and the profile of the borough. No doubt this Golden Gherkin will be awarded an architectural prize. Please, however, give further thought to its location
A FESTIVAL of Light has been organised for Blackrod children as a Christian alternative to Hallowe'en. Children aged between five and 11 are invited to the event, which takes place between 4.30pm and 7.30pm on Sunday, October 31, at St Andrew's RC Church
A BOLTON organisation which boosts people's confidence is speaking out for cash help. The Bolton and District Speakers Club meets each second and fourth Monday of the month at the Friends' Meeting House in Bolton town centre. Its aim is to help members
Wanderers 3 Spurs 4 WANDERERS (4-3-3) KEVIN POOLE ... 6 Beaten four times but a string of late saves prevented Spurs racking up a few more. NICKY HUNT ... 7 The youngster proved again that he's back in the groove with that highly competitive edge of his
WANDERERS 3 SPURS 4: SAM Allardyce launched a fierce attack on his sloppy Wanderers as his Carling Cup dreams lay in tatters at a windswept Reebok. The angry Bolton boss slammed his misfiring strikers as "pathetic" and his slipshod defenders as "beyond
TROUBLEMAKERS will be targeted on Bolton's estates by police officers operating from a new mobile police station. Copshop 2 will be taken to outlying parts of Bolton where youngsters are causing problems. The first mobile Copshop brought into the borough
RESIDENTS in Harper Green have hit out at changes to area forum boundaries which they say threaten to erode their traditional ties with Farnworth. Councillors last month voted to group Harper Green together with Great Lever and Rumworth for the start
BOLTON has been picked by the Government to spearhead a national crackdown on the troublemakers who bring misery to residents. The town is one of 50 areas of the UK chosen to take part in a year-long drive to stamp out the gangs who cause havoc on housing
THE BBC bosses who chose lovely Zoe Salmon as the newest Blue Peter presenter look like they've made a wise choice. The 24-year-old former Miss Northern Ireland had to show off her trampolining skills, handle a wriggly animal, demonstrate a remote-controlled
SO Bolton is going to follow Liverpool and go non-smoking? It seems to me the non-smokers have got their way at last and the smokers will just have to put up with it. Why? If the council is so sure the majority of the public welcome this move, why not
THE media is really having a ball with councils, bars and shopping malls all jumping on the bandwagon regarding the smoking ban, and MPs of all parties making it a political football. I was a smoker, then gave up, then started again, and I'm presently
1636: Harvard University was founded, the first in the US. It was named after John Harvard, the English-born Puritan minister who bequeathed #779 and a 300-volume library. 1794: Robert Liston, Scottish physician who carried out the first operation with
WANDERERS have announced ticket selling arrangements for the Barclays Premiership home game against Aston Villa on Saturday, November 13 (3pm). Tickets will go on sale in the following order of priority: Holders of both Lifeline AND Club Membership can
THE charity started by Bolton man Derek Gaskell has organised a Christmas party with a difference. It is a tribute night to Freddie Mercury and Elton John on Friday, December 17, at Manchester United's Old Trafford ground to raise money for the BASIC
AN overturned lorry caused chaos for thousands of motorists on the M62 yesterday. The lorry hit a crash barrier and overturned at 1.30pm, leading to huge delays throughout rush hour last night. The link road from the M60 to the M62 westbound at Eccles
MOTORISTS in Great Lever face a series of disruptions as work is carried out to replace and reconstruct bridges and replace gas mains. Bolton Council's engineering department is currently working to reconstruct a bridge on Great Moor Street in a scheme
A 20-YEAR-OLD man was arrested after a stolen car crashed in Belmont Road, Bolton, on Thursday night. A BMW 5 Series was travelling towards Preston shortly before midnight when it collided with a stationary Toyota pick-up truck and knocked down a garden
SAM Allardyce is hoping Henrik Pedersen can put his calamitous Carling Cup performance behind him and get back to terrorising Premiership defences. The six-goal top scorer missed a number of chances - two close-range "sitters" in particular - as Wanderers
A BOLTON businessman has been nominated for a regional community award for his role in a campaign to clean up the town. Andrew Dickson, who runs St Andrew's Travel, has been commended for his efforts in launching the Bolton Evening News Bin it For Bolton
