BOLTON Council has been criticised by the Local Government Ombudsman over the wording on its parking tickets. Government watchdogs found wording on information relating to the appeals procedure was misleading. It means some people who might have otherwise
COMMUNITIES Minister Phil Woolas praised Bolton's race relations during a visit to the town. Mr Woolas was in Bolton yesterday to meet with community and religious leaders as part of the Government's Preventing Extremism Together (PET) initiative, set
BREAST cancer patients across Britain were celebrating today after winning their fight to be treated with the wonder drug, Herceptin. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has recommended the drug for use on the NHS for those
A MAN from Bolton has appeared in court in connection with a £5.4 million cocaine seizure. Stephen Edwards, aged 57, of Turton Heights, Bromley Cross, has been charged with the fraudulent importation of a Class A controlled drug. He was arrested by
CHRIS Coleman has revealed how he started preparing his Fulham players for tonight's Craven Cottage clash with Wanderers during the half-time interval at Old Trafford on Sunday. Fulham were 4-1 down to Manchester United and facing one of their biggest
IF the element of surprise counts for anything, Wanderers are onto a winner with Kevin Davies. For three seasons, the Sheffield powerhouse has led the Whites' attack with an up-front approach opposing teams have always been well aware of but, in most
SAM Allardyce has warned his happy Wanderers they will have to clear a mental hurdle if they are to get anything at Fulham tonight. The Bolton boss has seen the Whites beaten in all five Premiership games at Fulham - one of which was played at QPR's
THE North's beautiful Lake District is likely to get a tourist boost when the film Miss Potter is released at the end of the year. Bridget Jones' star Renee Zellweger has refined her Texan accent to an English one once more to play Beatrix Potter, the
a growing Bolton-based business development consultancy has moved to new offices in the commercial centre of the town. PNC, which provides advice, support and consultancy services to businesses and public sector organisations, is now based in Mawdsley
MEMBERS of Bury Libraries can now access extensive reference and information facilities on-line free of charge. It includes Britannica online, community contacts, newspapers and magazines online, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford English
IT is always sad when an old community building is allowed to fall into disrepair and eventually be demolished. All Saints Church has stood in Devon Street in Farnworth since 1901, but dwindling congregation figures and spiralling maintenance costs mean
THE manner in which parking tickets are issued is always controversial. Undoubtedly, many people who receive a ticket deserve to do so for the simple reason that they have parked illegally and irresponsibly. Thousands though, believe they have been
A NEW play area for youngsters is to be built in Little Lever after councillors approved a £60,000 scheme. Half the cost of the project will be funded from a Section 106 agreement - cash paid to the council when developers Walter Lawrence Homes built
A TEENAGER is appealing for witnesses after a bike given to him by his friend was stolen. Kyle Chadwick, aged 17, was attending a summer course at Bolton Community College, Clarence Street, Bolton, when the mountain bike he had been given a week earlier
A RECRUITMENT drive has begun to find civilian police staff to pound beats across Bolton. Greater Manchester Police are searching for 1,000 new recruits to become Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs). The force is among several nationwide who will
A HEADTEACHER who has raised thousands of pounds for Bolton Hospice is backing the Bolton Evening News Garden of Tranquillity appeal. Rosemary Jones, who is the headteacher of Brandwood Community School, Daubhill, has been fundraising for Bolton Hospice
CASH is being pumped into a research project which aims to find a cure for breast cancer. Breast Cancer Campaign, the only charity that specialises in funding independent breast cancer research, has awarded a £150,000 grant to Dr Keith Brennan of Manchester
A HEALTH watchdog is investigating claims that a patient at the Royal Bolton Hospital was left in agony without painkillers or fresh water. Stanley Collins, aged 71, from Tyldesley, died of cancer in August last year, three days after being discharged
THE Fusion Festival hit the streets of Bolton in a riot of colour and an explosion of music, drama and dance. Bolton Council has lined up a fortnight of events for youngsters interested in the arts and performance. The first day of the festival kicked
TWO men have appeared at court in connection with a drive-by shooting in Bolton. Mohammed Taymure Khan, aged 23, of Hilden Street, Bolton, and Tanveer Akbar aged 26, of Castle Street, Bolton, have been charged with two counts of Section 18 wounding.
A VALUABLE sculpture which stood in Bolton town centre for 20 years is to move amid fears it will become the target of vandals. Dame Barbara Hepworth's distinct Two Forms (Divided Circle) is moving back to Bolton after spending three years on display
SAVVY tourists and investors are snapping up thousands of pounds worth of American dollars as the exchange rate soars to its highest for years. Sterling hit a 12-month high of 1.914 dollars this month, meaning that holidaymakers are getting more dollars
A YOUNG family fled from their burning house after a three-year-old boy set fire to bedding with a lighter. The toddler was playing in the upstairs bedroom of a house in Clarendon Road, Tonge Fold, yesterday when he started the blaze. His mother heard
James Anderson will make a return to bowling action tomorrow night when he features alongside Kartik Murali for Lancashire against England. Anderson has been out of action for the season with a stress fracture of the back, but will bowl for the first
BOLTON Council's archives room will close on Saturday for more than two weeks to allow maintenance and stock work to take place. The service, situated on the ground floor of Bolton Central Library on Le Mans Crescent, will close at 5pm on Saturday.
PARENTS with youngsters suffering from anxiety and prone to temper tantrums may soon be able to access pioneering treatment. Manchester University is researching new ways of treating and coping with problems in under-10s and is appealing for Bolton families
A PARISH church has been earmarked for demolition - a year after it closed because of dwindling congregation figures and spiralling maintenance costs. All Saints Church has stood in Devon Street, Farnworth, since 1901, but was declared redundant in June
THIS week I spent several minutes waiting on the phone after a recorded Ansafone message told me that a "message collection service" had a message waiting for me. This sounds nave I know, but I rang the number given and duly waited my place in the queue
THE search for a Maria von Trapp for Andrew Lloyd Webber's new production of "The Sound of Music" makes compelling viewing. But there is an event in Bolton on Friday evening that has a huge charm all its own. "Sing-a-long Sound of Music" at the Albert
THIS week we wave farewell to a four-legged friend who's lived with us these past couple of months. Ella is a guide dog puppy who is off to Japan next week for training and where she will, hopefully, be helping a blind person improve his or her life.
BIG Brother on TV has many fans but I'm not one of them. It always strikes me as a nasty social experiment, using people instead of rats, and it just doesn't feel comfortable. The programme also attracts a worrying number of unhinged show-offs. The
IT is a reassuring truism that it is not the length of your life that matters but how you live it. This applies to the mark that people leave on the world and how they have treated others, but it also concerns the reality of day-to-day living. For cancer
BOLTON Wanderers have appointed a world-leading sponsorship consultancy to develop the club's brand and increase its partnerships with business. The club has announced the appointment of 141 Worldwide Sports and Entertainment. The company will work
A NEW website has been launched for GCSE students in Bolton who plan to find a job after they receive their results tomorrow. The interactive online service - called www.cnx2jobs.com - features around 500 vacancies and personal development opportunities
SO Dr Brian Iddon thinks that inheritance tax is fair and that it is more of an issue in London, and David Crausby agrees with him - what planet are they on? Stephen Byers is the only one talking sense here. Soaring property prices really are making
THE following is an extract from the Westhoughton Master Plan Report 1972. "For the past 20 years Westhoughton has been regarded as a major regional growth area second in importance only to the designated new towns. In 1951, it was intended that 20,000
HAVING just visited the most recent feature at the Horwich Heritage Exhibition, I would like to strongly encourage others to do the same. I watched the 30-minute DVD and also viewed the static display on the life and times of George Fisher, a former
IN regard to the letter of August 18 about more bridleways in Bolton "Too many horseriders killed by cars". I stable my horses in Ainsworth and there are no bridleways whatsoever in the vicinity. I have contacted both Bolton and Bury councils about
REGARDING the story "Disabled Drivers Shock" Bolton Evening News, Monday, August 21. I have just read in utter and complete disbelief, the article stating that Bolton Council are even prepared to discuss the reckless and discriminatory suggestion by
A BOLTON MEP says the current education system "fails our young so badly". John Whittaker, who represents the UK Independence Party, says new opportunities could be created for children by offering independence to schools, teachers, parents and children
I am looking to find living relatives descending from James and Mary Howarth who lived in Bolton. Could be from Mary Jane and Israel Banton, Sarah and Robert Warburton, Peter and Ruth Howarth, Joseph and Elizabeth Ann Howarth or William who I haven't
I am trying to locate a Bolton Family I knew back in the 1950s. The Duckworth family were from Upper Vernon Street, Bolton, and the Mother ran a corner shop. There were four children David (21), Madeleine (19), Patricia (16) and Peter (13). David
I am trying to locate an old school friend Michael Christopher Ward (b. 1951-2). We were both students at Bacup and Rawtenstall until 1966, when I Jane left to attend The Royal Manchester College of Music. Michael was a "Bury Boy", and I would love
INSTEAD of charging the disabled - which I am - would it not be a simpler method to put the picture of the entitled person on the front, instead of the rear, of the badge. This would mean that the wardens could then penalise abusers of the system. I
RADCLIFFE Boro notched their first point of the season - but it should have been three as they failed to turn their dominance into goals against a hard-working Leek Town outfit in the UniBond Premier League. Boro dominated possession, while playing a
LEIGH ST MARY'S CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL, ASTLEY - Y13 A Level passes A to E. D Armstrong 4; D Atherton 2; A Babilinski 4; L Babynec 4; S Bawa 3; C Bayley 5; M Beirne 4; B Blears 4; E Blears 3; P Blears 4; R Blenkinship 4; D Boardman 4; K Boulton 3; B Bourke
Bury scored twice late on to inflict more misery on 10-man Sunderland. The visitors played most of the game with only 10 men after Arnau Riera was sent off with less than three minutes gone on his first start for the club. Eight minutes from time Bury
WHETHER you have made the grade or not, what to study and where to do it are never the easiest of decisions. And for those still wavering, clear, impartial and confidential information and advice is available from the Department for Education and Skills
WESTHOUGHTON SCHOOL - Grades A to E, AS results in brackets. N J Ainsworth 3(2); D Aspinall 4(2); S Bissell 4(1); R Brennan 3(1); C Brooks 3(2); R Burke 3; K Campbell 3; J Chadwick 2(1); S Chatwood 4; B Clinton 5(1); S Critchlow 3(1); A Cunningham
STAR student Chay Brooks is on his way to Cambridge after gaining three As in his A-levels. The 18-year-old attended Westhoughton School's sixth form department, where he sat geography, English Literature and physics. He will now go to Churchill College
FOR some young people the pressure to do well can be unbearable and in extreme cases has led to some taking their own lives.The cases of students taking their own lives is well documented, less known is about the numbers who actually make a suicide attempt
BRIDGEWATER INDEPENDENT SCHOOL, WORSLEY - Grades A to E, AS results in brackets. E Bell 3(1); R Cain 3(1); H Dodson 3(1); F Kilcourse 3; C Mather 3(1); K McAteer 3; S Naqvi 3; K Patel 3(1); M Topping 4(1); K Wong 5.
CANON SLADE SCHOOL - Grades A to E, AS results in brackets. R Adam 3(1); J Ashmall 4(1); P Ashton 4(2); E Aspin 4; M Aspinall 2(1); I Astley 3(1); S Barclay 4; N Barton 4(1); S Binks 4; C Black 4(1); C Brewster 4(1); V Bridge 4(2); L Bridges 4(1);
THESE former Canon Slade students could not have done any better if they had tried. The four, all aged 18, achieved unbeatable A-grades in all of the subjects they sat. The top results are seeing two of them heading off to the country's top two universities
BOLTON SCHOOL GIRLS' DIVISION - Grades A to E, AS results in brackets. P Acharya 3(1); J L Adamson 3(1); S Ahmad 4(1); S-J R Allen 4(1); M E L Aston-Munslow 4(1); S J Bailey-Munroe 4(1); C V Barden 4(1); H R Barnett 3(2); H V Bentham 4; A Bibi 4(1)
A BOLTON School pupil found himself juggling his studies with representing his country in this year's Commonwealth Games. But despite the pressures, Ed Scott achieved grade A passes in his biology, chemistry and Russian A-levels. Because of his commitment
A BOUT of chicken pox just two weeks before her exams did not stop Claire Davies from becoming one of the top students in the country. The 18-year-old continued to revise as best she could during her illness and gained one of the top five marks in the
DANIEL Morton, from Egerton, was one of thousands of students to secure a place through clearing. This summer, he graduated with a 2:1 BSc in sports studies. The 21-year-old plays for the town's cricket club and Conference North football team Leigh
ANIMAL lovers Nadia Alnaimi and Nina Cooke have achieved their childhood ambitions to study veterinary science at university. The two 18-year-old Turton School sixth formers achieved straight As in their A-levels subjects securing Nadia a place at Fitzwilliam
BURY GRAMMAR SCHOOL BOYS - A to E, AS levels in brackets. A Al-Attar 4(2); M S Allen 4(1); K Altaf 3(1); J Anwar 3(1); A N L Aziz 4(1); O J Barnes 3(2); J D Benton 3; C M Berry 2; T M Black 3(1); J L F Brunt 3(2); M J Buckley 3(2); D-F Chan 4(1); A
EMMERDALE actress Sammy Winward, now 20, recalls making the difficult decision to leave school at the age of 16 to pursue her acting career. The former Turton School pupil, who plays Katie in the hit ITV soap, says she can empathise with the hundreds
WITH more students than ever meeting the grade, those who have ended up with none must be distraught. But there are plenty of success stories in the Bolton area of people who left school with no qualifications, or made the decision not to go on to A-Levels
BOLTON SIXTH FORM COLLEGE - Grades A to E, AS results in brackets. R Abdullah, Communication St Grade A, Psychology Grade A, Sociology Grade A; R Adam, Urdu Grade C; B Adamson, Graphic Design Grade C; A Ahmed, Religious St Grade D, (1); H Ahmed, Psychology
WHATEVER your grades it is not too late to rule out university. Applications to university for admissions this autumn are down by four per cent, meaning there are more places on courses that need to be filled. And those who have received their A-level
BOLTON SCHOOL BOYS' DIVISION - Grades A to E, AS results in brackets. C Adamson 3(2); W Akram 3(2); J Baglow 3(2); C Baines 3(2); A Beavan 4(1); A Bentley 3(1); C Berry 3(2); J Berry 4; A Biswas 4(1); S Bond 4(1); J Bradbury 3; G Bramwell 4(1); J Brazel
SCHOOLS and colleges posted their best ever A-levels result this year. Reflecting national trends, more students met the grade compared to last year. And the borough's successful teenagers strongly disputed suggestions that A-levels were getting easier
A GREAT-grandma from Oldham provided one of the most satisfying TV moments for a while when she tore a strip off judge Simon Cowell at the start of the latest X-Factor series. Cowell giggled and laughed through the performance of Begin the Beguine by
