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  • Stubbs setback for Wanderers

    ALAN Stubbs is facing a Coca-Cola Cup knockout as Wanderers' growing injury crisis continues to hamper their survival hopes. Stubbs, missing for three games since he signed a new contract, will see a specialist this week in a bid to solve the mystery

  • Team needs support

    SIR: Who does Neil Leonard (Bolton Wanderers Supporters Spokesman) think he is kidding! Referring Harry Redknapp to his own fans' behaviour doesn't help. We were at the match against West Ham and, whilst we were too far from Harry Redknapp to hear what

  • Kind hearts

    LAST week we published a letter that we said shamed Bolton. A Rochdale pensioner, Mrs Page, described how she came to our town because she thought it was "such a nice place", only to be disillusioned and heartbroken because her purse was stolen while

  • Chase is on for Bury ace

    THE chase is hotting up for Bury striker Phil Stant. It is understood Second Division Wrexham were unsuccessful with a £175,000 bid for the prolific striker and that other clubs are primed to move in. As exclusively revealed in Saturday's BEN, Cardiff

  • Man winched to safety

    FIREFIGHTERS and paramedics staged a dramatic rescue after a man plunged 30 feet into a fast flowing river. Two youngsters saw 19-year-old Nasser Kazi of Bridgeman Street, Bolton, sitting on the bridge on Radcliffe Road, Darcy Lever, then fall into the

  • Lecturers in torchlight protest

    TALKS are to be held today to try and break the contract deadlock which has led to an all out strike by lecturers at Bolton College. Both sides agreed to get back around the table after a behind the scenes meeting between governors and NATFE on Friday

  • Double delivery for twins

    TWIN sisters Linda and Angela Holt's new born babies couldn't be closer....they were born within a MINUTE of each other at the same hospital. The cousins were supposed to arrive a month apart but amazingly both decided to put in an appearance virtually

  • Little miracle

    RACHEL Hadfield celebrated her fourth birthday at the weekend. But it was a celebration her parents sometimes doubted she'd ever see. At the age of just six months Rachel underwent a liver transplant. She was one of the youngest patients ever to undergo

  • Register protest

    SIR: I thought I had seen it all, but Tuesday night's "Network First" on man's relationship with animals was just about the most horrific programme I have ever seen regarding the exploitation of animals. It covered many aspects of cruelty to animals,