LEIGH have got one eye on the future with the launch of a new Vice-President's Club for businessmen and supporters. The scheme, which offers a five-year VIP season ticket and other benefits for £1,000, should raise up to £200,000 to help fund ambitious
SIR: It was a cruel avoidable death. Ten-year-old Helen Baggs of Melksham, Wiltshire was killed by a bullbar. The bar broke in the accident. Helen lived for a few days after the collision, proving that she would almost certainly be alive now had no bull
THE cold weather is set to disrupt the non-league programme with pitch inspections expected on all grounds. Top match of the day is at Hilton Park where Leigh RMI take on local rivals Atherton LR in the Unibond League Division One. RMI will hope to bring
BURNDEN Park groundstaff were on weather watch today, hoping tomorrow's game would survive the winter white-out. Undersoil heating will beat the freeze but the forecast of heavy snowfall heading from the south west has put Wanderers on their guard. "The
A ELDERLY Horwich woman is believed to have become the area's first hypothermia death victim this Winter. Nora Leigh, aged 84, of Laburnum Grove was found dead in her council flat yesterday evening after neighbours became concerned that they had not seen
FOUR shy heroes rushed to help a pensioner whose purse was stolen by a youth in Bolton market yesterday. Sixty-year-old Mrs Lilian Picton, was out shopping when a teenage boy crashed into her back and grabbed her purse. The four men dashed to the scene
HOMELESSNESS has reached crisis proportions in Bolton this Christmas after a staggering 70 per cent rise in house repossessions during the year. The town's Salvation Army Salvation Army Hostel has been bursting at the seams with people desperate for shelter
BENEFITS Agency staff in Bolton struggled to hear themselves think yesterday as work was disrupted by music blaring from a nearby funfair. Despite complaints from the Benefits Agency and nearby residents councillors made the controversial decision to
SIR: So Myra Hindley is once more wearing sackcloth and ashes in repentance. I note that Ian Brady wishes to serve his sentence until death. In the recent atrocities case of Fred and Rose West, Fred solved the problems by committing suicide - whilst Rose
MEMBERS of Bolton's deaf community will join the nation's newest detective in helping to solve a major mystery. About 35 members of Bolton Deaf Club will be featured in the second episode of a new crime series, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, starring
THE IRA is being blamed for the latest murder in Belfast - the sixth since April. The local MP has said it was widely known that the IRA were responsible for the killings and the RUC commander in West Belfast said the latest murder has everything to do
ALAN Stubbs' comeback has been put on ice - despite Wanderers' desperate need for a winter warmer. Bolton bosses Roy McFarland and Colin Todd have decided against risking the England B defender in tomorrow's crucial Burnden basement battle with Coventry
