NEWSQUEST Media Group have completed the acquisition of five titles from Johnston Press. The paid-for Bury Times, Radcliffe Times and Whitefield Guide, plus the free Midweek Times and Bury Messenger, join the 13-strong Newsquest Lancashire stable which
AN impressive panel of local judges is ready to pick the winner of 3i's Quest for Growth competition. They will be looking for medium-sized businesses with the greatest potential for growth and the winner will go forward for the national awards, to be
A WELL-known local businessman has died, aged 76. Mr Leslie George Hunt, who was born and bred in Horwich, ran Hunt's Pianos for more than 30 years until the late 1980s. The business he founded in Bolton became an international success. In the 1950s Mr
AFTER police watched a lock-up garage in Bolton, they got inside and found a stolen £9,500 BMW and a "substantial" number of car parts, Manchester Crown Court heard. They seized an engine taken from a nearly-new stolen car and then went to the home of
SIR: Edward on Edward was an excellent documentary on TV. . Prince Edward knows his profession, even if he had the advantage of being able to peruse the archives. Most of the public, as I remember, supported the uncrowned King Edward VIII but, of course
SIR: The immense media interest in the recent sheep cloning experiment at Edinburgh may have led your readers to believe that we are truly on the edge of a "brave new world" of scientific advance. Not so. We have now discovered that in animal health and
HASLINGDEN booked a Bolton Hospital Cup final place against Eagley after a slender 2-1 win over Blackrod Town. All three goals came in the first half of an action-packed semi-final at Atherton LR's Crilly Park. Norman gave Haslingden the lead on 11 minutes
CANON Slade teacher Jenny Statham and colleague Fabrice Pointeau collected a double helping of "bread" when they visited Greenhalgh's Craft Bakery at Lostock. They were presented with a cheque for £50 to help with the "Jeune Journaliste" project. This
Viva Mexico, Our Lady of Lourdes AODS, Plodder Lane, Farnworth. Runs until Saturday. YOU could almost feel the sun shining out from the bright and colourful set which provided the perfect backdrop for a production set in the blistering heat of Mexico.
WHEN Mrs Fanny Dickinson was a little girl most of the Smithills and Horwich area was still fields and farms. She has just celebrated her 90th birthday, but this sprightly grandmother recalls the details of the long-gone lifestyle as if it were yesterday
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, May 1, 1971 RAMPAGING Manchester United fans forced the giant pleasure Beach entertainment complex at Blackpool to close down today before United's match at Bloomfield Road. Trouble flared when windows were broken at
SUCCESSFUL students at Bolton Institute's School of Textile Studies received prizes worth £7,500 at an awards ceremony. The presentations took place in the Institute's main lecture theatre on the Deane Campus. The chief guest was Brian Hill, managing
A WIGAN businessman who lives in Westhoughton is celebrating £200,000 worth of orders following three international exhibitions. Scott Adams, who lives at Daisy Hill, has seen the turnover of his firm, Nutrisport, double to £1 million in the last year
TWO cases of German measles have been confirmed in Bolton, the first since the borough-wide vaccination campaign almost two years ago. The cases involve a man and a woman who were not vaccinated. Both cases have been reported and confirmed in the past
BOLTON trade unionists and Socialists will be paying tribute to Labour movement stalwart and former teachers' leader Caitlin Wright at a special memorial meeting at the weekend. Caitlin, a life-long Socialist and a former president of Bolton's NUT branch
AN off-duty police woman was dragged behind a car has she clung onto her handbag following a violent attack. WPc Celia Boardman was attacked from behind outside the Late Shop in Wigan Road, Deane, last night. She was thrown onto the floor but clung onto
A BADLY injured driver called for help on his mobile phone after his car overturned on the motorway at Kearsley early today. This afternoon he was being treated in intensive care as police investigated why the Toyota Corolla left the road, flipped over
BOLTON MP Peter Thurnham is urging electors to vote Liberal Democrat...if they want a referendum on Europe. Independent Tory Mr Thurnham says that the Liberals are the only party "fully committed to both a referendum and to proportional representation
TONGE Cricket Club inform all junior players to note that nets night has been changed from Friday to Thursday with a 6.15pm start. Further details available from Ian Senior on 0161 7641026. Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and
MELISSA Gorner was streets ahead when it to came to thinking up a name for the road which runs outside Westhoughton's new primary school. For Melissa's unusual suggestion, Cappodocia Way, leading to St George's Primary School at The Hoskers, has been
on the main A666 Blackburn Road in Egerton. Furious Mrs Coles, who lives at the junction of Blackburn Road and Longworth Road, devised the ultimate plot to keep heavy goods vehicles away from her house after she returned from holiday to find a new parking
FOOTBALLERS lining up for a prestigious cup match found themselves pitching in before kick off . . . to create their own ground. Eagley and Elton Fold, semi-finalists in the Bolton Hospitals Cup, turned up at the Harper Green pitch in Farnworth with officials
SIR: In answer to Mrs Margaret Calderbank (BEN, April 16), I have been a loner all my life. In my younger days, being a loner kept me out of trouble. My friends, if any, can be counted on one hand. However, I have lots of acquaintances as I wander around
SIR: When will Bolton Council realise that it is time to stop being a silent party to Manchester's self-promotion before it is too late? The image of "Greater Manchester" abroad, as well as the misleading and ugly sound of that bureaucratic invention,
SIR: As an historian of the Legion of Frontiersmen I have to write to correct the letter by 'Major' E N Pegg of the Commonwealth Command of Frontiersmen, for the founder of the Frontiersmen founded another separate branch of frontiersmen following World
AN American feature writer is trying to turn back the clock - by tracing two children who were featured in a picture in Humphrey Spender's famous "Worktown" essay on Bolton. The picture, which showed two children standing by a muddy puddle and was titled
IT seems exactly the right note will be struck for the Queen and Prince Philip's golden wedding celebrations next year. Wisely the Queen kept her 70th birthday last month very low key. It was the right decision given the current antics of some members
PSYCHIATRISTS, stress counsellors, former football managers - they have all been wheeled out to pontificate on what caused Kevin Keegan to mount an astonishing verbal attack on Alex Ferguson after Newcastle United had beaten Leeds on Monday night. The
WANDERERS are ready to play their part right to the bitter end of the Premiership campaign. Already relegated, they have no intention of giving Bruce Rioch and Arsenal an easy passage into Europe - if that is still an issue when Sunday comes. Colin Todd
