BOLTON youngsters Steve Parry and Gareth Hastie continued in scintillating form to finish in the leading pack after the first round of the Lancashire Amateur Championship at Bolton Golf Club yesterday. Former England player Robert Bardsley of Denton lead
THE Greater Manchester Ambulance Service is set to launch a new tracking and data system. It will allow controllers to pinpoint exactly where an ambulance will be at any time. The system uses satellite technology which was pioneered by Ronald Reagan's
A LARGE Bolton home for the elderly has been sold in a seven figure deal. Newlands Nursing Home on Chorley New Road, Bolton has been bought by London based Rochefort Healthcare, Ltd. The 48-bed home was founded 10 years ago by Westhay Ltd, a company owned
AN AUXILIARY nurse has been accused of trying to kill a second patient at Bolton General Hospital. Shaun Philip Darrock, aged 21, had new charges put to him when he reappeared before Bolton Magistrates. Darrock, of Gilnow Gardens, Bolton, was already
By PETER STAFFORD ON the eve of the current season Jack Rogerson, the great Bolton League left-arm spinner, died. Fifty-four years previously, almost to the day, he had enjoyed his finest performance when on the opening day of the 1942 season he took
SIR: I am addressing the issue about the Government Vouchers for four year olds half a day place which will come into effect April 1997. Being a mother of four children aged seven, four, three and two my main concern is how will the vouchers affect our
A HOUSING association is close to completing a new development in Kearsley. St Vincent's Housing Association is building homes for rent on the site of the former town yard. There will be 25 properties designed to accommodate a range of needs, including
BOLTON takes some beating when it comes to gardening talent and the chance to show what we can grow is here again. The Britain in Bloom competition is our chance to prove that we're the hot shots when it comes to horticulture. So let's dig for victory
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, May 25, 1971 THERE can be no referendum on Britain's entry into the Common Market, stressed Mr Geoffrey Rippon today. "This is not because the British Government are insensitive to public opinion," he said, "but because
A RELIGIOUS studies teacher who became pregnant by a Bolton priest has won her case for sexual discrimination. Monika O'Neill had already won a claim for unfair dismissal against the St Thomas More RC School, Bedford after being sacked over the scandal
THE family of a Bolton man is still waiting for his body to be flown home from Tenerife where he died after a street attack. Michael Hulse - who was known to his family and friends as Joe - died in the Canary Islands' main hospital in Santa Cruz on April
BOLTON cricket's latest graduate to the international arena could be the long sought after all-round successor to Ian Botham. Ronnie Irani, whose competitive career was nurtured at Heaton and Eagley is the latest local cricketer to hit the big time. And
VANDALS have wrecked a toilet block in a Bolton park just a year after an expensive revamp. The yobs smashed through padlocks to break into the toilets at Morris Green Park and shattered the newly installed sinks, toilet bowls and cisterns. Wreckers caused
IT IS only the end of May but believe it or not, a quarter of the Vimto Bolton Association league programme has already been completed. Prior to the season it seemed likely that the Championship would be the most open for a number of years. The first
DEVELOPERS have been given the final go-ahead for the massive Bolton Wanderers sports village at Horwich. It will mean a new 25,000 all-seater stadium for the club...and 3,000 new jobs. Environment Minister John Gummer has finally approved plans for the
BOLTON'S road network faces a major crisis unless there is a substantial boost in funding for repairs and maintenance. Highways bosses fear the council will be unable to keep up with the deterioration in the town's network of main roads after being hit
BOLTON court cases could be moved out of town in a bid to avoid building the new £8 million magistrates court. Fears are growing that the Government is set to ditch plans for a new building in Cheadle Square and move trials to less busy courts in the
THE case of a legless Bolton man who waited two years for a special shower seat has been raised in the House of Commons by MP Peter Thurnham who is calling for stricter rules regulating local authority assessments for the disabled. The independent former
SIR: Regarding the closure of the toilets on Bridge Street, I would like to point out to Cllr Jack Foster who says that there are 'more than sufficient' toilets in the town centre - toilets in stores are usually on the top floor (or next to the top) and
BOLTON Harriers entered two teams in the National Road Relays at Heaton Park, Manchester. Both teams performed exceptionally well with the younger age group team finishing sixth overall out of 33 teams. Sue Selby, in her first race for the Bolton Vets
SIR: I refer to the closing of Bridge Street toilets. Is Cllr Jack Foster serious when he says there are enough facilities in the town centre, and that we can use pubs and restaurants? It's very kind of him to offer other people's facilities, isn't it
SIR: On June 16-22, Mencap is staging Britain's Biggest Tea Party, sponsored by Brooke Bond 'D' and Fox's Crinkle Crunch Biscuits. We need to recruit more tea party organisers in every part of the country in order to raise our target of £50,000 in Mencap's
SIR: You do well to urge Bolton council to build more public toilets (leading article May 22). I hope they pay more attention to you than they have to us. Last month we asked them for an undertaking that they would not demolish any closed toilets, firstly
MAMMOTH efforts behind the scenes at the end of the season saw Atherton Colls given the official 'thumbs up' for promotion into the North West Counties League top division. A small army of volunteers, and some tremendous assistance from local companies
A GENEROUS gesture by acclaimed artist Harold Riley has helped to generate funds for St Ann's Hospice. The Salford artist donated one of his original drawings as first raffle prize at the hospice's silver jubilee gala ball at the Midland Hotel, Manchester
A YOUNG boy who featured in a cheeky photograph has been identified as Jim Smethurst. Librarian Ken Beevers appealed in the BEN for the names of the two children pictured in a famous photograph from the thirties. It shows two boys weeing into a puddle
MEMBERS of a local day centre now have a fully-equipped temporary home in Bolton town centre. Users of the St George's Road Day Centre have had to move out because of building work. Temporary accommodation has been provided at Bank Street Chapel where
SOME weeks ago we highlighted the measures being taken to safeguard residents in a Bolton high rise council block, in a bid to fight crime. We pointed out that as part of the price of making life more crime-free we would have to get used to having our
STILL on the crime scene...when John Major decides to call a General Election, there's no doubt that one of the main campaign issues will be the war on crime and making our streets safer places for young and old. Two stories in this week's BEN sum up
Refer to News section for details of Wanderers super stadium Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.
