STAFF at Bellcharm Motor Group's Renault dealerships at Warrington and Bolton are celebrating a double success. The two dealerships, which are owned by United Norwest Co-op, finished easy winners in their respective areas of a Renault customer service
THE Bishop of Bolton the Rev David Bonser will officiate at a service at Westhoughton Parish Church tomorrow to celebrate the opening of the parochial school extension. Everyone in the community is invited to join in the service at St Bartholomews Church
A POLICE initiative has cut burglaries in the Ellenbrook area of Walkden by more than 60 per cent in a month. Four weeks ago, Supt Peter Morris targeted CID, uniformed, and community development teams at Ellenbrook in a special operation designed to cut
SIR: Shoppers beware! Check your till receipts. I regularly buy an expanding foam product from a well known DIY store. I understood inflation to be low about 3 per cent - not 33 per cent. This product has gone up from £6.50 to £9.50. I was shocked. Fortunately
A CONTROVERSIAL waste incinerator in Bolton is to shut at the end of the year - but it will reopen again in 1998. Greater Manchester Waste Ltd has confirmed that Raikes Lane incinerator will shut down on November 30. The municipal burner is being closed
SIR: Why always the elderly? They are the people who were born into poverty and I do mean poverty. I was there! No benefits then. No holidays, no handouts, no fires and not much for food. But they managed. Many went to war for this country, others worked
BOLTON town centre's only independent toy store is set to shut up shop. Boydell's, which has been in town since 1936, went into voluntary liquidation today. Their other two stores in Bury and Wilmslow are also set to close making a total of 38 people
SIR: Thank you for your editorial on closing the elderly people's homes. You are right - it is a disgrace . I for one do not want to go into a private home with their exorbitant prices. Please maintain your pressure to keep these homes going and congratulations
SPY cameras, security fencing and steel doors would have been unthinkable at the majority of schools just a few years ago. But that was before innocent children were slaughtered and attacked in places that were once considered safe and secure environments
SIR: We must strongly support those people who are against the closure of old people's homes in Bolton. LIke others, we have close family who are in their late eighties living in Stocks Park, Horwich. They have lived through two World Wars, have known
HAWKSHAW Tennis Club will be holding their sixth LTA Tennis Ratings Tournament from July 20 to August 4. Last year morew than100 entries were received from tennis players from all over the North West of England and this year's event is equally well supported
SIR: As a parent of a young child, I am concerend about the government's attitude towards the introduction of nursery vouchers. This scheme was recently given the thumbs down by the House of Lords and the pilot trials were, by all accounts, not an overwhelming
SIR: So we've had a firearms amnesty and we can all sleep soundly in our beds again, safe in the knowledge that all those nasty drug dealers, bank robbers and terrorists have handed their guns in to the local Police station. Who are we trying to kid?
SIR: We write regarding your recent front-page story under the headline 'Crisis over school places'. We feel, as heads of Bolton's three Grant Maintained Secondary Schools, that the article may have presented a doubly misleading picture to parents, simply
There's such bad news each day about Bombings, muggings, drugs and drought We're all in need of a good laugh What better than our council's gaff? It's so outrageous, it must be The best joke of the century! The Bolton Wanderers' Village scheme Designed
BOLTON social services have pledged to talk to residents and their relatives before moving them to another home. Director Steve Gallagher is confident there will enough vacancies in other nearby public and private sector homes for those who do not want
SOCIAL services chiefs have called meetings with worried relatives to explain the consultation process that will precede home closures. They want to allay the fears of sons, daughters, nephews, nieces and grandchildren who will bear the brunt of any changes
LEGALLY, social services chiefs have to subject OAP residents to uncertainty because they must have a "meaningful consultation period" before choosing which homes will close. However, the first two homes need expensive repairs and house fewer residents
PLACES in private sector residential and nursing homes in Bolton have mushroomed from 479 beds in 1986 to 1,487 at the last count. Another 120-bed home is planned. Places in council-run homes have decreased from 703 to 391 over the same period. NATIONALLY
DEVOTED son Leslie Morley dares not break the news to his mother that she could be moved from the home she has known for the past six years. The 96-year-old widow has only left Stocks Park residential home in Horwich a handful of times over the past two
DANISH new boys Michael Johansen and Per Frandson are set to become fully fledged members of Wanderers' international brigade. The midfielders - who arrived at Burnden in a £2.25 million double deal last month - are already under the scrutiny of their
THE Greenalls Group is to split the role of chairman and chief executive with effect from the annual general meeting in February, 1997. Andrew Thomas will continue as chairman (executive) and the present managing irector, Peter Greenall, will be appointed
A HORWICH bakery has recruited its first apprentices from a ground-breaking Saturday Baking Club introduced 18 months ago. Greenhalgh's Craft Bakery in Lostock says the club is proving to be a winner. It introduces young people aged between 14 and 16
STRESSED-out Bolton men in search of a relaxing massage have to travel outside the area for the pleasure, according to a new survey. Self-styled Egon Ronay of the massage market George McCoy has travelled round the country to compile a directory of massage
MORE than 500 people on a Horwich housing estate are campaigning for more bobbies on their streets. The residents of Hilton Estate presented a petition to Bolton West MP and Home Office Minister Tom Sackville asking him to support their demands for an
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SIR: Your editorial headline That's Rich ( BEN, July 3), was absolutely correct. It's rich for the Chairman of Social Services Cllr Peters, to condemn MP Peter Thurnham for attempting to put forward a solution to the problem of the closure of OAP homes
SIR: I have followed with interest the correspondence regarding noisy street footballers. One answer to the problem is to provide facilities for children to play football and learn the skills of the game in a controlled and structural way. The club I
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TWO council-run OAP homes are to close and up to 80 elderly people moved out as part of a controversial cost-saving exercise. Social services chiefs say they have no option. But the move has led to anger, dismay and fear among staff, residents and their
GNARLED hands shaky with age had obviously been responsible for the petition which arrived at the BEN. Anguished residents of Laburnum Lodge in Breightmet stopped trembling long enough to sign their names on a plea for help to fight the closure plans.
AMBITIOUS Bury have targetted ex-Sunderland star Gordon Armstrong as the experienced hand to guide a second successive promotion campaign. The 28-year-old midfielder, who has played all his career in the top two divisions, held talks at Gigg Lane yesterday
EDUCATION bosses are only too aware of the need for extra security at schools in the borough. However Bolton's deputy education director Brian Atkinson says there could be a fine line between making a school secure and turning it into a fortress. Mr Atkinson
POLICE hunting the IRA Manchester bombers today offered a £1 million reward for information leading to their capture. Head of the anti-terrorist branch Commander John Grieve announced the move in a bid to find out where the bombers might have loaded the
SIR: Is it possible to see some actual facts and figures. Surely if closing two homes is going to save £600,000 then how many homes are there and what are we losing on each of them? Something seems very wrong when private companies are purpose building
LIS Harrington is half the woman she used to be thanks to two years of strict dieting . . . and her £2,000 prize is chest the job! Lis, aged 38, of Elm Grove, Farnworth, went from seven stones 4 oz to 16 stones 12 oz after her doctors put her on steroids
SIR: Like many others I have followed the closure plans for old people's homes with mounting concern. I read with great anger Peter Thurnham's criticisms of the local authority for having to make these miserable, cruel and hard choices about which deserving
UP to 80 vulnerable elderly people are set to be uprooted and moved out of Bolton council old people's homes because the council needs the money elsewhere. Social services chiefs claim they must find just under £1million towards the cost of improving
YOUNGSTERS at an end of term disco had to do a quickstep to the playground after a DJ sparked a 999 scare. Children were dancing in the school hall when the DJ's smoke machine triggered fire alarms at Lowton West Junior and Infants School on Slag Lane
TAKING responsibility is an important lesson for youngsters to learn. But when that duty involves caring full-time for adults and often siblings as well, then society must act. It is heartening, therefore, to hear that Barnardo's Bolton Young Carers'
BOLTON Council puts the blame for the proposed closure of two elderly people's homes squarely on the Government. And their arguments for doing so are persuasive. Government rules mean the council misses out on a subsidy of £25 a week per person paid to
From the Evening News, July 11, 1971 AMONG pampered guests at a Cuban tourist resort are 18,000 crocodiles. They are fed and cared for at state expense, but when their number reaches 20,000 an annual quota will be skinned and turned into foreign currency
