BOLTON Euro MP and keen Wanderers fan Gary Titley has declared that the new Reebok Stadium is "in a league of its own." Mr Titley's ringing endorsement for the ground, which will stage its first home match against Everton on September 1, follows a recent
BOLTON traders are to launch a new scheme aimed at keeping children safe in the town centre. Bolton is hoping to adopt the Safe Child Scheme which was launched nationally by the British Retail Consortium in the wake of the murder of Merseyside toddler
SIR: I am writing on behalf of a Mr J Gilliver who stayed at 5 Bromwich Street during the early 1940s. He remembers a policeman staying there who was a patrol car driver on the East Lancs Road. He is also interested in contacting two schoolboys who visited
SIXTY young playscheme children had been in the direct firing line of the callous gunman who murdered little Dillon Hull in Bolton on Wednesday, it was revealed today. The children were having fun in a church hall just a few yards away from where the
THE threat of an all out strike of the county's fire crews was dwindling today. Fire Brigades Union officials say they were disappointed at yesterday's turn out for a mass meeting of members to discuss planned strike action. Greater Manchester secretary
SIR: There is nothing I like better than sitting down to a lovely Sunday roast. It seems to me that there just aren't enough families sitting round the dining room table and eating together these days. They are either sitting in the living room with plates
AN intrepid trio set off from Atherton today for war-torn Croatia on a fact-finding mission to help traumatised children. The expedition is organised by the Atherton and Tyldesley Scouts and will be undertaken by scout leader Peter Blundell, driver Bob
SIR: I am writing in response to an article I have read recently about St Gregory's RC Primary School, Farnworth, where a Yorkshire building firm from Leeds had been chosen to carry out some building work which by now should have been completed but, the
HUNDREDS OF people in the community where five year old Dillon Hull was murdered have signed a petition calling for his family to be moved out of their home. Shock and revulson at Wednesday's cold blooded killing of the innocent child in Deane, Bolton
SIR: I have been following with interest the debate in Your views about the future of the Octagon Theatre. Like Mrs Openshaw I was relieved when Doreen Crowther confirmed our favourite theatre wasn't going to be turned into another car park. Now that
f=Zapf Dingbats s%90 of+bf+iChristine Bowen Royal Engineers Museum Foundation Brompton Barracks, Chatham Kent ME4 4UG. SIR: Groups of Sappers from all over the country are mustering forces to join the 50th Anniversary celebrations at the Royal Engineers
Saturday mornings, they're never the same No built up excitement for the start of the game. The shopping, the cleaning, the kids upstairs There isn't that feeling, nothing compares, The summers get longer, Saturdays the same Awake in the morning, there
August 9, 1972 A NEWLY-extended and renovated out-patients department costing £20,000 has been opened at Bolton District General Hospital. After October 1, the upgraded department will cater for an estimated 9,000 new patients a year, who will make a
WANDERERS have asked the town's planners to allow them to raise the capacity of the new Reebok Stadium. There is scope within the £35 million project to add 2,500 extra seats to take the capacity to 27,500, without contravening safety requirements. But
THE mother of tragic Dillon Hull has pleaded for help from the people of Bolton to snare his cold blooded killer. Although Jane Hull, aged 29, refused to speak to the BEN today she told a tabloid newspaper that she wanted the "animal" responsible for
THE Bolton League's big guns will be hoping to shoot down the Northern League tomorrow and carve out a little piece of history. Although the respective Leagues have met 13 times in the MEN Inter-League competition, the Bolton League have never beaten
SIR: Calling all veterans of the 9th Battalion the Border Regiment who served in India, Assam and Burma during the Second World War. Ian Wilson, son of the late Sam Wilson, your signaller, is continuing with the newsletter and is grateful for all items
SIR: Yes, yes and yes again! I am in total agreement with Mr Galligan (Letter of the Week, Saturday, August 2). Dog dirt must surely be the bane of all mothers with pushchairs and wheelchair users alike. The space outside my gate is used as a dogs' toilet
SIR: Exactly what is it that makes the Bolton Evening News think that the town of Bolton is the centre of the universe? Whilst I am very proud to come from the Bolton area, I find it hard to believe that all the high profile events that happen around
SIR: With the referendums taking place in September concerning Welsh and Scottish devolution, may I say that it is completely arrogant of Tony Blair's New Socialists, not to give a say in the matter of the events that will lead up to the break up of our
CHRIS Fairclough should have a clearer picture of his comeback schedule when he sees a specialist on Monday. Player of the Season in Wanderers' runaway title win, the experienced centre-back faces a lengthy lay-off as he recovers from the knee injury
PER Frandsen has been earmarked for a key role in Denmark's World Cup bid. The Wanderers midfield ace, who has played his way back onto the international scene since his bargain transfer from FC Copenhagen, was making his Premiership debut today under
KEITH Branagan has given advanced notice that he might have to adopt the long ball game this season. "I'm sorry but there'll be times I might just have to give it the big lump down field," he says apologetically. It's not that Wanderers have changed their
