THE manager of Marks and Spencer's Bolton branch has lost his job as part of a massive national management shake-up. Brian Lunn left the store in Deansgate along with the assistant manager and trainee manager on Thursday. Deputy manager of the the store
ARSONISTS have forced an amateur football team to hang up their boots after nearly 40 years in Little Hulton. Last night vandals started a blaze which destroyed the inside of the recently refurbished Little Hulton United clubhouse on Worsley Grove. And
AT just 11 years of age, Farnworth's Christopher Ducker is already an international footballer... The youngster has become the first English player to be chosen to play for Dutch footballing giants, Feyenoord - albeit the club's under-11s team. Christopher
TEENAGERS who face a difficult time in school are being put back on the right track in Deane, Derby and Daubhill. Disaffected pupils from three secondary schools in the area have all been awarded a health and safety qualification following weeks of hard
A UNIQUE hospital in Little Lever has been forced to close its doors following a five year struggle to stay financially afloat. Patients were never a problem for the Lancashire Hedgehog Hospital, but a lack of cash support was always a 'prickly' subject
A HEARTFELT plea to save Westhoughton's green fields was put before Bolton's planning chief yesterday as politician Ruth Kelly backed calls to stop developers turning the town into a "concrete jungle". The Labour MP was among SWAN - Save Westhoughton
Music & dance: Sunday CEILI Dancing with Michael Kierans, St Edmund's Church Hall, off Deansgate, 7.30pm-9.30pm. CLUB 40+, sequence dancing for separated, divorced and widowed people, Rivington Suite, Horwich Leisure Centre, 8pm-11pm. Admission £3
LOWRY'S famous matchstick men painting showing fans hurrying to watch Bolton Wanderers at Burnden Park has fetched a massive £78,500. A mystery telephone bidder is now the proud owner of the 1946 impressionist painting after it went under the hammer at
A RELIC of the Second World War which over-looks the villages of Turton could become a listed building. The concrete pill box bunker used by the home guard to withhold a feared German invasion will first have to be looked at by officials from the Ministry
ANOTHER major housing development could be on the cards in Westhoughton. A developer is looking at a site at Ditchers Farm, off the A6 Manchester Road at Wingates which could lead to up to 500 homes being built. A planning application has not yet been
CHIEF mourners wore Bolton Wanderers' shirts, and dozens others came to pay their respects, wearing their traditional leathers, on motorbikes. They were greeted at the Trinity Church, Farnworth, by Deep Purple's anthem 'Smoke on the Water', and the procession
FARNWORTH firefighters want to reward youngsters who have helped them to extinguish trouble hotspots. The fire service, which has had trouble in the past with youths determined to hinder them during their work, set up a fire cadet programme to rescue
WOMEN are being warned to be on their guard after a man tried to abduct a terrified teenager in a Bolton street last night. The man tried to drag the 16-year-old into his car on Baldwin Street, off Derby Street, just before 8pm. The girl was on her way
FEARS were growing today for a 10-year-old boy missing from his home in Bury. Police are growing increasingly concerned for the safety of Anthony Moore after he disappeared from his home in Walmersley Road at around 9am yesterday. He was last seen in
ANOTHER major housing development could be on the cards in Westhoughton. A developer is looking at a site at Ditchers Farm, off the A6 Manchester Road at Wingates which could lead to up to 500 homes being built. A planning application has not yet been
25 YEARS AGO EDGWORTH Children's Home today said 'No thank you' to £150 raised by a water-ski streaker. No sooner had Bolton scrap metal merchant Mr Lance Dickinson dried off his skis than a storm of protest broke out about his bare-faced ski, and it
EILEEN Sutcliffe has finally flown to Switzerland after receiving her passport two days after she was due to start her holiday. The 76-year-old flew to Zurich yesterday after paying an extra £85 for the privilege. As reported in Thursday's BEN, Eileen
UNLIKE the majority of the Bolton players, I'm no golfer but at five o'clock on Monday afternoon my mind instantly went back to St Andrew's in 1970 when Doug Sanders missed a simple putt at the 18th that would have made him Open Champion. The instant
WEEKS of hard work comes to a climax today at a massive Greater Manchester Police open day. Crowds are expected at Sunninghill School, on Goldsmith Street, Daubhill, to find out more about a career in the police service. As reported in the BEN, recruitment
