IN April, I had a letter in the BEN asking MPs Iddon and Kelly, if, in view of their standing on adding fluoride to our drinking water, they could tell us, through these pages, that fluoride was safe. Not having seen a reply from either MP, I wrote to
There was a monk, called Nostradamus, Who knew not, the love of Lord Jesus. He tried to put your people in fear, With tales, that will never be clear. People still try to tell the future, Yet can never know, the true picture. Children of Jesus, have God's
RECENTLY you reported the announcement by the Government of a new public inquiry into the RJB Mining opencast mining application on the Cutacre site, under the heading: People power forces Government to think again over opencast pit. I was delighted to
LAST Saturday I went to watch Farnworth Social Circle play Tonge at Tonge CC, Castle Hill, and on a very nice day I saw my team well beaten by the hosts. Even so I had a great day, a few beers with my mate (I originate from Tonge Moor), but what made
ANGRY dad Philip Butler has hit out at housing association officials, claiming they refused to help when he feared his daughter's life was in danger by rising floods. Little Sophie Butler is in semi-isolation at Lenham Gardens, Breightmet, while she builds
PROTESTERS fighting plans for Leigh's huge Xanadu indoor ski resort say approval for a Salford Ski Centre is the first nail in its coffin. Yesterday the government gave the green light to the £85 million "winter world" on the banks of the River Irwell
STUNNING Sally Holden is set to be a huge success in the big city - just months after she was working behind the counter for a Bolton chemist. Sally, 22, was entered in a modelling competition in a national magazine by her boss at Nash Pharmacy in Castle
DISCERNING regulars at a Belmont pub enjoy their pint with a bit of Mozart. Classical music ONLY is played at the Black Dog - the juke box is firmly banned. Landlord Jim Pilkington reckons it's not a Bach-ing mad idea. He said: "The reason I play classical
Bus ban on crying baby By Beverly Greenberg A MOTHER nursing her teething 14-month-old daughter claims she was ordered off a bus by the driver who said her baby's cries were a distraction. Mrs Josie Sherrington says she was astonished when the woman driver
FORMER AMEC Group chairman Sir Alan Cockshaw has been appointed as chairman-elect of British Airways Regional. Sir Alan, who lives in Worsley, will take over when David Holmes retires at the end of the year. British Airways Regional, which was formed
MANAGEMENT guru Ken Lewis addressed a business breakfast in Blackrod. Mr Lewis, from Dutton Engineering (Woodside) Ltd in Bedfordshire, spoke to representatives of firms in the 3Ds (Derby, Deane and Daubhill) area who were joined by members of the Fastrack
BOLTON MP Brian Iddon is sporting a yellow knotted ribbon this week in support of the thousands of local people with dementia and their carers across the borough. Throughout this week, Alzheimer's Awareness Week, the Alzheimer's Disease Society will be
AN award winning tourism business in the Bury countryside has now become a world leader. Boardmans, a moorside cottage complex near Hawkshaw which attracts visitors from around the globe, has become one of four businesses in Britain to receive the Green
SHEDDING six stones has transformed a Bolton mum into a fairground attraction. Pretty Amanda Naylor will now be able to realise a long-awaited dream - to share a rollercoaster ride with her two children! The former size 28 Tonge Fold woman, now a size
It is not the silence of the lambs that I fear, No, it is the silence of the lions of intellect and culture, I deplore. The silence of the tigers of discontent Who pad silently, mute, when injustice walks abroad. And we mice with little voice can only
THE film doesn't open for 10 days. But Star Wars fever is already sweeping Bolton with more than three thousand tickets already sold. Tickets for the most anticipated film in history went on sale at 12.01am last Thursday at Warner Village Cinema in Middlebrook
25 YEARS AGO EDGWORTH Cricket Club, members of the Bolton Association since 1906, will go out of existence at the end of this season. The club are being forced to fold up because legal restrictions are preventing them from improving their ground, at the
I ADMIRE the technology of modern buses which are far from the rag-tag vehicles of not long ago where you had to climb a death defying stairway to board. We now have green engines, which is a great advantage for lazy drivers who leave buses running at
THEATRE, MUSIC & DANCE BOLTON Summer Proms 1999, organ recital with Bolton Youth Choir, Albert Hall, 1pm. Tel: 364333. BOLTON Music Service's activities include Bolton Junior Youth Choir, 6pm-7.30pm, Bolton Girls' Choir, 6.45pm-8.45pm, Bolton Youth
A DANGEROUS hole in a fence by a river has been replaced by even more dangerous metal barriers, a Bolton woman has claimed. Mrs Jean Roscoe has been campaigning for more than two years to get the wooden fence in Churchbank fixed, fearing a child or a
A SQUAD of former West African child soldiers are to take part in a football tournament in Bolton. The Millennium Stars from war-torn Liberia have been entered in a competition at Mount St Joseph School and will play against teams from Thornleigh Salesian
AN inactive transfer market is threatening Wanderers' hopes of strengthening their squad. Reebok boss Colin Todd is seeing his five-man summer shopping list begin to slip through his fingers due to an empty transfer kitty. For the first time since he
WARY shoppers were slow to cash in on the latest bargains on offer from the brains behind a failed £50,000 house raffle. On Monday, the BEN revealed that Alan Sharrock - investigated by police after attemps to raffle his £100,000 Ladybridge home ended
THE LETTER from Paulus in the BEN recently was incorrect on two counts. Firstly, when fossil fuel is burned, there is no loss of mass. The mass of gases produced is equal to the mass of fuel burned. Secondly, if the world did lose mass, the gravitational
TWO children were sent home from a Farnworth school when they refused to wear emergency footwear supplied by the school after floods ruined their normal shoes. Thirteen children turned up to Harper Green School in trainers yesterday as their usual black
FURIOUS home owners and a pub landlord are threatening to sue Bolton council for tens of thousands of pounds in the aftermath of one of the worst floods to hit Bolton. The village of Stoneclough came to a standstill earlier this week during a freak storm
BUSINESSES throughout the Bolton area will soon be able to take advantage of a new move to tackle crime. Business Security Initiatives, organised by the Crime and Disorder Partnership, will be launched at Bolton Town Hall next Tuesday. A similar scheme
IN the Just You, June 1999, I read the article: Let's click again. You may be interested to know that I, with the help of two other ladies, run a "knitting club", every Wednesday afternoon, after school, just for three quarters of an hour at St Bede's
A HELPLESS pensioner stranded in18 inches of water when his car broke down in the torrential downpour at a busy Breightmet junction, has praised local youths for their actions. Arthur Thomasson, 70, of Hollycroft Avenue, Breightmet, had been marooned
THIEVES failed to put the brakes on a Westhoughton mum's driving pleasure - because she won a new car just days after her own was stolen. Barbara Hopley, the 28-year-old flight-only supervisor at Bolton Holiday Hypermarket, was heartbroken when her Maestro
A SINGLE mother whose housing association home was flooded in Monday night's torrential downpour claims she has been left in the damp house to cope with three young children. Christina Proctor says she was given a dehumidifier and told to "turn the heating
INJURY-CURSED Leigh Centurions have started to plug the gaps by landing a leading young player on loan. Back rower Paul Anderson has agreed to join his home town team from Sheffield Eagles, initially on a five-match loan period. And Centurions' coach
BURY Council chiefs confirmed today that they have been assisting police with an investigation into alleged abuse at a care home in the town. As reported in the final edition of last night's BEN, 41-year-old former Bury Social Services employee Colin
ON holiday in Scotsdale, Arizona, one evening my wife and myself paid a visit to a local shopping mall which was open 24 hours a day. This was a fascinating experience, an insight to the American way of life. We purchased a few items which we required
A TEENAGE musical marvel who has battled against autism wowed hundreds of music lovers when she took to the stage. Leane Cartwright, aged 17, has been studying the clarinet for only two years but has already reached Grade Five. Her mum, Joyce, says it
RESIDENTS in Halliwell are "Planning for Real" to improve their neighbourhood. Planning for Real is a simple, hands-on method which encourages people to identify the problems in their neighbourhood and sort out what needs to be done to make changes. The
THE new TV show "A Star for a Night" has provided a big break for another local performer. Ryan James, 22, did not win the contest - Bolton's young singing sensation Hannah Morris made sure of that - but he says it has been a huge break for him and offers
FEW people would disagree that noise can be stressful. And some campaigners who are backing today's National Noise Action Day claim that noise is a health hazard and not enough is being done to curb the menace of neighbours who constantly row, aircraft
A MOTHER nursing her teething 14-month-old daughter claims she was ordered off a bus by the driver who said her baby's cries were a distraction. Mrs Josie Sherrington says she was astonished when the woman driver asked her to get off. She said: "The driver
