i D J Hunt and others said in the BEN that, despite getting more from this Government than they could ever dream of from the Liberals or the Tories, they are not going to vote Labour at the next election. They are going to hit them where it hurts, or,
I READ in the BEN of a sex shop due to open in the near future. Why not? This venture into ladies' frillies and naughty, enhancing ways to improve your love life -- what's wrong with that? This spurious Christian Snowball Trust makes a natural act (why
do not use From: "Johnston, Peter" <peter.johnston@bolton.gov.uk> >To: "'ben_editorial@lancashire.newsquest.co.uk'" < >Subject: Letters, BEN Tuesday April 4th 2000. >Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 23:13:32 +0100 Beavering away on the tenor line
I REPLY to the letter which appeared in the letters column on April 6, from Linda Robinson of Georgina Court. She must be unaware of the background to what she describes as "hideous lanterns". The lanterns were installed following a successful bid to
READING Political Focus in the BEN the other evening, it would appear that only Terry Lewis and Brian Iddon, of our local MPs, voted against the Government's policy on pensions. If this is true, then the MPs who could not bring themselves to vote for
I AM somewhat concerned that censorship might be afoot in the BEN. A few weeks ago you published some of my letters, then suddenly stopped in the last fortnight. I have sent in three at least and they have not been printed, yet they are very topical and
Tony Blair Mr X has every right to complain REGARDING the letter by William Davies (What a way to treat Fred!). Mr Davies seems to imply that the man whom I shall refer to as Mr X has no right to complain about Fred because he wasn't born in the town
THIS is the baby proud mum Barbara Stebbings thought she would never cuddle after a five year battle against cancer. Little Kyle's birth has amazed the medical profession after Barbara conceived despite intense cancer treatment for Hodgkin's Disease.
WANDERERS come from behind to beat Walsall 4-3 and move to within five points of Huddersfield. Michael Johansen keeps his nerve to convert a penalty and Bo Hansen and Jimmy Phillips stretch the lead to 3-1 before Walsall hit back. Hansen bags a second
JUSSI Jaaskelainen's international comeback should be confirmed next week when he is named in the Finland squad for the friendly against Poland in Helsinki on April 26. The Wanderers' in-form keeper ran the risk of jeopardising his future selection for
SAM Allardyce is having his high hopes of a Reebok revival shattered by bitter memories of past disappointments, fears over the future and a pricing policy some supporters are no longer prepared to tolerate. The Wanderers' boss, justifiably proud of his
A MARE was rescued by a team of firefighters after becoming stuck astride a tree trunk in Boothstown. The mare, called Molly, was hauled off the tree by Eccles firefighters using ropes and a saw yesterday afternoon. The animal was exercising in a field
POLICE investigating the murder of a 43-year-old man at a house in Prestwich will continue to quiz a teenager who was arrested in Hartlepool on Wednesday evening. Officers at Rochdale were granted permission to increase the detention period. The badly
THE new guidelines for paramedics, which mean patients getting to hospital within 30 minutes, sound hopeful on the surface. The target times are vital because the first hour of treatment for people with heart problems is critical. The new targets are
OUR pictures tonight of a happy Barbara Stebbings with her baby son Kyle do much more than simply provide a smile of satisfaction at a happy conclusion from a sad story. Barbara had conceived in spite of intensive cancer treatment in a five-year battle
A SECOND World War 'blackout' may have placed the entire country under a cloak of darkness, but it didn't stop "diamond" couple Bob and Nellie Ross from finding one another. Two years later they were married and this week they celebrated their diamond
A COUNCILLOR has called for cyclists to be banned from Bolton's busy ring road. Planning and environment committee councillors confirmed that they would not be getting rid of controversial cycle lanes on Moss Bank Way. But Tory Cllr John Hanscomb wanted
TWO remarkable Bolton schoolchildren are to have their journey through life chronicled by a BBC television documentary. Gemma Roberts and Ryan Sheridan are among 19 seven-year-olds featured in 7 UP 2000 -- a series charting the lives of the children every
PUPILS who are being taught the three Rs in a church are praying for a new school. They are hoping that some divine inspiration will help them find a new home to carry on in the new Millennium. Trustees of the school are trying to raise a £30,000 deposit
A 'WHO'S Who' of Farnworth organisations, groups and premises has been created together with a kiosk designed to help people 'network'. Cllr Noel Spencer was on hand at New Bury Community Centre to launch both the Farnworth Directory of Community Groups
for some good fun nTHANK you very much for the £50 Mark One voucher you sent me, from one of your competitions in the Bolton Evening News. I always enjoy entering your competitions and have also won a Womble's video from your paper for my children. I
THE latest farce to go before the courts is to be brought by an IRA bomber, who is claiming £50,000 compensation for injuries sustained in an attempted break-out from prison. What did he really expect: kid glove treatment? The fact that a prison officer
I AM writing to comment on the edition of the Bolton Evening News dated April 10. As I was glancing through the paper I found the "Our Vision" pull out and was disgusted that in the "Dates for Your Diary" section I could not find the March for Jesus.
I WOULD like to thank you for a very enjoyable weekend we spent at the George Washington Golf & Country Club, Washington, which I won in your recent BEN competition. We went this past weekend and it was a very nice way to celebrate our wedding anniversary
People will be selfish, greedy, boastful and conceited; they will be insulting disobedient to their parents, ungrateful and irreligious; they will be unkind, merciless, slanderers, violent and fierce; they will counter the good; they will be treacherous
A 'blight' of steel birds... I WOULD like to invite your readers of this page to take some time out and travel up to Adelaide Street, off St Helens Road, Bolton, to have a look at the monstrosity erected near our shop: a) To marvel on how clever the council
I WRITE with regard to your "sensationalist" headline "Fury over sex aids store" (BEN, April 7). This headline in itself is outrageous, as is the photograph of the model wearing, as you put it, "saucy underwear". It may well have slipped your notice that
While I understand the need to edit some letters, others are, perhaps, best left out completely, rather than they be edited. One such letter was the one published, in which I nominate Fred Shawcross as a candidate for elected mayor. The unedited letter
about Tories I WOULD like to ask your correspondent, M Schmidd, how often does he receive his orders from Tony Blair's Tower to publish such rubbish about the Conservative Party? He forgets this Party has guided the country through thick and thin and,
Brian Iddon MP Ruth Kelly MP I AGREE with your correspondent Mr G Brown (BEN: March 13) where he congratulates Brian Iddon on his dedication to his work as an MP. Some time ago he went to great trouble to furnish me with details regarding Scottish devolution
WANDERERS hopes for a First Division play-off place were hanging by a thread today. Huddersfield Town's shock win at champions' elect Charlton at the Valley last night stacked up the odds against Sam Allardyce's men. The Wanderers, of course, will not
THE depth of Leigh Centurions' back-up squad will be tested to the full at York tomorrow. Coach Paul Terzis may be without as many as seven of his first choice squad for the game against the Northern Ford Premiership strugglers. Craig Dean and Mick Higham
25 YEARS AGO CHANCELLOR Denis Healey, presenting his fourth Budget in little over a year, today put the blame on Britain's economic ills on the scale of pay increases. And he warned of increased taxation to tackle the problem. There is a risk that the
LEISURE, SPORT & KEEP FIT SUNDAY DEANE Leisure Centre, Junction Road, Deane, tel: 656033: aerobic with swim, 4pm-5pm; women only swim, 5pm-6pm; public swim, 9.30-3pm; weights room, 9-10pm. FARNWORTH Leisure Centre, Brackley Street, Farnworth, tel:
WHILE stories of victimised children are, sadly, not uncommon, the idea of head teachers needing an anti-bullying policy to protect teachers is. Highlighting bullies, whether they are in the staffroom or the classroom, can only be to the good in the long
A BOLTON teenager whose face was stamped on by attackers has come out his coma. David Miller, aged 17, of New Lane, Breightmet, is now able to hold conversations with his parents as he lies in his hospital bed at Blackburn Royal Infirmary. He was kicked
A YOUNGSTER who was rushed from school to hospital, died before he could be transferred for specialist help. A Bury inquest heard how four-year-old Jack Nealon, who suffered from Angelman's Syndrome, which left him unable to walk or talk, was taken ill
A BURY woman involved in a car crash with two articulated lorries is in a comfortable condition in hospital after undergoing an operation on a broken arm. Kathryn Sandler, 43, of Wilton Drive, was trapped in her VW Golf for 45 minutes after one of the
THERE are rules and there are daft rules, and our story tonight about the elderly Farnworth woman who faces a four-week wait for her pension qualifies for the latter category. Because she is confined to a wheelchair and has to rely on her son to take
FOR a way of lifting the spirits, the achievements of 13-year-old climber Rosie Shaw are hard to beat. The mountaineering marvel is a member of the junior British Climbing Team and has just won the indoor North-west girls' 13-15 climbing championship.
MAGISTRATES have issued a warrant for the arrest of a man who was pictured by a BEN photographer trying to break into a car. Shaun Paul Dagger, 26, of Gloster Street, Bolton was charged with vehicle intereference on March 9 and admitted the offence when
THE imminent Easter school holidays is likely to be memorable for some local families, for all the wrong reasons. Every year, children die or are maimed from incidents in and around railway lines. Passengers, too, are often on the annual casualty list
Graphic images to deter children who dice with death on our railway lines By Gayle Evans TRESPASSERS and vandals are dicing with death as they risk their lives on three local railways, a Railtrack inquiry has revealed. Atherton's Crow Nest Junction, Kearsley
A BRAVE woman who was hit by gunshot as she saved two young children during an armed bank raid in Westhoughton has been praised by police. And her name is to be put forward for a bravery award. Susan Hunt, aged 57, of Bolton Road, Westhoughton, told how
