REGARDING your article in the Horwich and Westhoughton Journals, Thursday, September 6, headed "Coal depot plans blocked". The residents have NOT won a battle to stop a coal distribution yard being built near their homes. CMR (Estates) Ltd are still putting
HAVE had to write regarding the BEN on Monday September 10 about the effect of mindless vandals (for want of a stronger word) we have in the community. Cars are being torched anywhere these days and nothing seems to be done about it. The latest two that
DETECTIVES probing an armed Bolton bank robbery in which two terrified women were hijacked from their cars at gunpoint have issued fresh appeals for information. Renewed appeals follow the release on police bail of two men arrested in connection with
WANDERERS stay top of the Premiership after holding Leeds to a scoreless draw at Elland Road. "As good as anything we've done this season," Sam Allardyce enthuses as the bandwagon rolls on. MONDAY WANDERERS confirm they are only waiting for medical reports
New season set to kick off with high standards THE 2000/01 indoor tennis season kicks off this weekend with 28 teams contesting three divisions. This year some of the matches will be played at the newly-built Bolton Arena but the bulk will continue to
ST Paul's Church in Bolton town centre will be opening its doors tomorrow for an hour of prayer and refelection on the terrorist attacks in America. The church on Deansgate will be open from 1pm to 2pm.
TEXTURAL Space is a touring exhibition of contemporary Japanese textile art involving 13 artists whose work forms a bridge between art, design and architecture. The exhibition, called Japan 2001, will run at The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, from
KENNY Ball and his Jazzmen will be appearing on Friday, September 21, at the Swing Suite of Horwich RMI Club in Chorley New Road, Bolton. Entrance for the show is £8.50. On Sunday, September 23, at 8pm, the Shades Jazz Orchestra will be playing the music
HORWICH Resource Centre is offering an exciting programme of classes this term. Bolton Community College will provide part-time classes, including creative writing, arts and crafts, interior design, ceramics, picture framing, music keyboards, a childcare
STARTING on the first week in October, SRB4 Family Learning Project is running computer courses for people living in the Breightmet and Tonge Moor areas. There is also a multi media course, where people can learn to use the Internet, send e-mails, use
RESIDENTS across Edgworth and Chapeltown have been awarded a £2,066 grant for a series of maintenance schemes. Four picnic tables have been built at Turton Tower in Chapeltown Road. Three benches have also be erected at Barlow Court retirement home in
ANY companies with used cartridges from printers, photocopiers and fax machines are being urged to put them to good use. The Big Issue in the North is working with Christies Against Cancer on the "Re-think Recycling" scheme to raise funds from computer
TINY tots from a Bolton nursery will be wearing yellow and carrying balloons for charity when they join hundreds of playgroups around the country in the Meningitis Trust's Toddle Waddle -- a special event for the under fives. It will be the first fundraising
TEENAGER Laura Davies took over when her boyfriend had too much to drink and could not drive home, Bury magistrates heard. But the 18-year-old was over the limit, the court was told. A police officer saw the car being driven slowly by Davies along Castle
RADIO One DJ Mark Radcliffe invited a group of Bolton youngsters to his Manchester studio. The 42-year-old asked a group from the Bolton Lads' and Girls' Club to spend an afternoon watching him and his side-kick, Lard, present their popular weekday show
SEVERAL horses escaped likely death by just minutes following a stable fire in Farnworth. Arsonists set stables alight on land off Caldbeck Drive, just moments before the owner's horses were due to bed down for the night. Flames shot from the timber structure
A GLITTERING ceremony was staged at The Reebok Stadium last night in honour of graduates who are being urged not to take their skills away from Bolton. Apna News staged their third gala evening at the Lion of Vienna Suite giving graduates a chance to
A BURY man who battered his sister in temper during an argument had a record of losing control, a court was told. Terry Robin Owen, aged 26, of Victoria Avenue, Whitefield, had admitted assaulting Tara Wood and Rochdale magistrates, had ordered pre-sentence
THE sensitive issue surrounding incontinence will be tackled in Bolton next week -- with people being urged to seek help. An exhibition highlighting concerns of patients, staff and other health professionals, will be staged in the main entrance at the
A BOLTON finance company is shedding up to 30 staff following a takeover by a private bank. Staff at Fairmont Financial Services have been told that three-quarters of jobs in the firm's stockbroking department will be axed. It follows a buyout three weeks
GARETH Farrelly spoke today of the frustration of missing out on Wanderers' Premiership push. The Reebok midfield ace, who missed the first two games with a thigh problem, is resigned to being sidelined for two to three weeks with a hamstring injury.
take the honours I'VE never really been much of a one for Man-of-the-Match awards, although I have to accept that nowadays they've become something of an integral part of big matches, inter-league, cup-finals, and so on. It's all fairly straightforward
THE next meeting of the Halliwell Community Group (HCG) Community Forum will be on Tuesday, October 9, at 6.30pm, at Mere Hall, Merehall Street, Bolton.
WHAT a fantastic season Bolton United Harriers Men's Track and Field Team have had. Earlier in the season they travelled to Bedford to compete in the British League Gold Plate Knockout Final and came away victorious, they ended the normal season as Northern
IN March, staff, governors, pupils and parents at Bolton's The Deane School were left reeling in the wake of a damning Ofsted report which branded it as failing. The report, backed up by a further report from Her Majesty's Inspectorate, identified "serious
TODAY most New Yorkers are still walking through the cloud of emotions -- grief, sadness, shock -- which started swirling on Tuesday. But anger is now becoming the main emotion on the street, with many struggling to control their rage against a faceless
A RISE in the number of children leaving primary school for secondary school over the next three years will lead to more disappointment for Bolton parents when choosing a place for their children. The increases have prompted education chiefs to stress
TONY Kelly is leaving Clifton to become player coach at Spring View. The Wigan side have released pro Arindam Sarker, who is said to be interesting Bolton League side Egerton, but Kelly is not lined up for that position. It is understood View are on the
"HAVE you been hurt in an accident in the last three years?" I'm sick of hearing this on TV. I was even accosted on the Town Hall Square by someone from an accident company shouting to me -- "Excuse me, have you had an accident in the last three years
AS the world tries to come to terms with the American atrocity, ex-Boltonians living the the States have been sending e-mail messages to the BEN. We have also received some from people in Bolton passing on their condolences to the American people. Here
POLICE are hunting two masked men who burst into a post office armed with an axe and crowbar and stole cash. The raiders threatened staff at the Lower Brazley post office in Chorley New Road, Horwich before escaping with an undisclosed sum. Both men are
A MAN has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old schoolgirl after luring her into meeting him by using a telephone dating line. Alan Rhoden, aged 44, was convicted of all six counts of indecent assault on the girl which took place over
TIME will tell if the latest recruits to the Wanderers' Youth Academy will be the most talented to graduate through the three-year scheme. But they could be the best educated, judging by their current qualifications and the courses they will be offered
By Gordon Sharrock MONEY SAVERS Now Wanderers are banking on their keepers JUSSI Jaaskelainen, Steve Banks and world famous orthopaedic surgeon Richard Steadman have saved Wanderers a small fortune. Within days of seeing former Reebok loan star Matt Clarke
ROCK tribute band T-Rextasy will be playing at the Monaco Ballroom, Hindley, on Friday, September 21, at 8pm. Tickets cost £7.50 from 01942 255138.
THIEVES broke into a car in Halliwell and set it on fire. The back seat of the R-registration Toyota Carina had been set alight and many items were later reported stolen. Firefighters spent 10 minutes at the scene from 5.45am today.
SAMARITANS Purse, a registered charity, has asked for volunteers to collect obsolete, discarded or broken mobile phones (with chargers if available) to be recycled. They receive an average of £3 for each phone, which is sufficient to feed a needy child
SRB4 Family Learning Project is holding another "roadshow" on Saturday, September 22, from 10am to 1pm at Trinity Methodist Church Hall, Tonge Fold. People can go along and have a go on laptop computers, make birthday cards, or take a photo to personalise
THE next meeting of Bromley Cross and Astley Bridge Resident's Forum will be held on Wednesday October 3, at a venue to be confirmed, from 7.30pm. Residents are invited to attend and air their local views with police representatives and ward councillors
THE Sound of Music returns for an encore performance at the Albert Halls on Friday, September 28 -- and once again the audience gets to sing along. Following its sellout appearance in the Albert Halls earlier this year, organisers have decided to have
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a car and a motorbike were involved in a collision in Bolton yesterday. A white Toyota Corina driven by Nasim Shah, aged 37 of Crescent Road, Bolton, and a 125cc Aprillia motorbike driven by Christine Butterworth
A PHONECALL to his landlord revealed that Anthony Niles was anything but homeless. Bury magistrates were told how the 39-year-old turned up at the council's housing office where he told staff he had nowhere to live. Niles told a housing officer that he
NURSING staff are appealing for BEN readers to help trace the relatives of a patient who died in a Bolton hospital. Winifred McKenzie, aged 78, died at Hulton Hospital in Hulton Lane, Bolton, on Thursday, August 13. She was admitted on Wednesday, August
ARTY youngsters from a Bolton school will be making an exhibition of themselves as part of a city art gallery's drive to encourage new talent. The Portico Library and Gallery in Mosley Street, Manchester, is getting ready to host its annual Schools' Exhibition
WHOEVER said that libraries were no fun could not be more wrong. Sixteen-month-old Alexandra Foy from Bolton thinks they are just peachy! She is pictured attending an event called Funky Food Rhyme Time, held at Halliwell Library this week, with her childminder
"I don't think much about it," the young Wanderer says of his international future, "but I'm totally bound to England. The Republic of Ireland is totally out of it." Sam Allardyce was disappointed when Nolan, already capped at U18 level, recently missed
CAPS were doffed for a French clown in Bolton town centre -- after he broke a world record for hat spinning. Francois Chotard proved to be the main attraction in Victoria Square as the town centre became awash with red noses and silly, colourful costumes
LEIGH motorists could be fined thousands of pounds and have points put on their licence if they are caught driving with defective tyres. Police will mount a week long campaign of roadside tyre checks, starting on Monday . Representatives from tyre firms
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ARSONISTS destroyed a Vauxhall Astra Estate on Welbeck Road, Bolton, at 9.30pm yesterday.
The race, organised by Swinton Running Club, followed a route along the roads of Swinton, Pendlebury, Kearsley, Farnworth and Walkden. Despite a sunny morning, the hilly course and very strong winds combined to produce times on average three minutes slower
Gateshead glee for young athletes A SQUAD of Horwich RMI Harriers' Juniors travelled north to Gateshead International Stadium for the eighth Annual Tartan Games. At the end of the day the group finished up with three winner's trophies and two third places
WHEN a school is perceived as failing, it is a damning reflection -- fairly or unfairly -- on governors, staff and pupils. The Deane School has gone through this. Earlier in the year, official reports identified "serious weakness" in teaching. Management
THE Bolton League stage the Lyddon Trophy finals at Little Lever tomorrow. The competition opens with the two semi-finals before the final is played at about 4pm. In the first semi-final at 10am, Kearsley meet Tonge and that is followed at 1pm with the
