Anyone who has the misfortune to go in there knows they have to wait! On the other hand, the efficiency of the Lee Lane post office in Horwich, which is threatened with closure, is a much speedier option. Do the people who close our post offices ever
I AM writing to you out of frustration over the lack of support that has been provided to my mother by the council and the police regarding anti-social behaviour of young people in her area towards her. I looked at recent articles written about fighting
I READ the letter from Mr Stuart Chapman with eye-boggling incredulity (November 1). He describes as "morally abhorrent" any law to protect employees from being forced to work on Christmas Day. Furthermore, he adds that Government should ''get out of
YOUR newspaper does well to oppose the Royal Mail's massive closure plan for sub post offices. The propaganda supporting the closures is flawed in the case of the Sharples Avenue, so, as no doubt, it will be in other cases. My 21 years as a postal worker
ONE of the joys of the job is coming across old photographs like this. At one time our photographers were simply sent out to take pictures of things they saw. This is why our picture library contains a great many images of men mending roads and the like
THE Marshall Cup continues to hold a fascination for Looking Back readers. Several people have been in touch since we had a query from a man in Worcester who had a medal with Marshall Cup, 1914, printed on it. Ray Marks, a long-time member of the Bolton
From the Evening News, November 7, 1903: IN connection with the Bolton & District Football Association, Mr W. Gilgryst of Manchester gave a lecture to referees on Friday evening at the Woolpack Hotel, Deansgate. Mr T. Y. Ritson occupied the chair
A WOMAN has been left in agony after her hip replacement operation was cancelled for the third time in 14 months. Fifty-nine year-old Teresa Hopwood is furious that the Royal Bolton Hospital has postponed the operations, on the second occcasion she was
ALLAN Duckworth has assured Reebok office staff and all Wanderers fans that he will see through the "Red mist" and will be rooting for the Whites when they face Liverpool in the last 16 of the Carling Cup. The Burnden Leisure chief executive is an Anfield
PHILIPPE Leonard, the former Belgium international who was top of Sam Allardyce's wanted list a fortnight ago, is unlikely to be joining Wanderers - even when the transfer window opens in January. Sources close to the ex-Monaco defender suggest that,
A SECOND local NatWest branch is celebrating success in a national service competition. Staff at the bank's Westhoughton branch have been given the Customer Driven Branch award, decided by scores given by customers in a questionnaire. The Farnworth branch
CHILDREN at The Gates Primary School in Westhoughton will be drinking to the success of one of their classmates - after she won them a year's supply of filtered water. Louise Robson, aged 11, came out top in a competition to design a logo for a new teaching
A REMEMBRANCE Day service will take place at Little Lever tomorrow to mark the men and women who gave their lives in past wars. Ex servicemen and women will meet at 10.45am at the war memorial at Market Street, where they will be accompanied by a brass
BURY-born film maker Gordon Yates, who has won many awards for his work, will be showing his film, The Natural Heritage of the Pennines, at Bolton RSPB Group's next meeting. The meeting is at Smithills School, Smithills Dean Road next Thursday at 7.30pm
A 33-year-old man has been banned from driving for 18 months after he pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified. Alex Milic, of Gilnow Grove, Bolton, also pleaded guilty to driving a vehicle without insurance. He was given a six month community rehabilitation
A 32-year-old man pleaded guilty to breaking into a school and stealing £600 worth of computer equipment. David Edward Hesketh, of Greenroyd Avenue, Top o' th' Brow, Bolton, admitted to smashing a window at Withins School and entering into the ICT suite
WANDERERS are at home to Southampton on Saturday and you can catch all the latest news and match reports from this file. Chief Soccer Writer Gordon Sharrock will be reporting exclusively for this web site. He will be filing team news, a half-time report
A RENOWNED educationalist was the guest speaker at Withins High School's annual awards evening. Sir John Jones, headteacher of Maghull School in Liverpool, encouraged youngsters to achieve their goals. He is currently acting as an adviser to the school
STUDENTS at Harper Green School celebrated their achievements at a presentation evening held at the Albert Halls, Bolton. Guest speaker William Brown, headteacher of Plodder Lane Primary School, presented certificates and prizes to past pupils and those
ONE in eight children gets less sleep than that recommended for adults, a survey has revealed. An adult can get by on seven and a half hours sleep a night but children need more, ranging from 13 hours for a two-year-old to 10 hours at 10-years-old. Research
CHARITY champion Simon Dobson got on his trike and raised much-needed money to help young people in Farnworth. Simon, aged 23, of Bolton Road, Stoneclough, proved a disability is no handicap by cycling 45 laps of the Reebok Stadium in a three-wheeled
HOPES that pensioners in Bolton could be protected from big council tax rises look set to be dashed after Town Hall bosses realised the scheme would cost the borough hundreds of thousands of pounds. Council chiefs had initially welcomed a change in the
A KEARSLEY couple on board the virus-hit cruise liner Aurora returned home this week and said: "We enjoyed our holiday". Michael Wheeler even declared that he believed the bug-infested ship was "probably the cleanest boat in the world at the moment".
A PRIVATE hire driver has been found not guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl. The jury at Bolton Crown Court took two and a half hours to find Wayne Darcy not guilty yesterday of the charge of raping the teenager in his cab on April 19 this year. Mr Darcy
BOLTON employees are among the worst in the North West for "cyber skiving" non-business Internet surfing. A study by security solution provider Cyber Protect reveals that employees in the town spend an average of five hours a week surfing the web on the
I WOULD like to say thank you to Graham Oxtoby and Janice Biggar for organising a reunion of George Tomlinson School Veterans. How considerate they were to organise it at Farnworth Vets Club, knowing I was barred from Farnworth & Kearsley Labour Club
ON Tuesday, October 28, my father tripped and fell in St Mark's Street, Great Lever. Having shattered his knee cap, he was unable to move. Thankfully, two complete strangers (a passing motorist and lorry driver) came to his assistance by calling an ambulance
AS part on its Anti-Social Behaviour Bill now going through Parliament, the Government wants to give police new powers to disperse groups of two or more, and to introduce a fast-track curfew law giving police the right to remove unsupervised under-16s
YOU may remember that we established that the 1970s Little Lever Carnival Queen featured on this page recently was Ann Marshall, formerly Longmire, who now lives in Bray, Maidenhead, Berkshire. Ann has been in touch to say that her late father, Tony Longmire
1656: Edmund Halley, astronomer who first identified the comet that bears his name, was born in London. 1674: The blind English poet John Milton died at the age of 65. A student once wrote in an essay on Milton: "He got married and wrote Paradise Lost
DANNY Livesey might have tasted victory in just one of the nine games he has played for Notts County but his loan switch has been a real winner. Notts' boss Billy Dearden was delighted to secure the services of the 18-year-old defender for a third month
LOFTY the Lion has launched his assault on the Christmas pop charts with the release of a CD. The Bolton Wanderers star has become the first football mascot to release a disc as he aims to top the festive charts with his new song Let's Rock This Town.
WHAT we think Ground: Friends Provident St Mary's Stadium. Nickname: Saints. Manager: Gordon Strachan. Current position: 10th. Leading scorer: James Beattie - 8 (7 Premiership). Last six Premiership: Manchester City (h) lost 2-0; Blackburn (h) won 2-0
ROBERTO Rojas will never live down the shame of the most infamous "dive" in soccer history. But the coach of Sao Paulo, who take on Wanderers in a friendly at the Reebok next Saturday, refuses to let the scandal affect his stewardship of the Brazilian
SATURDAY: JAY Jay Okocha conjures up a magical performance as Wanderers win at Spurs for the first time in 44 years and register their first away win of the season. Kevin Nolan gets the only goal of the game but it is Okocha who inspires the win with
JAY-JAY Okocha's domination of the Spurs game prompted some observers to describe Wanderers' first away win of the season as a "one man show". There is no denying the captain thoroughly deserved the accolades but to dwell only on his breathtaking display
THE Prestwich-based Independent Travel Club has expanded from sports travel to take in the retail market. And owner Tony Welch, aged 40, who launched the business five years ago, has also taken his company into the United Co-op Travel backed Freedom Travel
A PAN of food left unattended on a cooker sparked a small fire in the kitchen of a house in Dickinson Court, Horwich, at 7.20pm yesterday. The man who lives in the house suffered from the effects of smoke inhalation. A neighbour suffered shock. Both declined
A 21-YEAR-OLD man accused on Friday of murdering his five-week-old baby daughter has denied the allegation. Andrew Ashurst, of Formby Avenue, Atherton, pleaded not guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to murdering Leah Marie Aldridge who died on Christmas
A 16-YEAR-OLD girl claims she was abducted by a gang, raped and released in Bolton town centre in an 80 minute ordeal. The victim says she was grabbed by a group of Asian men as she walked along Blackburn Road, Darwen, last Sunday at about 11pm. She claims
A FORMER maintenance engineer who worked around asbestos for more than 30 years died from a chest infection as a result of a lung tumour. Frank Green, aged 78, almost certainly developed the tumour after coming into contact with asbestos in the course
THE funeral of a diver from Bolton who died as he explored a wreck off the coast in Scotland is to take place on Monday. David Hickson failed to return to his diving vessel while a party of divers were exploring a number of First World War German and
A COUNCILLOR will be donning a chef's hat and apron to enjoy a taste of Bolton's Meals on Wheels service. Cllr Madeline Murray, Bolton Council's executive member for social services, will be swapping her office for the kitchen on Monday for National Meals
A SANTA Claus look-a-like has been invited to join the big Christmas lights switch-on after appearing in the Bolton Evening News. Organisers of the event were so impressed with the appropriately named Vic Sleigh that they immediately tracked him down
A BOLTON primary school has been named as one of the top ten state primary schools in the North-west. Walmsley CE Primary School has been ranked the ninth best school in the region by the Sunday Times Parent Power publication. Parent Power editors looked
LOFTY the Lion has launched his assault on the Christmas pop charts with the release of a CD. The Bolton Wanderers star has become the first football mascot to release a disc as he aims to top the festive charts with his new song Let's Rock This Town.
'Traders must back' security cameras Security cameras under threat without traders' backing by Edward Chadwick THREATS to remove CCTV cameras from Westhoughton town centre remain real, traders have been warned ahead of a crisis meeting. Cllr David Wilkinson
A CORONER issued a stern warning to a dog owner about muzzling his pet German Shepherd after it bit a elderly man, causing his death from blood poisoning. Ron Mooney, aged 75, died from septicaemia days after being bitten on the chest and back by a dog
