AN INDEPENDENT travel agent has again reached the finals in the travel industry's most prestigious awards. Bolton-based St Andrews Travel is in the final of the Agent Achievement Awards, appearing in three separate categories. The firm is nominated for
Discrimination against women is "deeply ingrained" in British society, according to a report into the near 20 per cent gender pay gap which has been published published . Interim findings of the Women and Work Commission also showed that female workers
A HOSPICE has come second in a list of the country's 100 best companies to work for. St Ann's Hospice, in Peel Lane, Little Hulton, scored high as a happy place to work, where job satisfaction meant more than a large salary. Only 34 out of 298 employees
I WAS disturbed to see from E Crittenden's letter (Boton Evening News, February 9) that someone else with a long term illness needing regular hospital treatment is also having to suffer as a result of Government policy. There are also patients who, after
1796: Napoleon married society beauty Josephine de Beauharnais. 1917: The Russian Revolution began. 1932: Eamon de Valera became president of the Irish Free State. 1937: George Orwell's examination of life during the Depression in the north of England
THE Looking Back item about Bolton's boxing heritage has prompted a couple of interesting responses. There was no year on the Bolton Boxing Stadium bill I reproduced, but Mr Stanley Davies, of Crompton Court, Little Lever, has done some detective work
I have more on the recent item about the "Tin Trunk" cinema remembered by a former Boltonian in Harrogate. Mr Derek Shepherd, of Grove Street, Bolton - a local tram expert - has written to Mrs D. Wilkinson with these memories: "I was born in a house on
10 years ago from the Evening News March 9, 1995:JOHN McGinlay's last-gasp goal against Swindon Town put Bolton Wanderers on the crest of a Wembley wave. He booked Wanderers a date with Liverpool in the Coca-Cola Cup Final on April 2. The hero of Burnden
A WOMAN was given oxygen by firefighters after a fire in the kitchen of her home in Kearsley. Firefighters were called out to Melville Road at 10.50pm on Tuesday night when a grill pan set alight. The woman refused hospital treatment.
GAS replacement work will cause delays for motorists in Breightmet for the next two weeks. Temporary traffic signals have been installed in Bury Road at the junction with Penrose Street down to the junction of Kennedy Street. Workers from Transco have
A BLACKROD road will be closed for up to a week from Sunday as work is carried out to install traffic signals at a busy junction. Station Road will be closed from the A6 Blackrod bypass to the access road next to the rail bridge, and from the bypass to
OASIS are to release their first album in three years this May. The group will return on May 16 with new single, Lyla, taken from the band's new album, Don't Believe The Truth, which is set to follow two weeks later on May 30. Noel Gallagher said he believed
PETER Kay's Pheonix Nights has missed out on the honours to find the top 30 most popular comedy shows. In a poll for Red Nose Day, The Office beat classic comedies like Fawlty Towers and Blackadder to be named the funniest TV show of all time. The Office
A MAN was hit with a baseball bat after two men smashed his car window and threatened him with a knife. The 38-year-old man was travelling along Bury New Road, Prestwich, in a silver Toyota Carina when he was rammed from behind by a blue Audi. After stopping
TRAVEL in Bolton and Wigan is to receive a £14 million boost after regional transport chiefs agreed to match government investment of £7 million. The government cash injection is to compensate the towns for not being included in the plans to extend the
BOLTON Wanderers boss Sam Allardyce is being urged to give his players the MMR jab to protect them from an outbreak of mumps. The Health Protection Agency North-west has written to the Wanderers warning them mumps threatens to decimate their squad, unless
ACTOR Christopher Eccleston fights off the murderous advances of an Auton in the first episode of the new series of Doctor Who. The Little Hulton-born star faces the aliens in the first story, "Rose", which is believed to be scheduled for BBC1 at 7pm
A MOTORCYCLIST was killed when he was thrown from his bike after a crash with a lorry and hit by two other cars on the M61 motorway on Tuesday night. The rider, a 44-year-old man from Bolton, crashed into the rear of a DAF tractor unit and was then struck
AN annual St Patrick's Ceili Dance will be held at the Festive Hall, Bolton, on Saturday, March 12. The event is organised by the Bolton branch of Comhaltas, one of the many worldwide branches which continue the Irish tradition of music and dance. The
POLICE are hunting a man who tried to drag a teenager into a car as he walked alone along a Bolton street. The 15-year-old boy was walking down Parkfield Road, Great Lever, when he spotted a man leaning against a nearby wall. The man tried to speak to
WANDERERS are reported to have stolen a march on three Premiership rivals in the race to sign Malaga defender Juan Jesus Juanito. Sources in Spain claim Sam Allardyce has offered the highly-rated 25-year-old a contract in an attempt to beat off competition
PHIL Brown and Neil McDonald will have a watching brief at Highbury when Arsenal bid to keep their Champions League hopes alive. The Wanderers assistant manager and first team coach will study every aspect of the Gunners' performance as they gather intelligence
Bolton 7 Lytham 10 Bolton took the opportunity of a friendly to field a less experienced side. Simon Brown was back at prop for Bolton, after a lengthy absence due to work commitments and his bullocking runs gave Bolton a dimension that has been missing
BOLTON Mets suffered a 26-14 defeat away to West Bank Swan of Widnes on Saturday. Even though the Mets started the game with only one sub, they dominated the opening quarter and loose forward Shane Cobbin was first on the score sheet for the Mets. West
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I MOVED away from Bolton over 30 years ago. Whenever I return, the town centre is either about to be changed, or has just been changed. Last month my daughters, aged 26 and 28, visited their grandmother here, thoroughly enjoyed shopping in the Market
ONE in three children are living in poverty in Bolton, according to a report. The startling statistic has been revealed by End Child Poverty, a coalition of some of the country's leading child charities. Figures show that in the borough, Farnworth has
A TRIO of Bolton girls are getting in shape for a charity jungle trek that will lead them up Borneo's highest mountain. Ruth Allan, Rebecca Gainard and Hayley Cunningham are joining Bolton Wanderers legend, Paul Jones, to raise money for the Children
A FREE Fairtrade tea and coffee morning is taking place in Horwich on Saturday. The Horwich Fairtrade Town Group is inviting people to join the town mayor, Cllr Kevan Helsby, at the Horwich Resource Centre at 10am. The event marks the end of Fairtrade
A CONTROVERSIAL £1.5 million ballet about the life of Diana, Princess of Wales has been performed for the first time in Manchester. Diana the Princess, created by Danish choreographer and friend of the Royal Peter Schauffus, portrays the Prince of Wales
KYLIE Minogue and Sir Richard Branson's favourite Cuban song and dance extravaganza is to visit Manchester.Lady Salsa was first performed at the 2000 Edinburgh Festival and became an instant hit and since then, it has toured the world. Now it is set to
OWNER David Whelan turned his focus back to Wigan's Barclays Premiership promotion push after reaching a compromise with Greater Manchester Police to allow games to go ahead at the JJB Stadium for the remainder of the season. GMP claim they are owed £300,000
Businesses in Bolton are invited to the launch of a project to encourage companies to make best use of broadband internet. Connected Services will take place from 11am until 3pm at the Reebok Stadium on Friday. It will feature a speech from Andrew Walker
ITV put its recent ratings woes behind it today by unveiling a 57 per cent rise in profits in its first full-year results as a unified company. The broadcaster said a combination of rising turnover and lower costs since it was created by a merger of Granada
VEHICLE component manufacturer Teleflex Automotive has awarded a major European order to Remploy Automotive. Under the deal, Remploy Automotive is assembling and supplying more than 105,000 pedal box units which are fitted to vans built by Vauxhall, Opel
A WOMAN was ordered to hand over her car keys after being threatened by a gang of masked men with a knife as she stopped to use a cash machine on Tuesday night. The four men confronted the terrified woman as she was getting money from the machine outside
EL-HADJI Diouf, may not be around to enjoy the fruits of his labours, but he will at least have the satisfaction of knowing he has shown Wanderers the way to Europe. The Senegal star's matchwinner at Eastlands - his seventh goal in 21 appearances - nudged
SIX wards have been closed at Salford's Hope Hospital due to an outbreak of diarrhoea and vomiting. One elderly care ward and five medical wards are affected by the norovirus.
THE third and final of a series of comedy nights will take place at Bolton School's Arts Centre on Saturday, March 19. Comedians Mike Wilkinson, Duncan Oakley and Dominic Woodward will be the stars of the show with Bill Wooland compering. The evening
PROFESSIONAL photographer and birdwatching holiday tour leader Keith Offord from Shropshire is in Bolton on Thursday to give a slide talk for Bolton RSPB Group at Smithills School, Smithills Dean Road, at 7.30pm. The talk, Namibia, Land of Contrasts,
BOLTON School's joint production of the Broadway musical West Side Story is proving to be a roaring success as it plays to sell-out audiences this week. Leonard Bernstein's hit show is being staged in the Arts Centre and features a cast of 70 pupils from
VIDEOGAME fans in Bolton are expected to form queues in the middle of the night to buy the latest handheld console. Gamestation, on Newport Street, Bolton, will be open from midnight on Thursday, to sell the Nintendo DS. The console is the latest handheld
DETECTIVES have been granted more time to question a man in connection with the rape of a 19-year-old woman. A 22-year-old man from Atherton will be quizzed by officers until 8pm on Wednesday night. It follows the rape of the teenager after she left Barbarella's
HORWICH Town Council will honour two of its most prominent citizens by presenting them with an award for long service. The Horwich Civic Award will be presented to Ken Burns and Dougie Foster at the council chamber, in the public hall on Monday, March
A FREE Fairtrade tea and coffee morning is taking place in Horwich on Saturday. The Horwich Fairtrade Town Group is inviting people to join the town mayor, Cllr Kevan Helsby, at the Horwich Resource Centre at 10am. The event marks the end of Fairtrade
A 23-year-old could become Bolton's youngest ever MP if he can defeat David Crausby in his Bolton North-east constituency. Trainee teacher Adam Killeya is among the candidates unveiled by the Liberal Democrats to contest the General Election as they bid
MOBILE phone users are being urged to help police crack the soaring trade in stolen handsets. Police are asking all users to mark the phones with ink which is invisible to the naked eye but shows up in UV light. Officers across Bolton are being equipped
PUB regulars stripped down to their birthday suits to produce a calendar for the hospital that treated one of their friends. The 12 men at The Swan Hotel, Tottington Road, Bury, stripped off to raise money for the Tony Reay Memorial Fund. Father-of-two
CRIMINALS who hoard the proceeds of crime are being warned by police that they face having their fortunes wiped out. Detectives who head Greater Manchester Police's economic crime unit have vowed to make use of new powers to seize assets from convicted
BOLTON will be putting on its red noses this Friday for a bit of Comic Relief. The town will be fundraising once again for Red Nose Day with residents and workers across the borough trying to help underprivileged people in Britain and overseas. A host
A FIRE at Adlington Community Centre last month, which left the building severely smoke damaged, has forced the postponement of a show due to take place there. New roof tiles and curtains have been put up and electrical checks have been completed but
STAFF paperwork, including salary slips and National Insurance numbers, have been found abandoned at a disused factory. Files containing private information on people who worked at the Lorival factory in Little Lever were found by workmen. The files hold
RICARDO Vaz Te returned to goalscoring form as a strong Wanderers Reserves line-up overcame Liverpool on Tuesday night. The Portuguese starlet, whose appearances for the second string have been limited since he broke into the first team squad in December
IN an age where goalkeepers are coming under increasing scrutiny - few stand up to examination quite like Bolton's 'Mr Dependable' Jussi Jaaskelainen. Single-minded, reliable, the 29-year-old flouts many of the characteristics normally associated with
SAM Allardyce is hoping his happy Wanderers can be one-hit wonders against Arsenal on Saturday. The Whites are brimming with confidence ahead of the FA Cup quarter-final shoot-out with the Gunners, but Big Sam reckons they must make home advantage count
CUP football is all about results - and Wanderers have quietly been negotiating their way through some tricky ties to claim their place in the last eight of the competition. They may not have grabbed the national headlines, but Sam Allardyce's men have
KEVIN Nolan is calling on Reebok fans to show the Wanderers "foreign legion" what the FA Cup is all about. The former England U21 midfielder reckons some of Sam Allardyce's imports are questioning the importance of the competition after just 16,000 turned
GARY Speed has some ghosts to lay to rest in the FA Cup - and in particular, with Wanderers' quarter-final opponents Arsenal. The veteran midfielder reached the final of the grand old competition on two occasions with Newcastle United, only to suffer
As the winter rounders leagues draw to a close, both the John Smith's Farnworth League and the Halliwell League were reduced to four matches on Sunday. Mother's Day may have influenced Darcy XI and The Beer Monsters to concede their matches, but those
EXCELLENT news that health bosses in Bolton believe they are winning the battle to stop people smoking. The Bolton Evening News launched its Stub it Out campaign last October when we called for a ban in the town on smoking in pubs, restaurants and municipal
HARDY Mill School won the Bolton Primary Schools Handball Championship to take the Bernard Lynam Cup. They came up against 11 other schools in the competition at Withins School and beat St Andrew's, Ramsbottom, 4-1 in the final. In the semi finals, Hardy
Girls' Division Swimming: Bolton Junior Town Championships: Helen Scott broke the Bolton junior 50 metres breaststroke record in a time of 36.50. The freestyle team and the medley team also won their events. Overall the team won to become Bolton Town
Westhoughton Lions U8s 28 Halton Farnworth Hornets 20 An aggressive defensive performance saw the Lions run out clear winners against a team they had twice drawn with this season. Player of the match, Nathan Davies-Hinds, shot over on the first attack
LEIGH'S failure to deal with set-pieces cost them dear again. Their defensive frailties handed their opponents victory and Carlisle, following three successive defeats, were delighted to get back on to the winning track. Two of the three goals came from
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A MOTHER says she had to clean the hospital room where her son was recovering from the MRSA superbug. Olwyn Doherty, aged 55, claims she had to wipe the floor and the sink of the side ward at the Royal Bolton Hospital because it had not been cleaned for
NEW car parks are to be built at Bolton train stations in an effort to entice commuters back onto the rail network. Transport bosses have announced a scheme which could see work start on new car parks at Kearsley and Hall i' th' Wood stations by the end
HOLIDAYMAKERS are being told to take llighter luggage on flights from Manchester Airport - to prevent injuries to baggage handlers. The move by airport chiefs is due to new health and safety guidelines aimed at avoiding baggage handlers from having to
HUNDREDS of smokers in Bolton will quit for good on Wednesday to mark national No Smoking Day. Last year, calls made to the Bolton Fresh Focus team, dedicated to helping people give up the habit, went up by 70 per cent during the week of No Smoking Day
HE was in such a hurry, he gave his mother a huge surprise - but now, safe and well, he gives his mum the thumbs up. Little Samuel was born 11 weeks premature without any warning, stunning his mother, Rochelle Gilsenan. He popped into the world as his
A BUSINESSMAN who might have been sleepwalking the night he battered his elderly father to death, broke down in the dock as a pathologist revealed the catalogue of injuries sustained by the victim. Jules Lowe put his head in his hand and sobbed as the
FORGET Rottweilers or Dobermanns - when farmer David Proudlove wanted guard dogs he chose two young lads with attitude. Lawrence and Leroy the llamas are already feeling at home on Mr Proudlove's poultry farm, making sure his 8,000 hens can range free
DETAILS of how Bolton's towering tribute to sport will be erected have been unveiled by the sculpture's designers. The golden 85ft Spirit of Sport statute will go up on the De Havilland Roundabout, next to the Reebok Stadium. Workmen will build an internal
WHEN a boxer turns preacher, the temptation is to resort to headlines such as "Bible basher", but the Reverend Brian Branche deserves much more than that. He talks to Frank Elson about his life and new book THE Reverend Brian Branche is a thinker. He
Six wards have been shut at Salford's Hope Hospital due to an outbreak of diarrhoea and vomiting. One elderly care ward and five medical wards are affected by the norovirus. The hospital was also hit by an outbreak at the start of January. For full report
BARLOW Andrews, the Bolton-based firm of Chartered Accountants with an office in Darwen, has recently advised on a major management buy-out in London. Eurowines Limited imports and distributes wines from across the world to hotels, restaurants, supermarkets
