Stories for 20 January 1998

Bolton Business

College calls for governors

BOLTON College is encouraging local professionals, business people and industrialists to join its governing body.  more...

Entwistle aids young black businesses

LOCAL entrepreneur John Entwistle passed on his tips for business success to a small group of Manchester businessmen.  more...

Local site for new bank centre

THE Royal Bank of Scotland is considering opening a service centre in the Bolton area. A spokesperson confirmed today that they had a specific site in mind and were involved in negotiations. They had been looking in Bolton for a year or so.  more...

Bolton News

Inspectors praise courteous school

RELATIONSHIPS between staff and pupils have been highlighted as strength of a Bolton primary school.  more...

Doctors praised for saving meningitis baby

GRATEFUL Bolton parents have praised medics who saved their baby's life after he developed meningitis.  more...

No mass medicine

SIR: When will the powers that be believe us, the 'majority', when we say we do not want mass medication with fluoride.  more...

Solution's simple

SIR: I have been resident in Bromley Cross for 14 years, living immediately behind the Eagley Mills complex. I am a frequent user of the Eagley Way/Hough Lane highway.  more...

Afternoon at music school

THE next recital in the Bolton School Arts Centre Chamber Music Series is on Sunday, February 1, at 3 pm is a joint one featuring Lorna Rushton and Jacqueline Davies.  more...

From the BEN files

25 YEARS AGO  more...

Magician's assistant left hanging in the balance

AN illusionist shocked shoppers when he levitated his sister in a busy Bolton mall. Budding Bolton magician Glenn Scott, 21, performed the trick for the first time entertaining crowds at The Market Place. Teenage sister Adele was put in a trance - and then balanced 4ft off the ground on the tips of three sharp-looking swords.  more...

Council bills lone mum £800 for house fire

A SINGLE mother is facing a repairs bill from Bolton council for nearly £800 after fire damaged her council house bedroom. On New Year's Day, Lesley Richardson of Weeton Avenue, Breightmet, woke up to to find her gas wall heater on fire. She claims that the incident was due to a faulty heater, because it had not been serviced last year.  more...

Head sends children home

AROUND 370 pupils at St James's CE School in Farnworth were sent home today when the heating system broke down.  more...

Tough new blitz on TV licence dodgers

TELEVISION licence detectors are beginning another blitz on Bolton in a bid to catch more dodgers.  more...

Keep 24-hour service, plead handicapped

VULNERABLE elderly and handicapped people have handed a 150-name petition to Social Services begging them not to scrap the 24-hour care service at three Bolton High Dependency Units.  more...

Church trio may work as a team

THREE Walkden and Little Hulton churches are considering plans to merge into a team ministry.  more...

Quick panto for music chief Rufus

RUFUS Bennett has been named as musical director with Leigh company St Joseph's Players.  more...

Keep police station

SIR: I read with alarm the suggestion that Greater Manchester Police Authority are considering the possibility of closing, or re-locating Howell Croft North Police Station.  more...

Stormy period for BT repairs

APPALLING New Year weather left BT struggling to carry out 10 times more repairs than usual in the Bolton area.  more...

Happy New Year concert

OPERA 74 and Bolton Symphony Orchestra's popular New Year concert was a sell out this year.  more...

Anti-Barratt campaigner hit by blaze

A GARAGE run by former Birtenshaw land campaign leader David Innes has been wrecked by fire.  more...

Comfortable nights at Arabian show

THERE'S a special attraction for St Peter's AODS pantomime this year - new seats.  more...

Police seek crash driver

POLICE are investigating after a car drove off after a collision with an elderly pedestrian.  more...

Good eggs

THE Bethel Crowd are staging their pantomime, Humpty Dumpty, this week. It opened last Saturday and runs to this Saturday, excluding Thursday.  more...

Caring professionals

OUR main picture of Dominic Gannon on the front page tonight says it all. We see a smiling, healthy baby who is bringing joy to his parents.  more...

Daily poem

What a wonderful feeling of joy and anticipation,  more...

World tunes in to college's candid camera peepshow

AN empty room at Bolton Institute is becoming a hit with computer buffs.  more...

Tory boss leaves his wife for secretary

THE leader of Bolton Council Conservative Group Norman Critchley has left his wife for his assistant secretary at Egerton Cricket Club.  more...

MPs call urgent meeting in bid to save jobs

NORTH West MPs are holding an urgent meeting at Westminster tonight in a bid to save jobs at Fort James in Horwich.  more...

Delays daily

SIR: I read with interest about two firms selling Christmas trees on the A6, which only happens about two weeks out of 52.  more...

Action over asthma needed, says Titley

BOLTON'S Euro MP, Gary Titley, has made a passionate plea for action to help asthma sufferers.  more...

Day care charges 'will be crippling'

PARENTS have hit out at "crippling" charges which social service bosses plan to introduce in day care centres in Bolton.  more...

Cash for charity

SIR: On behalf of the Rotary Club of Turton, I would like to thank the people of Bolton for their generous contributions to our annual Christmas Sleigh collection.  more...

Keep pets healthy

SIR: I am writing to you from the Pet Health Council, regarding the letter headed: Revolting mess, (BEN, January 8), concerning possible infection due to dog faeces (Toxocara).  more...

Keep our police stations

WELL he would say that wouldn't he! Stuart Render, manager of Greater Manchester Police's public relations, insists that the axing of police stations is good news for the people of Bolton.  more...

Bolton schools bid for share of £250m bonanza

BOLTON is bidding for a cash bonanza to repair run down schools.  more...

Middlebrook smashes national box office records

BOLTON'S newest cinemas may boast the latest films with the biggest stars, but the complex itself proved the biggest blockbuster of them all... National box office records were smashed at the Middlebrook Warner Cinema Village at the weekend and telephone lines crashed under the "overwhelming" demand. A staggering 16,000 people visited the complex in Horwich in just three days - making it the busiest Warner cinemas at the weekend in the whole country.  more...

Heading for red

SIR: Now that the holiday period is over, may I thank the BEN for publicising our request for furniture for the needy, and the many kind people who donated their surplus domestic furniture. Many of the recipients would say it was the best Christmas present they received. May I also apologise if, because of pressure of demand on our service, anyone was inconvenienced as we were not always able to keep up with our scheduled programme.  more...

Bolton Sport

Updated reorts will appear here

Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.  more...

Cold comfort for struggling Shakers

By Neil Bonnar BURY will face up to the cold, harsh reality of First Division life this week instead of flying out for a sunshine break.  more...

Leigh make a four player swoop

LEIGH Centurions today strengthened their squad in preparation for the new Division One campaign with a four-way transfer swoop.  more...

Wigan have a double date

JOHN Monie will split his squad in half as Wigan Warriors play two games on the same afternoon.  more...

Battle plan

COLIN Todd has asked his players to fight for their lives in the remaining 15 games that will determine their Premiership fate.  more...

Lancashire Business

New chapter in life of Riley

A NEW team is in the frame at a snooker firm as it prepares to join forces with another company.  more...

Changes at top level

THE parent company of an East Lancashire garage has announced changes at the top.  more...

New posts for MD

BRENDA Rudge, above, managing director of the Lancashire Evening Telegraph and Blackburn and Burnley Citizens, has been appointed to two new posts.  more...

Ship's tonic

CRUISE ship passengers will enjoy a breath of fresh air on their voyage thanks to a Burnley firm.  more...

Lancashire Leisure

FIVE YEARS AGO: Traders' raiders plea

SHOPKEEPERS in Blackburn demanded tougher sentences for robbers in a letter to Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke.  more...

TEN YEARS AGO: Safety alarms call

A CALL for East Lancashire paperboys and girls to carry personal alarms was made as the search for a missing newsboy continued.  more...

Lancashire News

Half million pound cuts on way

CUTS of more than £500,000 will be made in the budget for Blackburn with Darwen's museums and leisure service over the next six months.  more...

Fame in name only: Local folk who share with the stars

Tuesday Topic, with Christine Rutter  more...

From anarchy in the UK to big time in the USA

IT TOOK 16 years for Burnley band Chumbawamba to conquer the pop charts. Following their phenomenal success both in this country and the US, singer Danbert Nobacon talks to SIMON DONOHUE about six months of stardom.  more...

Search proves fruitful

OUR Story Search reading scheme is proving a big hit with pupils in the Upper Junior class at Heathland College, Accrington.  more...

Road signs misleading

THE Highways Agency and construction teams should be congratulated for the speed and efficiency in which the work on the M65 extension was carried out, with minimum upheaval to the local road network  more...

Talks sinking would be a triumph of evil

WITHIN days of hope for lasting settlement in Ulster being rekindled by the London-Dublin "something for everyone" blueprint put to the Stormont multi-party talks, the craving of the province's ordinary people for peace is shattered as bloodshed threatens once more to replace the already-fragile dialogue.  more...

No respect for people or environment

UNTIL January 9, two mature trees stood on the car park of the Blackburn Register Office and added a much-needed dash of colour when they were in blossom during the summer. That was until the council decided to smash them to pieces with a JCB in order to make way for a landscaped garden!  more...

Why did we not have this policy years ago?

THE NEW get-tough policy by Blackburn with Darwen Council over tenants behind with their rent may seem harsh - when officials are set to pounce on debts as small as a £1 and evict those owing as little as £105.  more...

Councillors couldn't win

R EGARDING the special meeting of Burnley Council on January 7 and your editorial views, I attended as a member of the public and as a Lowerhouse resident.  more...

Straw must go

THOSE crooks involved in the drugs trade - the pushers, those who 'cut' drugs and risk lives for bigger profits, foreign regimes who use the drugs trade to buy arms to oppress their people - must all be delighted with Jack Straw's decision to keep things as they are.  more...

Council gives us no hope

REGARDING your report "Village shops cheered by rates-slashing move" (LET, January 7), I see that Local Government Minister Hilary Armstrong has realised that small shops are worth looking after, as is the service they provide.  more...

Police boss promises blitz on thieves

CRIMINALS who give the impression that they are Burnley's hardmen cry like babies when they are locked on their own in a police cell, a local force boss has revealed.  more...

'Euro' is out of our hands

AS we embark on another year, it is as well to warn of happenings if a single-currency - the 'Euro' - is foisted upon us.  more...

It's a disgrace!

Heritage expert RON FREETHY's personal view on plans to close the Lewis Textile Museum in Blackburn  more...

MPs may rue Euro assumptions

WE are hearing a lot from MPs about when we will accept single European currency. Are they assuming the referendum they promised us will go the way they want? After being ripped off by joining the Common Market and decimalisation and being told what to do by the European Parliament and Courts, Joe Public may decide enough is enough and vote against monetary union - that's if we get chance to vote.  more...

More strike threats as cabbies reject council peace package

THE ROW between Blackburn and Darwen taxi drivers and the town hall looks to have reached stalemate with more strikes and go-slows on the horizon.  more...

Mayor out

IF Pendle Council are so desperate to save money, why not get rid of the Mayors, along with their helpers, free luncheons, expensive cars and chauffeurs, etc?  more...

Joanne and Stephen wed in double quick time

A RECTOR pulled out all the stops when a parishioner asked him to arrange a wedding ceremony with just three days notice.  more...

Cash squeeze over debtors

TOUGH new rules are being introduced in a bid to cut the number of council tenants who owe money to the town hall.  more...

Town hall urges staff to tell all

A SCHEME protecting town hall staff who blow the whistle on wrongdoing has been given the thumbs-up by councillors.  more...

Soccer ace Rachel offered America placing

ENGLAND women's soccer international Rachel Brown is exporting her skills to the United States where she has been awarded a university scholarship combining degree study with coaching and playing football.  more...

Fire-ravaged mill was not insured

OWNERS of a four storey mill which was reduced to rubble during a blaze today revealed the landmark building was not insured.  more...

Ethnic welfare groups clash

A ROW has erupted between two influential ethnic minority organisations in Blackburn.  more...

Old folk: Cops quiz man

A MAN was today being questioned by Burnley police about attacks on two elderly women.  more...

Lancashire Sport

ROVERS: Hodgson has Crespo in his sights

ROY Hodgson has not made a multi-million pound bid for Parma's Hernan Crespo a priority.  more...

CLARETS: Waddle hands trial to ex-Owl Pringle

CHRIS Waddle hopes to give a trial to former Sheffield Wednesday youngster Alan Pringle in tonight's Turf Moor reserve game against York City.  more...

SNOOKER: Taylor still knows tricks of trade

DENNIS Taylor has blasted suggestions that he is heading for the snooker scrapheap.  more...

  
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