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Stories for 27 July 1996
Bolton News
Cold comfort
THE good news that electricity bills are to be cut by almost six per cent, is still overshadowed by the "fat cat" salaries controversy. more...
Shame Games
AT least 10 Olympic competitors have been arrested and allowed to go free in Atlanta. more...
One standard
ACCORDING to Padraig Flynn, Social Affairs Commissioner for the EU, sexual harassment is to be standardised. more...
Nothing is surer,
One day you will be. more...
Focus on faith
SIR: I was saddened to read in (BEN, Monday July 22 ) that the Multicultural Resource Centre at the end of Deansgate is struggling to stay open. This seems a great pity in a town which has people of many different cultures and faiths within its boundaries. more...
Junior flower power
SIR: With regard to the delightful photograph of two junior members of Horwich Floral Art Junior Club and the report on their recent success at the Chelsea Flower Show, as Chairman of the North West Area of NAFAS, (The National Association of Flower Arrangement Societies),to which Horwich Floral Art Club are affiliated. I thought you may be interested to know throughout the North West Area, we have eight junior clubs, all of which have many talented young flower arrangers. The juniors in six of those eight clubs won 14 medals at the Chelsea Flower Show, a truly wonderful result for the North West Area of NAFAS. more...
These greedy MPs
SIR: Do all our greedy MPs deserve the 26 per cent rise? Most of the Tories do believe they do, as many have said they do. Even though a large number have other jobs, as directors and advisers to industry, many individuals have as many as three or four or five, so cannot spend as much time in Parliament, and out as an MP. But the sad facts are that these are the very people who are arrogantly against a living minimum wage to workers earning peanut wages, and their Tory Government who virtually acknowledge this by paying a subsidy to bad employers to the tune of over £1.1billion per year by way of Income Support. They say new Labour, new danger. But after this spell under this vicious government the public are fully aware of where the real dangers lie through past experience and will vote accordingly at the next General Election. more...
Welcome warning
SIR: The timely warning given by Robert Wilson the Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidate is very welcome. more...
Sick of sentiment
SIR: I'm sick of hearing of all this sentimentality about the good old days! more...
Hunt for 'despicable' thieves who stole couple's life savings
POLICE are making inquiries in Farnworth after two men stole an elderly couple's life savings. more...
NEW SUPERSTORE COULD END HER WORK DREAM
Pet shop boys 'will hit Jane's trade' By JENNIFER BRADBURY A YOUNG woman fears her pet shop business could bite the dust because Bolton Council has given the go-ahead for another town centre superstore. more...
Dad's £1,000 to snare thugs who blinded son
A BOLTON dad has offered a £1,000 reward in a bid to catch the thugs who attacked and blinded his son. more...
Game for a laugh? Yes, I'm going to jail
GAME for a laugh Irfan Hanif will go to jail, go directly to jail and will not pass go, today. more...
No room at the cemetery
}LEISURE chiefs in Bolton have been warned there will be a crisis at local cemeteries unless they act now. Head of landscape and amenities John Shepley told the leisure services committee that there was an urgent need to develop and extend burial grounds across the borough. Mr Shepley said that out of 646 burials last year more than 211 required new graves. The majority involved the opening of existing family graves in which up to four interments can take place. more...
Bolton Sport
Troubled Wigan back on top
Wigan 34 Halifax Blue Sox 26 more...
Leigh pay price for success
York 6 Leigh 31 more...
Edwards fears he could be sold
SKIPPER Shaun Edwards is heading for a showdown with Wigan - and it could signal his departure from Central Park. more...
Locals star in festival
THE AGMA sponsored Festival of Youth Cricket has been taking place this week with games at Urmston and at Old Trafford with more than 20 youngsters from the Fort Sterling Bolton League and the Vimto Bolton Association taking part. more...
Lancashire News
Town centre ban on shoplift suspects
SHOPLIFTERS face being banned from a town centre as part of a high-tech crackdown on crooks. more...
Police complaints figures favourable
MAY I place into context the figures for complaints against the Lancashire Constabulary quoted in your article 'Blow for Police as Complaints Rocket' (LET, July 4)? more...
Terror pair 'lurked' for victim
KIDNAPPERS who abducted a single mum are believed to have been lurking around side streets for two hours before she was attacked and indecently assaulted, police have revealed. more...
Why violence on marches?
IN most cities, including my home town of Liverpool, in the 1930s Orange marches took place once a year. more...
Phone boxes ripped out in error, say BT
EAST Lancashire's largest shopping centre was left without public phone boxes - after a communications breakdown. more...
Invite will be Sunday first for Mayor
THE Mayor of Hyndburn will be clocking up a first tomorrow when he attends a wedding at Accrington Town Hall as an official mayoral engagement. more...
Farms crisis showcase
FARMERS were urged to use the Royal Lancashire Show as a platform for revealing the hardship caused by the current crises affecting food. more...
Conference on cancer
ONE in three people will face cancer at some time in their lives. Recent years have seen campaigners raise awareness on the threat to women. But concern is growing that men are even more at risk. Every day, over 200 men die from the disease. more...
Glitz and glamour at Royal Lancs Show
THE showers came and went but failed to dampen the spirits of the thousands who flocked to the opening day of the Royal Lancashire Show. more...
Tribute from 'Angels'
WE would like to pay tribute to the late Arthur Hutchinson. more...
Lancashire Sport
ROVERS: Pearce set to return
RAY Harford expects Ian Pearce to start training with the rest of the squad on Monday, after being out of action since last November. more...
CLARETS: Omens good for Damian
DAMIAN Matthew left with the Burnley squad for Northern Ireland today determined to grab the chance that Adrian Heath has given him to kick-start a career that seemed to be flagging. more...
EQUESTRIAN: The Saturday Interview features showjumper Geoff Billington
THE SCENE is reminiscent of Clint Eastwood, in one of those famous spaghetti westerns, turning up on his mule, writes BRIAN DOOGAN. more...
CRICKET: Heyworth could hold final key
WILY slow left-armer Malcolm Heyworth could be a key figure in tomorrow's Vaux Ramsbottom Cup final at Clitheroe, when the double hopes of both Read and Barnoldswick will be on the line. more...
CRICKET: Donald warning
ALLAN Donald boomed out a rallying cry to his Rishton team-mates, after their remarkable batting collapse at Haslingden - "We are still in control of the league." more...
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