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Stories for 21 March 2005
Blackburn News
Domestic violence shocker
ONE person is arrested for domestic violence every 90 minutes in more...
Big Brother to drive the crooks out
TOWN centre CCTV systems could be combined with vehicle number plate reading technology in a bid to drive criminals off East Lancashire's roads. more...
Base bill brings Navy blues
BLACKBURN Sea Cadets could face closure if it does not find a new base after costly repairs forced the group to move out. more...
Bid to cut £4m sick leave bill
COUNCILLORS want to cut the amount paid to staff on the first day of every sick break in a bid to cut absenteeism. more...
Power to use force withdrawn
POLICE bosses have withdrawn community support officers' power to use reasonable force when they detain suspects after one was stabbed and others experienced abuse. more...
Kerb crawler curbs
TOUGH action on kerb crawlers and sending prostitutes through rehabilitation has brought about a massive drop in prostitution in Blackburn, police said today. more...
Boost for train line campaign
A CAMPAIGN group aiming to restore a rail link between Colne and Yorkshire has moved a step closer to its dream after getting a train boss on track. more...
Cook, listen, learn
AN MP who admits to being useless in the kitchen is demanding all pupils get compulsory cooking lessons in school to tackle the rise in child obesity. more...
E-mail cries for help on the rise
PEOPLE on the verge of suicide who contact the Samaritans by e-mail are having to wait for help because of the falling number of volunteers. more...
Giving life to son broke football ban
A 45-year-old Whalley man fell foul of a football banning order when he ran his 14-year-old son into Blackburn on the morning of the Blackburn Rovers FA Cup clash with Leicester. more...
Bolton Business
Call to get more women on board
HUNDREDS of women are failing to reach boardroom level in the UK because senior appointment decisions are being based on instinct rather than fact. more...
A very happy birthday
PLASTICS engineering company BARKSTON Limited has celebrated its second birthday since its management buyout with a huge increase in turnover. more...
Bolton teaches Serbians the healthy way
SERBIAN health officials who wanted to find out about health education in the UK came to a Bolton publishing company. more...
Fraser buys up oldest store
HOUSE of Fraser is to buy Jenners, the world's oldest independent department store, for £46.1 million, it has said. more...
Search for the top companies
HSBC Bank has launched its fifth annual search for the nation's best start-up companies and the entrepreneurs who run them. more...
The cost of bankruptcy
BUSINESSES are being warned to look out for the danger signs as more people opt for bankruptcy to get out of debt. more...
Bolton Bygone
'Super cannabis' super haul uncovered
10 years ago from the Evening News March 21, 1995:One of the largest hauls of super-strength cannabis ever seized in Greater Manchester has been discovered growing in a shed at a Walkden council house. more...
Shovelling coal all through the night
Alan Calvert has already printed a few words from George Glover's memories of working as a railwayman at the Great Moor Street and Plodder Lane depots. more...
On this day March 21
1685: Composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany. He sired 20 children yet still found time to compose 300 cantatas, two oratorios, the St John and St Matthew Passions and Mass in B minor. more...
Bolton Education
Special cheer for pupils
PUPILS at a Bolton school are enjoying stimulating light, sound and massage therapy thanks to a donation from a national gas supplier. more...
Bolton Leisure
Goldie Lookin Chain link up with venue
ONE of the area's newest music venues brings one of the bands of the moment - the leisurewear-clad Goldie Lookin Chain - to Preston for what promises to be an eventful night. more...
Bolton Symphony Orchestra, Albert Halls, Bolton
ONCE again, the jewel in Bolton's musical crown dazzled the fortunates who witnessed their impeccable renditions of Sibelius and Nielson. more...
Peter and Tony know the way to the top
IT'S official! Bolton hit (Is This The Way To) Amarillo has become Top of the Pops. more...
Children in celebration competition
CHILDREN are being invited to take part in a competition to celebrate National Young Disabled Person's Day on July 7. more...
NCT nearly new sale
Good quality nearly new toys, children books, baby and children's clothes, maternity clothes and nursery equipment will be on sale at Walkden Methodist Church on Manchester Road (A6). more...
Open day marks end of an era for family centre
BURY Family Centre is closing its doors after more than 30 years of offering support and care for parents and children. more...
Squids in at glass model show
THE creatures of the sea will be brought to life in a new exhibition at the Bolton Museum, Art Gallery and Aquarium. more...
Bolton News
Soccer hooligans held after dawn swoops
SEVEN police forces throughout the country carried out dawn swoops on Monday and arrested 28 people on suspicion of violent disorder after England played Wales at Old Trafford in a World Cup qualifying game in 2004. more...
How to win the generation game
WHEN Chris Evans and Billie Piper - set to star in the new series of Dr Who - married, cynics didn't give their marriage much of a chance because of the difference in their ages. And while the couple confounded those who wrote them off, Evans has recently admitted that the 16-year age gap was behind their split after three years of marriage. The Bolton Evening News takes a look at the effects a large age gap can have on a marriage. more...
Why I love life and live it to the full
LIKE many teenagers, Joanne Wharmby was not sure what she wanted to do with her life. Then a serious bus accident changed it forever - amazingly for the better. She tells Karen Stephen how she believes the injuries she sufferered were a blessing in disguise. more...
It's how you speak, not what you say
AS Britain's top politicians gear up for the forthcoming General Election, their public-speaking skills will be pushed to the very limits as they try to persuade voters with their velvet-toned rhetoric and grand gestures. Frank Elson takes a look at the art of public speaking. more...
Legend Nat is top of the pops
NAT Lofthouse has been named the greatest Bolton Wanderers player of all time. more...
Yobs facing ban from town centre
LETTERS are being sent to drunken yobs warning them they will be banned from Bolton town centre if they continue to behave in anti-social manner. more...
Help make girl's dream come true
A BLIND teenager from Bolton is appealing for help to raise money that could send her on the trip of a lifetime. more...
Prince's treasures
DISABLED Wanderers super fan Kevin Prince has spent more than a quarter of a century avidly following the exploits of the Super Whites - even turning his bedroom into a shrine to his heroes. more...
Back to drawing board in road sign wrangle
FURIOUS residents have forced Bolton Council to rethink plans to erect a 22 ft traffic sign just inches from a row of terraced cottages in a conservation area. more...
Town hall strike to be called off
A PLANNED one day nationwide strike by 1.5 million council workers and civil servants was expected to be called off this afternoon. more...
Remembering comrades
VETERANS of the Second World War have returned home from Normandy following an emotional trip to honour fallen comrades. more...
Why staying healthy may all be in the blood! by Tracey Scott
WE often assume the reason for feeling sluggish is down to too many late nights, lack of sleep or being overworked. We rarely think the real reason could be vitamin deficiency or a toxin overload. more...
Rather a bus pass than a job thanks by Alan Calvert
A MILLION older people are to be targeted to return to work under government plans to tackle the demographic time bomb of an ageing population, it says here in the newspaper article in front of me. more...
Labour official in grooming investigation
A TOP regional Labour official has been arrested over allegations that he groomed a 13-year-old Bolton boy for sex. more...
MP's anger over plans to cut police numbers
BURY South MP Ivan Lewis has met the head of Greater Manchester Police Authority over the impending loss of 19 frontline officers in the borough. more...
Special cheer for pupils
PUPILS at a Bolton school are enjoying stimulating light, sound and massage therapy thanks to a donation from a national gas supplier. more...
Dynamic duo honoured
FOR more than 50 years, Douglas Foster has been at Civic Sundays and Remembrance Sundays in Horwich. more...
Good Lord, there's no Lucan here!
INFAMOUS murder suspect Lord Lucan is alive and well - and living in Bolton. more...
Open day marks end of an era for family centre
BURY Family Centre is closing its doors after more than 30 years of offering support and care for parents and children. more...
Pupils have their cake and ice it
Children at Highview Nursery in Sharples put on their aprons to learn the skills of icing from professionals. more...
Motorway resurfacing work to start
RESURFACING work is beginning on one of the busiest motorway interchanges in the North-west. more...
Norwich players give Lofty's strip the red card
WANDERERS had an extra man against Norwich on Saturday - Lofty the Lion. more...
Amir's charity road run
OLYMPIC silver medallist Amir Khan was among 4,500 runners taking part in Sunday's Wilmslow half-marathon. more...
Children in celebration competition
CHILDREN are being invited to take part in a competition to celebrate National Young Disabled Person's Day on July 7. more...
Bottles offer to schools
PRIMARY schools across Bolton can get free sports bottles from United Utilities to mark World Water Day on Tuesday. more...
Iddon backs royalty move
BOLTON South-east MP Brian Iddon has been thanked for backing calls for new laws to allows artists to earn royalties from the resale of their work. more...
Chemical leak at cargo centre
FIREFIGHTERS wearing special protection suits were called out to deal with a chemical leak at Manchester Aiport cargo centre on Saturday. more...
Pony and trap man is injured
A MAN was injured when he was unseated from a pony and trap in Smithills. more...
Chemist shop is wrecked by fire
A CHEMIST shop near Great Lever Health Centre was wrecked in a fire over the weekend. more...
Man's death is not suspicious
THE sudden death of a 50-year-old man is not being treated as suspicious, police have said. more...
Caravan call
CARAVAN and camper van owners are being sought to take part in a forthcoming television pilot show. more...
College boost for charities
A CHARITY auction held by Rivington and Blackrod Sixth Form college raised £1,260 for cancer charities and victims of the Asian Tsunami disaster. more...
Heroin death
A 27-year-old woman died as a result of a dosage of heroin and not an overdose, as stated in the Bolton Evening News on Thursday, March 17. Jennifer Round, of Monks Lane, Breightmet, died at the accident and emergency unit at the Royal Bolton Hospital on May 12 last year. more...
Walker dies
A 65-year-old walker from Manchester has collapsed and died in the Lake District. more...
Rubbish blaze
FIREFIGHTERS were called to put out a rubbish fire at a former factory site in Little Lever on Sunday night. The fire was started on the Lorival Plastics site, on William Street, at around 6pm. more...
Car set on fire
ARSONISTS set a Mitsubishi Charisma car on fire in the car park of Clifton Marina, Clifton Country Park. Firefighters from Farnworth were called at 8.15pm on Sunday night. more...
No cash for road repairs
THE crumbling state of Bolton's roads is set to get worse rather than better, it has been revealed . more...
Thieves steal car - and sleeping baby boy!
THIEVES stole a car from a busy town centre street with a baby boy asleep inside. more...
Bolton Sport
Whaley on target again as leaders are humbled
YEOVIL 0, SHAKERS 1: For the second time this season Graham Barrow watched his Bury side deservedly take three points against the table-topping Glovers. more...
Fancy being an international football mascot?
THE Football Association have asked Bury FC to nominate one mascot for each country at the two Under-19 international matches taking place at Gigg Lane. more...
RMI simply swept away
LEIGH RMI 1, BURTON ALBION 4: Leigh RMI's six-month home drought continued as they were swept away by Nigel Clough's Burton Albion at Hilton Park. more...
RMI take it on the chin again
LEIGH RMI 1 BURTON ALBION 4: Leigh RMI took an early lead but then found themselves on the receiving end of another hammering. more...
LR in a 1-1 scrap
ATHERTON LR scrapped out a 1-1 draw with Trafford thanks to a ninth-minute effort from Paul Greenacre. more...
Struggling rivals face Good Friday showdown
WIDNES coach Frank Endacott looked forward to the Good Friday clash with fellow basement strugglers Leigh Centurions and said: "We can't even think about losing to Leigh on Friday. It's as important as a Test match for us. more...
Simon Knox calls it a day
FORMER Leigh Centurions, Bradford, Halifax and Whitehaven forward Simon Knox, has announced his retirement for family reasons with immediate effect at the age of 32. more...
Bolton Wanderers
The Big Match Verdict by Gordon Sharrock
STYLIANOS Giannakopoulos - the little man with the big shot and even bigger ambition - has fired Wanderers into Euro orbit. more...
Legend Nat is top of the pops
NAT Lofthouse has been named the greatest Bolton Wanderers player of all time. more...
Sam's verdict: Whites gear up for the 'six-pointers'
SAM Allardyce has ordered his players to switch off from the pressures of the Premiership in readiness for an all-out assault on Europe. more...
Sam tells stars to be patient
SAM Allardyce has urged his out-of-favour stars to stay "cool and calm" as Wanderers prepare for the final phase of their push for Europe. more...
Prince's treasures
DISABLED Wanderers super fan Kevin Prince has spent more than a quarter of a century avidly following the exploits of the Super Whites - even turning his bedroom into a shrine to his heroes. more...
From the other side: We'll fight to the finish - Worthington
NORWICH boss Nigel Worthington is preparing his players for the fight of their lives - to stay in the Premiership. more...
Legends Roll of Honour:
NAT is the tops more...
Norwich players give Lofty's strip the red card
WANDERERS had an extra man against Norwich on Saturday - Lofty the Lion. more...
Burnley News
Shock domestic violence figures
ONE person is arrested for domestic violence every 90 minutes in Lancashire, shock figures have revealed. more...
Big Brother to drive the crooks out
TOWN centre CCTV systems could be combined with vehicle number plate reading technology in a bid to drive criminals off East Lancashire's roads. more...
Fans held in dawn swoops
FOUR Burnley fans were arrested by police as part of a series of dawn swoops across the country. more...
Power to use force withdrawn
POLICE bosses have withdrawn community support officers' power to use reasonable force when they detain suspects after one was stabbed and others experienced abuse. more...
Boost for train line campaign
A CAMPAIGN group aiming to restore a rail link between Colne and Yorkshire has moved a step closer to its dream after getting a train boss on track. more...
Cook, listen, learn
AN MP who admits to being useless in the kitchen is demanding all pupils get compulsory cooking lessons in school to tackle the rise in child obesity. more...
Super school flooding fear
ONE of Burnley's new "super schools" will be built on a flood plain -- putting neighbouring homes at risk, residents have claimed. more...
Cancer shock revealed
MEN in Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale have been given a health scare with new figures revealing they are more likely to develop prostate cancer. more...
Window cleaner found by police in his car
A WINDOW cleaner who went to sleep in his car after finding the locks to his house superglued by a business rival - then drove to a supermarket - has been banned from driving for two years. more...
Bury News
Thieves steal car - and sleeping baby boy!
THIEVES stole a car from a busy town centre street with a baby boy asleep inside. more...
Bury Sport
Boro play-off hopes dashed
RADCLIFFE BOROUGH 0, WORKINGTON TOWN 2: Boro's play-off hopes were all but ended as UniBond Premier leaders Workington cruised to a 2-0 victory at Stainton Park. more...
Whaley on target again as leaders are humbled
YEOVIL 0, SHAKERS 1: For the second time this season Graham Barrow watched his Bury side deservedly take three points against the table-topping Glovers. more...
Clarets Sport
Ade makes impression
TWO weeks without a game - bliss. But just try telling that to Ade Akinbiyi because that's probably the last thing he needs right now. more...
Cotterill counts cost of missed opportunities
STEVE Cotterill was disappointed that his Burnley side couldn't give Sheffield United's fans more ammunition to fire at their players. more...
Break will do us good
STEVE Cotterill is refusing to pinpoint Burnley's heavy schedule for their slump in form. more...
Clitheroe News
Night kayak rescue fury
A TEAM of kayakers has been criticised after a night-time river ride in the Ribble Valley sparked a full-scale rescue operation. more...
Colne News
Boost for train line campaign
A CAMPAIGN group aiming to restore a rail link between Colne and Yorkshire has moved a step closer to its dream after getting a train boss on track. more...
Sarah's set to help
A PENDLE teenager is jetting off to the other side of the world to help those less fortunate than herself. more...
Darwen News
Residents are given new hope
RESIDENTS fighting plans to demolish their homes to make way for a flagship school in Darwen have been given fresh hope after MPs called for a halt to new academies. more...
Shock as drug user found dead
POLICE suspect a 30-year-old man whose body was found at a house in Darwen died from a drug overdose. more...
Lancashire Education
Pupils show they are real sports!
INNOVATIVE pupils have ensured they look their best when representing their school by designing their own uniform. more...
Lancashire News
Domestic violence shocker
ONE person is arrested for domestic violence every 90 minutes in more...
Fans held in dawn swoops
FOUR Burnley fans were arrested by police as part of a series of dawn swoops across the country. more...
We must not lose facility for learning
THERE was a time when Darwen had its own education department, and for a good number of years T B Willis, the Director of Education, had his office in Holker House in Railway Road. The building also housed a school clinic and school dentist. more...
True meaning of 'trauma'
ON Thursday, March 3 you published a letter written by Mr D Pratt, of Accrington, about people all too eagerly claiming for life "traumas" which some in the legal profession have made into big business. more...
Can you help with research?
I HAVE been researching my family history and I would be most interested to hear from anyone who served (or who had relatives who served) on the No 924 Balloon Squadron defences at Eastleigh in Hampshire during 1940? more...
Warmth
As I gaze from the warmth of my home, more...
Centre car park is a disgrace
WHILST I realise that Thrash the Trash is basically to counteract fly tipping, littering and vandalism, it does not excuse the council from tidying its own backyard. more...
Wheel trim causes injuries
MAY I urge - no, beg - all drivers to dispose responsibly of any discarded wire circles forming parts of car wheel trim. more...
Beware start of silly season
SPRINGTIME announced its arrival loud and clear at the weekend, with unseasonably warm temperatures and bright sunshine. more...
Lancashire Sport
Don't write us off yet
STEVEN Reid believes Blackburn Rovers can still cause an FA Cup upset when they meet Arsenal in the semi-finals next month - even though they were beaten by The Gunners on Saturday. more...
Break will do us good
STEVE Cotterill is refusing to pinpoint Burnley's heavy schedule for their slump in form. more...
Leigh Sport
Centurions drawn away in Challenge Cup
LEIGH Centurions face a trip over the Pennines in the fourth round of the Powergen Challenge Cup. more...
Simon Knox calls it a day
FORMER Leigh Centurions, Bradford, Halifax and Whitehaven forward Simon Knox, has announced his retirement for family reasons with immediate effect at the age of 32. more...
Vikinettes on the spot for Widnes
VISITORS to Widnes Vikings' website might find they are straying away from the Rugby League to look at pictures of the team's cheer leaders. more...
Struggling rivals face Good Friday showdown
WIDNES coach Frank Endacott looked forward to the Good Friday clash with fellow basement strugglers Leigh Centurions and said: "We can't even think about losing to Leigh on Friday. It's as important as a Test match for us. more...
Nelson News
Boost for train line campaign
A CAMPAIGN group aiming to restore a rail link between Colne and Yorkshire has moved a step closer to its dream after getting a train boss on track. more...
Sarah's set to help
A PENDLE teenager is jetting off to the other side of the world to help those less fortunate than herself. more...
Prestwich News
Well worth our 230-mile journey
WE recently had the privilege of watching our grandson in the musical "Oz" performed, by 80 children at Elms Bank Specialist Art College in Whitefield. more...
Rawtenstall News
'Saviour' of council is leaving
THE deputy chief executive of a council who helped to turn around its fortunes today spoke of her sadness at leaving. more...
Rovers Sport
Rovers fall short in dress rehearsal
MARK Hughes will have to weave some magic if Blackburn Rovers are to upset the form book when they face Arsenal in the semi-finals of the FA Cup next month. more...
We missed our chance
FRUSTRATED Blackburn manager Mark Hughes felt his players passed up a golden opportunity at the weekend to strike an early psychological blow in the build-up to next month's FA Cup semi-final with Arsenal at Cardiff. more...
Don't write us off yet
STEVEN Reid believes Blackburn Rovers can still cause an FA Cup upset when they meet Arsenal in the semi-finals next month - even though they were beaten by The Gunners on Saturday. more...
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Stanley Sport
Mullin keeps Stanley on play-off trail
TEN-MAN Stanley secured a vital three points in their race for the play-offs with a thrilling victory over rivals Morecambe. more...
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