Lancashire | Archive | 2000 | June
A DEPRESSED "gunman" who three times asked armed police to shoot him, walked free from court -- but was told by a judge in some cities he would have got his wish. more...
A MOTHER today told of her devastation after her two-year-old daughter died of suspected meningitis. more...
HOME Secretary Jack Straw today admitted he had no "magic wand" to end English soccer violence. more...
HARD rock fan Chris Swain raised charity cash by parting with his waist-length locks -- and he hopes that smartening up will help him get a job. more...
IT'S every girl's dream for her dad to walk her down the aisle on her wedding day. more...
A 40-YEAR-OLD man was attacked and robbed at knifepoint in broad daylight while crossing parkland off Hollin Bridge Street, Blackburn. more...
THE wife of England football coach Derek Fazackerley today told how she beat airport chaos to watch England's Euro 2000 victory against Germany. more...
A CLOSED circuit TV specialist based in Swinton is the driving force behind a new technology that puts live video onto the PC desktop. more...
BRITISH Regional Airlines is reducing its low Saver fare between Manchester Airport and Guernsey to £99 return. more...
PRIZES of up to £60,000 are on offer at Campus Ventures Business Idea 2000. more...
NORTH West housing organisation Space is set to lower household bills for tenants when it rolls out plans to spend £3.4 million on more than 1,100 of its properties. more...
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IT can often be the cause of many arguments in the pub -- did the run-out or stumped cricketer push his bat over the crease before the ball hit the bails? more...
By Sue Warburton, Information Technology Adviser for Bolton and Bury Chamber's Business Link YOU arrive at work to find that your computers have been stolen. more...
THE Government and the Health and Safety Commission have announced targets to reduce work-related deaths, ill-health and injury. more...
THE Government's Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill, which governs electronic data and the Internet, will lead to increased burdens on businesses, it is claimed. more...
SOLICITORS Lopian Wagner have republished a popular booklet: Stress -- A Practical Guide for Employers. more...
FRAUD has doubled in the last 12 months, research has shown. Figures published by KPMG Forensic Accounting show 72 major fraud cases were taken to court last year. more...
FORMER Bolton Evening News reporter Steve Howarth has won top journalism awards in his role as Group Publications Editor for AMEC. more...
FIVE leading figures in the world of e-commerce will speak during a one-day e-businesses conference at Manchester Business School tomorrow. more...
A PRE-ARRANGED funeral plan has been launched by Age Concern to protect people from the rising costs of death. more...
LEISURE, SPORT, KEEP FIT BOLTON Excel, Lower Bridgeman Street, tel: 334456: 50+ bowls, 10am-12 noon; circuits, 6pm-7pm and 7pm-8pm. more...
HOME Secretary Jack Straw's announcement that MPs are to get the chance to ban hunting got a lukewarm reception from Worsley's Terry Lewis. more...
AN academic has gone into print to defend one of Britain's favourite storytellers against charges that her books corrupt children's minds. more...
TODAY the Bolton Evening News handed over the town's prescription on how to cure the National Health Service. more...
ST Thomas of Canterbury summer fair runs tomorrow from noon to 3pm. Activities include a trampoline, bouncy castle, coconut shy, penalty shoot-out, pony rides, plus games, food, and plenty of stalls. The RJ Majorettes will perform. They are in big demand for their dancing which provides fund-raising for many charities. more...
BOLTON was led a merry song and dance on Saturday as shoppers were treated to the foot-tapping skills of the Irish. more...
A DRAFT report proposing the amalgamation of Joseph Eastham High School and Little Hulton Community School, reported in Wednesday's BEN, considered extending Walkden High School. more...
TORY councillors want Bolton's leading education councillor to resign. more...
THE Guide Association, which has a vibrant programme of events in Little Lever, still has places available in each age group at Christ Church, Mytham Road. Rainbows start at five years and Brownies from seven. Girls then move on to the Guides at aged 10 or 11 where they can remain until they reach 15. Meetings are Thursday nights -- Rainbows 5.30pm to 6.30pm, and Brownies and Guides 6.30pm to 8pm -- with all the Guiders on the premises for the whole of the time. more...
ANGRY residents have ruled offside a new changing rooms plan for young footballers. more...
INTREPID Paul Rigby is taking to the ice-capped mountains to raise money for a cash-strapped charity. more...
SINGLE parents are being offered cash grants of up £1,000 to encourage them to return to their studies. more...
A BOLTON quiz league has moved its headquarters and three teams have abandoned their pub after a row with the landlord. more...
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LORD Lucan was named by an inquest jury today as the murderer of his children's nanny. They named the missing Earl as the murderer in a dramatic climax to the four-day inquest after being out for 31 minutes. more...
WHEN Mrs Susan Diggle, of Crosby Road, Bolton, sent me a photocopy of a newspaper cutting including this picture of her late father Cliff Coward working on a roof beam at the restoration of Hall i'th' Wood, asking if it was possible to print it, the photocopy standard was not good enough for reproduction. And she added: 'I am not sure when the picture was taken, or when it was printed, but your archives may tell you.' Well, that could have been a very tall order; in the 1960s many old photographs from our library at the Evening News were thrown away because of space problems. But hey, how lucky can you get . . . I found the original of this one, and here it is. The photograph of children from Ringley School watching Mr Coward at work with an adze appeared in 1968, and the method of cutting the new beams was the same as used for the original beams way back in the 15th century. more...
TWO more Bolton schools want to put up huge security fences to keep out the vandals. more...
A FIVE-YEAR-OLD boy was undergoing surgery today after suffering severe ankle injuries and a fractured skull in a road accident as he played with water pistols. more...
ADLINGTON Carnival has proved its reputation for being a leader by setting up its first ever permanent Internet site. more...
RELATIVES visiting graves to pay their respects to mark Father's Day were left distraught after spending hours locked out of a Bolton cemetery. more...
TEENAGERS will be able to gain first hand experience of life on board one of Britain's most famous warships. more...
AN eight-strong convoy of Ford Capris glided through the streets of Bolton on Saturday to provide an unusual wedding present for a car-mad couple. more...
DONATIONS have been flooding in to help St John Ambulance transport a Bolton teenager to and from Hope Hospital for life-saving kidney dialysis. more...
MOTHER-of-two Theresa Entwistle, stabbed to death by her husband who later died after crashing his car into Ryan Giggs' house, will not be buried alongside him. more...
A HAUL of dangerous drugs which could cause heart attacks, paralysis and unconsciousness if taken by the wrong people have been stolen from a medicine cabinet at the Royal Bolton Hospital. more...
AS CHRISTIE'S Hospital approaches its centenary year, a commemorative appeal, started in 1997, to raise £25 million, reaches its conclusion. more...
FUN-seekers were left crossed-legged on Saturday during the launch of Ramsbottom's Festival of Sport. more...
BOLTON pet owners preparing for their holidays have been accused of forgetting about their animals -- and now the pets are languishing in the Destitute Animal Shelter. more...
FORMER Horwich RMI cricketer Malcolm Warren was assessing the damage to his home this morning after a blaze ripped through his bedroom. more...
A MAN was seriously injured when his car exploded in flames after a suspected electrical fault. Firefighters were called to Slack Lane, opposite Bradshaw Hall fisheries, just after 2am today to extinguish the fire which had destroyed the Peugeot 205 car. more...
DELPH Hill Methodist Church Mother and Toddler Group holds sessions every Tuesday, 1.45pm to 3.15pm, in the church hall at the corner of Chorley Old Road and New Church Road, Doffcocker. There will be vacancies for more toddlers. Call in for further details. Price is 50p per family, including refreshments. Scones, too UNITY Church, 118 Chorley New Road, Bolton, is hosting a coffee morning with white elephant and cake stalls next Saturday, 10.30am to 12.30pm. Admission £1 includes coffee and jam-and-cream scones. Show music THE Ashleigh Singers are performing Music from the Shows next Sunday, 3pm, at St Margaret's Church, Lonsdale Road, Bolton. Tickets at £2 include afternoon tea. Proceeds are for the organ fund. more...
BOLTON soldiers stormed into a remote part of Scotland in a two-week gruelling exercise testing their combat skills and terrain know-how. more...
PET owners are being urged to spare a thought for their animals in the summer heat. more...
BOLTON Under Fives Forum is currently compiling a Directory of Parent and Toddler Groups who meet throughout Bolton. Information needed includes the place, days and times a group meets. So: more...
GREEN-fingered Bolton youngsters are being asked to put their gardening skills to the test by Southport Flower Show. Show organisers are challenging local under-14s to put on their thinking caps and dream up a garden invention. more...
BRAVE fund-raiser Ricky Wayne puts on his latest show at The Griffin Hotel in Bolton town centre on Sunday. more...
FAMILY and friends will be helping Jim and Dorothy Norris celebrate 50 happy years of marriage at the weekend. The golden couple, of Tonge Park Avenue, will celebrate their half century of wedded bliss with a party at Tonge Ward Labour Club with their five children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The couple were married at Worsley Road Methodist Church. more...
BOLTON'S senior volunteers are being urged to give housebound people a fun day out. The town's older people are being asked to give a thought to less mobile citizens as part of the BUPA Senior Volunteer Action Week. Those who want to help an elderly Bolton resident should contact the BUPA action hotline on 020 7643 1383. more...
WANTED: Daredevils from Bolton with a head for heights to raise money for charity. The British Lung Foundation is looking for hundreds of adventurous volunteers to make a daring parachute plunge to raise cash. No experience is needed and free training is given. For more details call 0151 228 4723. more...
CHILDREN have been blamed for a blaze at a derelict Bolton toffee factory. more...
BOLTON Conservation Volunteers will next meet on July 2 at Mortfield Lodge. Those interested in going along can contact co-ordinator Rick Parker on 01942 817302. more...
FAMILY and friends of Bolton teenager Matthew Rimmer are celebrating today after doctors finally found him a new kidney. more...
IT was amazing to see on television just how small and vulnerable the boats were, that took off our troops at Dunkirk during the Second World War. Although this was a retreat, it was also a victory, because of the courage of those who sailed to and fro across the channel under such heavy bombing. Losses were great, but not as great as the courage of those who participated. more...
YES, this was indeed "Walking in the Light of God" as well over 1,200 people from various churches marched round Bolton town centre. People carrying different types of banners, flags and singing to the music of well-known and not so well-known songs from the march for Jesus song sheets. more...
IN response to Rebecca Craven's recent pro-fluoride letter. I wish to make public the following facts. more...
I AM astonished to read the bleating of Brian Derbyshire who is unhappy that BEN readers have been critical of his support for the Tories. more...
HOW many people do we know that say -- "they couldn't pay me enough to come off benefits", or -- "if I had to pay my own bills, I would need £300pw"? Don't get me wrong. more...
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FLUORIDE is undisputedly a poison -- more poisonous than lead and only slightly less poisonous than arsenic -- and Dr Rebecca Craven, Consultant in Dental Public Health, Wigan & Bolton Health Authority, wants to put it in our drinking water. She wants our children and grandchildren to drink it in their bottles. more...
FURTHER to the recent adverse publicity regarding Bolton College, we as students following Access in Social and Community Studies, would like to bring to the attention of the public, that the positive aspects of the teaching standards far outweigh the negative press the college has received. more...
ON Wednesday last week, I received a copy of BEN from my brother in Bolton (I also received another from my uncle), telling me of the mystery street featured in Coronation Street. more...
WE were delighted to see a picture of my grandparents in the paper on Saturday June 10, Mr Jacob Higgins and Lottie of Elsie Street, featured in the "Looking Back" article. more...
I READ with amazement that the new tactic from the Euro MPs is to print pictures of "rotten teeth" on cigarette packets, supposedly to try to warn people of the terrible effects of smoking. Sorry, I could understand rotten lungs, failed hearts and cancerous mouths and throats but teeth -- I think not. more...
I'd like to comment on the two letters in tonight's BEN about the speed limit on St Peters Way. more...
STORM remain at the top of the Tuesday table after beating Top Scorers In Pants 2-1 and Whitefield Athletic a comfortable 5-0. more...
WITH the league at the halfway stage, CCS Jolly Carter and Monteraze are joint-top of the Summer Thursday Premier League on 16 points each, with Jolly ahead on goal difference. more...
DARCY Lever CC A had to concede 180 runs to Sharples Park in the second round of the Finestyle Windows but Darcy scored 191 runs in the first innings of which they were on a time limit of 20 minutes. more...
OF the current seven midweek open age Manor Fives leagues, championship number two was won in dramatic fashion. more...
TEENAGE swimming star Adam Thorpe did it the hard way when he won a British title. more...
TWO of Bolton's leading swimmers were record breakers at the recent Northern Counties ASA Swimming Championships. more...
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WALSHAW stretched their lead at the top of the table but only after a topsy-turvy clash with rivals Clifton. more...
CHAMPIONS Tonge put themselves back in title contention with a nail-biting victory over fellow title contenders Westhoughton. more...
FORMER Leigh coach Ian Millward is joining the Wales backroom team for the World Cup. more...
GUDNI Bergsson's future remains in the balance as decision time looms for the Wanderers club skipper. more...
THE reported flood of top line Aussie stars to these shores poses an interesting question or two. more...
CRICKETERS defied threats of legal action to stage a protest on land they have been banned from using. more...
RESIDENTS who fear for the safety of children playing in houses earmarked for demolition claim the neighbourhood is unsafe. more...
SWELTERING summer sun brought up to 15,000 people flocking to Todmorden to make the town's agricultural show one of the best on record. more...
A TRAUMATISED teenager who mugged a neighbour with her friend has been sent to prison for 12 months. more...
NUISANCE families will be asked to sign written contracts promising to behave as part of a new scheme targeting troublemakers. more...
A SPANISH driver who jammed his lorry under a railway bridge in Burnley, caused trains to be cancelled and hours of traffic chaos. more...
A SPANISH driver who jammed his lorry under a railway bridge in Burnley, caused trains to be cancelled and hours of traffic chaos. more...
HEADING-for-the-sun East Lancashire holidaymakers found themselves stuck in the heat at Manchester airport at the weekend as more than 75,000 people were caught up in long delays after the national flight control computer crashed. more...
A DRUG addict who followed an elderly woman from the post office, turned up in her front room and helped himself to her pension is behind bars for a total of 21 months. more...
A TINY baby who arrived a week early helped to spark a fund-raising weekend. more...
BRAVE Susan Walsh (pictured) took the plunge by having her head shaved, and raised more than £150 for charity. more...
DANCING duo David and Dorothy Ainsworth (pictured) have jived their way to success for the second year running at a prestigious competition. more...
Friends in Bereavement, Day Hospital, Care of the Elderly Unit, Burnley General Hospital, 7pm. more...
TEENAGE vandals went on a wrecking spree at Darwen Golf Club, stealing flags and even digging up one green in a fortnight of attacks at the Winter Hill course. more...
CONSERVATIONISTS had to cancel the opening of a nature reserve after rare plants were trampled by Acid House revellers. more...
A MOTHER today told of her devastation after her two-year-old daughter died of suspected meningitis. more...
NUISANCE families will be asked to sign written contracts promising to behave as part of a new scheme targeting troublemakers. more...
IT'S not enough for all the people concerned with closure after closure of East Lancashire factories to be saying "Tut, tut -- what a shame." more...
FORMER councillor Adrian Shurmer has become the scapegoat for the soaring cost of the Hyndburn investigation being conducted by auditors by Robson Rhodes, now expected to reach £70,000. more...
DESPITE assurances from Jack Straw that crime figures are down, street crime seems to be on the increase, particularly around Blackburn town centre. more...
HAS Burnley Council boobed over the transfer 'sell off' of council houses (LET, June 14)? more...
OH, what a morning I've had. After getting up, to my utter dismay, I found that the milkman had failed to deliver any milk again, so no cornflakes for me. more...
CAN anyone tell me how the so-called sport of fox-hunting became an "industry?" more...
NOW that Euro 2000 is with us, it could be forgiven for me leaving the country, or Europe, completely. more...
MAY I thank the person who handed my shopping bag, which I had lost, to an assistant of Morrison's store in Blackburn on June 7. more...
I AM looking for a penfriend. I am a student of St John's Grammar School in a suburb of Achimota in Ghana. more...
DEVASTATING -- and even unfair -- though it would be for England to be kicked out of Euro 2000 because of the bloodshed of hooligan fans, UEFA's expulsion threat might just be the thunderbolt jolt the thugs need. more...
TABLE topping Nelson's charge to regain their Transco Lancashire League title continued with bowler Khirrum Nazir taking six wickets to see off the challenge of Rawtenstall. more...
IT'S not often that a return of five runs and bowling figures of 4-42 make someone an outstanding candidate for the man-of-the-match accolades. more...
Darwen's form matched the weather -- scorching. more...
WORLD superbike champion Carl Fogarty has admitted there is only a 10 per cent chance he will race again this season. more...
DEXTER Fitton led Clitheroe into the semi-finals of the Jennings Ramsbottom Cup with a brilliant century against Baxenden. more...
CLAUDE Henderson's dogged resistance with the bat paved the way for an East Lancs victory in a low scoring contest with Haslingden. more...
THE Transco Lancashire League is without a representative in the last four of the inter-league challenge trophy after the last remaining three sides bowed out yesterday. more...
BURNLEY will not sign a new goalkeeper this summer as Paul Crichton continues as the established number one at Turf Moor. more...
WATFORD central defender Mark Williams has again been linked with a possible move to Burnley. more...
BLACKBURN Rovers are poised to swoop for Middlesbrough striker Brian Deane to spearhead their challenge for a return to the Premiership. more...
MATT Jansen is in hot water with Blackburn Rovers after being handed a three-month ban by the FA for breaking a curfew while on duty with the England under-21 squad. more...
NORWEGIAN full-back Stig Bjornebye, who came on for his country during their Euro 2000 defeat to Yugoslavia last night, has confirmed that he won't be returning to Liverpool now his loan spell with Brondby has come to an end. more...
CLARETS captain Steve Davis was on hand to start a sponsored walk which saw tiny tots toddling their way round a housing estate near their nursery. more...
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