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MANCHESTER commercial law firm Beachcroft Wansbroughs has appointed Leila Porter as a partner in its corporate team. Porter specialises in mergers, acquisitions, disposals, company reorganisations and private equity deals.

TRAVEL agency Althams will be promoting British coach holidays at its Brackley Street, Farnworth branch on Thursday. A representative from Alfa, the tour operator, will be in the store to answer any questions. The new summer 2005 brochure will also be

PROFIT warnings issued by listed companies in the North-west last quarter were down by more than two thirds on the previous quarter, according to the latest report from Ernst & Young. During the second quarter of 2004, from April to June, just five

TOWN hall red tape is stifling enterprise, according to a survey of firms in the west of Bolton. More than half of the firms questioned in the study said they were unhappy with Bolton Council services and demanded a reduction in bureaucracy and regulation

I WAS appalled this weekend, after returning from holiday, to find out that plans were afoot to relocate Dunscar War Memorial, so that a new development can take its place. The War Memorial, when erected, was most central to Dunscar, Egerton and Eagley

THERE is presumably a spring in the footsteps of staff now that Bolton Institute has met all the criteria to become a university. Looking through our files, I see there was a major campaign as long ago as 1986 for Bolton Institute of Higher Education

THE anguished mother of a runaway 15-year-old girl said on Wednesday: "I fear a knock on the door to say my daughter is dead." Janet Gouldson fears her missing daughter Louise will be lured into the sex trade and will die on the streets of Bolton. The

FORMER students, staff and governors from a Bolton school took a trip down memory lane on Tuesday. Members past and present of High Lawn School met up to celebrate the school's 50th anniversary. Old class photos were on show, and a booklet was available

A FUN Day will be held at the Central Baptist Church, Snowden Street, Halliwell, on July 17, between 2pm and 5pm. The Bolton Copshop helped to fund the day.

CHILDREN will get the chance to unearth pieces of history this weekend as Bolton marks National Archaeology Weekend. The event, organised by Bolton Council's Culture Department, will take place at Hall i'th' Wood Museum. Visitors are invited to take part

CHILDREN will get the chance to unearth pieces of history this weekend as Bolton marks National Archaeology Weekend. The event, organised by Bolton Council's Culture Department, will take place at Hall i'th' Wood Museum. Visitors are invited to take part

HORWICH residents have one week left to return applications for Horwich in Bloom. The town council's annual gardening competition is aimed at improving the street scene in Horwich, and all applicants will receive free spring bulbs. Six categories are

A MAN accused of 50 sex offences, including 11 counts of rape, has appeared in court. Raymond Nunn, aged 54, of Captain Fold Road, Little Hulton, was accused of the offences -- against children of different ages over a number of years -- at Salford Magistrates

MARIO Jardel, who still has a year to run on his contract with Wanderers, has gone missing. The errant Brazilian striker was expected back for pre-season training but failed to show and has not made contact.

THE Reebok door is still open for Youri Djorkaeff. The World Cup winner, who was inspirational in the second half of last season, is not happy with the terms of a new one-year contract but Wanderers assistant manager, Phil Brown, says there is still a

LES Ferdinand has promised to use his wealth of experience to help his new sidekick, Michael Bridges, recapture the form that made him one of the most exciting young strikers in the land. "Bolton have picked up an awesome striker with great ability,"

THE top seeds in the BSF Tennis League Championships were never really extended in the singles events on Tuesday night. In the men's singles, Bolton Arena based number one seed John Lister was much too strong and experienced for Markland Hill's Anthony

WHO plays - and when Section A: Mon: Rose Lea v Rupert Ladies A (Frank Nicholson); Tue: Darcy Lever C&SC B v Darcy Lever C&SC A (Dennis Foulkes), Nationwide XI v Rupert Ladies B (Graham Palmer); Wed: Aspull Ladies XI v Little Lever XI (Bob Moffat

Section A P W D L Pt Little Lever XI... 10 9 0 1 18 Rupert Lds A... 9 9 0 0 18 D/Lever C&SC A... 10 8 0 2 16 Nationwide XI... 10 6 0 4 12 Heaton XI... 10 4 1 5 9 Heaton CC A... 10 4 0 6 8 Aspull Lds XI... 10 3 1 6 7 D/Lever C&SC B... 9 2 0 7 4

Division One Furniture Dixon Shield Quarter Finals: The Brierfield 188 Dale XI 181; Lower Pools XI 273 Gaskell Ladies 158; Queen Anne XI 173 Darcy Lever C&SC C 234 Blackburn Shield Quarter Finals: Brownlow Ladies 141 The Bowling Green XI 169; Capital

ST BERNARD'S RC Primary School has been named as one of the region's top fund-raising schools for its part in a world record breaking poetry event. Pupils at the Ladybridge school in Bolton raised £170 as part of the Words Worth Reading event organised

A HORWICH charity is putting the final touches to its fifth annual summer fair, being held on Saturday. Horwich Visiting Service is a befriending scheme that involves volunteers visiting elderly, disabled and lonely residents within Horwich and Blackrod

SIXTY-one apartments could be built on the site of a licensed club in Walkden. Developer Wainhomes Ltd has submitted blueprints to demolish licensed premises and function rooms at The Oaks on Manchester Road. The proposals, which cover 0.7 hectares of

BOLTON'S police chief has welcomed the news that extra officers could be on their way to the town. Chancellor Gordon Brown pledged that 20,000 new community support officers will be patrolling the streets of the UK by 2008. The increase of 16,000 CSOs

FEWER children will have to go to hospital - and those who do will spend less time there - as children's services across Greater Manchester are transformed. Out-dated children's services in place for more than 30 years will be replaced with more community

BLUSHING bride Sam Lilley lived every girl's dream when she went shopping for wedding dresses in London's swanky designer boutiques. Sam, aged 23, from Hollins, Bury, and her fiance Darren Foster, aged 31, from Radcliffe, were voted for by millions of

MANCHESTER City star Trevor Sinclair has been arrested for allegedly assaulting his wife following a row at a party. Police were called to the winger's home in Lower Withington, Cheshire, in the early hours of Saturday. Sinclair, aged 31, was arrested

A CAMPAIGN to try to prevent impatient motorists colliding with farm vehicles is being launched in the North-west Free car stickers are being distributed urging drivers using narrow country roads to "Slow Down for the Summer". The North West Air Ambulance

TICKETS for Bolton Arena's first night as a comedy club venue are still available The event takes place on July 24 and tickets, which went on sale on July 1, have been flying out of the door. Comedy Store comedians Dave Haddingham, Junior Simpson and

BOLTON over 45s interleague team turned the tables on Bury to win the return match between the two sides at Elton Vale SC. Bury scored a total of 70 in their first innings, with Sandra Rothwell 13, Jennie Holt 12, and Chris Yates 18 topping the scores

DEBENHAMS has appointed 30-year-old Darren Kay as the new manager of its Market Place store. Mr Kay will take over from Nigel Stopher, who will take charge of the company's Gloucester branch. Prior to being appointed as Bolton store manager, Mr Kay spent

BOOTLEG tobacco and alcohol is costing Bolton's corner shops and convenience stores more than £500 a week each, according to new research. Estimates from the survey, carried out with more than 500 retailers for trade magazine Independent Retail News,

PLEASE can we say thank you through your newspaper to all the people of Tonge Moor who came and supported our Summer Fair last Friday. Our school has to buy very special equipment for our students and we are very grateful to everyone who came. David Fearnley

I HAVE watched the super programmes with the Andy Prior Big Band, on Granada television, and thoroughly enjoyed them. The recent edition with Peter Kay, was especially brilliant. What a great singer Peter is! I would suggest that Peter joins Andy on one

I HAVE listened to the councillors and politicians, watched the TV adverts, and read the plethora of colour brochures and literature, and it strikes me that there is an extraordinary amount of time, effort and expense spent on promoting a regional assembly

I REFER to Cllr Hayes' rant in his recent letter published July 7. If he thinks that Labour and Conservative voters would want their respective groups to power share with the Lib Dems, he must be daft. I have to say that our own supporters made it quite

1789: The Bastille, the state prison in Paris, was stormed by the citizens of Paris and burned to the ground at the start of the French Revolution. 1858: Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst was born in Manchester. 1867: Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel first demonstrated

From the Evening News, July 14, 1904: THERE was strong evidence at the opening of the Halliwell Ward Labour Institute in Darley Street on Wednesday evening that the Labour party has a zealous band of workers. Mr J. Edge said the object of the promoters

WANDERERS will kick off their programme of pre-season friendlies on Wednesday against Dundee United. The match (ko 7pm) will be played at the County Ground, Leyland - the headquarters of the Lancashire Football Association - and has been made an all-ticket

WANDERERS' armchair fans will be able to watch their heroes SIX times in the first half of their fourth successive Premiership season. Wanderers kick off their live Sky Sports programme at home to Liverpool on Sunday, August 29 (ko 4.05pm). Other games

A SHARP-eyed reader rang about the picture in Looking Back which showed dancers at the Bolton Palais de Danse around 1957. He wondered why the people in the photograph were dancing when the band members did not appear to be playing. Well, I cannot answer

ST BERNARD'S RC Primary School has been named as one of the region's top fund-raising schools for its part in a world record breaking poetry event. Pupils at the Ladybridge school in Bolton raised £170 as part of the Words Worth Reading event organised

A 23-YEAR-OLD woman suffered minor injuries after her car hit the central reservation of the the clockwise M60 near Trafford Park at 5.45am today. The carriageway was cleared at around 6am.

A NURSING home is holding a summer fair on Saturday. Residents, relatives, staff and friends of BUPA's Mill View Nursing Home, Bridgeman Street, Bolton, will enjoy stalls including tombolas, games, refreshments, plants and home-made goods. The fair takes

FORMER students, staff and governors from a Bolton school took a trip down memory lane on Tuesday. Members past and present of High Lawn School met up to celebrate the school's 50th anniversary. Old class photos were on show, and a booklet was available

THE Rotary Club of Bolton has received an honoured guest to its club meeting. The Rotary International President of Great Britain, Gordon McInally, visited Bolton as part of his tour of Rotary Clubs in the area. He spoke of the recent successes of the

A MAN has appeared before Bury magistrates accused of hitting a woman as a result of which the child she was holding banged its head on a door frame and needed hospital treatment. Scott Myatt, aged 37, of Fern Street, Ramsbottom, denied assaulting the

A MAN has appeared in court accused of racially aggravated behaviour towards a taxi driver. Oliver Owen Faughey, aged 51, of Woodward Close, Bury, denied using threatening and abusive words and behaviour towards Mahmood Arif likely to provoke violence

HOUGHTON Weavers' singer Tony Berry opened Daisy Hill Cricket Club's first summer fete at the weekend. He was joined at the club's ground in St James Street by Daisy Hill Festival Rosebud Dominique Haslam, left; Pageboy Joseph Kay, and Princess Toni Smith

TICKETS for Bolton Arena's first night as a comedy club venue are still available The event takes place on July 24 and tickets, which went on sale on July 1, have been flying out of the door. Comedy Store comedians Dave Haddingham, Junior Simpson and

AN INTERACTIVE exhibition to highlight the experiences of asylum seekers has opened in Bolton. The exhibition, at the Victoria Hall in Knowsley Street until Saturday, is being staged by Befriending Refugees and Asylum Seekers (BRASS). Exhibition co-ordinator

A HORWICH charity is putting the final touches to its fifth annual summer fair, being held on Saturday. Horwich Visiting Service is a befriending scheme that involves volunteers visiting elderly, disabled and lonely residents within Horwich and Blackrod

FIFTY houses across Greater Manchester, including six in Bolton and one in Bury, were raided on Wednesday by police investigating people suspected of downloading indecent images of children from the internet. The search warrants were executed at 7am and

A BUS driver involved in an accident in which a five-year-old Bolton boy was killed outside Camelot Theme Park, near Chorley, had his police bail renewed. The boy, Hisamulhaque Haque, of Bridgeman Street, Daubhill, died instantly after he was crushed

SAM Allardyce was still in talks with Marseille midfielder Brahim Hemdani on Wednesday, contradicting reports that the Algerian had already secured a £1 million transfer to the Reebok. The Wanderers boss was reported to have tied up a deal with the 26

AMIR Khan rubbed shoulders withe some of Britain's biggest Olympic names to unveil the national team's new kit for Athens. The country's only boxing representative sported the revolutionary sports kit, designed to keep Britain's Olympic hopefuls cool

I WAS absolutely disgusted when I read in the Bolton Evening News that the council were going to fine people £50 who were found feeding the pigeons. What a deplorable thing to do, and the councillors who agree with this are pathetic to want to starve

NON-smokers with cigarette smoking partners in Bolton are being given the chance to banish the smell of smoke from their home. A company wants to test a unique device which removes not only the smoke but the smell of smoke from the home. They are looking

A 91-YEAR-OLD artist, whose work has been compared to that of LS Lowry, is to receive honorary degrees from two universities. Frances Lennon, from Urmston, who recently received the MBE for services to the arts and charity, was the official artist for

A FARNWORTH nightclub will stay open until 4am - but for the last two hours no alcohol will be served. Club Rac in Market Street hopes to cater for club and bar staff finishing their late-night shifts. Councillors yesterday approved an application from

A WOMAN who inspired the region to raise nearly £2 million for a scanner at the Christie Hospital will be honoured in an exhibition. Pat Seed, who died of cancer in 1984, started the Pat Seed Appeal Fund in 1977 after finding out the area health authority

A NEW police headquarters at Horwich is on schedule to open in the Autumn. Work is well underway on the centre which will be used as a base for a range of specialist units and other mobile patrols, rather than a traditional police station. It will also

HE has received awards all over the world but leading scientist Sir Harry Kroto is now set for his most cherished prize yet - an old brick. The Nobel prize winner will be presented with the unusual memento snatched from the rubble of Wolfenden Primary

INVESTIGATORS are to spend the night in the Hall i'th' Wood historic house to prove it is haunted by the spirit of cotton industry genius Samuel Crompton. A series of spooky goings-ons has convinced staff at the 17th century hall that it is home to three

FOR the first time in more than 20 years the legendary Simon and Garfunkel play a gig in Manchester on Wednesday The duo play at the MEN Arena before heading to London for an open-air concert in Hyde Park on Thursday. The singers split in 1970 and reunited

IT started with a 4-0 defeat at Old Trafford, and ended in a 2-0 reverse at the Reebok . . . but Wanderers can rightly claim an amazing success last season. Check out all the results here and read all our match reports on this file RESULTS, attendances