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  • Dransfield S&D League

    SNOOKER: Sky Bar 74, Labour 'A' 68, Rileys 66, HGSH 'A' 64, Legion 'A' 62, Bowling 'B' 61, Liberals 55, Lowton 55, Legion 'B' 52, Bowling 'A' 51, Labour 'B' 50, HGSH 'B' 26. DOMINOES: Sky Bar 34, HGSH 'A' 32, Bowling 'B' 31, Labour 'B' 30, Legion 'B'

  • Leigh tear Lions to shreds

    Leigh Centurions 66 Swinton Lions 6 by Mike Hulme: THE Centurions midfield trio of Paul Rowley, John Duffy and Ian Knott had a field day as Leigh ran up another impressive Arriva Trains group victory. Rowley, Duffy and Knott bagged seven of Leigh's 12

  • RMI living on borrowed time

    Leigh RMI 1 Telford 1 by David Magilton: TIME is fast running out for Leigh and manager Phil Starbuck knows it. His side salvaged a point with an 89th minute scrambled goal from Martyn Lancaster, but it was not enough to satisfy the RMI boss. The Conference

  • Jazz weekend swings into action

    BIG band jazz swings into action at the weekend. On Friday, March 26 from 7.30pm at the Mill at the Pier, Wigan Bolton Youth Jazz Orchestra, Wigan Schools' Swing band, Wigan Youth Big Band and Kings' School Big Band will entertain. Tickets cost £6 (£5.50

  • Goulden leads GB to Russia and Oz

    LEIGH Miners Rangers skipper Tommy Goulden will be clocking up the air miles over the next few months as he leads the Great Britain amateur RL squad in Russia and Australia. Loose-forward Goulden, who skippered his country against France earlier this

  • East may find lost point is so costly

    Leigh East 22 Oulton Raiders 22: IT often happens that a team's fate is decided by the outcome of a drawn game. So, while shared spoils may have provided the point that keeps Oulton Raiders in the top flight of the Arriva Trains Conference League it could

  • Play-offs a remote chance

    CRAIG Brown has vowed to prove to the Deepdale boys that his team does have the stomach to fight for the play offs despite a disappointing home defeat at the hands of relegation-haunted Walsall. But the Scot admitted that after the 2-1 defeat, which left

  • Crash man, 50, fights for life

    A 50-YEAR-OLD man is fighting for his life after he was knocked down by a car in Bury. He was crossing the A56 Walmersley Road on Sunday night when he was hit by a Peugeot 306 travelling towards Ramsbottom at about 11.45pm. The injured man stepped into

  • Kitted out

    LEIGH RMI Crusaders U12s have received a new strip from sponsors Keith and Heather Perrie of Pine Products Ltd and new drill training tops from Andrew Tonge and Stuart Taylor of TTR Building and Joinery.

  • Warning as bogus water worker barges into house

    PEOPLE in Atherton are being warned to be on their guard after a 77-year-old woman was the victim of a robbery by a bogus official. Police say the victim answered a knock at the door to her home on Brook Street, on Friday, and was confronted by a man

  • Flames reach 60ft high in pallets blaze

    THIRTY firefighters battled to contain a fierce blaze which swept through piles of wooden pallets at a Leigh firm. Firemen arrived at Ashton Pallet Services in Bridgewater Business Park to find the flames reaching more than 60 feet high. They fought to

  • Shakers edging towards safety

    Cheltenham 1 Bury 2: THIS well-deserved victory at Cheltenham went a long way to taking Graham Barrow's men to that elusive 50 point mark that should ensure Football League status next season. Whichever way you choose to look at it, undefeated in eight

  • Darts and domino round-up

    DARTS: Spinners 3, Leigh RU 4; Nevison 3, Our House 4; Bull & Butcher 2, Peake Fitness 5; Foresters 1, Britannia 6; New Inn 1, Jolly Carter 6; Colliers Rest 2, Musketeer 5; Bridgewater 3, Leigh Cricket 4. DOMINOES: Spinners Arms 1, Leigh RU 4; Nevison

  • Hannah's an England star - at 15

    CROSS country star Hannah Warburton has won her first international vest -- at the age of 13. The Bedford High schoolgirl will represent England in a schools' international in Scotland next month following her performance in the English Schools' championships

  • Money, lights, action!

    RADCLIFFE Boro have been successful in two applications to the Football Foundation for funds. A grant of £27.000, together with the £15.000 already pledged by the club's directors, will provide the £42.000 needed to install six brand new floodlights at

  • The man from Radcliffe - he say YES!

    HAVING got back on the winning trail Boro boss Kevin Glendon is continuing his search for reinforcements with which to enter the play-offs. But all he had to do to make his latest signing was say 'yes.' "Jonathan Tuke gave me a call and asked if he could

  • Radcliffe draw holds leaders

    HUCKNALL TOWN 1 RADCLIFFE BOROUGH 1: RADCLIFFE grabbed a creditable point from their visit to runaway Unibond Premier leaders Hucknall Town on Saturday. In a game marred by the strong wind, Boro went behind in the 21st minute to a hotly disputed penalty

  • Children sent home as gales hit school

    CHILDREN were evacuated from a school in Tyldesley on Friday after high winds damaged a roof on the building. Fire crews were called to St George's Primary School, Darlington Street, at 10am when strips of aluminium cladding from the roof were spotted