10 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, November 18, 1998 Are you, along with millions of others across the country, fed up with rain, rain and yet more rain? If so look on the bright side.
The region’s reservoirs are filing up nicely and you needn’t live in fear of a hosepipe ban next summer.
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, November 18, 1983 Imports of foreign milk today got the cold shoulder from a local supermarket.
Bolton West MP Tom Sackville has written to the Tesco superstore at Horwich, the largest in his constituency, asking the manager “not to inflict this evil-tasting fluid on the housewife.”
But a representative of the company said that all the milk bought in Tesco stores was British.
50 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, November 18, 1958 Four Bolton youths walked along Bolton-rd., Westhoughton, singing and shouting.
At Bolton County Magistrates’ Court to-day they pleaded guilty to unlawfully making a loud noise in the street and were fined £1 each.
100 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, November 18, 1908 Ruth Poole, aged 40, while an inmate of Cockermouth Workhouse, swallowed a half set of false teeth. The woman refused to say what had become of them. A day later, however, an operation became necessary, the teeth having lodged in her gullet, and she was conveyed to the infirmary at Carlisle.
An operation was performed but the woman, who was in an advanced state of consumption, died under it.
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