10 YEARS AGO From the Evening News November 19, 1998 LONG, long waits on hospital trolleys in the corridors of Royal Bolton Hospital could be coming to an end.
This week, Wigan and Bolton Health Authority was handed an extra £1.9 million to cope with anticipated winter pressures.
This will mean cash for extra staff, more beds, medicines and support workers.
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News November 19, 1983 A local ambulancemen’s leader today issued a health warning — “Government cuts can kill.”
The warning comes in the wake of a decision to axe 108 ambulance jobs in the North-west. Mr Robin Mayor, Bolton branch secretary for NUPE, said the cuts could lead to delays in emergency turnouts, putting lives in danger.
50 YEARS AGO From the Evening News November 19, 1958 One of Bolton's oldest established businesses, the 135-years-old firm of Wm. Abbott and Co. Ltd., Albion Cane Works, Bridgeman-st., is being wound up, and the two-storey building, empty and deserted except for the two directors, and the last two employees — husband and wife, who are finishing off the odd jobs — is for sale.
100 YEARS AGO From the Evening News November 19, 1908 After a walk from Dunscar to Egerton and Turton Heights, a party met at the Y.M.C.A. rooms on Saturday evening when a lantern lecture was given by Mr. Peter Stock, of Bury, on “Holidays in Switzerland.”
The splendid collection of slides made from the lecturer’s own photographs were thoroughly appreciated.
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