10 YEARS AGO From the Evening News November 22, 1998 A Girls Football League is certainly no fantasy in Bury.

Six teams have already been drawn from high schools around the borough to take part in fixtures until next spring.

The Council’s Sports Development Unit and the girls’ section of the Bury Schools FA have teamed up for the new league.

25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News November 22, 1983 The closure of Harwood Methodist Infant School would spell disaster for the children, parents claimed today.

And they are hoping authority leaders will climb down and drop their plans to axe the school.

Education chiefs are looking at a proposal to merge the infants with Hough Fold juniors to form a new county primary school.

50 YEARS AGO From the Evening News November 22, 1958 The Rev. L. G. Tyler, Vicar and Rural Dean of Leigh, who is Northern representative for religious broadcasts, will make another appearance on television on Sunday, when he will become the first to baptise a baby on TV.

A film of the baptism will precede a discussion forum at which the vicar will be chairman.

100 YEARS AGO From the Evening News November 23, 1908 Mr. Poop, the High Wycombe tobacconist and newsagent, on Saturday answered the 366th summons issued against him for contravening the Lord's Day Act of Charles ll, and on the decision of a majority of the Magistrates was fined 5s. and 6s. costs in two cases. The prosecutions have now extended over seven years.