10 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, November 25, 1998 A health probe has been launched after two Farnworth schools reported that nearly a fifth of their pupils have been off sick in the wake of a water contamination alert.

The investigation by health bosses is looking at whether there is a link between the massive rise in absences over the last three days at St Gregory’s RC Primary School and St John’s Church of England Primary.

25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, November 25, 1983 Bolton’s pool for the disabled will open on time after all, despite a Government clamp-down on the scheme.

A spokesman at the town’s Jubilee Centre today said they would pay for the project out of their own funds.

It means the £50,000 baths — built after a massive cash raising campaign — will open as planned on December 5.

50 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, November 25, 1958 Cotton mill owner and chairman of the Finance Committee of Radcliffe Council, Coun Robert Lloyd opposed a suggestion at Radcliffe Town Council meeting last night that a municipal petition should be organised seeking a ban on cheap cotton imports.

Afterwards the council decided against the idea of the petition.

100 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, November 25, 1908 The newly-appointed mistress of the Delabole Girls’ School, Cornwall, is absent from duty, and under medical treatment for injuries inflicted upon her by some of her pupils. Two or three girls attacked her with great violence on her way home.