From the Evening News March 14, 1995: BOLTON'S hospital bosses have been forced to send seriously ill patients to other units in the North-west because all the town's intensive care beds are occupied.

Last weekend three critically-ill patients were sent to units in Preston and Manchester.

Mr John Brunt, chief executive of Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust, said: "It is not a question of funding, we have a sufficient number of beds but we have been hit by an abnormally high number of emergency admissions."

BOLTON Institute has received a glowing report from a team of assessors who carried out a week-long study.

The quality of mechanical engineering teaching at the Institute was praised by a team representing the Higher Education Funding Council.

The Institute was congratulated on the "remarkable progress achieved" since the introduction of its degree provision in mechanical engineering.

25 years ago from the Evening News March 14, 1980

DARTS players from Little Hulton have smashed a 24-hour world record and raised more than £1,000 for charity.

The sponsored throw-in was at the White Lion, Little Hulton and the marksmen scored a stagging 575,586, breaking the old record of 532,363 set by a Gloucestershire pub.

The event was in support of the White Lion's Penny Appeal for the Blind.

SCHOOLS in Bolton are to be encouraged to start their own mini-nurseries of trees and bushes.

The seeds of the idea were planted last night at a meeting of the Bolton committee of IMPACT, the environmental improvement group administered by the North-west Civic Trust and sponsored by Greater Manchester Council.

Their aim is to make the town sparkle with a series of clean-up campaigns.

50 years ago from the Evening News March 14,1955

The popularity of observing a special Mothers' Day, which has been an American vogue for many years, would appear to be gaining ground on this side of the Atlantic.

With Mothering Sunday now less than a week away, local shopkeepers are preparing various displays and an attractive selection of goods to tempt members of the family to show their appreciation.

100 years ago from the Evening News March 14, 1905

A conference was held on Monday evening in the Great Moor Street Secondary School to consider the question of higher education for working men in Bolton.

After considerable discussion, a resolution, moved by Mr J. F. Connor and seconded by Cllr R. Tootill, was carried unanimously as follows: "This conference is of opinion that the higher education of the people in Bolton will be best advanced by the appointment of a joint committee, representative of all interests, with power to add to its number and that such committee be instructed to prepare a scheme for submission to a conference to be called hereafter."

The aims include bringing about through local institutions and local authorites, continuity of lecturing in each district and the formation of classes and reading circles..