10 years ago from the Evening News March 4, 1995: THE struggling Shipgates shopping centre in Bolton has denied rumours that it is to be sold.

A spokesman for Surrey-based property company Swan Hill said they were "trying very hard" to attract the kind of businesses which would boost trade throughout the whole centre.

BOLTON Lions are roaring into their 25th birthday celebrations - by making dreams come true.

To help mark their silver jubilee, the Lions are organising a Wish Week in which people can send in a written request for special wishes that members can help realise.

25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News March 5, 1980

THE town's civic newspaper, Bolton Scene, is the latest casualty of the council spending axe.

The paper, which has been pushed through local letter boxes since 1974, bites the dust with its next issue.

Billy Bolton, who first appeared in cartoon strips in the paper in December, 1974, lives on as the council's motif on car stickers and council publications.

BOLTON'S battered wives are to move from their present rented premises to a new home.

The tragic victims of family violence are to move to a renovated Victorian house by the end of June.

50 YEARS AGO From the Evening News March 5, 1955

AFTER the audience has left the Capitol Cinema tonight workmen will move in to complete the transformation of the screen for the opening of the first film in CinemaScope - "The Student Prince".

Some of the film was photographed in Heidelberg and the Burgomaster of that city will receive a framed certificate from Bolton's Mayor which will contain a photograph of the town hall and Bolton's greeting to the German city.

THE names of 67 Horwich men killed in World War II will be on a Roll of Honour which is to be unveiled at Horwich British Legion Club tomorrow afternoon by Ald Hodgins.

It will stand beside a longer Roll of those Horwich men who fell in the 1914-18 war.

100 YEARS AGO From the Evening News March 5, 1905

NEARLY the whole of the public rooms in the Town Hall last evening were given over to hospitality and entertainment on the occasion of the reception by the Mayor and Mayoress (Ald and Mrs John Heywood) of a large and representative assembly of Bolton's citizens.

The occasion was one which will be remembered for its beautiful surroundings, the air of ease and homeliness which everywhere prevailed and the evident thoughtfulness and profuse hospitality of the Mayor and Mayoress, who had left no stone unturned to ensure the comfort of their guests.

The scene, as the guests, 850 in number, arrived and passed along staircases and corridors rich in floricultural and arborical beauty, resembled a dream of outdoor tropical life. Rich and graceful palms raised their lofty heads in the corridors and on the Albert Hall platform.