From the Evening News, September 10, 1904: THE governors of Bury Grammar School have received promises totalling more than £10,000 towards the building of a girls' grammar school.

They have decided to proceed with the work at once and have let the contract. At the opening of the boys' school last December Lord Derby pointed out the needs for a girls' school and promised to give £1,000.

FIENDISH behaviour towards his wife, actuated by excessive drinking, was the cause of a dyer named Peter McGarty of Harpurhey being sentenced to two months' hard labour at Manchester. When his wife refused to give him money, he kicked her in the stomach, lifted her on the fire grate with her head up the chimney , and left her to frizzle.

From the Evening News, September 10, 1954: THE Postmaster General, Earl De La Warr, inspected nine new type television detector cars which are to be employed in a drive against television licence "pirates". He said: "These new cars, with three sets of antennae springing from their heads, are setting out this month to hunt the country for people who own television sets but forget or refuse to pay their share towards the television programmes." If the "pirates" could be persuaded to pay up there would be more money for programmes.

KENYON Peel Hall, the 17th century mansion at Little Hulton, has been given to Church Army Housing Ltd by Lord Kenyon, its owner. The future of the 40-roomed hall has been uncertain since 1951, when Lord Kenyon decided it was too costly to maintain. For several years it has been occupied by a caretaker only, but it will now be used by the Church Army to provide residential flats for old people.

From the Evening News, September 10, 1979: UNION chiefs at British Leyland were told by the chairman, Sir Michael Edwardes, this afternoon, that 25,000 jobs must disappear in the next two years. The company's overall financial position is getting weaker and losses of up to £100 million are being projected for the year.

A 20-year-old girl and a 19-year-old man were stomach-pumped in hospital last night after taking "magic mushrooms." The mushrooms contain a drug which has the same effect as LSD, but on a lesser scale. A Greater Manchester Transport bus inspector called an ambulance when the couple staggered up to him in Kentmere Road, Breightmet.

From the Evening News, September 10, 1994 : PRIME Minister John Major yesterday vowed to drive the "yob culture" off Britain's streets. He urged the police to crack down on the rowdies, thugs and burglars whose persistent petty and violent crime made life intolerable for the old, frightened and vulnerable. But the Labour leader of Bolton Council, Bob Howarth, called on him to put as much effort into creating jobs for the unemployed young men who were easy prey for druggies and petty criminals.

THE number of children knocked down on Bolton's roads has dropped dramatically over the last three years. Council road safety chiefs believe traffic-calming measures and campaigns in schools have been the reason. In 1990 there were 203 child pedestrian casualties aged under 16 compared with 174 in 1993.