From the Evening News, July 8, 1904: THOMAS Hunt, a young man of Birch Polygon, Rusholme, was at Manchester yesterday fined £3 and costs, and a guinea extra costs, for furiously driving a motor car at Didsbury.

Two policemen on duty in Wilmslow Road saw the defendant driving a car, which had three or four other occupants, at a rate dangerous to the public safety. Both estimated the speed at 25 to 30 miles an hour and in this they were borne out by an independent witness who had to jump out of the way of the car as it approached. The Stipendiary remarked that, personally, he considered that motors ought not to be driven at more than 10 miles an hour on roads just outside Manchester.

From the Evening News, July 8, 1954: THERE were many people in the centre of town yesterday who carried dark glasses with white frames peeping out of their pockets. Could it be that the sun had encouraged a spending orgy on glasses, in the hope that it was here on a long visit? But there were no signs of extensive sales of dark glasses in any of the shops. The answer lay in a town-centre cinema showing a 3-D film. Audiences had to buy the glasses before they could see the film.: TOMORROW night's broadcast of "The Night is Young", a musical entertainment programme, features 12-year-old Joan Wolstencroft of Starcliffe Street, Bolton. A member of the Dinkie Dots troupe, she is a pupil at Bolton Technical College and thinks she might like to become a secretary when she leaves school.

From the Evening News, July 7, 1979: A CHILLY wind is blowing through Britain's pop music industry - bringing with it the ominous message that people are buying fewer records. Recording companies who banked on an ever-expanding market are already feeling the draught of falling sales. EMI once ruled the pop waves with the Beatles, Beach Boys and the Tamla Motown stable, to name but a few, but now the company has found a £16 million world-wide profit on their music business for six months in 1978 slipping into a loss in the current year.

BELOIT Walmsley of Bury has won a £10 million contract for the supply of a newsprint machine to the Mondi Paper Company of South Africa. The machine is to be installed at Mondi Paper's Durban works.

From the Evening News, July 8, 1994: AN urgent warning has been issued by Bolton health chiefs about the dangers of the giant hogweed plant. It has grown rapidly this summer - particularly in the Croal Irwell valley. Experts say it can cause a severe skin burning if its leaves are touched and there is a fear that walkers, anglers and children could be badly hurt.: BOLTON Environment Forum was officially launched with the message that cleaning up the planet starts in Bolton's backyard. It has been designed to be a melting pot for ideas to improve Bolton's contribution to the global environment. The chairman, Cllr Jack Foster, said: "A cleaner, greener, brighter Bolton will help make a cleaner, greener, brighter planet."