From the Evening News, August 29, 1903: WE have made arrangements to publish in the Journal and Guardian, a series of articles on Billiards. Each article will be about a column in length, and will be illustrated with good diagrams. It will consist chiefly of the strokes of the game, and the treatment of these strokes will be of such a nature as to prove of the greatest service to the ordinary player who occasionally makes a 15 or 20 break, but who seldom, or never, gets beyond a 30 break.

The articles will also contain personal paragraphs about the leading amateurs and professionals, and will be written by Mr Riso Levi, the well-known writer on the popular indoor game.

From the Evening News, August 29, 1953: WHITE bread will be back in the shops next week after an absence of 11 years. At midnight tomorrow, Government control of the milling industry ends.

Millers will be free to mill white flour and bakers will be able to use it in loaves which will be free from price control.: A "topato" - half tomato, half potato - has been grown by Mr Goodwin, 33, Hawker-ave., Great Lever.

From the Evening News, August 29, 1978: WESTHOUGHTON-born tough guy film star Robert Shaw died yesterday after collapsing near his home in the Irish Republic. Shaw, aged 51, a playwright and prize-winning novelist, won international fame only about 10 years ago when he played a KGB assassin in the James Bond film "From Russia With Love". Roles in "Jaws", "The Deep", and the historical epic "A Man for All Seasons", catapulted him into the superstar bracket.

From the Evening News, August 29, 1993: LABOUR MP David Young has been accused of opposing voting reform because the present system means "a job for life". Liberal Democrat Dennis Lee, who failed to take Mr Young's Bolton South-east seat at last year's general election, made a bitter attack on the MP's views.

He claimed that Mr Young's defence of the "first past the post" voting system and rejection of Proportional Representation could consign the nation to indefinite Tory rule.