From the Evening News, April 29, 1903: work has commenced at Lever Park, Rivington, but no-one knows what the completed scheme will comprise. Even the generous donor cannot say.

The head gardener is supervising the work of demolition, for demolition is the first step in establishing the Park. He has about 15 men under him, rooting hedgerows up - to the dissatisfaction of birds and rabbits alike.

Lever Park will to a large extent be enclosed by an iron hurdle fence, eight feet high, to keep in the deer which will be installed. Mr W.H. Lever has acquired land on each side of Rivington-lane. Now, Rivington-lane is a King's Highway. How can the hurdle fence be placed upon it, so as to enclose the land on each side of the lane? A public road cannot be usurped very easily, so permission is being sought for the erection of gates at each end of the lane.

Men would have to be placed in charge, so as to open them for traffic, and to close them in order to have the deer constantly penned in.

From the Evening News, April 30, 1993

The Bill to set up a national lottery cleared the Commons today, and it is expected to start next year. The plan has been bitterly opposed by the football pools companies, who claim it will threaten their livelihoods and cost jobs.

PLANNERS have thrown out a controversial multi-million pound luxury housing development in Bolton. The application to built 280 top-class houses on 49 acres of the present Deane Golf Course off Beaumont Road was ditched at a meeting of the council's planning and engineering committee.

From the Evening News, April 29, 1978

AFTER a spectacular Easter weekend crash, Bolton racing driver Jim Crawford is back in business with a brand new Bolton-built car and sponsorship from a local steel firm.

Jim, aged 30, had a lucky escape when his car rolled off the track at more than 130mph during a Formula Three race at Thruxton. Now Chevron, the Chorley Old Road racing car firm, has stepped in with one of their B43 cars for Bank Holiday races this weekend.

From the Evening News, April 30, 1953

"IS there any future in the cotton industry?" asked Mr A.C.C. Robertson, secretary of the Oldham Cardroom Association, in his presidential address to the United Textile Factory Workers' Association conference in Morecambe today.

His reply to the question was that "our industry is an essential part of the economic life of the country, and it is up to the Government of the day to see, by its agreements and understandings with other countries, that we have reasonably opportunities for trade. Given this, we feel there is a future for the industry."