From the Evening News, April 8, 1903: THE New Century Animated Picture Co. are paying a visit of a few weeks' duration to the Temperance Hall, Bolton, where they opened on Monday evening to a crowded house.

The pictures, both topical and humorous, are exceedingly steady, and the audience is kept fully interested for upwards of two hours and a half. Chief amongst the pictures is a series of coloured films of the pantomime "The Forty Thieves", a voyage from Southampton to New York, the review of the Indian and colonial troops by H.M. the Queen and H.R.H. The Prince of Wales.

From the Evening News, April 8, 1993

COUNCIL plans to slash opening times at libraries across Bolton have met with furious opposition from local people.

Members of Heaton Library launched a massive petition after council chiefs announced that its opening times are to be cut from five to just two-and-a-half-days a week. Elsewhere in the town, members of other threatened libraries have also slammed the reductions.

MILLIONS of TV viewers last night saw Bolton's favourite son Nat Lofthouse surprised in his Bolton den by TV presenter Michael Aspel. Viewers watched Nat walk onto the Burnden Park pitch to, as he thought, watch the Junior Whites. Suddenly he became part of the "This Is Your Life" series.

From the Evening News, April 7, 1978

THE first shots in Westhoughton's "war of independence" were fired last night when 150 residents voted to press for a parish council. The decision was taken at a public meeting organised by the Westhoughton Community Group steering committee in the Carnegie Hall. The meeting chose a committee of 15 which is hoped to see the town win the parish status it was denied six years ago.

From the Evening News, April 8, 1953

THE Communists today offered to return 600 Allied prisoners in Korea and the United Nations said they would send back 5,800 Communists in an exchange of sick and wounded, according to a Tokyo report. Of the 600 Allied troops, 150 are non-Koreans.

SIR- I protest about the rates going up again. It is time the Town Council stopped throwing ratepayers' money down the drain. I think there are too many schools. It would be better for industry if boys and girls left school at 14 and helped mothers who cannot afford to keep them at school. There is too much education. The result - Borstal schools are full. Yours, T. Walsh, 21, Rose-st., Bolton