From the Evening News, March 30, 1903: BOLTON is not yet a port. Perhaps it never will attain to that distinction, for ship canals are costly undertakings.

Of course, we fix our eyes on Bolton becoming a city. We are growing on every side. Enterprise is the dominant note. We are harnessing the giant electricity and his powers of endurance, resource and adaptability, seen at present illimitable.

If we are neither a city not a seaport yet, our townspeople can board a tramcar on Victoria-sq. and travel to Liverpool docks!

Old fogeys may stand aghast and declaim against the unrealities and artificial nature of twentieth century life. True, we appear to be reaching that point in civilisation when almost everything is done for us.

We are becoming so accustomed to change and advancement that the establishment of the link with Liverpool, fittingly celebrated today, induces no surprise or wonder.

From the Evening News, March 31, 1993

BOLTON has moved rapidly to get rid of litter bins which could shatter into deadly shrapnel, following the IRA outrage in Warrington which left two children dead and dozens more injured. One of the first moves in Bolton has been to smash up 40 pebble and concrete litter bins, most of them in the precincted areas of the shopping centre. The IRA bombs in Warrington were hidden in cast iron litter bins, and it was the fragments of sharp metal which caused such terrible carnage.

From the Evening News, March 30, 1978

LIVERPOOL soccer fans looted a cross-Channel ferry's duty-free shop of £10,000 worth of drink and cigarettes today. £2,500 worth of jewellery was also taken. The fans were returning from the European Cup semi-final first-leg match at Dusseldorf, where Liverpool lost 2-1 to Borussia Moenchengladbach.

THE £1 million fire which destroyed Bolton Palais last July was probably started deliberately, says a report. An exhaustive investigation by forensic experts and the police points to arson, but no-one has been charged.

From the Evening News, March 31, 1953

THE nation-wide search for 55-years-old Reginald Halliday Christie, who police think may be able to help them in their investigations into the Notting Hill murders, ended today. A Scotland Yard spokesman said that Christie was stopped by a policeman on his beat in Putney this morning, was challenged, and agreed to go to the police station,

Since last Tuesday, the bodies of four strangled women have been found in the ground floor flat at 10, Rillington-place, once occupied by Christie.