From the Evening News, March 26, 1903: BANK-ST. Chapel this afternoon was filled to overflowing by an interested congregation, to witness the solemnisation of the nuptuals of Mr Edgar Mason Taylor, younger son of the late Mr Charles Taylor, JP, and Mrs Taylor, of The Glen, Heaton, and Miss Helen Agnes Higgin, eldest daughter of Mr William Henry Higgin, Hollywood, Lostock.

The Chapel had been tastefully decorated with ferns, lilies and other plants, and had a most attractive appearance.

After the ceremony the newly married pair left the church amid the hearty congratulations of their friends. During the day they left Bolton for the south en route to Switzerland, where the honeymoon will be spent. On their return the newly married pair will take up their residence at 5, Westwood-st. The gifts to the bridegroom were many and costly.

From the Evening News, March 26, 1993

BRITAIN'S private schools can carry on caning - after a mother's six-year campaign against corporal punishment ended in failure today. The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg threw out claims that a beating on the bottom amounted to "degrading" treatment contrary to the Human Rights Convention. Corporal punishment is already illegal in state schools thanks to previous Human Rights Court case - but today's judgement leaves parents free to carry on choosing private schools where strict discipline is still the rule.

From the Evening News, March 26, 1978

DUTCH textile boss Louis Van Meeuwen thinks the world of British workers, after coming to Bolton two months ago to recruit skilled weavers. Now he is back for more. He said: "We are very happy with the three men we took the first time, and I think they are happy with us." After an all-day interview session at Bolton Job Centre, he recruited three weavers and three dyers for his mill in southern Holland. Mr Van Meeuwen says that he is forced to cross the North Sea for labour because Dutch textile workers are so comfortable on the dole.

From the Evening News, March 26, 1953

IF any doubts remain on the usefulness of the Over-60 in industry, they are not shared by one small group of people. They are factory inspectors. Their reports on accidents, summarized in the annual report of the Chief Inspector, Sir George Barnett, confirm, he says, how many elderly people are apparently able to defy the advancing years and continue to exercise the skill acquired in their lifetime. Typical example of this are men between 65 and 70 in a tinplate works; a 67-years-old steel erector; a woman of 73 at a top stitcher in a shoe factory.