From the Evening News, March 25, 1903: SIR, - We are informed that the tram route between Bolton and Liverpool is now completed, and that a few cars are to be run next Monday as a kind of trial trip, after which a luncheon will be given in our Town Hall.

I do not see that Bolton has an particular interest in the above tramway, at least any more interest than the other town through which the trams will run. The fact of the luncheon being given in Bolton looks rather ominous.

Who is going to pay for this feed? Are the ratepayers? If so, I suggest that this is not the time to increase our burdens.

Rates are going up and trade is bad, and if it is necessary to celebrate the above event, then those who partake in it should pay for it. - Yours, Ex-Councillor

From the Evening News, March 25, 1993

MORE than 60,000 Bolton people are living in unfit houses. It means that almost one in every four people in the borough is housed in sub-standard accommodation. Twenty thousand residents exist in pre-1919 housing that experts say should have been demolished years ago. Bolton's housing director George Caswell says that to solve the crisis the Council needs £500 million, or £10 million a year for the next decade.

From the Evening News, March 25, 1978

RAMPAGING soccer fans were ejected from a train at Bolton's Trinity Street station last night after causing £1,000 worth of damage. Seats were ripped out and thrown on the track, windows were smashed and fire extinguishers set off by Stockport County fans travelling home from a Fourth Division game with Southport, which Southport won 2-0. When the train was stopped at Trinity Street, 89 fans were ejected and seven people arrested. Police said that many of those ejected were juveniles, who were eventually collected by their parents.

From the Evening News, March 25, 1953

THE Queen has commanded that there shall be a month's Court mourning from today for Queen Mary. Throughout the Commonwealth, tributes were being made to the 85-years-old Dowager Queen, saluting her as "a great lady". At Queen Mary's home, Marlborough house, a short private service was conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Geoffrey Fisher, for members of the Royal family. In the House of Commons, Prime Minister Winston Churchill said: "There has not been in living memory a figure more widely known or more universally honoured."