From the Evening News, March 24, 1903: DESPITE all the care exercised and the preventive measures adopted, accidents attend the working of our tramways with regularity painful and distressing.

Yet another sad case has to be reported, the victim on this occasion being Doris Kilburn, the two-years-old daughter of Robert Kilburn, a mangler in a bleachworks, and residing at 14, Back Burnden.

The accident occurred on that section of Manchester-rd. known as Burnden, and near the side street leading to the entrance to Burnden Park. It seems that the father had gone to work, and the mother has been confined to bed for six weeks. During that time the children have been cared for by her mother, Mrs Entwistle, whose husband is also under the doctor's care.

Mrs Entwistle had gone for medicine, and the deceased seems to have wandered onto Manchester-rd. where the cars pass every few minutes to and from Moses Gate, and at ten minutes to seven she was caught by tramcar No. 64, in charge of John Noble, of 37, Grasmere-st., who immediately applied the brakes.

The child was liberated, but not before its head had been shockingly crushed. In the Burnden district, much sympathy is expressed for the family in their misfortune.

From the Evening News, March 24, 1993

SHOP boss Ann Caladine picked up a parking ticket - after workmen picked up her car and painted yellow lines beneath it! Ann was amazed when she was told of the sudden appearance of the double yellow lines in Car Bank Street, Atherton. When she parked in the morning she was in an unrestricted zone, but then the traffic warden who booked her came into the shop and said a witness had told her that workmen had manually lifted the car, painted the lines, and then put it back on them.

However, she has won justice in the end. She sent the cheque, with a complaint, and says: "I got a letter back saying that under the circumstances the matter would be dropped."

From the Evening News, March 24, 1978

THEFT, vandalism and violence have closed down Little Lever's new youth centre only three weeks after it opened. Last night police had to be called in to sort out trouble at the Corona Club, a converted cinema in Mytham Road.

It was packed with teenagers and many were running riot, vandalising pool tables, stealing bottle drinks and picking fights. Older youths also threatened club owner Mr Joe Wray, who says he has had enough and has closed the club down.

From the Evening News, March 24, 1953

TWO hours after a bulletin had been posted outside Marlborough House today announcing that Queen Mary's condition was causing "some anxiety", a second bulletin was issued stating: "During the past hours, Queen Mary's condition has become more grave." Throughout the lunch hour and early afternoon, several hundred office workers crowded round the entrance to Marlborough House in case a further bulletin was put up.

SINCE 1936, parishioners and priests of St. William's RC Church, Great Lever, have been waiting hopefully for the day when work could be started on their new church in Lever Edge Lane. Now the Ministry of Works has given a licence for £16,500 for the building of the church, and the very first sod will be cut on Wednesday afternoon.