From the Evening News, March 19, 1903: A DOMESTIC servant named Mary Crompton (23), of Westhoughton, was placed in the dock at the County Sessions this afternoon, to answer a charge of attempting to murder her illegitimate child by administering carbolic acid.

The child is seven months old.

The child had been put out to nurse with a woman named Ellen Lee, whom prisoner called upon on the night of the 11th instant, and said she wanted to take the child out for a walk. Later on the same night she took the child back, with its mouth and pinafore burned with carbolic acid, and traces of the acid were also found on the front of its frock.

The child had been under the care of a doctor, and was now all right, and Supt. Leeming said he wished for a remand in order to get the evidence together. Prisoner was then remanded in custody, the statement being made to the Magistrates that she had made use of certain threats respecting herself.

From the Evening News, March 19, 1993

POLICE chief David Wilmot presented a rare award to a Bolton businessman and told him: "You are a very brave man."

The Chief Constable praised have-a-go hero Jim Graveson as he was awarding him with the Provincial Police Award for his action in defying two armed bandits. The 36-years-old businessman, who lives in Farnworth, chased two thugs on foot and even attempted to ram them in his car, after a robbery at a gun shop in Deane Road in October, 1990.

From the Evening News, March 20, 1978

A SELECT committee of MPs today urges the Government to stop any major new wave of immigration to Britain. It also calls for a deadline after which passport holders lose the right to settle here except in exceptional cases. They say that subject to the law on immigration and obligations to the Common Market, "the Government should make it clear that in the foreseeable future there will be no further major primary immigration, and that such immigration will only be allowed in exceptional individual circumstances." The report also urges a major programme to counter illegal entry.

From the Evening News, March 20, 1953

THEY were talking about the speed of the bus. "Go far too fast, do these buses," said a lady with the shoping bag.

"I know, luv," replied her companion. Then she added, "and if thur's an accident you can bet they'll blame the presbyterians."

SIR, - A tenant of a Council house recently came into possession of private property in good condition, which would have provided adequate accommodation for him and his family. This was duly reported to the Bolton Housing Committee (not from any personal maliciousness, but in the interest of people on the waitng list) but no action was taken.

The tenant has since sold the house at a handsome profit and also deprived someone of a Council house. Yours, Fair Shares for All