From the Evening News, March 19, 1903: EMILY Ashford, King-st., was charged before the Borough Magistrates this morning with being drunk and riotous on Monday night in Bank-st.

PC Kerry stated the case, and previous convictions having been proved against her, the Magistrates committed Ashford to an Inebriates' Home in Sussex for two years.

Ald. Nicholson told her that she would there find herself amidst pleasant surroundings, and she would be cared for, and he hoped she would come out two years hence a reformed and wiser woman.

Ashford: Could you not rather give me time in prison?

Ald. Nicholson: No, you would have to be put on the black list.

Ashford: Well, I don't mind that. I'm not ashamed of my portrait.

Ald Nicholson: If I am here in two years, you will be pleased at what we have done, and thank us.

Ashford: I've been in a home before, and they were fighting hand over head. It was worse than being on the streets. I was in a home in Manchester seven years.

From the Evening News, March 19, 1993

MOTORISTS insured with a Bolton company were today told: "Get off the road. You are driving illegally." The Department of Trade and Industry warned car owners to seek new cover urgently if they are insured with Red Rose Insurance Consultants or Westbridge Insurance, both part of Bolton-based Westbridge Corporation, Ltd.

The advice came after an official DTI investigation into the Chorley Old Road company. It revealed that cover notes and insurance policies issued by the company are not valid because they are not authorised insurance brokers.

From the Evening News, March 18, 1978

A SHADOW Cabinet Minister today predicted an "overwhelming" public demand for a referendum on capital punishment if Parliament continues to resist its re-introduction. Mr Teddy Taylor, Shadow Scottish Secretary, said that Parliament would be unable to resist the call without "undermining our whole democratic system." He said that official figures showed that in the 18 years from 1945 to 1963, the average number of murder convictions in England was 30, and this had now changed to 90. "The evidence which is there would indicate that by not having an effective deterrent, we are in practice condemning innocent people to be murdered," he said.

From the Evening News, March 19, 1953

BOLTON Parks Committee yesterday turned down a request from Ald. Young, president of the Bolton Sunday Schools' Social League, to reconsider its decision to charge rounders teams £1 a season for the use of park pitches and other facilities.

Most of the rounders players are only schoolgirls, and they have little money to spare, Ald. Young has suggested.

But the Committee did not agree. "Most of the rounders players are girls who work," someone exclaimed. "Those same girls will be paying 3s (15p) to see 'Quo Vadis' at the cinema this week."

It was pointed out that if the Committee decided not to charge for rounders, they would have to do the same for football. If the teams could afford to pay 2s (10p) for a referee, they could surely pay for parks facilities.