From the Evening News, March 14, 1903: A TRAIN composed principally of tanks and cars filled with oil broke in two near New York last night, and the sections collided.

One of the tanks broke into fire, and suddenly a terrific explosion occurred, the flames shooting out in all directions, enveloping the crowds lining the track.

People ran about with their clothing in flames, and threw themselves on the ground grovelling in ditches in their endeavours to extinguish the flames. Soon they lay still, some being unconscious and others dead. Many bodies were burned beyond recognition. It is reported that twenty-two dead have been recovered from the dead train. Later. - It is believed that the number of dead will number twenty-five, while over 40 others have been burned, some fatally. In rushing from the flames, many persons jumped into a nearby creek and were drowned.

From the Evening News, March 15, 1993

PROTESTERS turned out in force to block the start of the second phase of the controversial Birtenshaw Farm estate at Bradshaw. Contractors for the housing giants Barratt moved in yesterday to cut away a hedgerow in Turton Road in preparation for a second road to serve the new development. But campaigners discovered that the company had not gained an order giving them permission to close the footpath where the work was to be carried out. And they succeeded in blocking the move.

From the Evening News, March 15, 1978

ISRAEL invaded South Lebanon today, and said its forces will stay there indefinitely until they "clear out the Palestinian infestation once and for all." In the biggest operation yet launched by Israel against Palestinian commandos, an estimated 20,000 troops, backed by tanks, artillery and fighter bombers, attacked on a broad front. The Lebanese Prime Minister condemned the invasion as a criminal attack and appealed to the world to "join us in condemning this aggression and put an end to it."

From the Evening News, March 15, 1953

BOLTON Transport Committee is to experiment soon with a single-deck bus which will accommodate 26 sitting and 21 standing passengers, and with a single-deck bus which will be operated by one man. Single-decker buses which are 30ft. long will cost the Corporation £4,500 each to buy. Work in preparations for the laying of lawns round the war memorial as part of Bolton's Coronation programme will begin within the next few days, and probably on Monday most of the changes in town-centre bus stopping places, made necessary by these alterations, will be brought into operation. The bus shelters have already been removed from Victoria-sq.