From the Evening News, March 10, 1903

ESPECIALLY for those interested in physical culture and wrestling, a programme of exceptional merit is submitted at the Temperance Hall this week, and should draw capital houses.

Something entirely new to a Bolton audience is brought forward in the form of an exhibition of Japanese wrestling by two exceptionally smart Japs, who though men of very slight build, have not as yet been beaten.

Their style is one which differs in every particular from the Lancashire, and indeed every other form of wrestling, and is a style taught by the Buddhist priests to the higher caste of Japanese for the purpose of self-defence.

The contest is fought to the finish, and there is no necessity for a referee, the defeated wrestler being his own judge as to when he is beaten, and accordingly gives a signal for release from the "lock" or hold from which it is said it would be impossible for him to escape.

From the Evening News, March 9, 1993

FISH wars came to Britain today following weeks of unrest in France.

Fishermen demonstrated against cheap imports, and protesting trawlermen in Scotland boarded a Russian vessel and poured oil into its cargo holds containing frozen fish. The men were objecting to the landing of cheap Russian fish at Peterhead, Grampian. Angry Grimsby fishermen and dock workers prevented a lorry unloading its cargo of French fish at the town's market today in retaliation for the way British cargos have been treated in Roscoff, Brittany.

From the Evening News, March 9, 1978

SHOP owners Ted Finch and his wife Marjorie served notice on the thief who kept stealing salt pots. The notice, displayed in their china shop ion Winter Hey Lane, Horwich, read: "To the person who takes salt pots, please ask for the pepper pots."

But the notice has been taken down since the thief returned - and snatched a pepper pot. Mrs Finch said: "We have lost count of the number of salt pots taken in the past 12 months. But obviously the effect of the notice did not work out as we had planned."

BOLTON Wanderers' manager Ian Greaves today signed Newcastle United striker Alan Gowling for a £120,000 fee - a club record, breaking the previous record of £90,000 which brought Frank Worthington to Bolton.

From the Evening News, March 9, 1953

WHICH is the longest street in Bolton? The answer is Bridgeman-st., which starts at Moncrieffe-st. (near Trinity-st. Station) and runs through to Adelaide-st., approximately 1,600 yards. In a former day the street seems to have continued east across the present Manchester-rd. and stopped at the bridge across the Croal.

This would give direct access from Bury through to the St Helens highway, surely our earliest by-pass road, planned after the enclosure of Bolton Moor in 1792. It was shortened when the railway was built in 1838, and its eastern end became Lower Bridgeman-st, linking up with Bradford-st.