From the Evening News, February 21, 1903:A PAINFUL sensation was caused in the vicinity of Gibbon-st. about 9.30 this morning, when it was discovered than an elderly woman named Elizabeth Cashan, residing at 43, Walter-st., off Gibbon-st., had cut her throat with a razor.

The unfortunate woman, who was found in an outhouse by a man residing in the locality, was a widow, and lived with her family, six daughters and a son, her husband having died about two years ago.

She had, it is stated, suffered from influenza, and in consequence of that had been very much depressed during the past few weeks. It was stated in the locality that the deceased had been recently attended by a medical man.

From the Evening News, February 22, 1953:He is only a little chap - less than four inches long, not including tail - but he is worth his weight in gold. "He", strange as it may seem, is a mouse, just one of nearly 400 on view at the Parish Church schoolrooms today where the Bolton Progressive Fur Fanciers' Society held an open show. Mouse showing is quite a hobby, it seems. The animals are carefully fed by their owners - they eat bread and milk, cereals and greens - and before a show they are usually wiped down with a silk handkerchief to give that added shine to their coats. White mice also pay a visit to the magnesia block before a show, so that when they appear for judging they are spotlessly clean.

From the Evening News, February 22, 1978:ON a freezing February morning, the ice wind whistles through the smashed glass panes at Bolton's Moor Lane bus station. It is a station which is becoming an increasing area of concern for thousands of daily commuters into Bolton. Following a letter to the Evening News in which a reader writes of seeing people with heavy shopping bags and children in arms being unable to sit down, and of holding heavy shopping bags because the ground was too dirty to put them down, an Evening News survey showed that most people who use the bus station thing that its condition is "a disgrace".

From the Evening News, February 22, 1993: PLANS to convert a derelict farm into a wine bar and restaurant have met with fierce opposition from local residents - and a brewery. The scheme, for Victoria Farm at Dimple, Egerton, has been drawn up by a company called Land Development and Building g, Ltd. The company also wants to lay a new road across the large field to the Bolton side of the site. Local residents say their main fear is that the new road will open up an unspoiled area of Dimple around Cox Green Road for further housing development.