From the Evening News, February 14, 1903: THE Rev. E. Simkin, Primitive Methodist minister, of Horwich, appeared at the County Sessions this morning and made application for a certificate of exemption from vaccination for his child, Pearl Gwendoline Eilzabeth Piggott Simkin.

The rev. gentleman explained that he had a conscientious objection; he believed vaccination would be detrimental to his daughter's health. The doctor had told him the child was perfect, and therefore he (the rev. gentleman) thought vaccination would not do any good. In the course of his experience as a minister, he had come into contact with persons who had lost children owing to vaccination. The application was granted.

From the Evening News, February 15, 1993: A MASKED man brandishing a sawn-off shotgun grabbed £4,475 in a raid at a Little Lever building society.

He threatened to shoot customers and staff in the offices of the Halifax Property Services in Market Street. He was handed the cash after pointing the gun at a 40-years-old cashier's head and threatening to pull the trigger. The thief is thought to have escaped on foot.

From the Evening News, February 15, 1978: AFTER 20 months in temporary accommodation, about 160 pupils were back at their desks at Harwood County Primary School today. The £226,000 school has been rebuilt since the original - only 3 years old - was devastated by fire in June, 1976.

During reconstruction, the children have been taught in mobile classrooms at Harwood Methodist and Hough Fold Junior schools.

From the Evening News, February 14, 1953: MR Arthur Blenkinsop, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health in the Labour Government, said today that the present Health Service charges were likely to be increased, and new charges introduced.

The Health Minister, he said, was being pressed for further economies, and one suggestion was that £1 a week should be charged for board and lodging in hospital. However, this would bring back the old financial misery and anxiety that used to haunt patients in hospital.

The shilling (5p) prescription charge has been a failure as an economy. Doctors were prescribing bigger doses of medicine and were putting more items on each form.