From the Evening News,1993: MENACES who make life threatening malicious calls to the fire brigade are being landed with huge bills to teach them a stinging lesson.

As well as hefty fines and court costs for wasting the emergency service's time and putting other lives at risk, bogus call pests are now presented with a "turn out" compensation bill.

This week, Bolton Magistrates fined a 20-years-old man who made a malicious call a total of £180 with £25 costs. But he was also ordered to fork out - at £10 a week - another £280 to cover the cost of the fire brigade's wasted turn out.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

January 23, 1978

EXPERTS were today baffled by the riddle of why a light plane - call sign "Golf Lima" - crashed near Horwich killing three people. The aircraft fell through the air "like a stone" and hurtled into a thick stone wall in a George's Lane. It smashed through the wall and cartwheeled. It folded like a paper plane when it hit the road. All that was left of Golf Lima was a smouldering mass of tangled metal. In the wreckage were the bodies of an engaged Bury couple and a young pilot from Whitefield.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

January 23, 1953

ONE hundred and seventy bus tickets weigh one ounce. And when 170 tickets are scattered about the floor of a bus it takes a considerable amount of labour to pick them all up, even if they are so light. Bolton's anti-litter campaign is showing signs of being successful. Already there has been some improvement on the streets and on buses, although there are still town-centre "blackspots". The worst stretch at present is Newport-st. from Great Moor-st. to Trinity-st. - and yet there is a litter bin on almost every post.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

January 23, 1903

BOLTON in Black and White. Post Office Bolton Directory out next week.

The above announcement will be welcomed by hundreds of subscribers to have been looking forward for some time to the ninth issue of the Post Office Bolton Directory, published by Messrs. Tillotson and Son, Ltd. But if there has been some delay in the issue of the Directory, which has with the growth of years become an absolute necessity to Bolton's business and commercial life, it must be remembered that the volume is not a mere booklet. It may almost be called a magnum opus, massive, exhaustive, elaborate, and yet at the same time succinct and handy.

When we say that enclosed in its familiar red coloured binding the Directory contains no fewer than 693 pages of printed matter compiled with anxious care, thought, and after most elaborate inquiry and research, we may be pardoned for bespeaking for it that success which is commensurate with the pains taken in its production.