From the Evening News,

November 27, 1992

BOLTON Council will lose between 400 and 700 jobs as a result of yesterday's announcement by Environment Secretary Michael Howard. It will mean major cuts in services, because the Council's budget will be cut by between £5 million and £8 million.

ONE of Lancashire's oldest textile mills is being taken down stone by stone to be given a new lease of life a couple of miles across Bolton as a luxury housing development. The fine Pennine gritstone of the former Holdsworth Brothers' China Lane mill, off Higher Bridge Street, will be resurrected on a site off Barrow Bridge Road, opposite the Barrow Bridge chimney landmark.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

November 28, 1977

MORE than 200 clothing workers turned up for work at Westhoughton today to find their factory deserted and apparently closed down. Angry workers this afternoon accused the firm, M. and I. Walters, of "doing a moonlight". The 250 workers at the Library Street factory - mainly women - were paid as usual on Friday. They turned up for work today expecting to carry on as normal. They say they found finished work had been taken away over the weekend, a vital machine missing and bobbins stripped from their sewing machines.

Later, the firm's managing director, Mr Roger Walters, said the decision to close was taken on Friday after the bank "called in the overdraft."

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

November 28, 1952

THE maintenance of the British Army at a size adequate to undertake extensive world-wide commitments, would not be possible unless National Service remains at two years, the War Office stated today.

The present commitments of the Army, it was pointed out, include the provision of a contingent to the UNO forces in Korea; troops for Germany under NATO; garrisons in the Middle East and Far East, where the "cold war" increasingly threatens the peace of the free world; forces in Austria and Trieste; training and administrative organizations in the United Kingdom to maintain the Army overseas; and troops required for the protection of the UK base itself.

The decision to increase the period of full-time National Service from 18 months to two years, under the 1950 National Service Act, increased the total strength of the Army by over 50,000 trained men.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

November 28, 1902

THE public are cautioned to examine the silver coins now in circulation, as there is a great number of counterfeit coins in circulation in the town. The coins are chiefly florins and four shilling pieces.

AT a meeting of the Sanitary Committee on Wednesday, Ald T.E. Smith, chairman of the Tramways Committee, attended, and offered the waiting room at the junction of Deansgate and Knowsley-st. for the purpose of a lavatory, and the offer was accepted. Two female assistants are to be advertised for at £1 a week.