From the Evening News, 1992 - MARK Came, Stuart Storer, and Michael Brown have been transfer-listed as Bruce Rioch takes the first steps towards pruning his Burnden playing staff.

The Wanderers' boss has told the three that they are surplus to requirements. Came, at 31, the club's longest serving player, says he is "shocked and bitter" after being told he is not part of the manager's plans.

Meanwhile, in the FA Cup, Bolton beat Sutton Coldfield 2-1 to move into the second round.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

November 16, 1977

BENIDORM, on Spain's Costa Blanca, is the place to go if you want to bump into someone you know. That was clear today from holiday booking figures issued by the British Market Research Bureau, which showed that Benidorm is again the number one holiday spot for summer and winter holidays. Of the 2,500,000 British package tour holidaymakers going abroad in the year up to March, seven per cent have chosen Benidorm. Lloret de Mar is the second most popular resort.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

November 16, 1952

BOTH Great and Little Bolton had a court leet at the beginning of the 19th century. These courts were administered by the lord or lords of the old manors of Bolton, and a document of 1776 refers to a local worthy taking his seat as a justice of the peace in the old Sessions Rooms.

The chief court, according to this, appears to have been held in the old Queen Ann Inn, Chancery-lane, later the Central Hotel, and now headquarters of the Evening News Mercury Club.

On occasions, the justices sat at the Sun Inn, Bradshawgate, and the Bowling Green, later known as the Shakespeare Inn.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

November 16, 1902

AN action for £500 damages for breach of promise brought in the Dublin courts by Miss Annie Shannon, sister of a Mayo schoolmaster, against Edward Kelcher, a constable of the Royal Irish Constabulary, resulted yesterday in a verdict for the plaintiff for £100. The parties became engaged in 1900, and during a period of two years the constable sent his sweetheart 129 letters, many of them full of endearments. In one he said he was thirsty for kisses, while in another he wrote: "Really, I scarcely leave your photo out of my sight save while slumbering. I must rest content with kissing it when I have not you in reality."

Eventually defendant renounced his promise to marry her, making allegations that she was trying to lure him into improper conduct, and threatened to expose her. These charges did not persist in after proceedings were taken.