THE Royal Family must accept they have an obligation to the public and pull their weight, Prince Michael of Kent said today.

HANDSOME bachelor James Gilbey was today named as the mystery man on the "Dianagate" love tapes. The Sun and other newspapers identified 36-year-old Mr Gilbey as the man whose voice was recorded during a telephone conversation with a woman alleged to be the Princess of Wales.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

August 27, 1977

A HOUSING trust is hoping to create a brighter Bolton by renovating areas of old property. The Sutton Housing Trust, which already has two housing projects in Bolton, is shifting its emphasis from building estates to renovating old buildings. The trust has a £3 million housing development at Long Lane, Bolton, with 222 homes, which involved capping nine mineshafts and dealing with underground workings. It also has 356 homes at Platt Hill, which are let at rents from £1.96 to £7.42 a week.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

August 27, 1952

WHEN the National Radio Show opened at Earl's Court today, visitors found that prices ranged from less than £8 for a simple wireless to more than £750 for the latest projection-screen television set with radio receiver and twin turntable radiogram, all built into a classic-style cabinet.

One of the most popular novelties was a television telephone. This is linked between two stands, and a person telephoning from one stand to the other seas a TV picture of the person he is speaking to on a small screen in front of him.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

August 27, 1902

THE happy-go-lucky hotch-potch of remedial measures upon which most people of benevolent mind rely for the mitigation of the curse of poverty in our midst is the very antithesis of that spirit of science which we are so often told is the predominant spirit of our age and clime.

It is quite certain that if we are to make any real impression on the mass of misery and vice with which extreme poverty is associated, we must bring the methods of science to bear upon the problem and its cure. The first essential to such a course is reliable data. Mr Charles Booth for London and Mr B.S. Rowntree for a typical provincial town have done enormous service in the provision of such data, and it is suggested that men of goodwill in each town should take up the work of investigation on the lines laid down by the two gentlemen. Bolton people have never been backward in philanthropic work, and we earnestly commend the suggestion to the careful consideration of our fellow townsmen.