November 12-13

Nicola, aged 25, from Atherton, started work as a cake decorator at Occasion Cakes six years ago, and is now poised to become a director of the firm.

She has been voted Young Business Person of the Year in awards associated with the television programme.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

November 13, 1977

FACTORIES run mainly by robots, houses with their own hospital facilities, and production of test tube babies to boost a flagging population - this is the picture of Britain in the year 2002.

In a report called "2002: Britain plus 25" by the Henley Centre for Forecasting, it says that in the next 25 years we may also see the re-introduction of National Service, the use of computerised money, and redecoration of the home by changing the lighting rather than the wallpaper.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

November 13, 1952

THOUSANDS of Wanderers' fans should have been at Wembley yesterday to see England's splendid victory over Wales, and Nat Lofthouse's big part in it, writes Haydn Berry.

No mistake about it, Nat had a memorable day. He has cause to be satisfied with it if he never sets foot on Wembley turf again. The scorer of two goals, both well taken in sharply contrasting ways, he also shone as a roving and constructive leader in a manner Bolton folk would have been delighted to see.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

November 13, 1902

IN the Chancery Division today, before Mr Justice Buckley, Mr Louis Tussaud, the waxwork modeller, sought to restrain a Mr Stiff, who had purchased some of the plaintiff's models, from carrying on an exhibition and using the name Tussaud in such a manner as was likely to bring the plaintiff into disrepute.

Mr Astbury, KC, in instancing the damage that might be done to plaintiff, said there was a penny show carried on in Edgware-rd., and in one case the head of the Archbishop of Canterbury was put on the body of Charles Peace, and in another case Napoleon was represented as taking part in the execution of Mary Queen of Scots.