From the Evening News, November 7, 1992 - YOB-rule has forced a Harwood youth centre to close down - and is threatening to kill off another set up specially to cater for the area's bored teenagers.

One official says youth leaders are "dismayed and demoralised". The club forced to close is the purpose built Harwood Youth Centre in Longsight Lane, and a handful of youths bent on "unsociable and dangerous behaviour" are blamed. The other club under threat is at Christ's Church, Heaton, where the vicar says he has been driven to despair.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

November 7, 1977

NEGOTIATIONS are being finalised for the sale of the Last Drop Village at Bromley Cross, to a Southern-based entertainments group. The sale, which also includes the Tickled Trout Hotel at Salmesbury, near Preston, is understood to involve a figure between £1 million and £2 million.

MORE than 4,000 demonstrators marched on the police station at Willesden Green, North London, today, after violence broke out again on the mass picket lines at Grunwick. A number of police and demonstrators were injured, and 100 people were arrested outside the film processing factory at Willesden. The arrests sparked off the march to the police station.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

November 7, 1952

MORE than 30 houses were severely damaged and many Bolton people lost their homes in last night's gale which swept the country leaving a trail of destruction and havoc in its wake.

At Townleys Branch of the Bolton District General Hospital two elderly patients in the female chronic ward were seriously injured when a 16-square-yard section of the roof caved in. The other 14 patients - all over 60 and some 90 - were treated for shock and transferred to another ward.

At the Central Police Office an inspector and two constables were kept busy throughout the night answering distress calls and directing all available men to assist in the evacuation of houses in danger of collapse. Over 80 messages were received.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

November 7, 1902

A SAD fatality occurred at the Tonge Colliery of Messrs. Scowcroft, shortly after eleven o'clock this morning. A collier named William Wood (49), 28, Dunstan Street, was following his employment in the mine when a fall of roof occurred, and he sustained a fracture of the spine and other serious injuries.

The accident is said to be due to deceased taking out a prop without packing his place sufficiently, the result being that the roof gave way and Wood was buried beneath the debris. He was extricated with all haste, and was found to be in a very precarious condition.

The horse ambulance from the Fire Station was summoned, and was speedily in attendance, but on arrival the unfortunate man had expired, and his lifeless form was removed home. The deceased was married and leaves a widow and family.