DERIAN House, the only hospice in Lancashire and Cumbria designed exclusively for children, is a step nearer to becoming reality, as the Appeal tops the three-quarters-of-a-million pound mark.

About £900,000 is needed to build and equip the hospice.

HEALTH bosses have been given planning permission to build a high-tech clinical waste incinerator at Bolton General Hospital. It will also be used by Blackburn and Oldham health authorities.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

October 11, 1977

THE brutal murder of a young woman in Manchester may be linked with the "Jack the Ripper" killings in Yorkshire. Senior Manchester detectives were today meeting West Yorkshire colleagues in an attempt to solve the savage killing of a woman found naked on an allotment in Chorlton yesterday.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

October 11, 1952

MAN'S first expedition to the moon will take place within 25 years, according to Dr Wernher Von Braun, one of the world's leading rocket experts. In an article in Collier's Magazine, he describes how the flight might be made by three rocket-ships.

Fifty scientists and technicians would take off on the pioneer expedition, to stay six weeks on the moon. "On the outward voyage," he says, "the rocket ships will hit a top speed of 19,500 miles per hour about 33 minutes after departure. Then the motors will be stopped and the ships will fall the rest of the way to the moon."

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

October 11, 1902

IN aid of the fund for the restoration of the old Blackrod Parish Church, a three days' bazaar was opened yesterday. The church, which was originally erected in the year 1338, and enlarged at a disastrous period, in 1766, has for some time been in a rapidly decaying condition.

For the purpose of raising funds for its renovation, the parishioners decided to hold a bazaar in the National Schools. The last bazaar was held 36 years ago. Lord Stanley, who opened the proceedings, said it was perfectly true that he had not visited his constituents as often as he would have wished, but if those who criticised his absence would inquire the number of attendances in Parliament, and, secondly, the number of attendances at the War Office, he thought they would find there had not been much spare time.