From the Evening News, July 25, 1992 - property owners are being recruited for a new scheme to ease Bolton's college accommodation crisis.

Growing student numbers at Bolton Institute have created a demand for rooms to rent during nine months of the year. Last year the college introduced a Head Tenancy scheme which cuts out many of the landlords' problems. They let their property to the Institute, which then acts as "middle man" - allocating places to students and making sure owners get their rent without any hassle. The Institute gives a guarantee that the house will be returned clean, tidy and in the same condition as it was at the start of the let.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, July 25, 1977

HOSPITAL chiefs at Bolton were today facing a storm of protest over staffing conditions at the town's new £1.7 million maternity unit. Nurses claimed the Bolton General Hospital unit was severely undermanned and they they were on the point of mass resignation. The storm follows Saturday's disclosure that a mix-up at the hospital had resulted in a mother taking the wrong baby home.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, July 25, 1952

ALD Booth, chairman of Bolton Parks Committee, told members of Bolton Allotments Sub-Committee at their annual inspection yesterday that he would like to see Queen's Park extended to the end of Deansgate. He called the stretch of Spa-rd., from Deansgate to the park entrance, "the most dismal stretch of road in the whole of this County Borough", and said he thought the sight of it stopped many people going into the park.

Most of Bolton's parks, he said, were inaccessible during the day, and he would like the people of the town to be able to walk out of Deansgate and into the park during their lunch as Londoners were able to do in so many places.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, July 25, 1902

A PAINFUL sensation was occasioned this afternoon shortly before four o'clock, by a terrible fatality to a stoker in the employ of the L. and Y. Railway Company. From the information to hand it appears that the unfortunate man is named Carroll, is about 35 years of age, and hails from Newton Heath.

He was engaged as stoker on the 3.20 train from Manchester (Victoria) to Blackpool, and when near Lostock Station, from some unaccountable reason, fell from the engine, and was instantly killed, sustaining terrible in juries to his head and face, and sever bruises about the body. A train coming in the opposite direction was stopped, and the body was brought on to Trinity-st. Station, whither Mr Crosby, the stationmaster, had summoned Mr Johnston. His assistant was in attendance when the train reached Bolton, but his services were of no avail, life being extinct. The Fire Station ambulance was promptly on the spot, and the body was removed to the mortuary to await an inquest.