From the Evening News, June 15, 1992 - BOLTON'S growing cable television network is up for sale. The San Francisco-based Pacific Telesis Group, which has so far invested £27 million in Bolton Cablevision, is pulling out of cable to concentrate on its worldwide cellular telephone business. Bolton Cablevision, which employs 52 people, is based in Spa Road. They currently have 3,500 customers and the service is available to 24,600 homes.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 15, 1977

A HYPERMARKET in Greater Manchester, expected to do more than £20 million worth of trade a year, has been turned down by the GMC Planning Committee. The 180,000 sq. ft. store in Trafford, close to the M63, would have had parking for 1,800 cars. Bolton and Bury Councils had both called for the scheme to be "rejected outright".

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 14, 1952

ONE complete set and one upper set of false teeth have been found and handed in at Bolton Central Police Office, but, as yet, they are unclaimed. Both sets lie in the lost property drawer in carefully marked sealed envelopes, but just as false teeth are things which are rarely handed in, they are also items which are rarely claimed.

One person did call within the last few days, but, alas, he was disappointed. Neither set answered the description of his own long lost dentures.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 15, 1902

AT a private meeting of the Town Council last evening, under the presidency of the Mayor (Ald MIles), the following resolution was unanimously passed: - "That a communication be made to Mr W.H. Lever and to Mr J.P. Thomasson expressing the desire of the Council that they should respectively accept the position of honorary freemen of the borough."

At present there are only two honorary freemen of the borough - Ald W.W. Cannon, JP, the Father of the Town Council, who is in his 80th year, and Ald. Wm. Nicholson, JP, who has filled the office of Mayor no fewer than six times, and whose public and private benefactions are well known.