From the Evening News, June 6, 1992 - MINDLESS vandals have wrecked a £10,000 super safe children's playground. Bolton Council set up the play area at Bolton Road, Kearsley, just 18 months ago . . . now it is in ruins. It was one of only two in the town with a special safe rubber-based surface. The yobs have torn up the play surface and is is closed while leisure chiefs carry out repairs.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

June 7, 1977

AN estimated 30,000 Boltonians braved winds and dodged showers to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee outside their homes. Organisers of nearly 300 local street parties refused to allow the weather to frustrate weeks of planning. Most of the parties, starting in mid-afternoon, escaped the rain, and the sun shone. Many pubs in the Bolton area had licence extensions for the two days of the holiday, from 11am to 11.30pm. But some began to run short of draught beer and closed earlier.

Thousands who turned out to see the giant beacon on Winter Hill went home disappointed. They jammed moorland roads all around Winter Hill, but saw nothing through the low clouds and left believing the bonfire had failed. However, the beacon did burn, and many more reached the desolate sight to watch it glow for almost two hours.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

June 7, 1952

SIR,- A few weeks ago, intending to have a good baking day, I opened three 3lb bags of self-raising flour which I had recently bought. I found all three full of flour lice, so I scrapped the lot, and then cleaned and disinfected the cupboard and baking utensils.

Since then I have bought three more from three different shops, each of which I know has a good turnover for flour. I found all these just the same, even though I opened them straight away, so again the lot was scrapped. Now I am afraid to buy any more.

I have mentioned it to some of my friends, but no-one else seems to have seen the lice - or they don't look for them!

I am wondering if all flour is alike, and what we are eating when we buy bread and cakes. Is there some reason for all this flour lice?

Yours, Clean Food.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

June 7, 1902

DR Kellogg, of Battle Creek, Michigan, has come to London with a pocketful of nostrums which he claims will teach people how to live a hundred years. His dietary chart reads as follows: Abjure meats, pickles, and condiments of all sorts, eat cereals, vegetables, fruits and nuts. Forswear cheese, avoid fried foods as you would his Satanic Majesty. Never mix sugar with your oatmeal, and learn to breathe properly. Breathing, explained the doctor to several thousand vegetarians at the Holloway Hall last night, is an automatic process which the ordinary man never bothers his head about.

It appears from the doctor's theory that there is some mystery about it which necessitates an apprenticeship to a proper qualified instructor before the art can be mastered to ensure longevity. Tight lacing was denounced, and a statement made that a normal woman needs a larger waist than the average man because Nature has bestowed upon her "more liver and less heart."