From the Evening News, June 20, 1992 - AN historic hall and part of a golf course at the centre of a boundary row will stay in Bolton. The local government boundary commission has confirmed its decision to keep the first hole of Wigan golf course and ancient Arley Hall in Bolton.

TOWN hall chiefs have resorted to court action for the second time in a month to remove travelling families from their camp outside a Bolton country park. Bolton Council has taken a tough stance after furious residents in the area complained that the caravanners had ripped up fencing at the entrance to the picturesque Moses Gate Country Park five times in as many days.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 21, 1977

THE dole queue stretched again in June to a new post-war midsummer record of 1,450,055 - 6.2 per cent of Britain's workforce.

MAINTENANCE grants of £18 a week and clothing grants of £60 a year are suggested by the Child Poverty Action Group today as a way of keeping youngsters who want to stay at school after 16 out of the dole queue.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 20, 1952

TWO Bolton men who are now in hospital, completely paralysed from their waist downwards, will shortly move into their own homes and be able to fend themselves without help. They will always be paralysed, unfortunately, but in the modern bungalows which are being built for them in Adrian-rd., Halliwell, they will not have to depend on the help of friends, relatives or nurses.

Cars provided for the men by the Ministry of Pensions will be garaged nearby. From the garages they will guide themselves in their wheelchairs through doors made wide for the purpose and up a ramp which takes the place of a step at the front entrance to the bungalow. The rooms will be specially constructed so that a wheelchair can be easily propelled from one to another, and fitted with equipment which will enable the men to do every personal task for themselves.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 21, 1902

ONE of the best washes calculated to keep the hair fair is simply carbonate of potash and soft water. The hair should be washed with this whenever it requires a bath. A little ammonia melted in the water is also excellent as a wash for fair hair, but if injudiciously used it is apt to make the hair brittle; therefore be cautious.

Brunettes will not find ammonia so well suited to them as to blondes, for the reason that dark hair has a fatal tendency to lose its colour early, and ammonia is inclined to encourage this defect. A sulphur soap suits brunettes better, for sulphur, made up in either soap form or as a lotion, is recommended as a check against premature greyness.

A camphor and borax soap is also good as a hair wash, both for blondes and brunettes. Some people have an objection to using soap for their hair under the belief that it increases dandruff; but that is not the case if the head is properly rinsed after it has been lathered. Sometimes three and four fresh waters will be necessary, but lazy girls and women ignore this fact and then rail against soap.