From the Evening News, April 1, 1992 - MORE than 150 jobs will be created at Bolton Institute in the next three years.

These new posts will be not for just academics, but also for a wide range of support staff. Almost unnoticed, Bolton Institute has become one of the town's major employers, with 270 teaching staff, 200 support staff, and 120 part-time teaching staff.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, March 31, 1977

POLICE were today combing a Bolton tip after an unexploded bomb was found by a 16-years-old schoolboy. Rod Stirratt, of Woodbridge Drive, Bolton, found the bomb while digging on the tip off Crompton Way. He hid the device, which was more than two feet long with fins and a propeller at one end, under a bush for two days, then took it home and hid it under the bed.

He then took it to the Gorton Street Youth Workship to show friends, and it was seen by an off-duty policeman, who immediately took the bomb to nearby waste ground. Bomb disposal experts from Liverpool blew it up. The blast was heard over a mile away.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, March 31, 1952

WHAT a wonder season Nat Lofthouse, the Wanderers' centre-forward, is having.

When the England international selectors chose him, yesterday, to lead the English attack at Hampden Park, one of his two greatest ambitions was gratified. The other is to play for Bolton Wanderers at Wembley in a Cup Final.

Not even Nat's most enthusiastic admirers would have cared to bet, at the beginning of the season, that he would lead the English forwards in all three major home internationals, but this he will have accomplished by Saturday night to set the seal on a remarkable sequence of match appearances. Included among them were his first playing introduction to the famous Wembley turf in the match against Austria, and a complete set of Football League badges with appearances against the League of Ireland, the Irish League, and the Scottish League.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, March 31, 1902

THE BOLTON INFIRMARY

A patient, recently under treatment at the Infirmary, writes on March 25th: "I take the liberty of writing a few lines to tell you that I arrived home safely yesterday, and also to thank you very sincerely and heartily for your great kindness to me during my stay under your care. I shall never forget your kindness to me during the time of my operations, and also Nurse ----, to whom I am afraid I was a great deal of trouble. I am certain that no-one could be better looked after than I have been by you and the nurses under you. I am also grateful to Dr Mallett and Dr Ashton for their unremitting attention to me while in the Infirmary, and I cannot find words to thank you all sufficiently." The same patient's wife writes: "I also send my very best thanks to all connected with the Infirmary, for myself and family received nothing but the greatest kindness from all. Both nurses and doctors were always obliging whenever we came to inquire over my husband."