From the Evening News, April 18, 1992

AN exciting £10 million entertainments complex is planned for Bolton town centre.

It is likely to include either a multi-screen cinema or a bowling alley and restaurants. Developers are hoping to start work on the site at Springfield - close to the St. Peter's Way and Lower Bridgeman Street junction - by the end of this year. Bolton Council chiefs were today claiming that it could be the first sign that Bolton is bouncing back from recession.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, April 19, 1977

EARLY retirement and a shorter working week were becoming essential in Britain, with more than 1,350,000 unemployed, Mr Jack Jones, the Transport workers leader said today. He said that he did not expect the retirement age to be reduced immediately to 60. "What we are talking about is a staged reduction", he said, adding that increased pensions would have to be the first priority. Unless pensions were increased substantially as the retirement age was reduced, millions would be condemned to miserable poverty. He said the basic state pension for a married couple should be half of the national average earnings, and for a single person at least a third.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, April 19, 1952

SIR,- Is it in order for people to jump on a bus that has been declared full by the conductor? This happened to the last No 48 bus on a recent evening. The bus left several people at the Moor-lane stop. After it had gone a few yards on jumped three people, including a policeman and a car park attendant, all standing on the platform. Have these people the authority to take this unfair advantage over other intending passengers? This happens very often on this route. Yours, Fair Play.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, April 18, 1902

A SPECIAL general meeting of the Horwich Tradesmen's and Ratepayers' Association was held at the headquarters, Black Bull Hotel, on Thursday evening. The president, Mr G.C. Kenyon, presided over a large attendance. The meeting was called to discuss the forthcoming celebrations in Horwich of the King's Coronation and it was decided to fall in with the holidays to be observed by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Works, which will probably be Friday and Saturday, June 27th and 28th, shops to be closed on Friday only.

With reference to the route of the public procession which the Coronation Executive Committee have decided upon, the Secretary (Mr J.H. Hadfield) was instructed to write suggesting that Winter Hey-lane be included. He was empowered also to write the Bolton Corporation asking if it is their intention to have a beacon fire on Rivington Pike on Coronation night, and if such is not the case the tradesmen will take the matter up.

A SHOCKING fatality occurred at Birtenshaw last night, a child named John Griffin, two years of age, son of John Griffin, 13, Holme-st., Eagley, being knocked down and run over by a heavy cart and killed on the spot.