From the Evening News, March 29, 1992

SHOCKED staff at a local nightclub were told their club had been chosen as the venue for the UK's first nude disco.

They were told management had decided to go ahead only after lengthy debate and meetings with local naturist groups. Staff at the Roxy were briefed as to how similar events in other countries had been managed and it was only when one of them spotted the disco date - April 1 - that they realised they had been conned. Even manager Peter Clarke had been caught out.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, March 30, 1977

COMMON Market talks on farm prices broke down in Brussels today, and it could mean that British housewives will not have to pay 5p in the £ extra for food in the coming year. Today's deadlock arose out of the exercise of the British veto. Agricultural Minister John Silkin stuck to his view that if there was no compensating deal on cheap butter for Britain, he could not sanction a revaluation of the Green Pound nor agree to a rise in farmers' income.

PETROL today went up by 5p per gallon following Chancellor Healey's Budget. A survey on new prices facing Bolton motorists showed that drivers can expect to pay between 79p to 83p for a gallon of four star.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, March 30, 1952

IS the Press too gloomy? asked Prof. D.R. MacCalman at the annual conference of the National Association for Mental Health in London today.

"Our newspapers day after day are filled with gloomy forebodings. They report only the worst side of human nature. There is never a hopeful gleam. Never a lightening of the spirit. Is this good for the health of the community?

"Does it not add to the strain of modern life? Does it not foster depression and anxiety and all those gastric ulcers, and high blood pressure, from which we are all suffering?"

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, March 29, 1902

BOLTON and the surrounding districts have for some time enjoyed immunity from fires of a very serious nature, but the spell of good fortune was broken in the early hours of Good Friday, when the works of Messrs Ramsden and Co., Ltd., bleachers and dyers, Ainsworth Vale, were partly burned down, and before the flames were extinguished damage to the extent of several thousand pounds was done.

The ill-fated building is situated just beyond the Breightmet boundary of the borough. It is stated that the flames were first noticed by a woman shortly after half-past one from the window of her bedroom. She aroused some of her neighbours, and a lad of about fourteen years of age ran three miles to Bolton Fire Station, where he gave information about the outbreak shortly before three o'clock. Superintendent Batten and his staff turned out with the "Victoria" steamer and three horses.