From the Evening News, November 27, 1976

25 YEARS AGO

A ROW was building up today over Greater Manchester Council's proposal to take control of all computer parking arrangements throughout the county. At the centre of the row are proposals to tax or issue permits on all private non-residential car parks in offices, shops, factories and other places of work.

BRITAIN will soon face the choice of changing its course and heading towards economic recovery or sliding to economic and political collapse, said Nobel prize winner Milton Friedman in New York today. He was speaking on a television programme following up a controversial documentary "The Second Battle of Britain", screened earlier this year, and which reported on the decline of the British economy.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 28, 1951

A NEW £25,000 lifeboat, the Herbert Leigh, is now on active service at Roa Island, Barrow. The boat bears the name of the managing director of the firm of W & J Leigh, Ltd., paint and varnish manufacturers, Tower Works, Mill Hill, Bolton, because he was the man who paid for it. Yesterday Mr Leigh visited the lifeboat station to take his first look at the completed vessel - and he was delighted with what he saw. "It is a Rolls Royce of seagoing craft," he said. Mr Leigh has been associated with ships and seagoing people for many years, and he has always admired the men of the lifeboat service. Barrow was a happy choice, as Mr Leigh has had business associations in that area for many years.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 28, 1876

ANOTHER mysterious disappearance has occurred in the neighbourhood. On Sunday morning a young man named John Baxter, butler to Edmund Ashworth, Esq., JP, Egerton Hall, mysteriously disappeared from the residence of his employer. Search parties were formed during the day, and they proceeded to search the neighbourhood in the hope of gleaning some tidings of the missing man, but without avail up to this morning. Fears prevail that Baxter has terminated his life, because three or four days before disappearing he had given signs of being in a desponding mood.

ALICE Carter, a disreputable character, 24, Howell-croft, was charged at the Borough Court, this morning, with stealing 3s from the person of Thomas Naden, 34, Spring-gardens whilst in a beerhouse in Newport-street. The prosecutor refused to appear, and the prisoner was therefore discharged.