Town's cinemas ban Last Tango in Paris

25 YEARS AGO

TWO more girls were ordered by their governments to quit the Miss World contest today - bringing the total so far to nine. The entrants from the Philippines and Yugoslavia are being withdrawn because of a row over South Africa's apartheid policies, and the fact that South Africa is taking part in the competition. Already out of the contest at London's Albert Hall are Miss India, Miss Mauritius, Miss Swaziland, Miss Liberia, Miss Seychelles, Miss Sri Lank and Miss Malaysia.

THE controversial sex film "Last Tango in Paris" has again been banned from Bolton area cinemas. Members of the town's Environmental Health and Public Control Committee turned down another request for them to see the film, although only two members had been present at a special showing of the film in 1973. The committee was told that the film had shown at more than 1,000 cinemas, and had been watched by more than three million people.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

November 19, 1951

SIR,- It is a ridiculous state of affairs when a parent actually agrees with children smoking and would even offer a boy of his a cigarette. Well, I would see to it that he wouldn't so quickly give a boy of mine one! Surely, "Good for 'Em" must be the type of person who cannot differentiate between right and wrong.

It is definitely wrong for children to smoke. For one thing, it injures their immature young bodies. But because "Good for 'Em" can actually see them doing it he gives them credit, and agrees with them. What an outlook.

I started smoking when I was in the Army about eight years ago, so I didn't nip up back streets to partake of "a whiff". Consequently, I imagine (well, I'm almost positive) that I could give "Good for 'Em" 40 yards at 100, or that he wouldn't last three rounds in the boxing ring.

Most children's minds are innocent and sacred. We must keep them healthy until they are old enough to use them properly. Yours etc, Youngster's Bacca.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

November 18, 1876

THE Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, in the notice of their application to Parliament in the next Session, refer to the improvements contemplated at the Trinity-street Station.

Without quoting the legal phraseology of the clauses in the Bill, we may state that it is intended to demolish property on the west side of the station between Newport-street and the line to Liverpool and Southport, which consists of a block of somewhat antiquated buildings, the purchase of which will enable the Company to extend their accommodation to passengers arriving from Manchester by the placing of a cab stand on the site of the present buildings.

To those who have experienced the inconvenience to passengers arriving from Manchester arising from the necessary mounting of the steps leading into Trinity-street, the ascending of the deep incline on the north side of the bridge, or the toilsome traversing of the length of the platform and the ascent of the steps leading by the bridge into Newport-street, this improvement will be highly valued, enabling them, as at the London-road Station, Manchester, to step at once from the arrival train into a cab bound for their destination.

It is also intended to widen Moncrieffe-street and construct a new street in continuation from Crook-street to Trinity-street, thus abolishing the narrow, muddy, and inconvenient alley leading from Trinity-street to Crook-street by the end of Trinity Church.