From the Evening News, September 21, 1976

BBC newsreader Dorina Brown had a last minute script conference yesterday before going "on the air". But this was an assignment with a difference for Dorina, who lives at Dunscar. She is a group of volunteers whose voices will be heard reading the news on Bolton News Talk - a fortnightly cassette recorded news bulletin for Bolton's blind and severely disabled.

TEN missing crewmen from the minesweeper Fittleton, which sank off Holland last night after a collision, have been listed as presumed dead, a Royal Navy spokesman said today. The bodies of two other seamen have already been recovered.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, September 21, 1951

WHEN at 7.30 this evening the curtain (an imaginary one) rises on a production of "Twelfth Night", the audience, seated round small tables, will settle down to enjoy the combined delights of Shakespearian drama - and a pint. While players on the tiny improvised stage unfold the strange history of events in Illyria, nimble footed waiters will be about with trays of full and empty glasses.

It will be a new experience for the 175-strong audience at the Bee Hive Hotel, Lostock. The landlord, Mr H.J. Selby estimates he could have distributed another 100 members of the audience without difficulty if he could have found room for so many people.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, September 21, 1876

ON Saturday, at the Borough Court, Samuel Greenhalgh, 40, Turton-street, was summoned for keeping swine so as to be a nuisance and injurious to health. John Marshall, nuisance inspector, said the defendant was a tripe dealer. Prior to the 9th August last he visited the defendant's premises several times and found swine kept by him in a manner to be injurious to health. The neighbourhood was thickly populated with the labouring classes. The pigstye was only 12 yards from the nearest yard. On the 9th August he found three swine in the stye. On the 21st August he served a notice upon defendant to remove the swine within 14 days. He again visited the premises on the 8th September and the swine were still there. Within the circumference of 12 yards there were 12 pigs.

It was stated that the defendant did not intend to keep any more pigs. Under those circumstances he was willing to submit to an order - the order was made for the removal of the nuisance complained of, and prohibiting its recurrence.