25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 8, 1976

ICE-cream and soft drink manufacturers in the Bolton area are working overtime to cope with the demand of the heatwave. Public houses, too, are being kept busy thirst-quenching drinks like lager and shandies. Early this afternoon, the thermometer was already nudging the eighties in Bolton.

SHOPKEEPERS in Bolton's Blackburn Road have lost their fight to prevent double yellow lines being put on the road outside their premises. The Greater Manchester Council has decided that the traffic scheme must go ahead even though traders fear that no parking restrictions would hit their businesses.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 8, 1951

THE treatment at present prescribed for delinquents is not likely to stop juvenile crime, which springs mainly from conditions in the home. This is the conclusion reached by a special committee of the Lancashire County Council after examining data on the subject in five areas of the county and the observations of organizations concerned with juvenile welfare.

In its report the Committee expresses the belief that three-quarters of present juvenile delinquency would disappear if there was some magical way of instilling into parents the love which every child has a right to expect.

GEOFF Duke, the 28-year-old Norton "ace", today won the Senior Tourist Trophy race in the Isle of Man for the second year in succession, and beat his last year's record. He won the Junior event on Monday.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 8, 1876

THIS morning, about a quarter to six o'clock, a shocking accident occurred on the Lancashire Union Railway at Hilton house Station, Horwich. A train had just passed the station when it was discovered that the body of a man was lying on the line. On further investigation it was found that the head had been completely severed from the body, which was identified as that of Thos. Ollerton, labourer, Blackrod. He was 50 years of age.

THIS morning, at the Borough Court, Mr Vose, tripe dealer, applied on behalf of Mrs Harrison, of the Flag Inn, for an extension of hours so as to enable her to open her premises at four o'clock am, instead of six, on Friday and Saturday mornings, for the convenience of excursionists. The application was refused.

FOR mixing "skimmed" milk of the previous evening with the succeeding morning's new milk, thereby causing an abstraction of cream in the total, a Harwood farmer was fined 40s and costs by the Magistrates this morning.