25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 4, 1976

A FARNWORTH pub has changed its name - so that people can find it. The King's Head on Plodder Lane has been called "The Canary" for many years by locals and any stranger asking for the King's Head would be met with strange looks. Now Whitbread, which owns the pub, has decided to officially change its name to "The Canary".

THE fluoridation row which has raged in Bolton for more than a decade could end by being made a test court case. Mr Nicholas Brugge, regional organiser of the National Pure Water Association, told a protest meeting in Bolton last night that adding fluoride to the drinking water was "unlawful", and that if the decision to add fluoride went ahead, an injunction against the North West Water Authority would be applied for.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 5, 1951

THE Countess of Derby congratulated the people of Bolton on their "wonderful effort" when she received token purses for the Mayor of Bolton's YMCA appeal in the Albert Hall last night. She is president of the Women's Auxiliary of the YMCA Lancashire and Cheshire Division. Since the appeal had been launched in January of this year £6,238 had been contributed.

MOTHERS who give up work still leave their children in nurseries, taking up room needed for the children of working mothers. And meanwhile there are long waiting lists at the nurseries. An appeal is made to Bolton mothers who are not working, and whose children are in nurseries, to allow the nurseries to be used for their intended purpose.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 5, 1876

LAST Friday morning an official intonation was received in Bury that the Lords of the Privy Council had had under consideration the petitions of the inhabitant householders of the borough, both for and against the municipal charter, and their Lordships had agreed to advise Her Majesty to grant a charter. The limits of the corporation borough and the division of the wards will be those defined in the Bury Improvement Act, 1872; six councillors will be elected for each ward, which, with the necessary complement of ten aldermen, will give a Town Council of forty members. The town's affairs have been managed by a Board of Improvement Commissioners for the last thirty years.