25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 27, 1975

THE Government firmly slammed the door today on Scottish Nationalist demands that the oil wealth of the North Sea should pour into an exclusively tartan kitty. The Government is also insisting on keeping a firm veto power over other major economic factors affecting the entire United Kingdom, and now the great debate will begin on how much devolution of governing powers should be allowed to Scotland and Wales.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 28, 1950

A CHAMBER for the disposal of condemned carcasses is not to be installed in the destructor works at Back-o'th'-Bank. Instead, Bolton Cleansing and Sewage Committee decided, at yesterday's meeting, to seek permission to erect at Raikes-lane a small destructor plant, which will include a chamber for the disposal of carcasses, alongside the proposed waste elimination plant.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 27, 1875

THE heartlessness of some mothers towards their offspring is shocking to contemplate. The accounts of the way in which infants are disposed of in heathen countries are read with abhorrence, and missionaries are sent out to give barbarous people a higher estimate of the value of human life. The same lesson, however, needs to be learned at home, and in Bolton as well as other parts of the country. There are unfortunately a large number of females who, becoming mothers under circumstances of dishonour, do not hesitate to destroy their offspring. Rather than face exposure, they are ready to commit murder. The choice is an appalling one. The moral is obvious.