25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 9, 1975

CASUALTY departments at hospitals in Bolton will close down at five o'clock tonight until 9am tomorrow. The 'outside office hours' shut-down will go on until the end of the junior hospital doctors' overtime ban which starts tonight. But consultants will still be on hand to deal with emergencies, and the junior doctors have pledged themselves to turn out for major disasters or heart-case crises.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 9, 1950

MR B. Braine (C. Billericay) asked the Home Secretary in the Commons today what steps he proposes to take to check the continuing rise in the number of crimes of violence. He was also asked whether in view of the marked increase in crimes of violence in the first six months of this year, he would consider the reimposition of corporal punishment for hardened criminals in this type of case.

Replying to both these questions, Mr Chuter Ede said, 'I am satisfied that the penalties prescribed by law for crimes of violence are adequate. The Government has no intention of reintroducing corporal punishment, which was abolished in 1948.'

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 9, 1875

BRIDGET Wallace, a woman of disreputable character, was charged at the Borough Court with behaving in a riotous and disorderly manner on Deansgate on Saturday, and was committed to the Sessions. She had only been out of prison five weeks out of the last twelve months.

A DAY or two ago, a narrow escape took place at the extensive quarries of Mr Catterall, Lester Mill, Anglezarke. It appears that a quarryman named William Berry, Mill Hill, Rivington, was picking up a hammer when a quantity of rock known as 'rearers' fell, striking Berry and a lad. When liberated, it was found that Berry's left arm was broken above the wrist.

JAMES Taylor, of Halliwell, was fined 5s and costs at the Borough Court for playing at pitch-and-toss, in Halliwell, on the morning of Sunday, the 31st ult.