25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 8, 1975

PLANS for Bolton's new College of Art and Design have been shelved. Bolton Council last night decided to axe the £692,000 scheme from its building programme this year as part of economy cuts. Now there are fears that the project will not get off the ground at all.

RUNAWAY greyhound Danny Boy, who ran away after a race at the Bolton Greyhound Stadium earlier this week, was hit by a car on St Pater's Way today, and was taken to a vet with a broken leg.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 8, 1950

MEMORIES are short among some people, at least as far as the weather is concerned. With rain falling today, many people were heard to remark 'Back to summer'. We have, however, been enjoying a comparatively good spell for the time of year. So far this month there has been 14.8 hours of sunshine, an average of 2.1 hours a day. The only rainfall, until that which started about 1 o'clock this morning, was on the first day of the month, when rain lasting about an hour in the evening resulted in a rainfall of .21 inches.

In October, normally a rainy month, the rainfall was well below average - 3.32 inches, compared with the long-term average of 4.876 inches. Last month there were 88.5 hours of sunshine, compared with an average of 62.7 hours.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 8, 1875

ONE of our best-known actresses not long ago married a gentleman unconnected with the profession. The lady is considered beautiful, the gentleman was certainly devoted. Shortly after the marriage, however, the wife intimated her intention to return to the stage, and, in spite of all protests, persisted in her resolution

After a short honeymoon, Mrs ..... entered into a theatrical engagement. It was noticed by her friends that she was not in good spirits, and to lack that confidence which had hitherto always distinguished her. The part she was playing did not require her presence at the end of the piece, and she left the house just before the fall of the curtain. As she was passing out of the stage entrance, a man suddenly stepped forward and made a lunge at her with a knife. He was seized by theatre officials, and the lady escaped into a cab in the confusion and drove off. The would-be murderer turned out to be no less than the lady's husband. Of course the reason for the attack is not very difficult to guess.

A not too reputable habitue and patron of the nuditarian drama has been bragging loudly of an adventure he says he had with the lady in question a few days ago, and it is generally conjectured that some kind friend conveyed the current reports to the husband. The lady is now dodging from hotel to hotel in town to elude her husband, and he is following her about, threatening to take her life.