25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 1, 1975

SEXY siestas as a substitute for factory and office tea breaks have stirred the hearts of local union officials. They are sure that the ideas put forward by Bolton sex expert Dr Ivor Felstein would meet with a slurp of approval from their tea-drinking members. Dr Felstein's theory that a one-hour sex break would be more therapeutic than a cup of tea for the thumbs up from local Transport and General Workers' Union representative Mr Ralph Fishwick, although, he added, it could be difficult arranging it. 'If drivers are away on a job in London and they are going to insist on sex instead of tea, it could cause problems,' he said.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 1, 1950

BOLTON Wanderers' 'gates' are climbing up among the forty thousands again. It is, incidentally. an interesting thought that almost as many people visit the 'flicks' on Saturday evening as have been to Burnden Park in the afternoon. There are over 22,000 cinema seats available in this town. Many of them, remember, will be filled twice in the evening. The three largest cinemas are Odeon, 2,534, Regal 1,952, and Lido 1,854.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 1, 1875

THOMAS Heslin, biscuit maker, 52, Charles Rupert-street, was charged at the Borough Court, on Thursday, with feloniously cutting and wounding James Tierney, by stabbing him in the nose with a knife, and doing him grievous bodily harm, in Haydock-street, on the 1st inst. Mr Hall prosecuted and Mr Fielding defended.

James Tierney, blast tenter, Back Haydock-street, said that on Monday evening last he went to a beerhouse kept by William Pink, in Haydock-street. The prisoner, and two companions, came into the beerhouse whilst he was there, and began to play at draughts. A quarrel arose during the progress of the game, and the prisoner and his companions were ejected. In the street, prisoner and his companions commenced to beat their other friends, who was named Openshaw. He (witness) interfered and pulled Openshaw off the prisoner, whom he had succeeded in throwing to the ground. Prisoner then got up, and, placing himself against the wall, pulled a pocket knife from his pocket and said he would 'run that through the first that would come up'. The prisoner then rushed at him, and struck him a blow with the knife on the left side of the nose.

Mr Sergeant, surgeon, said that he found a cut on the left side of Tierney's nose, which extended from the bridge to the tip. It penetrated to the bone, and the cartilage was cut. The wound bled considerably.

The bench decided to send the prisoner to the assizes. Bail was refused.