25 YEARS AGO

FIVE soccer fans were each fined the maximum £100 today when they appeared before Bolton magistrates, charged with using threatening behaviour at Saturday's match between Bolton Wanderers and Sheffield Wednesday at Burnden Park. The magistrates' chairman told the fans, three Bolton youths, a Bolton girl, and a Sheffield youth: 'We've given you the maximum monetary penalty that we are able. We're going to make every effort to stamp out this unruly behaviour at football matches.'

50 YEARS AGO

PASSENGERS on a Blackburn-bound Bolton Corporation bus last night were surprised to hear a mother tell her small son to stay in his seat when an adult passenger, a woman, was standing. The conductor rightly insisted that the child must give up the seat, pointing out that it was a condition of the sale of concessionary price tickets that a child must stand if a seat is required by an adult. Small wonder, then, that some children sit tight in their seats on crowded buses when they are encouraged to do so by their parents.

125 YEARS AGO

THE neighbourhood of the Swan Hotel, Bradshawgate, and Deansgate was this afternoon thronged by workpeople apparently more or less interested in the meeting of the Masters, announced to take place there at three o'clock. Groups stood in Bradshawgate and Deansgate. There was an exceedingly large attendance of masters, no less than 43 firms being represented. After a discussion occupying about two hours, the following resolution was eventually passed: 'That inasmuch as arbitration has been offered by both the Hand Mule Operative Association and also by the Self Actor Minders' Association, this meeting is of opinion that the question of a reduction in wages be now submitted to arbitration, and that the arrangements for such arbitration be left to the Committee with power to add to their number.'

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