25 YEARS AGO

A 26-YEARS-OLD man was remanded in custody at London's Bow Street Court today charged with attempting to murder Princess Anne's bodyguard, Insp. James Wallace Beaton, in The Mall last night. The Princess was not injured in the incident. There was a massive security clamp-down on Princess Anne's home at Sandhurst today. The Princess and Capt. Mark Phillips drove back to their rented Army home from Buckingham Palace, within hours of last night's dramatic shoot-out.

50 YEARS AGO

IT was decided several weeks ago that the name of the secondary school to be built at Bromley Cross for the Turton area be Turton (Bromley Cross) Secondary School. This name was not accepted by the Darwen Divisional Education Executive. The divisional education office referred to the recommendations from the Ministry of Education, which stated that the aim of naming schools should be to get a distinctive title based on some local connexion rather than use the name of the street or district where a school is placed. The Turton representative on the executive thought that a good title would be the Queen Elizabeth Secondary School, in view of the Queen's visit to Turton last year, when Her Majesty expressed a wish that she would like to visit the district again. This royal title was accepted at last week's monthly meeting.

125 YEARS AGO

HAPPILY for the comfort of dwellers in houses with a sea view, though somewhat to the disappointment of an immense throng of visitors, the wind yesterday morning shifted northwards, and now blows from the north-west. The sea has lost the force of the south-western gale which sent it high over the esplanade, and into some houses on Thursday. There is, however still a very high sea running. At present the waves are of an immense size, and come in up the shelving beach in great masses of water, which, so high up as the North Pier, dash over the breakwater and cover the path with foam and spray. Near by South Shore, the sea increases in roughness; wave after wave rolls onto the solid path and creeps across the road. The South Pier, the entrance to which was carried away yesterday, has suffered no further damage. It is needless to say that the spectacle is grand, the water drenching the cautious spectators and giving a bath to the horses which are drawing cabs up and down the south shore. A great crowd of visitors from Manchester, Liverpool, Preston and neighbouring towns arrived by train this morning.

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