EACH of Bolton's six secondary bases should be converted into a large comprehensive school, with one head teacher and accommodating pupils from the age of 11 to 18. Every comprehensive would then be served by its own batch of 'feeder' primary schools. These are some of the main recommendations of the final report prepared by the Council's working party on comprehensive education, and it is the first time that the controlling Labour group has revealed its intentions towards the direct grant schools - Bolton School (Boys' Division), Bolton School (Girl's Division), Canon Slade, Mount St Joseph and Thornleigh.

ANITA, the 25-years-old trapeze artist married the 26-years-old ringmaster of Bertram Mills' Olympia Circus in London last week, and they had as best man Coco the clown. What has this storybook romance to do with Bolton, you may wonder? The answer is: Everything.

Anita, you see, is, or was before her marriage, Miss Doreen Brown, a Bolton girl. Her parents live at 19, Scaton-rd., Smithills, and the bridegroom, Mr Frank Foster, junior, is the son of Bolton's famous circus personality.

125 YEARS AGO

AT the County Sessions today, a young man named Robert Morris, of Westhoughton, was charged with doing wilful damage to a window in the house of James Smith, Westhoughton - Mr Pennington appeared for the complainant - Elizabeth Smith, wife of the complainant, stated that the defendant had been paying attention to her daughter against her will. He had been the means of getting her discharged from her employ as domestic servant by going to her master's house for her in a drunken state. The daughter had been allowed to come and live at home on her promising that she would discontinue keeping the defendant's company. Between midnight and two o'clock in the morning of the 4th inst. he came to their house. He knocked at the door, and was answered through the bedroom window, by the daughter he had kept company with, that he must go away and see her some other time. He then threw a brick through the window, breaking several panes of glass, and doing damage to the estimated extent of £2. He also did damage in the garden by trampling on it. In defence, the man said that the daughter had invited him to come to the house on the night in question. He had broken the window by mistake, the brick he threw going through the window instead of against the wall as he intended. He had promised to pay for all the damage he had done. He was fined 25s damages, 5s fine and costs, in default of payment one month's imprisonment.

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