PARKING problems outside Bolton's Ashburner Street marker were described as 'a danger to life and limb' at a meeting of Bolton's Public Control Committee. Members received a letter from the Bolton and District Fish and Fruiterers' Association asking them to consider a course of action to relieve congestion. 'There is only one answer', said Ald Frank Telford. 'Tradesmen and the town in general have to face the fact that the market is in the wrong place.'

THE days when 20 cigarettes and a glass of beer could be bought for a few coppers seem now very far away. Yet we get occasional reminders of them. Workmen engaged on stripping the walls and decorating the Wheatsheaf Hotel, Newport-st. this week, sighed for the good old days when they uncovered a notice on the wall which read: 'Refreshments in this hall, 2d per glass.'

THIS morning, at the Borough Court, Town Hall, Thomas Mahon, labourer, Commission-street, was charged with being a person convicted or indicted of a crime, and that on the hearing of the said indictment a previous conviction was proved against him, and was on and previous to the 21st. instant, getting his living by dishonest means. Inspector Greenhalgh saw prisoner in company with four suspicious characters in Bridge-street on Tuesday afternoon. When they caught sight of the officer they separated, one of them going up Bridge-street, and Mahon and others along Bow-street. Inspector Greenhalgh then went to the police office for several of the detectives, and they went and apprehended the prisoner. He had only been out of gaol seven days, and had since been with his old associates. He was three parts drunk when taken into custody. Inspector Greenhalgh said there had been several robberies committed since prisoner came out of prison, and there were strong suspicions that he was implicated in them. Prisoner applied for a remand to enable him to obtain evidence, and the case was adjourned until Saturday.

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