A MONTH-OLD pay row that cut Bolton ambulance service ended today after the men agreed to accept improved pay terms. The men had wanted a £2 lead-in pay offer extended to mechanics at the Blackhorse Street depot, who supported the industrial action. Dr I.A. Ross, the town's medical officer, said that an altered working-time agreement had now given the mechanics a similar increase to the one offered to the ambulancemen. This adds £2 to the basic rate of about £24 for a 40-hour week.

THE decision to run a cheap air service between Manchester and Liverpool will be looked upon enviously by frequent travellers to Liverpool from Bolton, for this service brings the two cities within 20 minutes of each other. Bolton people, however, must rely on a train service of which the fastest time is just under three-quarters of an hour. Manchester itself has a very good railway link - at least three routes - with Liverpool, and this air service which, presumably, will operate from Ringway, will be a help to suburban dwellers. The cost of the air trip is 10s return; the Bolton to Liverpool third class monthly rail fare is 8s 2d.

DURING the past few days, land has been staked out from Stoneclough to Worsley road, Farnworth, for the new loop line for goods and passengers in connection with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. The junction with the Bolton and Manchester Railway will be effected at a point about 200 yards or so south of the present station at Stoneclough, to which point, on its completion, the Stoneclough station will be removed, and which will be more easy of access than the present one, as well as less dangerous. In honour of the event of staking out the land, colours were displayed at the works that are interested in the new railway.

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