25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, March 20, 1973

ULSTER is to get a new-style parliament representing all parties in the strife-torn province. And the Government of Northern Ireland, too, is to be an all-party affair. These are two of the main points in the long-awaited White Paper on Ulster's constitution which was published this afternoon.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, March 20, 1948

THE Rev. E. Stopford, Vicar of St Simon and St Jude's, Bolton, his wife, and the 20 other parishioners who have agreed to live on rations equivalent to those available in Europe, during Holy Week, have been busy preparing menus, and deciding how they are to eke out their meagre rations. Mrs Stopford, a Scotswoman, who was accustomed in her youth to frugal Scottish dishes, has prepared a menu for the week for herself and husband, and suggests that it be adopted by others. The rations to be allowed for one person are six small loaves; 2oz butter; 2lb potatoes; 8oz sugar; 4oz jam; 8oz cereal; 1oz cheese; 4oz. meat; 1lb vegetables.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, March 20, 1873

NEXT Sunday being 'Simnel' or Mid-Lent Sunday, the confectioners of the town have made the customary extensive preparations for the extra-ordinary demand for these 'cracknels' or what at better known in this neighbourhood as 'simblins'. Perhaps the largest specimen of these simnels is to be seen in the window of Mr Henderson, Town Hall Square, which weighs upward of two cwts, and is tastefully decorated. The other leading confectioners in this town display very beautiful and rich samples of this kind of confectionery, the simnels varying both in size and decoration, and are such as will satisfy the wants of all classes of purchasers.

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