From the Evening News, June 28, 1972

OPPOSITION leader Mr Harold Wilson today made an astonishing attack on President Pompidou. He accused the French leader of squeezing the highest possible payment out of Britain as the price of entry into the Common Market. 'Mind your own business - keep out of Labour Party affairs', he warned. He defended Labour's attitude towards the Market, and slammed European Socialists who have attacked Labour's rejection of the terms of entry.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 28, 1947

BRIGHT warm sunshine gave hundreds of Bolton holiday-makers a great send-off today. Everyone was in high spirits, and the festive atmosphere of the usually drab station platforms made even queuing a pleasure. 'The system of loudspeakers marshalling the holiday-makers to their appropriate platforms has been an invaluable help this year', said a railway official, 'but people still like to gather their information first-hand from a porter or the ever-present policeman'.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 28, 1872

AT the Borough Court, on Thursday, a lad about 15 years of age, named John Miller, piecer, of 23, York-street, was brought up on a charge of assaulting his mother, Eliza Miller, on Monday last. On the day in question, the complainant noticed that the defendant was wearing a new necktie, and asked where he had got it from, when he replied: 'What have you got to do with it? I will stick this fork into you', and he aimed a blow at her face with the fork he had in his hand. Complainant put her hand up to shield her face. The fork penetrated the back of the hand, causing it to bleed and raised a swelling. Complainant said he was a bad lad and she could do no good with him. She wished for some protection.

The defendant made a rambling statement about his mother being addicted to drinking, which she emphatically denied. The bench ordered him to be punished with twelve strokes with the birch rod, but afterwards sentenced him to three days' imprisonment.

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