From the Evening News, October 28, 1971

THE Cabinet has decided to abolish the office of alderman from the local councils of Britain.

AFTER over 40 years as a cinema, the Studio 1, Farnworth, will close on Saturday to be re-opened shortly as a bingo and social club.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, October 28, 1946

FROM Monday, November 4th, tramcars will be withdrawn on the Hulton-lane to Westhoughton service and buses will be substituted. Trams will continue on the Bolton (Howell Croft) to Hulton-lane service and passengers going through will have to change. They will be able to book a through ticket. Frequency on the tram route will be much the same, and on the bus route every 12 minutes on week-days, with buses every six minutes during the tea-time rush hour.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, October 27, 1871

TODAY we have enlarged the Bolton Evening News for the fourth time, and the journal is now double the size it was when commenced nearly five years ago. The present issue is printed upon a new and admirable Four-Feeder Printing Machine, which produces over six thousand copies per hour; in contrast with which we may add that when first issued the paper was printed upon a Single-Feeder Machine, producing only one thousand copies per hour. Purely as a fact of newspaper history, we are fairly entitled to place on record the statement that the Bolton Evening News was the first Halfpenny Daily Paper in the kingdom, and it is now, we believe, the largest daily paper printed at the price.

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