25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, May 25, 1971

THERE can be no referendum on Britain's entry into the Common Market, stressed Mr Geoffrey Rippon today. "This is not because the British Government are insensitive to public opinion," he said, "but because the whole history of British constitutional liberties from the earliest days has been based firmly on respect for the representational principle and the responsibility of Parliament."

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, May 25, 1946

SIR - On certain nights mill workers are being crowded off the 5-36pm No. 10 bus from Blackburn-rd. by picture-goers from a cinema in the Tonge Moor district. May I make a courteous appeal to them to catch an earlier bus, as these workers have a further wait of 12 minutes - an unnecessary hardship when the solution is so simple. - Yours, etc. (Counc) Herbert Glynn, The Stray, Bolton.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, May 25, 1871

THE Derby was run today at Epsom, under conditions of almost ideal excellence. The weather was splendid, a soft breeze tempering what might otherwise have been somewhat excessive heat. A vast assemblage, representative in all its varieties of nothing less than the entire English people, was on the ground. Thanks to the fineness of the weather, the road, which had lost something of its popularity during the last few years, seemed to attain to almost the dignity of real competition with the railway in its contributions to the gathering on the course. Great numbers of Frenchmen chose this way of reaching Epsom. The race was run with the following result: Favenius first, Albert Victor and King of the Forest dead heat.

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