25 YEARS AGO

GALES which swept the North early today hurled sections of the wooden stand at Radcliffe Cricket Club over a wall, badly damaging two old people's bungalows.

THE body of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte has been found, and Canadian police said today that they had found the hideout where the kidnappers held him before killing him. There is still no sign of the kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross

50 YEARS AGO

THE resumption of street lighting on a pre-war basis along the main roads has led some shopkeepers to ponder on the legality of shop window lighting. A minority have not stopped at pondering. They have decided to light shop windows again, a development which has obliged the Bolton County Police Force to issue a number of friendly warnings. The point is that the restrictions on shop window lighting are still operative. The consumption of fuel for advertisement purposes. including "the display of goods in the course of any business" is prohibited. And it is not only in the county area that offences are being committed. Lights have been seen shining in the town centre that ought not to have been shining.

125 YEARS AGO

A CORPORATION deputation yesterday morning waited upon the Lancashire and Yorkshire directors, at Manchester, and urged the advisability of the long-pending branch railway to Astley Bridge being proceeded with. Mr Ald. Pilling presented a memorial from millowners and others influential in favour of the railway. The directors replied that they were fully sensible of the growing necessity advocated by the local deputation in the memorial, and promised that the subject would be submitted to the consideration of the board without further delay.

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