WATER bosses are urging people to stop having baths and take showers instead.10 years ago From the Evening News September 16, 1995

The measure is one of a number proposed to try and conserve water in the region's dried up reservoirs.

Bolton's main supply comes from Thirlmere reservoir, which, despite heavy September showers, is still less than a quarter full. And, unless it starts pouring down soon, Bolton has just 40 days supply left.

CHURCHES Together in Bolton - formerly Bolton Council of Churches - has just celebrated its 75th anniversary as the oldest ecumenical body in the British Isles.

It has decided to mark the event by organising a major survey of almost 150 churches throughout the Bolton metropolitan area.

25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News September 17, 1980

A FAMILY engineering factory is to close with the loss of 65 jobs.

The latest victims of the economic slump are Robert Watson and Co, constructional engineers, who are to close their Bolton High Street factory after 47 years in business.

Bolton Council is to investigate the possibility of creating a new golf course on a proposed open cast mining site at Over Hulton.

Bolton planning chief, Mr Rod Brackley, is to hold talks with Salford City Council on the possibility of extending their nine-hole municipal golf course on to the Brackley Colliery site.

50 YEARS AGO From the Evening News September 17, 1955

FIERCE fighting continued today in many parts of Argentina, where civil war has broken out.

Cordoba, third largest city in the country, was the scene of the heaviest fighting, as Government paratroops attempted to re-take the city for President Peron.

LONDON transport is still carrying on its lonely campaign for the removal of private cars from the clogged and crowded streets of Central London.

The campaign began in the advertisement columns of the Press, and has now been transferred to the walls of the Underground stations.

The argument is the same: buses carry more people per square foot of road surface used than any other type of vehicle, but they are unable to do their job properly in Central London because there is so much traffic on the streets; because of this, people despair of public transport and use their cars; as a result, the congestion gets worse and the buses travel even more slowly, persuading yet more people to use their own transport.

100 YEARS AGO From the Evening News September 16, 1905

The Sultan of Turkey, says the Constantinople correspondent of the Daily Mail, is greatly opposed to the introduction of wireless telegraphy into the capital.

The Marconi apparatus having been explained to him, he dismissed the matter as an invention of the Evil One, and gave strict injunctions that it should never be brought before him again.

It is well known that Abdul Hamid is exceedingly averse from every innovation dealing with electricity and the like.