From the Evening News, September 26, 1995: A beer festival is to be held at The Howcroft Inn in Bolton over five days in October.

The festival, from Wednesday, October 25, at the Pool Street pub, will feature more than 140 beers and live entertainment.

OLD folk in Bolton are being urged to put on their dancing shoes.

Age Concern is starting a winter programme of tea dances at two local venues.

The charge will be 50p including refreshments.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News

September 26, 1980

COTTON, the little Bolton firm that built world-beating motor cycles, has lost its long fight for survival.

The company announced today that it has gone into immediate voluntary liquidation and that the remaining 12 staff are redundant.

THERE is good news at last for Boltons dole queue kids.

The Council has announced a massive jobs package which will keep around 600 unemployed young people off the streets for up to a year.

If the imaginative new strategy works out, the Town Hall could be able to guarantee every local teenager some kind of work experience and training.

There will also be jobs for adult unemployed in the scheme.

They will be needed to supervise the young people.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News

September 26, 1955

AME

RICAN newspapers generally agreed today that President Eisenhower, ill in Denver, Colorado, with coronary thrombosis, will not seek re-election as President next year, and they speculated on who would be the Republican candidate.

Some commentators though that the President might resign before his present term ends something which has never happened before in the United States and hand over the reigns of office to his Vice-President, Mr Richard Nixon.

SHELL-Mex and BP Ltd announced today an increase of 1d. per gallon in the price of their premier grades of motor spirit, Shell and BP Super, from midnight tonight.

This will make the price of these grades 4s. 7d. per gallon in the inner price zones.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News

September 26, 1905

ABOUT eleven oclock this morning, as Martha Hatton (40), 3 Hadwin Street, was entering a shop near her home, she fainted.

In falling, she knocked a glass bottle from a shelf, and sustained a severe scalp wound, as well as bruises on each side of the head.

She was removed to the Infirmary in the Fire Station ambulance, and after being attended to proceeded home.

AT a meeting of the Scavenging Committee on Monday, it was decided that 9s. be paid to carters in respect of loads of cinders of not less than a ton per load delivered at Rhodes Farm.