From the Evening News, September 28, 1995: A Bolton secondary school has been given an emergency grant to make sure the classrooms stay warm this winter.

George Tomlinson School in Kearsley, which has opted out of council control, has negotiated a £100,000 grant with the Funding Agency for Schools to replace decaying central heating boilers.

PLANS to bring in charges for Bolton town centre parking on Sunday have been thrown into chaos because of a mix-up about what time the fees come into force.

Notices have gone out saying that on-street pay and display charges will start at 8.30am and at 12.30pm in council-run car parks.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News

September 27, 1980

A METHODIST minister is considering bringing back the poor box at his Bolton church because so many of his members have money problems.

The Rev Dennis Burton, minister of the Methodist Theatre Church, Astley Bridge, said so many people have financial problems that the Ministers Benevolent Fund the old poor box may have to become a feature of church life again.

A MYSTERY fire damaged a newsagents garage in Derby Street, Daubhill, late last night.

The blaze burnt a hole in the garage door, but a neighbour with a fire extinguisher prevented the blaze from causing further damage.

A fire brigade spokesman said it was thought the fire had been started deliberately after a pile of rubbish had been tipped against the door and set alight.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News

September 28, 1955

MORE than 1,800 carcasses of meat have been stolen in recent months from Liverpool docks, including £5,000 worth of meat from one ship, it was stated by Mr J.G. Morrison, prosecuting at Liverpool Magistrates Court today, when three men appeared in the dock.

AN important consequence of this years long warm summer is that supplies of household coal are good.

There is no danger of a serious shortage in the immediate future.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News

September 28, 1905

THE tragedy of Mary Moneys death in the Meretham Tunnel still remains a mystery.

To the Scotland Yard authorities who are now engaged on the case, it is in every way so puzzling as the murder of Miss Elizabeth Camp on the South-Western Railway seven or eight years ago. That it is a murder everybody is now practically convinced; but since the discovery of the body of the hapless girl four nights ago the clues to the murder have been practically nil.

THE army manoeuvres were brought to a close this morning, when camps were broken up and 30,000 men marched out with bands playing en route for Aldershot.

A statement that a cyclist scout was killed yesterday is incorrect.

The man, who belongs to the Third Grenadier Guards, sustained terrible injuries and was picked up for dead. It was found, however, that life was not extinct and there is now some hope of the mans recovery.