From the Evening News, September 29, 1995: A PROTEST against a major toiletries manufacturer was organised by Bolton and District Animal Rights yesterday.
The group was in Bolton precinct asking people to throw unwanted Gillette products into a giant bag.
SENIOR police and council officials met with a Bolton MP last night in a bid to find an answer to the growing problem of illegal gypsy camps.
Residents concerned about the caravan camps being set up near their homes voiced their frustrations about litter and crime.
25 YEARS AGO
From the Evening News
September 29, 1980
A MAN was stripped and covered in creosote during a three-mile ride of terror.
He was grabbed and bundled into the back of a red Ford Transit van by four masked men as he walked along Gregory Avenue, Atherton, at the weekend.
As the van sped away, the man, aged 29, was stripped and daubed with creosote. Then he was beaten up and dumped in a lonely lane near Langley Hall Farm, Atherton.
NEIGHBOURS from six terraced houses back to back with industry on Gower Street, Farnworth, raised the alarm when a blaze started in the works office of Steam and Combustion Engineering last night.
50 YEARS AGO
From the Evening News
September 29, 1955
POLICE using tear gas and batons and armed British troops scattered yelling crowds of Greek Cypriot demonstrators in Nicosia today at the start of a 24-hour-general strike.
Steel-helmeted police fought hide-and-seek battles with groups of youths around Metaxas Square and Arsinoe Street in the heart of the city.
THE Labour force in the spinning mills of Bolton and district has now fallen to the lowest figure since September 1952, when the first signs of improvement were showing after the textile slump of that year.
100 YEARS AGO
From the Evening News
September 29, 1905
ANOTHER episode in the career of the man who recently came prominently before the public for passing himself off as a superintendent of railways was disclosed at the Manchester City Police Court yesterday, when John Henry Richardson, who described himself as an engineer, of Leeds, was charged with stealing a sovereign from a waitress in a restaurant in Great Ducie Street, Strangeways.
It was stated that accused got into the good graces of the girl, whom he told he was a superintendent in the engineering department of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Co., and was entrusted with a sovereign to go and get change.
AT Bow Street yesterday, Edward Willing (42), commission agent, and Maud Willing (31), both of York Road, Worthing, and Mabel Clara Hughes (55), wife of a clergyman of Ethelden Road, Shepherds Bush, were again changed with forging and uttering a cheque for £150 in the name of the Bishop of London.
His lordship gave evidence and stated that the cheque produced for £150 was neither signed by him nor by his authority.
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