A MASSIVE Westhoughton housing scheme has been turned down - because the roads can't cope with any more traffic.10 years ago from the Evening News October 6, 1995

In a dramatic U-turn, Bolton councillors refused applications from Redrow Homes to build 183 detached houses at Edges Farm between Leigh Road and Woodward Road at Daisy Hill.

DECISION day for £15 million leisure complex in the Tonge Valley has been delayed so councillors can visit the site.

Tudor Properties of Belmont Road, Bolton, have applied for permission to transform land south of Crompton Way and Waters Meeting Road.

25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News October 6, 1980

VANDALS used a stolen sports car as a battering ram.

They took the Toyota Celica car from the forecourt of the Radcliffe Road Garage and used it to smash down the door at another garage two miles away at Lever Bridge.

WHERE there's muck there's brass . . . and it was proved in Bolton at the weekend.

Hundreds of people took piles of rubbish to four sites in the town for the first collection to raise cash for charities.

50 YEARS AGO From the Evening News October 6, 1955

GAS consumers receiving supplies from the Bolton undertaking, at times during the quarter ended June, 1955, received slightly more than value for money, according to reports presented by examiners appointed by the Ministry of Fuel and Power.

PRIZE money of A£10,000 (£8,000 sterling) has been withheld from the winners of the 1955 Round-Australia Reliability Motor Trial, it was announced here today.

The National Control Council of the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport said it would hold the money until it was sure that there could be no appeal against the recent decision of an appeal court to give first and second place in the gruelling 10,533-mile trial to two Australians driving Volkswagens.

100 YEARS AGO From the Evening News October 6, 1905

UNDER Government orders, the Collector of Customs has sailed in a revenue cutter on a search for American vessels carrying fish caught in Canadian waters.

The vessels are to be seized as smugglers and their cargo confiscated.

RESIDENTS in Bolton at present would be well advised to look carefully to the fastenings of their houses when going out, as the borough police are now inquiring into a couple of cases of housebreaking on two successive days.