£100 million for British Aerospace

Work on the supply of additional radar trackers and support equipment for Rapier 2000 will be carried out at the company's troubled factory in Lostock, Bolton. But it will not make any difference to the numbers employed there.

HOLSTEN, brewers of one of Britain's best known strong lagers, will pay for free buses to persuade at least some Bolton drinkers to leave the car at home on New Year's Eve.

The pioneering move that will really drive people to drink is being hailed as a first by any brewer.

But it will only benefit people using the main "bus corridor" from Bolton through Farnworth, Little Hulton and Salford to Manchester city centre and back.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News

November 24, 1980

SIR - As Lancashire exiles we are very concerned when we read in the Press and see on TV that Lancashire is to be renamed as "North-west".

We would like to know how Lancashire people feel about this. We're afraid that soon Lancashire will lose its identity altogether.

A MASSIVE police operation kept a tight grip on a National Front march and counter-demonstration in Bolton yesterday. It was the biggest police operation in the town since the 1978 Front rally.

The demonstration, including Bolton Trades Council, was rowdy but there were no major incidents. As angry members of the Anti-Nazi League and the Socialist Workers' Party followed the march in the town centre a bottle and a few stones were thrown.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News

November 24, 1955

THE MILK arrived as usual in Egerton today. Few of the residents who took the milk bottles from the doorsteps knew that but for a quantity of hay, the horse that delivered them, eight-years-old Rosie, might have been seriously injured last night.

Mr. George Tomlinson and his family at Smith Fold Farm, Egerton, were watching television last night. Afterwards, Mr. Tomlinson went to make his final check-up of the farm. He found that the barn had collapsed, trapping Rosie inside. The horse, however, was uninjured. A well-filled hay loft above the stable had protected the horse from falling debris.

INADEQUATE opportunities for covering yarn sales due to the restricted operation of the Liverpool cotton market are blamed by the directors of the Dove Spinning Co., Ltd., Bolton, for a considerable loss on stocks during the past year.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News

November 24, 1905

FOR using obscene language in Clive-st., on the evening of Nov. 16th, Peter Kenyon, 2, Wharf-court, was fined 5s., by the Borough Justices, this morning. The father who appeared for defendant, said his son was afraid of appearing, and had gone away. P. S. Kindred stated the case.

THE Borough Justices, this morning, inflicted a fine of 2s. 6d., inclusive on Peter Mort, 13, Merehall-st., for allowing his donkey attached to a cart to stray unattended from the Wholesale Market into Deansgate.