10 years ago from the Evening News February 28, 1995: RESIDENTS on Bolton's Mancroft Avenue estate have voted overwhelmingly in favour of installing "spy cameras" to fight crime.

Cllr Brian Iddon, chairman of Bolton's housing committee, said he was not surprised by the positive outcome of the latest vote, but would have preferred to be able to spend the money on improving houses.

A vicar has condemned Britain's "get rich by any means" society.

Inflated pay rises for bosses of privatised utilities, lawyers who claim vast expenses from the legal aid system and quangos stuffed with Government "Yes Men" highlight a level of greed which defies description, claims Canon Arthur Dobb.

25 years ago from the Evening News February 28, 1980

OPENCAST coal mining in the Over Hulton area could start within the next two years, the National Coal Board has revealed.

The news comes as a blow to farmers who could lose land under the scheme - and possibly their livelihood.

BRIAN Clough, the Nottingham Forest football club manager, is to open the new Labour Party headquarters in St George's Road, Bolton, before his team's game against Bolton Wanderers on Saturday.

50 years ago from the Evening News February 28, 1955

AFTER four long days of icy isolation, the tiny community of Overhouses, Turton, was relieved early today by two workmen using an excavator to dig through 12ft snowdrifts.

In a temperature eight degrees below freezing point, Mr Frank Ritchings, Roach Street, Bury, and Mr Edward Savoury, Walmersley Road, Bury, toiled beyond midnight to be greeted by the lights of a few straggling houses and farms, the welcoming faces of the inhabitants and cups of hot tea and coffee.

LANCASHIRE and Cheshire Labour MPs, backed by leaders of Lancashire's 290,000 textile workers, are to press for a commission to control imports of foreign textiles into Britain.

Mr Harold Wilson, a former President of the Board of Trade, said in Manchester today that they were proposing that the import trade in cotton goods should be centralised under a system of bulk purchase.

100 years ago from the Evening News February 28, 1905

FOR the second time within 12 months Erasmus Jones, described as the barber to the Corwen Workhouse, has applied for an increase in salary.

In a letter to the board of guardians he says that, owing to the large increase in paupers, his work is vastly increased.

He is paid £1 5s a quarter and already the work done at the workhouse had cost £1 4s 7d, so that he would have to shave the whole of the paupers for the next five weeks for a penny a week as the quarter was only eight weeks old.

SHORTLY before nine o'clock this morning a breakdown occured in the tram service in the centre of Bolton.

The severe weather of the past few months has caused many of the overhead wires to snap and this was the cause of a breakage at the corner of Knowsley Street and Deansgate.