From the Evening News, December 30, 1994: CASH is being pumped into moves to reduce junior doctors' working hours.

The North West Regional Health Authority looks set to share in a £64 million handout which has been set aside to help drive down doctors' hours - still over Government guidelines. Latest statistics produced by the authority reveal that 2,178 junior doctor posts are "hard-pressed through being on call more than 72 hours a week and working more than 56 of them.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News

December 29, 1979

FOR extremes of temperature and conditions the summer drought of 1976 and the winter freeze of 1978 will go down as two of the worst on record.

Local weather expert George Wood says the worst summers of the 1970s were in 1972 and 1974. The sunniest years were 1975, 1976 and 1977.

YOUNG Victoria Leather took the girls' under-16 title in the Bolton Schools' Badminton Championships and also won the girls' doubles with M. Nuttall of St Augustine's. Then, in the mixed doubles event, she teamed up with her cousin David to win yet another title. In the same age group David won the boys' singles title and the boys' doubles with R. Jowett, a fellow Bolton School pupil.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News

December 30, 1954

FACTORY accidents are happening to young people "in circumstances so deplorable that one questions whether certain employers are fit to be trusted with this precious raw material," says the Chief Inspector for Factories, Sir George Barnett, in his annual report for 1953. The report quotes one case where a 17-years-old girl received severe lacerations to three fingers when her left hand slipped on to the cutters of a knife-handle shaping machine. "Not only were the electrical gear of the machine and the guard for the cutters defective, but investigation showed that she had received only half an hour's tuition on the machine from the charge-hand, who was a deaf mute," says the report.

LETTER to the Editor: "Sir, with regards to the decline in fortune of the Wanderers, I think it is not the playing staff's fault. Injuries have been heavy and "lady luck" has not always smiled on the lads" efforts.My advice to the lads is for them to go out and play as we know they can. The tide will turn and with all the team fully fit they are still a match for any in the league. Young Mac."

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News

December 30, 1904

AT the meeting of the Town Council, on Wednesday next, Cllr Partington will submit the following motion of which he has given notice: "That this Council of the County Borough of Bolton do hereby resolve to petition Parliament to legalise the election of women as members of County and Town Councils and other local governing bodies, and respectfully requests the borough members to initiate or support such amendment of the law as may be deemed expedient to give effect thereto."

THERE is little doubt that the Allendale wolf, which has caused so much excitement in Hexhamshire, has been found on a railway track four miles from Carlisle. Last evening Mr Cairns of Carlisle, a gentleman capable of expressing expert opinion on the matter, accompanied a correspondent to Cumwhinton and pronounced the carcase to be that of a full-grown grey male wolf in splendid condition.