From the Evening News, May 29, 1903: AS a proof of the fact that the ample power of speech can be retained after complete as well as after partial removal of the tongue, Mr W.H.A. Jacobson, writing in "The Practitioner", cites one of his own cases.

With his artificial teeth in place the patient, some months after the operation, was able to speak so distinctly as to give a most interesting account of one of the most striking episodes of the Indian Mutiny, in which he took part.

It would be impossible to have a more convincing and indubitable proof of the ability to talk without a tongue.

From the Evening News, May 29, 1993

A TORY MP's controversial call for more immigration controls - made in Bolton last night - brought a dignified response today from the town's first black Mayor.

Today, as the storm raged nationally over remarks made by Winston Churchill, grandson of the wartime leader, Cllr Campbell Benjamin, who came to Britain from the West Indies to help our war effort, simply described them as "regrettable".

Mr Churchill, speaking at a private Conservative dinner in a private house in Bromley Cross, said that there must be a halt to the "relentless flow" of immigrants to Britain.

From the Evening News, May 29, 1978

BOLTON'S library service - one of the best in Greater Manchester - is "beginning to creak".

Staff shortages mean that more branch libraries are being forced to close temporarily. The chief libraries officer, Norman Parker, warned yesterday that any further cuts could mean a permanent reduction in opening hours.

The service is existing with staffing levels which were considered inadequate three years ago.

From the Evening News, May 29, 1953

FORTY firemen from Bolton, Farnworth and Horwich, last night fought a fire in a three-storey building and a single-storey garage and prevented it from spreading to other large buildings and houses in the built-up area of Bark-st., Bolton.

The blaze started in a three-storey building in Flax Place, belonging to Mr Sam Crompton. When Bolton Fire Brigade arrived, the two top storeys were well alight with flame leaping from the roof, and the fire had spread to the adjoining Fraser's Garage in Bark-st.

Police asked people in the row of houses facing the garage to leave their houses while there was a danger of a petrol tank explosion. Neighbours watched anxiously for two hours before the firemen brought the blaze under control. A snack bar at the corner of Bark-st. and Knowsley-st. opened to provide them with cups of tea.