From the Evening News, January 5, 1993 - A £10 million management buy out for the old established local firm Bolton Brady has given the town's jobs front a new boost.

A cloud had hung over the 120-years-old Turton Street firm -- the UK's biggest industrial door and shutter makers -- since the Tarmac group announced last autumn that it wanted to slim down its operations by shedding Bolton Brady.

The seven-strong management team, led by MD and chief executive Don Cooper, has convinced financiers in both Britain and Holland that they are the men who can steer the company forward.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, January 6, 1978

RESIDENTS of a Bolton beauty spot claim they are under siege by vandals and firebugs who have brought a "reign of terror" to their quiet road. They are protesting that the view of the Bradshaw Brook conservation area, which they enjoy from their homes along the bottom of Oakenbottom Road, has been spoiled by vandals who have left a trail of smashed cars and burned-out sheds.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

January 5, 1953

EXPLOSIONS shook nearby windows when fire destroyed a store shed and over 500 rubber tyres at the tyre service station of James Brimelow, Manchester-rd., on Saturday. The tyre store was well alight when the fire brigade arrived -- the firemen could see the blaze from Trinity-st. as they raced to the scene . In addition to the tyres, the shed also contained a number of 45-gallon drums of benzole, rubber solution and paraffin. The explosions were caused by the bursting drums. As the bung was blown out of one of the containers, a 40ft. flame shot into the air.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

January 6, 1903

A SEQUEL to a football match at Farnworth on the 27th ult. between Little Lever Standard and Atherton Church House came before Magistrates at the County Sessions this afternoon, when Samuel Shaw, collier, Little Lever, was summoned for causing a breach of the peace.

P.C. Cuerden stated that the defendant was goalkeeper for one of the teams, and he was ordered off the field for rough play. At the termination of the match he created a disturbance, using foul language towards the referee.

Defendant denied the charge, saying that he only spoke when he saw the constable deliberately kick a boy standing near. He called Ellis Hardman and Samuel Turner, who supported his statement, but the Magistrates found him guilty of the charge, and bound him over for six months and ordered him to pay the costs.