From the Evening News, July 8, 1992 - HUNDREDS of patients may soon be turned away from dental practices in Bolton because dentists can not afford to treat them.

Dental treatment under the NHS is on the verge of chaos in the town as dentists refuse to treat new patients unless they can pay for their treatment. At present, dentists are paid £3.93 for a check-up on an NHS patient. Under new Government guidelines due to be implemented today they will receive £3.45. Dentists claim they will be paid less for doing more, while their earnings drop to £27,000.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, July 7, 1977

A CAMPAIGN aimed at giving every year a touch of "Jubilee fever" and everyone in the land an extra day's holiday, has been given the thumbs-up by Bolton people. If the idea, called a National Day of Celebration, wins Government approval, the day would be tacked on to the Spring Bank Holiday weekend, giving everyone a four-day break from work.

SHELL petrol will be up to 3p a gallon cheaper at many filling stations from midnight tonight.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, July 8, 1952

BOLTONIANS queued for trains to Blackpool and Southport at Trinity-st. Station this morning. They queued at Great Moor-st. to go to Rhyl, and they gave the town's coach agencies their busiest Monday after the recognized holiday week. But despite all this, most Boltonians stayed in town this morning - and prepared for the novelty of enjoying the first organized holidays-at-home since the war, and the second week of their first holiday fortnight.

RIVINGTON and Blackrod Grammar School governors yesterday appointed a new headmaster to succeed Mr T.G. Perry, who retires at the end of the present term. He is Mr Alan James Martin Jenner, senior science master at Keswick School since 1947.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, July 8, 1902

THE unpleasant fact that our Australian cousins have beaten us again at cricket, and that "the championship which was taken away from Mr Stoddart's Eleven in 1897-8", seems likely to remain for another season with the Colonials, which has prompted the Daily News to inquire, in a tone of serious concern, what is the matter with us. How are we to account for our inferiority in the game which is peculiarly our own? It is a puzzle which appears impossible of solution. There is no denying that this question is well worth asking, lying as it does at the root of the great question of national efficiency, on which so much depends for the future of England and the English race and the general good of mankind.