From the Evening News, October 24, 1992 - A LOW pay campaign group has revealed that Bolton youngsters are being paid as little as £1.08 an hour for a full week's work.

The survey also shows that the number of jobs for young people in Greater Manchester have plummeted by a massive 76 per cent in just two years. Despite a rise in inflation of 11 per cent over the same period, average hourly wages have dropped from £1.69 to £1.45.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

October 25, 1977

A DECISION not to increase car parking charges in Bolton has been ratified by the council's controlling committee. The technical services committee unanimously rejected increases of up to 100 per cent earlier this month. It means that the car park budget will be £70,000 in the red next year -- twice as much as this year. Mr John Marriott, Director of Finance, said at the finance committee meeting yesterday that the refusal was against government instructions and "more importantly, it was a missed opportunity to raise money."

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

October 24, 1952

BEHIND the extension to Johnson Fold housing estates rises a circular concrete tank with a domed roof. Passers-by would have been surprized to see yesterday a machine, mounted by a man, travelling round and round the tank, and gradually encircling it with a spiral of taut wire.

And had the passer-by made any inquiries he would have learned that the tank, which will hold 100,000 gallons of water to supply 400 of the highest houses on the new estate, is only the fourth of its kind to be built in the country. Bolton's three other water tanks, which provide water for houses built on the higher slopes, are all of steel -- and all are eyesores.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

October 25, 1902

ABOUT two o'clock this morning a policeman on duty in front of the George Hotel, the oldest and chief commercial hotel at Scarborough, noticed that the coffee-room to the left of the main entrance was on fire. He quickly aroused the inmates. The room was being used as a show room for a London traveller who had, it is stated, over £400 of furs and other valuable stock on show.

Mrs Besford, the wife of the landlord, a lady of 69 years of age, was lowered in a canvas shoot from the fourth floor to the ground. What really occurred is not yet very clear, but Mrs Besford received such injuries that she died in a few minutes. The fire was confined to the room where it broke out, but all stock was destroyed.