From the Evening News,1992 - BRUCE Rioch has called on the business community to speed up his plans to turn the Wanderers into a promotion force.

The Bolton manager admits he has a lot of work to do to create a successful team, and warns it could be a slow process of transition unless more cash is made available to him.

Clearly not content with his board's promise of £200,000 for new players if he can boost gates to an average 7,000, Rioch wrote in Saturday's match day programme "Let me say, here and now, that £2 million would be nearer the figure I am thinking of - for starters."

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

November 9, 1977

THE end of the Volkswagen Beetle is finally in sight. The last 650 right-hand versions of the world's most successful car are already on sale in Britain as production is quickly run down at the VW plant in Emden, West Germany. The Beetle has now sold more than 19 million throughout the world.

A BOLTON history teacher, Mr Christopher Eames, came top of his class last night when he won a qualifying round of the BBC1 programme "Mastermind". Mr Eames, aged 36, scored 30 points - 10 points more than his nearest rival.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

November 9, 1952

FOLLOWING a paragraph in the Evening News the other day, describing a forked-tail petrel, a sea bird which visits the British Isles at this time of year but is rarely seen in Bolton, Mr A. Evans, who works at Back-o'th'-Bank Power Station, saw one of these birds in the hedges just off Union-rd. as he was going to work.

He recognised the description and immediately telephoned Mr A. Hazelwood of the Museums Department, who arranged for the bird to be picked up. It is now another addition to the many rare animals and birds in Bolton Museum.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

November 9, 1902

THERE has been considerable comment, both in Westhoughton and Horwich, on the fact that a number of people visited Mr Williams of Wingates, during his illness, which ultimately transpired to be smallpox. Among those who visited the sick chamber and contracted the disease was Mr Hutchinson, Crown-lane, Horwich, he being the local superintendent for the insurance company for which Williams is a collector.

It has been asserted that he and others had not been warned of the danger. The doctor, however, had ordered the door to be locked, but a number of persons - it is believed eight or twelve - visited the house, hence the regrettable developments of the outbreak.