From the Evening News, July 2, 1992 - HOPE was growing this afternoon that the ordeal of Bolton holidaymakers, stranded on motorways throughout France because of a lorry drivers' dispute, may soon be over.
Truckers in the Ury area, south of Paris, have made a local agreement to lift their blockade. The French lorry drivers and farmers are protesting at new driving licence regulations and agricultural reforms, causing traffic chaos throughout France. One coach with Greater Manchester passengers aboard has been stuck in sweltering heat for three days.
25 YEARS AGO
From the Evening News, July 2, 1977
ANOTHER Dutch trawler was arrested today off the North-east coast of Scotland by a navy frigate on protection duty. The 130-foot Maria was escorted in to Aberdeen harbour by the frigate Yarmouth. It is believed she was arrested for contravening the new 200-mile herring fishing limit.
DELAYS on flights to Spain from Manchester Airport built up today as more sunseekers joined the holiday exodus. Spanish departures have been disrupted for almost 12 months by a dispute involving Spain's air traffic controllers.
50 YEARS AGO
From the Evening News, July 2, 1952
THE existence of an old Radcliffe tradition, somewhat comparable with the footprint of George Marsh, the Martyr, at Smithills Hall, is the subject of a reader's query.
Nothing but a heap of ruins of Radcliffe Tower now remains, but it was a mark on the stone floor in the kitchen of this tower around which the tradition existed. The story can be found in Dr Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, under the title "Fair Ellen of Radcliffe".
The story was that the stone marked the scene of a tragedy in which a servant, to gratify the cupidity of a wicked step-mother, murdered the daughter of one of the Radcliffe lords. It was said she put her hand, dripping with blood, on the flagstones in the kitchen. A red stain was left which it was said could never be removed.
100 YEARS AGO
From the Evening News, July 2, 1902
THE Press Association is authorised to state that the account given in a weekly paper of the operation performed upon His Majesty the King is entirely inaccurate. The operation occupied nearly forty minutes, and not five minutes as stated. There was no separation nor pushing through of the muscles. The muscles were severed. No special instrument was used, and the wound was not closed after the abscess has been evacuated. The depth at which the matter was located caused the operation to be anxious and tedious, and involved the making of an unusually long and deep incision.
The King is not undoubtedly growing better. He sleeps well as is permitted to smoke a cigar. He is easily fatigued by the least exertion; the wound, though doing well, is not yet healed, and it must, of course, be some time before the King is able to leave his couch.
10 YEARS AGO
From the Evening News,
July 2, 1992
HOPE was growing this afternoon that the ordeal of Bolton holidaymakers, stranded on motorways throughout France because of a lorry drivers' dispute, may soon be over. Truckers in the Ury area, south of Paris, have made a local agreement to lift their blockade. The French lorry drivers and farmers are protesting at new driving licence regulations and agricultural reforms, causing traffic chaos throughout France. One coach with Greater Manchester passengers aboard has been stuck in sweltering heat for three days.
25 YEARS AGO
From the Evening News,
July 2, 1977
ANOTHER Dutch trawler was arrested today off the North-east coast of Scotland by a navy frigate on protection duty. The 130-foot Maria was escorted in to Aberdeen harbour by the frigate Yarmouth. It is believed she was arrested for contravening the new 200-mile herring fishing limit.
DELAYS on flights to Spain from Manchester Airport built up today as more sunseekers joined the holiday exodus. Spanish departures have been disrupted for almost 12 months by a dispute involving Spain's air traffic controllers.
50 YEARS AGO
From the Evening News,
July 2, 1952
THE existence of an old Radcliffe tradition, somewhat comparable with the footprint of George Marsh, the Martyr, at Smithills Hall, is the subject of a reader's query.
Nothing but a heap of ruins of Radcliffe Tower now remains, but it was a mark on the stone floor in the kitchen of this tower around which the tradition existed. The story can be found in Dr Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, under the title "Fair Ellen of Radcliffe".
The story was that the stone marked the scene of a tragedy in which a servant, to gratify the cupidity of a wicked step-mother, murdered the daughter of one of the Radcliffe lords. It was said she put her hand, dripping with blood, on the flagstones in the kitchen. A red stain was left which it was said could never be removed.
100 YEARS AGO
From the Evening News,
July 2, 1902
THE Press Association is authorised to state that the account given in a weekly paper of the operation performed upon His Majesty the King is entirely inaccurate. The operation occupied nearly forty minutes, and not five minutes as stated. There was no separation nor pushing through of the muscles. The muscles were severed. No special instrument was used, and the wound was not closed after the abscess has been evacuated. The depth at which the matter was located caused the operation to be anxious and tedious, and involved the making of an unusually long and deep incision.
The King is not undoubtedly growing better. He sleeps well as is permitted to smoke a cigar. He is easily fatigued by the least exertion; the wound, though doing well, is not yet healed, and it must, of course, be some time before the King is able to leave his couch.
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