From the Evening News, July 21, 1976

25 YEARS AGO

BRITAIN'S new ambassador in the Irish Republic, Mr Christopher Ewart-Biggs, 55, was killed today when his car was blown up near his home in suburban Dublin. A woman civil servant passenger was also killed and two other men in the car were "gravely injured."

BLACK Panther Donald Neilson was convicted today of murdering three sub-postmasters.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, July 21, 1951

WHEN 10-years-old Alf Briggs, of Turton, started work as a half-timer at the Edgworth Spinning and Manufacturing Co. Ltd's Vale Mill, Turton, in 1880, the mill was three years old. Now Alf, who lives at 84 High-st., Turton, is 81, and he still has a job there. He was a spinner until he retired at 65, but after a five year break he went back, shortly after the war broke out, and has put in another 11 years' continuous service since them. Alf is the oldest employee on the firm's books, but some of his friends at the mill have worked all their lives with him, and can claim more than 50 years' service each.

Whole families have worked at the mill, on the edge of the Jumbles, and they have helped create a family atmosphere.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, July 21, 1876

THE Manchester Guardian says: The three trades unionists of Bolton, who killed a non-unionist because he was willing to work at terms which they rejected, were yesterday week found guilty of manslaughter. They have reason to congratulate themselves on their good fortune. The crime which they committed was of a brutal and despicable character. The whole business was unmanly and infamous; and if it is true that the attack was made in compliance with orders given by other persons, it would be well if those other persons could be discovered and exposed.

It would not be fair to assume that Ainsworth was speaking the truth when he said that "the Club" had ordered the commission of the dead, and yet assaults upon non-unionists are so frequent as to lead to the conclusion that sufficient care is not taken by "the clubs" to prevent the perpetration of such offences.