25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 30, 1976

MOTORISTS may find themselves having to pay out more for petrol later this summer. The Price Commission is considering applications which would put up the cost of petrol by 2p a gallon, taking to-grade petrol up to 85p a gallon.

OFFICE boys are starting to put their foot down when asked to run messages or make the tea, says a report out today. It claims that as the wages for youngsters soar, so do their opinions about the sort of work they should be doing - and they want more responsibility than being the "general junior factotum".

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 30, 1951

COUNC. Lucas is the first to realize that the Corporation Transport Department exists to serve the public. As the local holiday week gives the department unrivalled opportunities of public service, why not arrange things to that holidaymakers setting off very early in the morning could be picked up by buses at their homes?

Mr Brown, of Green-st., would simply send his name and address to the transport office, together with the time he wished to be picked up at his door. His travel worries would then be largely dispelled because he would no longer have to torture himself with fears of missing his train at the station.

But this does not go far enough. Other reforms could be made, such as arranging a helicopter holiday shuttle service ("front door to aerodrome") for those travelling to Ringway. And why should passengers to the Isle of Man not be helped on their way with navel tenders using our local river to convey passengers to the big ships at the coast, thus eliminating all the humbug of the train journey.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, June 30, 1876

YESTERDAY was the thirty-eighth anniversary of the Queen's Coronation, and the event was celebrated at Windsor and elsewhere by the ringing of bells and the firing of royal salutes. Her Majesty has been upon the throne ten years longer than any other monarch in Europe, or, we may venture to add, the world. It is true one petty German Prince, Duke Leopold of Anhalt, commenced his rule so far back as 1817, but German Princes now-a-days do not rank as independent sovereigns.