NAT Lofthouse has NOT quit as manager of Bolton Wanderers. Speaking from the manager's chair at Burnden Park this morning, he said: "I'll never quit Bolton Wanderers." He was commenting on a morning paper story that he would step down.

SEVERAL families were evacuated from their houses when threatened by a fire at an aircraft store yard at Farnworth last night. The yard, situated on top of the tunnel near Farnworth railway station was stoked with about 175 fuselages from broken-up aeroplanes. Clouds of smoke floated over the town.

SHORTLY before seven o'clock this morning intelligence reached the Fire Engine Station in Newport-street that a fire had broken out in a cotton mill in Ashburner-street, and the members of the Brigade, with the hose cart and other extinguishing apparatus proceeding to the spot, they found that Knott Mill, belonging to Mr Thomas H. Bamford, and situate at the top of the thoroughfare mentioned, was in great danger of being totally destroyed. The men immediately attached their hose to the hydrant in Ashburner-street and commenced operations; the engine belonging to Messrs. Ormrod's mill was also on the spot, and played from a hydrant in Blackhorse-street. By dint of unified exertion the flames were subdued in a relatively short space of time. Altogether the mill and its contents are very much injured by fire and water. At a rough estimate the entire damage will not be less than between £2,500 and £5,000, and we are glad to add that the entire property is insured.

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