THIEVES drove off with a £105,000 haul of expensive Christmas electrical toys in a lorry last night: 10 years ago from the Evening News November 17, 1995
The 350 cartons of scooters and cars were loaded on to a 38-tonne blue and white Volvo HGV in Milan, Italy on Tuesday and driven across the continent.
The consignment of luxury children's ride-on toys was due to be unloaded in Huddersfield.
But because the driver arrived back in the north of England in late evening, he decided to park the lorry near his home in Walkden and take the load over to Yorkshire this morning.
STAFF at a Bolton bank are trembling at the prospect of raising money for charity.
To raise money for Children in Need, five extremely fearless employees from the Astley Bridge branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland are spending tonight in Chingley Hall near Preston - widely known as the most haunted house in the country.
25 YEARS AGO
From the Evening News
November 17, 1980
MORE household pets are being abandoned in Bolton this year because people cannot afford to keep them.
Mrs Kathy Kay, Bolton Branch Secretary of the RSPCA, said the economic recession was forcing some people to find alternative homes for their pets. Others were just abandoning their animals.
TWO painters had an amazing escape today when they plunged 20ft from scaffolding in Bolton town centre.
One man was taken to Bolton Royal Infirmary, but the other escaped with little more than a cut finger after he dropped down through the windscreen of a van parked below.
The two men were painting the back of the offices of the Royal London Mutual Assurance when the accident happened.
50 YEARS AGO
From the Evening News
November 17, 1955
SEVEN West Riding policemen had no licences when they were questioned by water balliffs during their angling club's annual match.
At York to-day they were each fined £1.
The seven policemen, some of the 48 officers who took part in the competition, had assumed their entrance fee covered them in respect of a licence.
BOLTON Transport Committee has turned down a request from local bus crews that Christmas Day services should finish at or about 8pm.
The Committee made this decision after a special meeting to consider the request put forward on the workers' behalf by the local branch of the Transport and General Workers' Union.
100 YEARS AGO
From the Evening News
November 17, 1905
THIS, the nineteenth exhibition by the Bolton Horticultural and Chrysanthemum Society, is in no way behind the predecessors: indeed in some respects it is ahead of them.
In numbers there is an increase and the result is most gratifying.
The Albert Halls is one blaze of colour, delighting the eye of the visitors, who are grateful indeed to the Autumn Queen for her display of beauty, when outside the world wears such a garb of monotonous drab.
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