10 YEARS AGO From the Evening News April 20, 1995: RESCUE workers were today frantically combing through the wreckage of the bombed Oklahoma office block in a desperate search for up to 300 missing people.

The outrage is the biggest act of terror in US history, overtaking the 1993 explosion at the World Trade Centre in New York City which killed six people and injured 1,000 others.

GAMBLERS Anonymous today called for health warnings to be printed on National Lottery scratch cards in an effort to prevent players becoming addicts.

The call for action comes after a reformed Bolton gambler revealed he had fallen back into his old ways and was spending a staggering £120 a week on the National Lottery.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News

April 19, 1980

TWO Bolton lads, one a past and one a present student at Bolton Technical College, scooped top awards presented by the North West region of the National Federation of Building Trades Employers.

Jeffrey Briely, aged 21, of Hastings Road, Chorley New Road, Bolton, won a total of £65 and two certificates after being chosen as the North-west's top apprentice and top bricklayer. Sharing the accolades was 19-year-old Christopher Clarke of Larch Road, Leigh - the region's best young plasterer.

A GANG of youths left a trail of destruction behind them last night as they vandalised Westleigh Park, Leigh.

Seats were thrown around, childrens swings tied together, the pavilion broken into and a large hole dug in the middle of the bowling green.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News

April 20, 1955

THERE will be no production by Bolton Air Theatre during Bolton holiday week.

Bolton Entertainments Committee has been told that none of the plays in the programme for the current season is suitable for open-air presentation.

IN the hope that Boltonians and Ukrainians now living in Bolton will get to know and like each other, an Anglo-Ukrainian Social Organisation was formed a few months ago.

The 500 or so Ukrainians in the town welcomed the Association, but so far the response from Boltonians has not been encouraging.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News

April 20, 1905

THE newly-constructed tramway route from Tyldesley to Boothstown was opened to the public this morning and a ten minutes service of cars from Atherton to the last-named township will be maintained during the day.

The new tramway is an extension of the South Lancashire Company's branch from Atherton to Tyldesley and runs to the boundary of Worsley and within a mile of St Mark's Church.

With the exception of a break of about two miles between Boothstown and Winton there is now a through tramway system from Manchester to Liverpool.

THE new Turton Conservative Club is now in full use, though the furnishing of the interior etc is not yet completed.

A caretaker is in residence and there are now nearly one hundred members.