10 YEARS AGO From the Evening News June 3, 2000 LAST night, the BEN unveiled details of Bolton’s new Cabinet-style council and how it will work.

We revealed that many of the crucial decisions which affect all our lives will be taken by a Cabinet of 10 super-councillors behind closed doors.

Will it lead to greater secrecy?

Today, we talk to Bolton Council’s chief executive Bernard Knight who believes the council will have to be even more accountable for its decisions in the past.

We also talk to Tory deputy leader Cllr John Walsh who has been a critic of the way the new system has been introduced.

We also ask you the people of Bolton what you think about all the changes.

25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News June 4, 1985 SOME pubs close to Bolton’s Burnden Park may be forced out of business by the new drinks’ ban near soccer grounds.

The emergency laws to ban alcohol on the way to — and at matches — are part of the Prime Minister’s battle plan to crush soccer hooliganism.

But landlord John Butterworth said the closure of pubs on match days would be an “unmitigated disaster” in Bolton.

“It would be disastrous for those of us with pubs near the ground,” said Mr Butterworth, landlord of the Waggon and Horses pub in Manchester Road.

He said: “Match days are the only days I can guarantee to make money. If they close me down it would be pointless staying here.”

50 YEARS AGO From the Evening News June 4, 1960 NEWS that Mr. Phillip Ingress Bell, 60-years-old Conservative MP for Bolton East, may retire in the autumn has caused widespread speculation in Bolton about the future of the town’s Liberal-Conservative “pact”.

Officials of Bolton Labour Party, who believe that the “pact” has prevented the town having at least one Labour MP, say that Mr. Bell’s retirement from the Commons may well spell disaster for the “pact.” Mr. Bell’s out-of-the-blue hint that he wanted to retire from Parliament to concentrate on his practice as a barrister, came during a debate in the Commons yesterday.

100 YEARS AGO From the Evening News June 4, 1910 MR. Wilson renewed acquaintance with his Little Lever constituents last night, and addressed a well attended open-air meeting on the land at the junction of High-st. and Market-st. Dealing with a statement frequently made by his opponents to the effect that the Budget would not find employment for a single individual. Mr. Wilson said Budgets were not framed with the object of providing work, but for the purpose of finding revenue with which to pay those already in employment, such as Civil servants, men engaged in the great ship-building industry, and so on.