From our files - May 5

11:38am Monday 5th May 2008

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10 YEARS AGO From the Evening News May 5 1998.

Bolton pupils have taken part in a national survey which has revealed that mum really does know best when it comes to feeding kids.

Schoolchildren told researchers they preferred mum's home cooking because school served too much junk food.

25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News May 5 1983.

Lancashire mineworkers were warned this afternoon that more pits and jobs are scheduled for the scrapheap.

For the grim message from Coal Board chief Mr Norman Siddall was: "We are producing too much coal too expensively."

50 YEARS AGO From the Evening News May 5 1958.

A Glasgow man who said he was a relative of one of the Manchester United Cup Final team, admitted at Harrow, Middlesex to-day carrying an offensive weapon - a broken whisky bottle - while standing among the crowd watching the game at Wembley on Saturday.

100 YEARS AGO From the Evening News May 5 1908.

The detective is not an unfamiliar figure in the many dramas produced at the Farnworth Theatre, but there is a variation in the genus this week as the title of "The Woman from Scotland Yard" implies. "Edith Mayne" does not forget to let the audience know her vocation, and they applaud her every time she reminds them what it is.