From our archives
9:17am Tuesday 21st September 2010 in News
10 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, September 21, 2000 A SNIPER brought terror to a Radcliffe school when he fired an air gun at a group of pupils.
Three schoolchildren were treated for minor injuries after the shootings which happened at playing fields at the rear of Coney Green High School yesterday. The gunman fled after firing three shots at the children.
A large police hunt was today still underway for the man. Police say the gunman discharged an air pistol at the school pupils before escaping.
All three children, who suffered pellet injuries, were taken to hospital but were released after treatment.
The incident is the latest in a spate of similar shooting incidents in the Bury area over the last month or so.
Police officers arrived at the scene within minutes of the school raising the alarm but the gunman still managed to escape.
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, September 21, 1985 A FARNWORTH toddler who does not officially exist is set to become an Irish citizen.
As reported in last night’s BEN, three-years-old Eleanor Robson, of Kildare Street, has had no nationality since she was born on an Indonesian plane flying from Australia.
Her parents, Mr Fintan Cunningham and Miss Jane Robson thought they would be able to choose from a number of nationalities.
They asked if she qualified for an international passport or for passports from Indonesia, Britain, Ireland, Greece and Saudi Arabia.
But none of the countries were willing to help until this week, when an official from the Irish Embassy in London stepped in.
The family have been unable to take a holiday abroad because they could not get a passport.
As soon as the passport arrives they are to book a holiday in the Canary Islands.
50 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, September 21, 1960 THIRTY-six-years-old Mr. John Kelly has been chosen by Little Lever Council’s Establishment Committee to succeed Mr. Alexander Jamieson as Surveyor and Public Health Inspector.
Mr. Jamieson left Little Lever last week to take up a post at Alsager, near Crewe.
The new appointment has still to be confirmed by a full meeting of the council.
Mr. Kelly is at present surveyor, public health inspector and water works manager to Church Stretton (Shropshire) Urban District Council.
100 YEARS AGO From the Evening News September 21, 1910 CHURCH Railway Mission: A large number of the railwaymen assembled on Tuesday at noon in the dining room at the goods shed to listen to an address from Captain Fryer, of the Church Army.
He was formerly an employee of the Railway Company, and received a warm welcome from his old mates.
He delivered a stirring address, his subject being “Lessons from the picture, The Light of the world.”
Mr Augustine Wolfe, the railway missioner conducted the service.
