12:22pm Saturday 22nd March 2008
By Frank Elson
10 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, March 23, 1998.
Bolton is to appoint a numbers expert to boost standards in the borough's schools. The LEA already hs a general adviser in English and a further two consultants who will work on a part-time basis.
Now, in a further bid to boost standards, the LEA is looking to appoint a maths specialist who will work with teachers in schools.
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, March 22, 1983.
A £900 million defence contract which would safeguard the jobs of hundreds of workers at British Aerospace, Lostock, looks set to go to America, a prospective Tory candidate claimed today.
Mr Tom Sackville, who is expecting to stand for Bolton West, said that two military committees met last week and decided to go for a United States firm to provide the RAF with new anti-radar missiles.
50 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, March 22, 1958.
A new public house is shortly to be built to serve the residents of the Hill Top Estate, Walkden. The planners hope that the new Brindley Arms - named after the famous builder of the nearby Bridgewater Canal, James Brindley - will become the social centre of the community.
Designed by Manchester architect, Bernard Taylor, the new building will become the central feature of the neighbourhood unit.
100 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, March 23, 1908.
A blush is defined by a doctor as "a temporary erythema and calorific effulgence of the physiognomy, aetaologized by the perceptiveness of the censorium when in a predicament of unequality from a sense of shame, anger or other cause, eventurating in a paresis of the vasomotor capillaries, whereby, being divested of their elasticity, they are suffused with radiant, serated, compound nutritive circulating liquid, emanating from an intimidated praecordia."
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