From our archives
9:22am Wednesday 22nd September 2010 in News
10 YEARS AGO From the Evening News September 22, 2000 BOLTON teachers have been sent to the top of the class for helping children improve their grasp of English and maths.
Once again, primary pupils turned out their best test results ever in those vital subjects.
Over the past years it has shown 75 per cent of Bolton children passed basic English this year — 10 per cent up on 1998. And 73 per cent passed Key Stage Two match — compared to 60 per cent two years ago.
Education chiefs are now praising the hard work and dedication of local school teachers for the outstanding results.
Chief Advisor for Education, Brian Shaw, said: “It is marvellous news. It is all down to the hard work of the teachers who are very committed to it.”
25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News September 22, 1985 THE night nurses scandal in Bolton’s hospitals — exposed in the Evening News — has been made a number one priority by the town’s new health chief.
Mr Tom Taylor, newly-appointed Chairman of Bolton Health Authority, said: “There is no hiding this problem and it will receive maximum attention.”
A BHA meeting heard that there are not enough nurses to properly cover wards at Bolton General Hospital and Bolton Royal Infirmary during the night. Hospital wards at night normally have at least two nurses to care for patients. At Bolton General there is a shortage of 16 “whole-time equivalents” — full-time nurses. This is partially compensated by using trainee nurses. The shortfall came to public notice when angry nurses wrote in to protest anonymously to the Evening News.
50 YEARS AGO From the Evening News September 22, 1960 THE Westhoughton Property Owners’ and Ratepayers’ Association is to make an appeal to the people of the town for £100 to be spent in opposing the Manchester Overspill project.
The association wants to start a fighting fund for legal representation at the inquiry which has been promised by the Minister of Housing and Local Government. An effort is also being made to get more signatures on the protest petition.
100 YEARS AGO From the Evening News September 22, 1910 A fire broke our shortly after seven o’clock on Wednesday evening at the well-known Industrial School, Lostock, and it was characterised by plenty of incident. Happily the actual damage is not so great as it might easily have been, but for the smartness of the lads in putting their fire drill into practice, coupled with the fact that Supt. Jones (chief of Bolton Corporation Fire Brigade) was enabled to get quickly to the scene by the aid of a motor-car, and so bring his expert knowledge to bear in quickly quelling the fire.
It takes but little imagination, after knowing that woodwork and books were endangered, to conceive what sort of a spectacle there would have been had the blaze not been checked early, for the extensive school buildings stand on an eminence.
