10 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

April 23, 1998

Bolton has slipped to the bottom of the class for passing on money direct to schools.

Recent figures reveal that Bolton was the seventh worst authority in the country when it came to giving money from the education budget directly to headteachers.

25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

April 23, 1983

Crippling death duties are forcing the Earl of Bradford to part with nearly all his remaining ancestral lands in Bolton.

About 450 acres in Farnworth and south Bolton are being offered for auction in one of the town's biggest land sales for many years.

A reserve price has yet to be set, but the sale is expected to raise at least £350,000.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

April 23, 1958

Protests about a proposal to dump half a million tons of open-cast coal near a new housing estate at Hindley are being made by Mr J T Price, MP for Westhoughton.

He is writing to Sir James Bowman, chairman of the NCB bout the proposals that coal should be dumped at Maple-ave., Hindley.

100 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

April 23, 1908<.b>

James Stewart, aged 24, a shoemaker who was characterised by the judge as "being the despair of the courts" was at Manchester Assizes on Wednesday, the offence alleged against him being that he stole three horses from a farmer at Bury, six hens from another man, and eleven homing pigeons from another. He was sentenced to three months imprisonment on each indictment.