10 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, April 24, 1998.

A charity announced today that it was quitting Bolton's Bradshawgate because shoppers were shunning the street.

Oxfam, which closes its shop next Thursday after 15 years, told the BEN it had to shut because too few customers were coming through its doors.

And today Bolton's town centre manager Maria Appleton agreed Bradshawgate's days as a thriving shopping street had gone.

25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, April 23, 1983.

The owners of a Bolton town centre nightclub have come in for a "pasting" from an angry councillor.

Coun Kevin Hornby feels rogue posters for Scamps Disco in Bradshawgate are eyesores on lamp posts and empty shops around the town centre.

Last night he urged Bolton Council to put a stop to the "fly-posting".

50 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, April 24, 1958.

Railway traffic between Bolton and Manchester was delayed for more than half an hour last night by a spectacular fire at Entwistle and Gass Ltd, alongside the Burnden signal box. Flames, which rose 40 feet into the air, could be seen as far away as Farnworth and Breightmet and, fanned by a breeze, curled across four lines of track.

100 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, April 24, 1908.

Several inches of snow fell at Blackpool this morning. This is the latest snow fall, with one exception, for over 30 years.