From the Evening News, March 8, 1904: SHORTLY before eight o'clock on Monday evening, James William Welsh (4), who resides with his parents in Mill Hill terrace, Bolton sustained an incise wound on the forehead, simple fracture of the right forearm and a severe lacerated right hand through being run over by a greengrocer's cart in Folds Road.

The unfortunate little one was conveyed to the Infirmary on the Fire Station Ambulance and detained.

THE first of a series of lectures by Mr TA Williams of Bristol was given under the auspices of the Bolton Anti-Vivisection Society on Monday evening at the Free Church Mission Hall, Halliwell Road. Mr Williams said that to torture the animals would never really help men to remove disease from society, yet at the present moment in England there was no limit to the amount of pain that could be inflicted.

From the Evening News, March 8, 1954: THREE women MPs today drove to Parliament in three decorated horse-drawn carriages taking an 80,000-signature petition organised by the Equal Pay Campaign Committee. They were Dr Edith Summerskill (Lab, Fulham West), Mrs Barbara Castle (Labour, Blackburn East) and Mrs Patricia Ford (Ulster Unionist, N. Down). Twentyfive questions about equal pay, fired at Mr R. A. Butler, the Chancellor the Exchequer, were expected to take up the rest of question time in the Commons today.

NOBODY was injured when a Bolton Corporation double-deck bus carrying 35 lunch-time travellers returning to work mounted the pavement and crashed into the livingroom at 78 Thynne Street today. The bus, which received slight damage, tore a hole about 4ft 6in high and a yard wide in the home of Mrs Edith Chance, who was hanging out washing at the back and did not hear the crash.

From the Evening News, March 8, 1979: A MILL is to close because of a "critical shortage" of weavers. Most of the 100 employees at the Adlington factory owned by Taylor and Hartley will be offered alternative employment at the three Westhoughton factories run by parent company Bodycote International. A spokesman said wages were comparatively low in order to compete with cheap imports and this had led to an extreme shortage of weavers in the Adlington area.

From the Evening News, March 8, 1994: ANGRY Wanderers fans who queued for tickets for Saturday's crunch FA Cup quarter-final against Oldham have hit out after they were left empty-handed. Hundreds of fans with vouchers from last Saturday's game with Charlton were disappointed after the club ran out of tickets. The last 1,000 tickets were snapped up in less than two hours.

NOEL Edmonds and Michael Barrymore were today named TV personalities of the year. Edmonds collected the BBC television award and Barrymore the one for ITV in the Television and Radio Industries Club awards.