TWO Bolton carters, named Edwin Taylor and William Kilgannon, were before the County Justices this morning, summoned for placing stones on the highway at Turton, on the 25th ult.

PC Duncan stated that the offence consisted of leaving stones on the road which they had used for scotching the wheels of their carts. Two of the stones were described as being setts, each weighing 12lb, whilst another was the size of a brick.

The defendants said they found the stones in the middle of the road, and that they intended to remove them when on their return journey. Superintendent Leeming said that this practice should be stopped, as if anyone had been riding on the road in the dark, they might have been thrown out of their vehicles.

The Chairman said a fine of 5s (25p) would be imposed, and he hoped it would be a lesson to other carters, for any further case would be more strictly dealt with.

From the Evening News, August 7, 1953:

AFTER her gallant, but unsuccessful, attempt in the £500 cross-Channel swim, Kathleen Mayoh, of Farnworth, has been awarded the £500 cash prize for the best effort by a woman by Mr Billy Butlin.

THE chief designer of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket, Dr Wernher Von Braun, predicted today that a permanent space station with a human crew could begin to circle the earth within 15 years.

From the Evening News, August 7, 1978

A HUGE "Save our sports ground" appeal is being launched in Bolton to raise £20,000 in four months. Sportsmen and women, mums and dads, and even toddlers, are banding together in a desperate bid to keep the 10-acre Eagley Sports Club ground from being sold to other organisations.

"The ground has been thriving for about 140 years and we want to buy it from the owners to ensure it will benefit thousands more local people in the years to come," said one of the campaign organisers.

From the Evening News, August 7, 1993:

ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners are celebrating a victory after a decision yesterday to stop the dumping of incinerator fly ash containing potential lethal substances on Red Moss Tip in Horwich.

The Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority dumped more than 16,000 tonnes of untreated ash every year from Bolton's Raike's Lane incinerator containing heavy metals and cancer forming dioxins.

Now the authority has been given three months to find an alternative site for the dumping.