From the Evening News, January 21, 1977

SEVEN women workers who died in a fire in Manchester last night had not been taught a fire drill. This was revealed today by the owner of Northern Punch Bureau whose entire night shift was wiped out in the blaze which swept through an old office block in China Lane in the city centre.

PRINCESS Anne was today fined £40 by Derbyshire magistrates for speeding on the M1 before Christmas. The court was told she was clocked at 96mph. The limit is 70.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

January 21, 1952

BRITISH Rail drivers, firemen, cleaners and maintenance workers have a splendid opportunity to learn more about their jobs, and about those parts of a train with which they are not familiar, in a school-on-wheels which is stationed at the Bolton locomotive sheds for four days this week.

The school - two passenger coaches, one converted into a cinema and the other containing over 40 working and sectional models of steam and Diesel locomotive equipment - cost £20,000 to equip. Since it was last in Bolton in March, 1950, full-size models of brake gearing and brake cylinders and of automatic train control, have been added.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

January 20, 1877

THE magnificent meeting held at the Temperance Hall on Wednesday evening is a grand testimony to the strength, unity, and enthusiasm of the Liberal Party in this Borough. The attendance was immense, the speeches were warmly appreciated, and from beginning to end the gathering was highly successful and eminently calculated to inspire the entire Party with a stronger attachment to Liberal principles, and with a more earnest determination to work for their triumph.

BECAUSE of the cattle plague, the importation of cattle from Germany, England, Austria, the Danubian Principalities and Turkey is prohibited from other places. Famine is imminent in Podicherry.