25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 13, 1975

BRITISH trawlers face clashes with six Icelandic gunboats from midnight tonight over a unilaterally declared 200-miles fishing limit. Icelandic diplomats in London have warned that the zone will be defended by their coastguard vessels. 'I'm afraid there could be clashes - but we will try to avoid them,' said one.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 14, 1950

SIR,- My husband and I went to see a variety show at a Farnworth cinema and enjoyed it so much that we would like to congratulate the management on their enterprise.

If only some Bolton cinemas would adopt this idea, it might bring variety to some out of town districts and stop the weary travel into Bolton and the worry about late buses home!

We visited the show in Farnworth to see what class of variety one could get for 1s 6d (7p), and enjoyed every minute of it. Yours, etc., Variety.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 14, 1875

SIR,- I read in your columns an account of the cure of a young man of blindness of one eye, without surgical operation or medicine, the said young man having been blind for 14 years. Surely some doctor in Bolton will be able to testify to the fact of his having been blind as stated, or to expose the fraud, if there be one. If it be a fact it is a stupendous one, and bearing in mine what (Dr Chalmer's, I think) says, 'That what is seen by one pair of eyes is of force to countervail all that has been thought and reasoned out by a thousand human understandings.' I do not think it would become the dignity of a respectable surgeon to inquire into the matter and give us a truthful report. Yours respectfully, J.T.