10 years ago

A PETROL station's appeal for three cashiers had a high-brow response as almost half of all applicants were graduates. Bosses of the Jet Garage in Darwen were stunned when a host of graduates desperate for work applied for the vacant posts. And the Bolton Road firm even had to refuse some applications after it was deluged with interest. Manageress Bernadette King said she had to turn down others after receiving 125 applications, less than two days after an advert appeared in The Lancashire Evening Telegraph.

25 years ago

TWO choristers from Blackburn Cathedral were really going places. Ian Holmes and Iain Thompson, both 13, were giving their tonsils an airing in a trip to Canada and the USA. They were accompanied on the month-long trip by cathedral organist, John Bettalot, who was invited to assist on the choir course in Toronto. The trio would be back home for choir rehearsals at the end of August.

50 years ago

ACRES of hay were sitting rotting in rain drenched fields on East Lancashire farms. The summer's constant downpour created a critical shortage of home-grown food stuff for the cattle and farmers were having to prepare for in of the worst winters ever. The never ending rain had given them no chance of drying their crops.