Workers at the Sellafield nuclear site, in West Cumbria, started their own American football team - called the Cumbrian Mariners.

A flat at the Old Ship Inn, Ireleth, was offered for sale at £79,950. A terraced house in Bailey Street, Ulverston, was £117,950.

Around 40 homes at Sandside, Kirkby, were to get up to £5,000 each from South Lakeland District Council to take flood defence measures. The pilot scheme would be administered by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Council tax was set to increase by more than twice the rate of inflation, resulting in an average £36-a-year rise for Barrow families in Band A homes.

25 YEARS AGO

A semi-detached house at Amphitrite Street, Walney, was offered for sale at £38,000. A terraced house in John Street, Askam, was £35,000.

The Rick Abbot comedy Play On was performed by the Palladium Players at Millom's Palladium arts venue. The cast included Polly Benish and Pamela Bell.

The Department of Transport agreed to look into the possibility of an underpass at Mouzel Lane on the route of the new A590 Dalton bypass.

South Lakeland District Council took on three catering assistants at a cost of £11,000 a year to provide tea and biscuits for councillors at Kendal after a private contractor quit.

50 YEARS AGO

Pork roasting joints were five shillings (25p) per pound from Eastmans butchers at 194 Dalton Road, Barrow.

The Bishop of Carlisle, the Right Reverend Cyril Bulley, was to consecrate the new St Matthew's Church, Barrow, on October 22.

Frederick and Alice Kitchen, of Goad Street, Swarthmoor, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Mrs Kitchen used to work at the village post office which had been opened by her grandmother in 1890.

Cumberland deputy chief fire officer Dennis Woods was to retire at the end of the month.