There was a total of 1,651 people on the waiting list for a Barrow council house - up from 682 five years earlier.

Shoreline Films was to screen its award-winning film This is England at the Roxy cinema in Ulverston. The movie, directed by Shane Meadows, won the Best Film and Most Promising Newcomer prizes at the British Independent Film Awards.

Ostley House, run by Barrow Blind Society, launched an appeal to raise cash for a £650,000 expansion at Abbey Road.

More than 20 runners from Albert in France came to their twin town of Ulverston to take part in the 10k road race run by Glaxo Hoad Hill Harriers.

25 YEARS AGO

Barrow rugby league player David Cairns announced his retirement from the professional game at the age of 33 after a contract dispute with the club. He won the Lancashire Cup with Barrow in 1983.

There was a pledge that new flats being created in Dalton's empty town hall would be reserved for Daltonians.

Cartmel and District Art Society held its annual exhibition in the village hall with 35 members displaying almost 170 pictures.

A mystery Barrow man won £125,000 on the football pools for a 54p outlay. It was thought to be the biggest ever payout in the town.

50 YEARS AGO

You could see Howard Keel in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers at Barrow's Essoldo cinema, in Abbey Road.

More than 1,500 people went to Bootle Show, near Millom.

A pair of flannelette sheets was £2.30 from the drapery department at Barrow Co-operative Society.

Almost 2,000 people watched Vickers defeat Dalton in the final of cricket's Higson Cup at Furness Park. Skipper Alan Bell received the trophy from Jack Dinsdale.