Ulverston councillors discussed calls for a 20mph limit in the town centre.

A public meeting was to be held in the Forum, Barrow, about progress on construction of the A590 Dalton bypass.

The cost of running the regeneration company behind Barrow's dock project was £1.3m, according to latest figures.

Tickets went on sale for a concert by four choirs in Dalton called Amazing Grace. It was to mark 200 years since the abolition of the slave trade and would be held in Dalton Parish Church.

25 YEARS AGO

Official records from the Amalgamated Engineering Union were handed over to Barrow Archive by the union's district secretary Frank Ward.

Cattle-crossing lights were placed on the A590 to allow David Dickinson, of Lane Ends Farm, Haverthwaite, to get his cows across the road for milking.

Barow-built nuclear submarine Vanguard was due to leave town for contractor's sea trials in the next few weeks. The 15,000-tonne boat had cost £650m.

A total of 40 members of the NATO Industrial Advisory Group - drawn from 14 countries - visited VSEL, Marl International and Oxley Developments as part of a Furness tour of defence technology sites.

50 YEARS AGO

A total of 30 students from Manchester University had been driven across Europe to Russia in a double-decker bus with Barrow's Bill Taylor at the wheel.

Talks were being held about the possibility of having a new theatre in Barrow, or of adapting an existing building to house a stage.

Westmorland police were investigating the theft of more than 100,000 cigarettes - then valued at £1,000 - from a warehouse in a railway goods yard at Kendal.

The Minstry of Housing rejected plans by Scottish and Newcastle Breweries to build houses on land next to Thorn Cottage, on Lane Head, Lowick.