Bids failed by two private firms to take control of the Grange swimming pool and leisure centre at Berners Pool.

An anti-crime CCTV camera was being moved from Victoria Road to Lightburn Park, Ulverston, at a cost of £9,000.

The number of people in Barrow claiming the job seeker's allowance rose from 1,093 to 1,127.

Dalton was to get its own part-time manager, despite a failed bid for National Lottery funding.

The Barrow Trades Union Council was launching a campaign to get representatives from trades unions to turn up to Furness meetings.

25 YEARS AGO

The Manor Arms Hotel at Broughton won The Mail's Pub of the Year contest. Landlord Dave varty and wife Christine had been at the pub for four years.

Some of the British Army's latest technology was put on show by the 12th Air Defence Regiment in a display at Barrow Town Hall.

Robert Cousins, of Rampside, discovered a field of giant fungi called puff balls during a country walk at the back of Rampside Road. The biggest weighed just over 2lbs.

The old Electric cinema, on the corner of Fell Street, Barrow, was demolished to make way for a car park. Its last use had been as a shoe store.

50 YEARS AGO

You could earn £9.60 a week as cook-in-charge at Hawkshead School. You went on to half-pay during school holidays.

A five-year-old Sunbeam Rapier car was offered for sale at £360 at the G. McMeekin and K. Newby garage on Abbey Road, Dalton. A 12-month-old Vauxhall Viva was £480.

The Furness Handicapped Peoples' Club took delivery of a new mini-bus at its meeting place, the Furness Cricket pavilion, Barrow.

A return railway fare from Barrow to Bury was 25 shillings (£1.25).