Bus services in South Cumbria faced reduction due to a planned cut is subsidies from Cumbria County Council. One service under threat was the X35 Kendal to Barrow route.

Councillors called for several damaged roads to be repaired in Ulverston as they were deemed "unsafe".

A terraced house in Cobden Street, Dalton, was offered for sale at £120,000. A flat at Harrison Street, Barrow, was £45,000.

In the past three months there had been 30 burglaries in the Barrow, Dalton and Ulverston areas after doors or windows had been left open or unlocked.

25 YEARS AGO

Three Furness British Rail drivers retired after a combined career of 133 years. They were James Poole and Fred Bellas, from Barrow, and Harold Baycliff, from Askam.

Residents at the hamlet of Lady Hall, near Millom, called for a bridge from Askam to Millom which would be an improvement for motorists driving around the Duddon Estuary.

Tree surgeons had been busy trimming overhanging branches on Barrow's Abbey Road ready for a series of huge convoys taking equipment to the gas terminal at Rampside.

Cartmel's 20-year wait for a car park looked set to continue after a promising site at Clogger Beck was sold.

50 YEARS AGO

Border TV needed to be ready to broadcast in colour within four years, chairman John Burgess told shareholders.

Barrow members of the Amalgamated Engineering union went on a coach trip to Morecambe.

British Railways wanted to get ride of an annual £20,000 loss by closing three stations between Barrow and Preston and another two on the Windermere branch line.

Dave Stevens, 19, former lead singer with the Road Runners, took over as resident disc jockey at Barow's Public Hall.