Barrow Raiders went into the end-of-season play-offs with a 30 points to four rugby league win against Featherstone at Craven Park.

A six-year-old boy was freed by firefighters after getting his arm trapped in the escalator at Barrow's Tesco supermarket.

Grange railway station was in the running for Best Small Station in the International Station Awards.

The annual Tour de Furness cycle ride raised £20,000 for charities - up by £3,000 on the previous year. It was organised by Furness Rotary Club.

25 YEARS AGO

A semi-detached house on Church Lane, Walney, was offered for sale at £43,500. A terraced house at South Row, Roose, was also £43,500.

The Barrow-built nuclear submarine HMS Talent suffered a major propulsion breakdown off the Cornish coast.

British Nuclear Fuels computer experts found 2,400 faults in the software which was to monitor and control the Thorp nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield in Weest Cumbria.

County chief fire officer Alan Rule was to retire at the end of the year to take up a new post as one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Fire Services.

50 YEARS AGO

Jenifer Moss, who plays Lucille Hewitt in the TV soap Coronation Street, was among guests at a Christening held at the Church of St Mary and St Michael, Great Urswick.

Railway guards started selling tickets on the Barrow to Carlisle line. The first was John Cowen, of Station House, Moresby Park, Whitehaven, who worked the 6.30am train from Whitehaven to Barrow.

Dalton had a seven-wicket win over Haverigg to take the North Lancashire Cricket league Championship.

Top recording star Ruby Murray would be appearing at Barrow's 99 Cabaret Club, in Dalkeith Street, from September 24.