10 years ago

THE Queen's Hotel, Barrow, was launching the town's first pub poker league.

DEMOLITION work started on a section of the Mall, opposite Schneider Square, Barrow. It was to make way for a £1m improvement to the shopping precinct.

FURNESS MP John Hutton ruled himself out of the race to be the next leader of the Labour Party when Tony Blair stood down.

SOUTH Lakes MP Tim Farron cut a cake to officially open a new website for six parishes in the Crake Valley, including Lowick and Coniston.

25 years ago

HOLKER Pioneers won amateur rugby league's Barton Townley Cup at Craven Park against Dalton.

IT was thought likely that Princess Diana would visit Barrow to perform the official naming ceremony for Britain's first Trident nuclear missile submarine, Vanguard.

A WATER management plan to safeguard and increase public access to Coniston Water was drawn up by Lakes planners.

THE Windermere ferry service between Bowness and Fra Swarey would be out of action for eight days while the main drive shaft was replaced.

50 years ago

IRENE Parkin, David Wood and Edith Rigg were among cast members in Pennington Drama Group's production of the comedy Busybody at Ulverston Coronation Hall.

MORE than 300 people attended the first in a planned series of organ concerts at Cartmel Priory to raise cash for an organ repair fund.

THERE were complaints about the poor state of the former Walney cinema, owned by the Essoldo Circuit.

PARTS of West Cumberland were soon to get colour TV reception, said Barry King of British Relay.

A NEW fridge cost £30 from Smiths in Dalton Road, Barrow.

Happy birthday

FIONA BRUCE, presenter, 53; ZENEE ZELLWEGER, actress, 48; MATTHEW WEST, singer, 40.