BARROW firm Oil States MCS, on the Sowerby Woods industrial estate, won a £4m contract to remove an old North Sea oil rig.
ENGLAND international runner Danny Hope won the eight-mile Black Combe Fell Race against 116 rivals.
WORSHIPPERS at St Perran's Church, at Holbeck, Barrow, were raising funds to install disabled access and toilets.
AN 18-acres site the size of nine football pitches was to be converted into woodland. The site was just off Rating Lane, Barrow, to the south of St Bernard's Catholic High School.
THE grounds of Holker Hall were named as Britain's Garden of the Year by Christie's and the Historic Houses Association.
ABBEY Musical Society was to present the Lionel Bart show Blitz! at the Forum 28, Barrow. The production included 28 children.
ANNE Allonby, of Victoria Street, Dalton, was named Cumbria's most dedicated lollipop lady after being nominated by youngsters at Chapel Street Infant School.
JULIA Fairbairn, of Cowlarns Road, Barrow, retired from Barrow's Dalton Road post office after 38 years as a postal officer.
YOU could enjoy Manchester cabaret stars The Measles at Barrow Public Hall in Cornwallis Street.
NEWCASTLE United forward Ron McGarry signed for Barrow AFC.
A NETWORK for Development map published by British Railways made it clear that passenger services between Barrow and Whitehaven were to end.
LEADING tenor Kenneth Woollam gave his first concert in Barrow as guest artist with the Barrow Working Men's Club and Institute Male Voice Choir at the Public Hall.
ANDIE MACDOWELL, actress, 59; TIMOTHY DALTON, actor, 71; ANANDA LEWIS, presenter, 44; TED KRAVITZ, presenter, 45.
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