10 years ago

WINDERMERE library was looking for £1.5m in Big Lottery Fund cash to provide more space for learning and community use.

MORE than 60 changes were proposed by Cumbria County Council on car parking restrictions in Barrow.

SCOUTS and Beavers in Millom were holding a coffee morning to raise funds to attend a special event at the Lakes School, Windermere, to mark 100 years of scouting.

A TOTAL of 18 people had been injured in property fires in Cumbria in the past year - a fall from 35 in the previous year.

25 years ago

YOU could earn up to £17,735 a year as a health visitor working in Barrow for South Cumbria Health Authority.

THE Barrow and District Table Tennis League was to get a long-awaited sports centre after receiving a £33,000 grant from the Foundation for Sports and the Arts. It would be built at the Parkview School site in Barrow.

AN estimated £2,500 was raised from a two-day marathon swim held at the Park Leisure Centre, Barrow, for MENCAP, the Macmillan Nurse Appeal and the Royal National Institute for the Blind.

BARROW'S crime rate soared by more than 36 per cent last year - much of it blamed on car crime.

50 years ago

BARROW Conservative councillor Peter Dowling called for an extension to Barrow Town Hall to bring together local authority departments which had spread all over town.

THERE were plans for road improvement work from Slatestones to Low Broadgate, near Millom.

APPROVAL was given for a change of use for the empty Duddon Hall, near Millom, into a Christian health centre.

BARROW and District Chamber of Trade gave its support to the formation of an Abbeyfield Society branch in the town. It was hoped to buy a large house to convert into rooms for at least six elderly people.

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TERENCE TRENT D'ARBY, singer, 55. BRET MICHAELS, singer, 54; EMILY DUNN, actress, 35.