DENISE Fish, the head of midwifery at Furness General Hospital, was to retire after 42 years in the National Health Service.
HOLIDAY firm South Lakeland Parks was spending £1m to improve three of its luxury sites at White Cross Bay in Windermere, Fallbarrow Park at Bowness and Limefitt Park in the Troutbeck Valley.
BARROW'S James Bibby lifeboat was being retired after 196 launches and 21 years of service. The replacement was a £2.5m Tamar class boat called the Grace Dixon.
CRIME rates had fallen by five per cent in South Lakeland, making it the second safest place to live in the North West, behind the Ribble Valley.
A TERRACED house at Harrison Street, Barrow, was offered for sale at £24,950. A ground floor flat at Birch Close, Holbeck, Barrow, was £31,950.
BARROW council produced a weekly programme of youth activities for the summer called Sport Out of School.
THIEVES stole a heavy pair of garden urns valued at £2,000 from a house at Greenodd.
THE Barrow Nautical Club, on the Promenade, Walney, was redecorated for the benefit of its 500 members. Ken and Pam Harding ran the bar.
MILLOM Amateur Operatic Society presented Rio Rita at the Palladium. Delia Elliott took the title role and Colin MacDonald was Jim.
YOU could earn £865 a year as an electrician working for North West Electricity based in Barrow.
THE Reverend John Strong led his last service at Allithwaite before retirement after 12 years in charge.
AN appeal was launched to raise the £4,000 needed for repairs at Holy Trinity Church, Millom.
JOANNA LUMLEY, actress, 71; JULIE BENZ, actress, 45; BERNARD BUTLER, singer, 47.
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