10 years ago

BARROW author James Rigby saw his second novel published called Repel Borders. It was the story of two sons of a privateer and their nautical adventures in the early 19th century.

BARROW Rugby League Club scrum-half Lee Sanderson signed for Oldham.

THE derelict Salthouse Mills at Barrow was being offered for sale by auction with a guide price of £2.25m.

THERE were plans to extend the Travelodge next to Cocken Lake, Barrow, to provide 19 extra bedrooms aat a cost of £1.1m. The project would also create five new jobs.

25 years ago

ANNE May, of Ulverston, was to appear on the TV cookery show Masterchef. She worked as a document controller at Ulvertech.

LABOUR'S shadow defence secretary Martin O'Neill visited Furness to support parliamentary election candidate John Hutton. He toured the shipyard at Barrow and Ulverston defence contractor Oxley Developments.

ULVERSTON Outsiders presented Macbeth by William Shakespeare at Ulverston Coronation Hall. The three witches were Kay Charnley, Marjorie Atkinson and Barbara Springthorpe.

THE Barrow inshore lifeboat Modeller 1 was to be de-commissioned at the end of the year. It had been launched in 1986 and saved 23 lives.

50 years ago

MILLOM councillors gave permission for a fruit machine in the Disc Coffee Bar, in Main Street, Haverigg, for owner Edward Talbot.

BARROW Rugby Club was draw against Dewsbury in the semi-final of the Rugby League Challenge Cup.

MORE than 100 Barrow newsagents and trade representatives attended a dinner and dance at Michaelson House, Barrow.

A FURNESS kidney machine fund was launched to raise £1,500. A committee had been formed in Ulverston and £150 had already been collected.

Happy birthday

LADY GAGA, singer, 31; JASON DOHRING, actor, 35; JULIA STILES, actress, 36.