10 YEARS AGO: Campaigners launched a legal bid to halt plans for an academy in Barrow which could lead to the closure of three secondary schools.

Ulverston power firm Acrastyle won a £5m order from Saudi Arabia for protection and control equipment for two electric sub-stations. The deal was expected to create 18 new jobs.

Supporters of Coniston library were encouraging villagers to apply for new swipe cards which would allow them to borrow books at will.

James and Ola Jordan of BBC's Strictly Come Dancing showed off their best moves at a dance session in Ulverston's Coronation Hall.

25 YEARS AGO: More than 200 people turned up to a public meeting called to oppose plans to close Roose hospital, Barrow.

North West Water was using a helicopter to bring in pipes for the £1m water main project in the Duddon Valley.

Ulverston mayor Colin Hodgson was appointed chairman of the Cumbrian Association of Local Councils.

English Heritage made a £15,000 grant towards urgent repairs needed at the 14th Century St Cuthbert's Church at Aldingham. Another £22,500 was needed.

50 YEARS AGO: Bobby Hill became the Millom area's representative in the finals of The Mail darts competition.

Eight Dalton schoolboys had been working on the gardens of pensioners for the past six weeks as part of Operation Spring Clean.

A total of 500 girls from schools in Barrow went by train to London to see a women's international hockey match at Wembley between England and the Netherlands.

The Lake District Planning Board's annual report pointed to the increasing difficulty of finding enough reasonably priced houses for local people.

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