10 YEARS AGO: Housing services in Millom and Copeland were given no stars by inspectors from the Audit Commission.

Furness MP John Hutton gave his support to a campaign to keep motorbike tests in Barrow.

A zero-tolerance crackdown on violent crime and drug dealers was launched by South Cumbria's new top police officer Chief Supt Paul Kennedy.

A new aeroplane-theme cafe called High Flyers was opened in Duke Street, Barrow, by Paul Rose. He had organised the successful 2005 Walney air show.

25 YEARS AGO: Development agency Furness Enterprise welcomed six South Korean business leaders to Barrow as part of a fact-finding mission to Britain.

Grange woman Kate Sellers, of Kentsford Road, left £1,000 in her will to Chancellor Norman Lamont "to help pay off the national debt"

A £10,000 forklift truck was stolen from Askam brickworks and driven almost two miles before being abandoned.

Mark Roberts, 22, became the youngest president of the Barrow, Ulverston and district branch of the Newagents Federation.

50 YEARS AGO: Urswick formed an angling committee to control fishing on the village tarn. The tarn had been bought by Urswick council in 1948 for £250.

Ulverston Outsiders were getting ready to present The Shop at Sly Corner at the Coronation Hall. The cast included Les Fee and Margaret Sunderland.

More than 130 Furness people returned from a four-day trip to Holland with The Mail.

You could earn £8.50 per week as an experienced sewing machinist for underwear firm Blair Foundations at Dalton.

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