10 YEARS AGO: Youngsters from Ulverston's Dale Street Infant School designed a series of posters as part of a campaign aimed at inconsiderate dog owners who allowed their pets to foul pavements in the town.

Irton Hall, near Santon Bridge, in West Cumbria, was set to become a block of six self-catering holiday units following a £1.5m deal to buy the 13th century site.

Lake District planners were praised by the government for running the best performing national park in the United Kingdom.

A new novel set in Millom was launched called Sunlight to the Sunless, by Kendal-based author Gareth Thompson.

25 YEARS AGO: Holidaymakers who owned shares at the Lakeland Village, Newby Bridge, took over the running of the complex. Around 2,000 people formed a new company called lakeland Management.

The Department of Transport revealed its ambition to bypass High Newton with a two-mile dual carriageway.

British Gas said two out of three workers at its Rampside terminal were Barrovians.

Broughton's Tony Channon, a former RAF pilot, had his first book of poems published called Random Reflections.

Ciopeland Borough Council decided not to close its offices at Holborn Hill, Millom.

50 YEARS AGO: An apprentice blacksmith was wanted by the Furness Water Board on a halfcrown (12p) per hours at aged 15. The full adult rate for the job was 37p per hour.

Barrow part-time postwoman Martha Newby, of Egerton Buildings, retired after 25 years. For all those years she had got up at 5am on every working day.

You could dance to The Sponge and Angels Payment at Barrow Public Hall, facing Cornwallis Street.

Barrow shipowners James Fisher and Sons joined forces with a Norwegian firm to operate a new ship bringing phosphate rock into Whitehaven for the Marchon chemical works.

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