10 YEARS AGO

You could earn £6.08 per hour on the school crossing patrol at St Mary's Primary School, Ulverston.

Plans for private NHS clinics in Cumbria were scrapped by Labour's Health Secretary Alan Johnson.

John Graham, from Silloth, won the title of World's Biggest Liar at Santon Bridge with a tall tale about a 9ft cod caught off Whitehaven.

Some fish stocks could disappear from the Lake Distyrict due to climate change, delegates were told at an environmental conference at Brockhole, near Windermere.


25 YEARS AGO

Barrow council reached the final of the Northern Electric Arts Award for the local authority doing the most to promote the arts.

Tim Henshaw played Oliver Twist and Michelle Larcombe was the Artful Dodger in Walney Amateur Operatic Society's production of Oliver! at Forum 28, Barrow.

Pub landlord John Cunningham and soft drinks operator Alan Hughes were added to the board of directors at Barrow Rugby League Club.

Former Barrow shipyard design chief Dr Carl Ross was awarded a Doctor of Science degree from Portsmouth University which was presented by Princess Anne.

50 YEARS AGO

Barrow Mothers' Club had grown in three years from a membership of 11 to 80.

You could earn £15.27 a week as a motor mechanic in the transport section of the General Post Office at Barrow.

The Palace Bingo Club at Millom was hosting the 1967 final of the Miss Industry contest.

Barrow Labour MP Albert Booth gave his support for calls in the House of Commons for Britian to demounce the intervention in Vietnam by the United States.