10 YEARS AGO: There were plans for a new Barrow Sixth Form College building costing £24m. It would be build at the existing college site at Rating Lane on a sports courts area.

A detached house at Orchard Close, Bardsea, was offered for sale at £285,000. A semi-detached house at Worcester Street, Barrow, was £125,000.

The butcher John Turner, of Ulverston-based Irving's, was celebrating 30 years in the trade.

There were plans to turn the Rising Sun, on Main Street, Haverigg, into a hotel with up to 10 bedrooms.

25 YEARS AGO: Duddon Estuary and Morecambe Bay were at the forefront of an international campaign to save shore birds and experts from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said the building of a Duddon barrage would be a disaster.

More than 300 fishermen had become licensed to harvest the rich beds of mussels lying off the Furness coast.

South Lakes councillors turned down a big musical extravaganza wanted at the Glebe in August. It would have included classical music by Gershwin and attracted up to 9,000 visitors.

Millom Town Council wanted a six-mile cycle route from the town to Duddon Bridge

50 YEARS AGO: A team from Glaxo at Ulverston won the Barrow and District Table Tennis League's knock-out trophy by beating Barrow's British Cellophane team in the final.

An overtime ban by Barrow bus workers was blamed for a loss of £50,000 by Barrow Corporation's bus fleet.

The Bowater Scott Corporation was to spend £10,000 and plant 5,000 rose trees to improve the look of its factory on Park Road, Barrow.

Holme Island, near Grange, was sold to a Preston solicitor for a price in excess of £19,000. The island had a Regency house.