10 YEARS AGO: Walney teenager Hannah Richmond was signed up by modelling company Rogue Maidens.

Around 80 students from John Ruskin School, Coniston, presented a song and dance show called Dreams, Magic, Mystery and More.

Tesco workers in Barrow were celebrating payouts of up to £8,500 from a company savings scheme.

Millom and Copeland MP Jamie Reed urged Cumbrians to get behind a campaign to make Sellafield Britain's premier nuclear site.

25 YEARS AGO: A semi-detached house at Sands Road, Ulverston, was offered for sale at £53,950. A terraced house at Queen Street, Barrow, was £34,950.

St James's Church, Barrow, needed £150,000 to stay open and the future of the building was being reviewed by a Church of England commission.

Almost £500,000 was to be cut from the budgets of South Cumbrian secondary schools due to a Cumbria County Council spending review.

Volunteers were needed to help repair paths on Helvellyn, the Lake District's most climbed mountain.

50 YEARS AGO: You could see Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in The Taming of the Shrew at Barrow's Essoldo cinema, on Abbey Road.

Work started on an extension to the M6 between Killington and Shap. Up to 800 workers would be used on the two-year project.

An Ulverston British Legion children's party was held at the Old Mill, Bardsea.

Sherry was 60p a pint from Murray's the chemist at Duke Street, Barrow.

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