10 YEARS AGO: Work was approved for a new zebra crossing on the busy road outside Barrow's Greengate Infant School. Headteacher Jennifer Marshall led a campaign for the safety measure and almost 500 people signed a petition.

A terraced house at Gloucester Street, Barrow, was offered for sale at £88,000. A detached house at Thirlmere Close, Millom, was £189,950.

Barrow Park won the Landscape Institute Award after a £2.5m facelift in 2004 and 2005. Among the runners-up were London's Bloomsbury Square and Polesworth Abbey in Warwickshire.

The number of people claiming the job seeker's allowance in Barrow was 1,028 - 796 men and 232 women.


25 YEARS AGO: There were plans to shut Millom's only rubbish dump at Redhills in April. Councillors feared it would result in an increase in fly tipping.

Bishop of Carlisle, the Right Reverend Ian Harland, had set up a Bishop's Commission which was looking into how the Church of England could best help with Barrow's economic and social problems.

Dalton Castle was hoping to get its historic armour back after restoration and on display in time for a public opening in May.

A total of 100 jobs were to go at the Scott paper mill in Barrow as the Furness site was to concentrate production on tissues for factories, offices and hotels.

50 YEARS AGO: The new National Trust chief warden for the Lake District was Neil Allinson, 34, who was a senior instructor at an outdoor pursuits centre in Patterdale. His new role would be based in Ambleside.

More than 50 men were to be made redundant in the first phase of a plan to close the steel foundry at the Vickers Engineering Group in Barrow.

You could meet the Barrow Round Table Santa in his grotto at Paxton Terrace, Barrow.

A two-ton weight restriction was put on the bridge carrying traffic over the railway on Allithwaite Road, Flookburgh.