10 YEARS AGO

Copeland MP Jamie Reed officially opened the new residential block at Haverigg prison with governor Clive Chatterton and Prison Service area manager Ian Lockwood.

National Park planners gave permission to convert the former Satterthwaite and Rusland C of E school building into two houses, with another four in the grounds.

More than 2,400 had so far signed a petition calling for Barrow's mayor to be chosen by an election.

The Barrow Engineering Project was to be launched in December with the aim of getting more young people to choose a career in engineering.


25 YEARS AGO

The number of Cumbrian 16-year-olds staying on in education had risen by more than half in five years, according to figures from the county careers service. It was said to be due to a lack of jobs.

Taxi drivers who repeatedly turned up late for fares could be banned from working, South Lakeland Council decided. The council also introduced 197 new regulations governing taxis and private hire cars.

Construction workers at Barrow council's Business Division agreed to take a 15 per cent pay cut after news that it was £1.7m in debt.

A £750,000 improvement programme at Thorncliffe School, Barrow, was unveiled to the public. It included new science laboratories.

50 YEARS AGO

There were almost 200 entries in the 54th annual show by the Grange and District Chrysanthemum Society.

Millom Ironworks was waiting for a government decision on a £950,000 grant for a spray steelmaking project.

A total of 100 cattle and 180 sheep were slaughtered on a farm near Carnforth as an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease got closer to Furness.

You could earn the equivalent of £8.37 per week as a woman, or £11.17 as a man, for the same job at a cleaner for Lancashire County Council at Ulverston library.