10 YEARS AGO: A Lakeland fat camp for children where parents paid up to £6,500 for a six-week course was moving to a bigger home at the YMCA National Centre, Newby Bridge, to cope with demand.

Thomas's, which has shops in Cavendish Street, Barrow, and Market Street, Ulverston, won a contest to find the region's best pie.

Children at the Cambridge Primary School, Barrow, got to handle snakes and snails as part of a workshop with Wetheriggs Animal Rescue Centre, Penrith.

Work was pressing ahead on a new £350,000 car park in Emlyn Street, Barrow. It was to have 52 spaces.

25 YEARS AGO:

Controversial comic Bernard Manning was to bring his show to Ulverston Coronation Hall. Tickets were £12.50.

Parts of Barrow were among the worst unemployment blackspots in the county, according to a report from Cumbria's economic development chief Brian Graham.

Work on Barrow's new Dane Garth mental illness hospital was close to being completed. It was due to open in September.

50 YEARS AGO: You could hear Jack Barker and the Brass Impact at Barrow's 99 Cabaret Club, in Dalkeith Street.

A Barrow group, including two clergymen and a councillor, planned to form a committee to raise funds for medical aid for Vietnam.

Plans were being drawn up to record all flora and fauna within a 10-mile radius of Morecambe Bay to see how it might be affected by a barrage scheme.

More than 1,000 members of the William Deacon's Bank Train Club arrived at Carnforth for an open day at the railway sheds. They were brought by steam locomotives Oliver Cromwell and Flying Scotsman.

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