10 YEARS AGO: Bomb disposal experts were called out after an unexploded flare was washed up on the beach at Earnse Bay, Walney.

A ground floor shop in Market Street, Dalton, was offered for sale at £50,000. A detached bungalow at William Close, Dalton, was £159,950.

Lakes Parish Council moved its headquarters into a police station at Ambleside, to save £2,600 a year in rent.

The Che Vita Italian restaurant was creating 25 jobs as it took over much of of the ground floor at Barrow's Majestic Hotel, in Schneider Square.

25 YEARS AGO: The Bishop of Carlisle refused to rule out the possibility of closing St James's Church in Barrow as part of a Church of England reorganisation in the town.

Council tax bills in South Lakeland were to range between £391 and £1,172, said district treasurer Les Sutton.

Barrow's Parkview School was hoping to become the best in Cumbria for music as a result of its decision to opt out of local authority control. It would use new financial freedoms to set up 50 places for instrument tuition.

Copeland Council turned down a move by councillors in Millom to get government nuclear waste agency Nirex to pay for the town's road improvements.

50 YEARS AGO: The National Trust was given 400 acres of woodland on the Park-a-Moor estate at the south end of Coniston Water. It would mean increased opportunities for camping, picnics and parking.

The police officer Peter Cooper, of Thornhill, near Egremont, was awarded the British Empire medal for saving a boy from drowning at St Bees.

The Ribble Kart Club was promoting a race meeting at Flookburgh, with events from noon to 5pm.

A presentation was made to Cpt Edward Rowlands to mark his retirement after nine years as harbour master at Barrow. Mr Rowlands, of Thorncliffe Road, Barrow, started work at Barow docks in 1954 as dredger master.

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