10 years ago

CHILDREN from Brisbane Park and St James' schools, Barrow, helped design mosaics for the Hindpool Urban Park based on a nucleus surrounded by 26 electrons.

HUDDLESTON'S Butchers, of Crescent Road, Windermere, won the best home cured bacon category at the North West Regional Roadshow organised by the British Pig Executive.

THE Ulverston Outsiders presented the Alan Ayckbourn play Improbable Fiction at the Coronation Hall, Ulverston. The cast included Seamus Dorin, Myra Billinghurst and trevor Hughes.

DOZENS of residents signed a petition calling for a missing street light to be replaced in Duddon Road, Askam. It had been removed five years ago.

25 years ago

PLANS went on public show for a low-cost housing scheme near Priory Road cemetery, Ulverston. It was on land previously earmarked for cemetery use.

A LORRY carrying seven tons of Barrow toilet rolls burst into flames on the A590 near Haverthwaite railway station.

BARROW and Furness MP John Hutton gave his support to John Smith as new leader of the Labour Party.

CHETWYNDE Schhol, Barrow, was to play host to 36 French youngsters aged from 13 to 15 for an 11-day visit, which would include a Windermere cruise and a trip to Piel Island.

50 years ago

BARROW Round Table was planning a day cruise to the Isle of Man.

FRANK Whiteway, of Dalton, was to ride his 247cc Suzuki in the in a 500-mile motorcycle race at Brands Hatch.

BARROW'S Derek Steel was the new field sales manager for the Marconi micro-electronics division at Wickham, Essex.

A CAMPAIGN was launched at the Queen's Hall, Abbey Road, Barrow, to find 2,000 more blood donors in Furness by George Hastwell, chairman of the Furness Hospital Management Committee.

Happy birthday

TESS DALY, presenter, 48; SALLY HAWKINS, actress, 41; WILLIAM MOSELEY, actor, 30.