10 years ago

STUDENTS at Ulverston Victoria High School were puting the finishing touches to their outfits for the annual fashion show.

BARROW drew Swinton Lions away from home in the fourth round of the Rugby League Challenge Cup.

WORLD and European champion gymnast Beth Tweddle visited The Lakes School and Sports College at Troutbeck Bridge.

A TOTAL of 25 motorists were caught using mobile phonmes at the wheel in the first week of a police campaign in Cumbria.

25 years ago

PUPILS from Millom School presented Orpeus in the Underworld. Claire Forsman played Eurydic and Peter Rushton was Orheus.

THE Barrow branch of the DMC records and videos chain announced a closing down sale.

THERE were plans to change the Fisherman's Arms, Baycliff, into a residential home for old people.

BARROW firm Telemeter Engineering won a British Standards certificate for supplying precision machined components.

50 years ago

AN exhibition featuring everything needed for the modern home was being held at St George's Hall, Millom, by Barrow firm Scott and Bell.

FIVE fire engines from Ulverston, Dalton and Barrow were sent to a blaze at the Fisherman's Arms, Baycliff.

FURNESS Drama Association presented The Gazebo at the Coronation Hall, Ulverston. The role of Elliot Nash was played by Jack Fisher.

THERE was a strike by bricklayers and steel fixers on the site of the new Bowater Scott tissue mill on Park Road, Barrow. The row among Sir Robert McAlpine contractors was over a man who had been dismissed.

Happy birthday

KURT RUSSELL, American actor, 66; LESLEY ANN DOWN, actress, 63; GARY SINISE, actor, 62.