10 years ago

PLANS were rejected for a 75-bedroom block at the Swan Hotel, Grasmere. The project would also have seen expansion of the restaurant for MacDonald Hotels.

BUILDERS were putting the finishing touches to a Barrow Subway sandwich shop on Dalton Road. It was in the former Dolings hardware store.

UNITED Utilities won planning permission for a substation on the corner of Queen's Park and Park Road, Windermere.

CONVICTED criminals were using a gum-zapping machine to clear Barrow town centre pavements in a scheme funded by the Central and Hindpool Neughbourhood Management Team and supported by Cumbria Probation Service.

25 years ago

COUNTY councillors were being asked to contribute more than £60,000 towards the cost of flood protection work underway at Haverigg, near Millom. The money would pay for road and footpath improvements.

A SEMI-DETACHED dormer bungalow at Jefferson Drive, Ulverston, was offered for sale at £74,500. A terraced house at Mount Pleasant, Lindal, was £44,950.

AN appeal was launched to find £8,000 to complete a sculpture project at Cartmel Priory. The figure of St Michael was commissioned from Josefina de Vasconcellos.

CABINET minister David Mellor was the latest Conservative to visit Barrow in support of general election candidate - and current Barrow MP - Cecil Franks.

50 years ago

THE prize fun for bingo winners at the Roxy in Millom was at least £72. It cost two shillings to play (10p).

SECOND row forward Fred Tomlinson told employers Barrow Rugby League Club that he would not play again this season and wanted his £5,000 transfer fee reduced.

ALMOST 90 Barrow Corporation bus drivers received safe driving awards at Michaelson House, Barrow.

PASSING motorists at Witherslack stopped and prevented a garage blaze at the greystones Filling Station reaching 5,000 gallons of fuel and a store of oil and calor gas.

Happy birthday

SAMANTHA ROBSON, actress, 51; REESE WITHERSPOON, actress, 41;

BEVERLEY KNIGHT, singer, 44.