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BARROW tipplers will be sniffing back a tear or two following the demise of many of our beloved local pubs.

ON Wednesday Alfred Barrow Thorncliffe and Parkview schools all closed their doors for the final time.
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TODAY, July 20, is the 40th anniversary of man's first landing on the moon. Arguably humankind's gretest ever technolgical achievement, it was a tremendously risky operation its unlikley that its like will never be seen again.

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The prospect of an academy opening in Barrow has had Evening Mail readers sending in their comments by the hundreds.
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DRUGS should be legalised to crack down on dealers. That is just one of the suggestions to come from the Evening Mail’s online drug survey.

TOWN Hall chiefs are launching an appeal to find a new home for the Dalton Road gazebo.

Britain's got talent star Susan Boyle has struggled to cope with her meteoric rise to fame and news reports claim she was admitted to London’s Priory Clinic shortly after the final.

We want you to show programme makers at Channel Four what they missed.

THE image may be one of a cuddly Basil Brush but not many issues polarise the nation as much as the ban on fox hunting.

THE image may be one of a cuddly Basil Brush but not many issues polarise the nation as much as the ban on fox hunting.

A SUPERMARKET giant is coming to Ulverston.

COPELAND MP Jamie Reed is backing plans for a supermarket on the site of Millom Palladium.

MILLOM’S MP is backing plans for a nuclear power station near the town.

Defence Secretary John Hutton today apologised after admitting that, contrary to previous Government assurances, two suspected terrorists captured by UK forces in Iraq were subsequently transferred by the US to Afghanistan.
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IT is testament to the ongoing impact of Charles Darwin’s work that the debate over how to tackle alternative versions of the origin of the world is still waging on, some 150 years after he published The Origin Of Species.

THE bosses of Barrow’s proposed academy believe they have found the inspirational leader they need for the new school.

A RAFT of drastic measures to address a mammoth hole in council finances have been unveiled in South Lakeland. District council officials announced the predicted shortfall in the 2009/10 budget has risen from £1.8m to £2.1m.