POLICE have released CCTV stills of three masked raiders who carried out a smash and grab at an Ulverston jewellers and escaped with £20,000-worth of watches.

THOUSANDS flocked to Dalton for the town’s annual medieval market.

ANNIE the milking cow is just like one of the class. Pupils at Newton Primary School first met the four-year-old Holstein at their summer fair when she was just a one-week-old calf.

THOUSANDS of people descended on Ulverston to witness the unveiling of the Laurel and Hardy statue.

CHILDREN came face-to-face with cute creatures during an Easter workshop at a Barrow store.

FURNESS Morris dancers wowed the crowds in glorious weather with a traditional play that dates back to 1963.

HUNDREDS of visitors flocked to Forum 28 in Barrow on Saturday to the first day of Furness Model Railway Club’s 47th annual exhibition yesterday.

TWO hundred talented pupils took to the stage to celebrate the works of William Shakespeare.

The Enterprise Masterclass ‘Reaching Out to a Global Audience’ – held at the Waterside House Enterprise Hub in Barrow on 2 April 2009 enabled over 40 retail and commercial business owners to see the potential benefits of combining traditional retail marketing with the Internet to increase opportunity to reach a global customer base.

GOVERNMENT minister Beverley Hughes ended a top-level tour of the area by listening to some ‘donk’ dance music.

THE Evening Mail was on the front line with police in the war against drugs. We joined 55 police officers on Operation Arrowhead.

Robert Johnson spends a day training with the army.

The Designer Wedding Show, which took place at Barrow’s Forum 28 yesterday, is the first of two annual wedding shows in the town that makes organising your special day as easy as saying “I do”.

THIS was certainly a maths lesson with a difference.

MANY of the 800 workers who lined Devonshire Dock Hall’s vast platforms for yesterday’s keel laying ceremony witnessed a scene also played out before their parents and grandparents.

WHAT came first, the chicken or the egg?

IT was bound to happen – as soon as my 88-year-old nanna unwrapped her shiny new Wii at Christmas, I knew I was in for a pasting.
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BEEFED up body work, tuned engines, blinged up wheels and paint jobs, and superb sound systems.

MORE than a dozen bags of venison and an air gun have been seized from a Millom home following a police crackdown on poaching.

PLAYFUL primates are recycling a Christmas tree in a novel way.

Marching into history... The book was finally closed on the illustrious history of Cumbria’s former King’s Own Royal Border Regiment (KORBR) when its colours were laid up in an emotional service at Carlisle Cathedral.

MOTORISTS were stopped during a crackdown on faulty vehicles. A total of 25 vehicles were stopped in Barrow on Saturday evening for a number of transgressions, such as having overly large exhaust pipes and tinted windows.

MOUNTAIN rescuers have commended two climbers who continued to trek down a fellside after one suffered a broken leg.

IT’S bewildering to think that this hunk of steelwork, rivets and sculpted metal was the boat in which Donald Campbell made history.

A FURNESS pupil is a hero after stepping in to save his school’s Christmas play.

A MASSIVE blaze ripped through a farmhouse and barn today threatening to blow up 3,000 litres of diesel and gas canisters.

UNHEARD recordings of the late, legendary Danny Patterson are set to be released 10 years after they were performed.

THE annual festive drink drive crackdown has kicked off with some hard hitting messages for motorists.

IT'S not every day you get to see how a national award-winning cartoonist creates his cartoons which appear in the Evening Mail six days a week.

WE all produce it, but when it comes to dealing with waste it’s most often a case of “want not”.

THE Hairy Bikers got Barrow in the Christmas spirit at the weekend with the big lights switch-on.

HUNDREDS of people turned out at Barrow’s Remembrance Day service to mark the 90th anniversary of Armistice Day

THOMAS the Tank Engine and friends steamed into Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway at the weekend.

POLICE were today warning people to stay away from an old Barrow mill following a blaze.

A COMPETITION to find the cheerleader of tomorrow will see one lucky winner jet off to Los Angeles.

The Duchess of Cornwall visited Barrow's Astute submarine, meeting crew members and their families.

STAFF at South Lakes Wild Animal Park are celebrating their second rare rhino birth.

THE Rhinos met the rhinos at South Lakes Wild Animal Park yesterday afternoon.

WHEN 18-year-old Ianthe Fullagar heard she had won £7m on the EuroMillions lottery she screamed so loud the family dog bit her on the bottom.

With a dash of hair spray the four winners of the Modelling Competition readied themselves for their first professional photos.

A video from the 50-mile Tour de Furness charity bike ride.

Including interview with "City Gardener" Matt James.

THE crowd went wild for the daring stunts displayed at Barrow’s new £140,000 skate park.

A-Level results day at Barrow Sixth Form College.

Powerboat racing in Barrow

Simon King & Dave Myers cook up a tasty Beef Stroganoff in this video recorded at Barrow's festival of culture.

You can see for yourself that Barrow really has got talent.

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BARROW'S largest ever live music festival, Furness Fest, took place at the weekend. The three-day-long festival at Sinkfall Farm attracted hundreds of peole and featured some of the finest local talent, as well as acts from further afield. MOLLY LYNCH reports

A CASE of typical English weather did not deter hundreds of revellers from attending Ulverston Carnival.

Budding journalists from South Walney Junior School visited the Evening Mail offices to get some tips for their own South Walney Star.

All the action from Barrow's Festival of the Sea.

EIGHT men have been arrested after police swooped on homes and Barrow tip this morning.

A NEW super hero from Barrow is battling to reduce the number of accidents involving young children in the home.

IMMIGRATION hit squads carried out a series of raids across south Cumbria last night.

THE British Kite Surfing Association Championships held at Earnse Bay.

THREE men have been slapped with fines of more than £3,800 for dumping waste which could have a massive environmental impact.

Reaction to the news that Greenodd post office is to close down from postmaster Lloyd Willis.

GIRL power was in full force in Barrow on June 8.

STAFF at the South Lakes Wild Animal Park are overjoyed about a record breaking new arrival.

A BIG Brother-style secret camera is on our streets ready to catch criminals in the act.