Spinning: DJs, from left, Mark Waddington, Matt Lipscombe and Chris Campbell in their studio
HOW three budding DJs with 2,000 records set up their own broadcasting studio in an outhouse featured in The Mail, on September 6 in 1996.
It noted: "Barrow teenagers Mark Waddington, of Head Meadow, Chris Campbell, of Stackwood Avenue and Matt Lipscombe, from Middleton Avenue, are planning to apply to the Radio Authority for a licence.
"The 13-year-old lads want to take MCM Radio to a wider audience."
St Bernard's pupil Mark said: "We wanted a studio of our own so we painted the outhouse and set everything up ourselves.
"We all want to be DJs when we leave school."
The studio had two decks, a CD player and 2,000 records where the DJs hosted their own shows over the school holidays.
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