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The benefits fund linked to a South Cumbria wind farm is being made evenmore widely available to the community.

Four bus drivers with First Manchester have been recognised for between them achieving over 100 years of safe driving.

By Professor Klaus Dodds (*) – The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty was agreed in 1991 and came into force in 1998, once it had been ratified by all 26 (currently 28) Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties. Professor Klaus Dodds explores the extensive and delicate negotiations that made this possible.

Rajesh Patel, of Mr Newsagents at Ocean Road, had moved to Barrow from Birmingham 14 months previously. His mother, Lalita Patel, died at the age of 39 from kidney failure and Mr Patel had always tried to do something every year in her memory. "She had always been a believer in education and always liked children," said Mt Patel. He approached John Heap, headteacher at the school, who decided to award it for the greatest achievement in poetry by a pupil during the year. Mr Heap said: "I wanted to make poetry a big thing and make the children realise poetry is worth writing about.

SOUTH Walney Junior School was one of the schools which took part in a kite festival on Walney in 1994. The event, involving all schools on Walney, was in danger of being grounded after organisers discovered a helicopter fly-past was planned for the same day. Blackpool-based West Coast Kite Club applied for a licence for the festival on Biggar Bank on behalf of organiser Val Holden. WORKSHOP: Lee, ten, and Leigh, eight, practise their maths with a game of bingo at a mathematics workshop at South Walney Junior School in 1994 The Civil Aviation Authority told them two Royal Navy hel...