10 years ago

EDUCATION bosses in Lancashire were rushing through a package of bids for millions in Government grants to help repair crumbling schools.

Labour had announced a £1.08 billion package and a report had revealed that schools in Lancashire needed £75 million for repair work.

Many classrooms had been affected by vandalism.

25 years ago

HELICOPTER pilot Peter Flynn was about to go up in the world like never before.

He and an army colleague were to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, strapped together, three-legged style.

His keenest supporters for the charity feat were his parents, Pat and Dorothy Flynn, of Church, who said it was "just the sort of thing he would do."

50 years ago

WITH 80,000ft of cine film in his kit and a Buddhist lucky charm from a Himalayan priest in his pocket, Stanley Jeeves, 29, a Nelson photographer and mountaineer, set sail to begin a 22,000-mile journey through South American jungles.

Stanley was cine-cameraman, "doctor" and cook on the six-strong Oxford and Cambridge South American expedition.