It was a wet day but morale was high when jobs marchers were escorted into Penrith along Scotland Road by police and supporters 25 years ago.

Jobs marchers on the 500-mile Glasgow to London “People’s March for Jobs” were delighted with the response from Penrithians when they passed through the town. Despite teeming rain, about 40 supporters joined the marchers as they walked to Penrith from Carlisle and escorted them to Ullswater High School where they spent the night. “The local response has been excellent, we are very pleased,” said march marshall Iain Chalmers.

Members of Greystoke School’s squad which scooped the Skelton Sevens trophy 25 years ago. Left to right (back), are Steven Mandale, Alan Walton, Brian Horn, Iain Roberts, Simon Edmondson, Mark Davidson, Shaun Clarke, Edwin Ashburner and Gary Mole. At the front is skipper Michael Tweddle.

An unexploded wartime shell was found in Ullswater by a group of amateur skin divers. Members of the group, from the Lancaster area, found the 20lb First World War shell in the water about eight feet from the pier at Glenridding. They took their find back to Lancaster with them where it was found to be highly dangerous and destroyed. A Penrith police spokesman said that he had no idea how the shell came to be in the lake or if there were any more still there.

Fourth placed in the Grand National 25 years ago, Hallo Dandy is paraded in front of spectators by Larry Poland as Gordon Richards throws open the gates of his Greystoke stables to boost funds for the famous race.

Caning is to be banned in the county’s primary schools, whilst governors and headteachers of secondary schools are being urged to abolish corporal punishment there as well. The new measures were approved by the education committee, by a vote of 21 to five. However, some members of Cumbria County Council felt that there should be a total ban on caning in Cumbrian schools. “I hope that the governors will take note of our advice and realise tat if they go ahead and allow children to be beaten, it will be their responsibility and not ours if parents bring a prosecution,” said Mr. Shaun Halfpenny (Lab., Ulverston).

Officials and guests at the Penrith and District Badminton League anniversary dinner, held at the Shap Wells Hotel, 25 years ago.

Hallo Dandy, trained by Gordon Richards at Greystoke came close to winning the Grand National at Aintree, belying his starting price of 60-1. Forty-one runners, a near record, started out on the 4.5 mile supreme test of horse and rider. And Hallo Dandy ran a superb race on soft ground which he hated, to finish in fourth place after being up with the leaders for most of the way. He was ridden by stable jockey Neale Doughty for London owner Mr. Richard Shaw.