THE spotlight was firmly fixed on a former PoW camp yesterday as experts toyed with the idea of bringing a piece of history back to life.

A Second World War rescue lamp has been donated to Eden Camp, the award-winning modern history museum, near Malton.

And boss Steve Jaques said the paraffin lamp, which once belonged to Scarborough Police, could soon become one of the museum's brightest exhibits.

"It's like some sort of emergency lighting that could be taken out anywhere and used wherever it was needed. But the problem with items of this age is that it could be more dangerous to use it," he said.