[2] In 1977, she was elected to Lancashire County Council and held several senior positions, including chair of the Education Committee.

[3] She acted as an international observer at local elections in Poland, Ukraine and Albania.

[3] Farrington was the Labour candidate at the 1983 general election for the constituency of West Lancashire and stood for the party again at the 1991 Ribble Valley by-election.

[4] On 29 September 1994, she was created a life peer as Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton, of Fulwood in the County of Lancashire.

[2] She died from lung cancer at her residence in Dolphin Square, London, on 30 March 2018, at the age of 77.