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SPORTS: What lies ahead...
CUMBERLAND play Cambridgeshire at Netherfield CC's Parkside Road ground in a three-day Minor Counties Championship match on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (play starts 11am-630pm first two days, 10.30-5.30pm last day). Twenty-four hours earlier on the
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Support helps Barnardo's plan
EXTRA support is being drummed up by a Christian-based sports group with ambitious plans to develop a former holiday activity centre for disabled children into a multi-purpose building to be used by the whole community. Despite receiving a letter from
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WEb Watch - Twin towns go techno
The notion of twin towns came up the other day. Someone asked why it was done? For cultural, social, educational and sometimes commercial opportunities, this phenomenon gathered speed after the war when the world was ready to move towards more amicable
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Folk rock in new course
A COUPLE of local sound-smiths have set about putting the funk into folk. Folk musician Robbie Byrne has teamed up with Kendal College's Alec Lyon, a professional sound engineer to mix and record a new blend of folk rock at musician Mike Harding's personal
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Festival season has arrived
THE tang of crushed grass is in the air, the faint waft of chemical toilets drifts on the breeze and over-excited revellers are setting up camp in fields across Britain. The festival season is upon us and from the biggies such as Party in the Park, V
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WHAT'S Online
Stuck for something to do this weekend? Then seek online inspiration at www.thisisthelakedistrict.co.uk. In a party mood? If so, click on Leisure on the homepage. The Dining Out Top 10 can be found on the right hand menu of the homepage - here you'll
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Policeman wins national bravery award
A POLICEMAN from Grange-over-Sands who saved a boy from drowning has been honoured in a national bravery award scheme. Sergeant Richie Vernon, of Kendal police, rescued the six-year-old boy, who had been caught in a rip-tide at Sharrow Point, Whitsand
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NEWS: Fell rescuers busy
EIGHTEEN members of the Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team went to the assistance of a woman who had sustained a broken wrist after falling on Loughrigg Terrace, near Ambleside, on Monday afternoon. The 65-year-old, from the Bradford area, was
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Check Out - weekend grocery guide
What's in the shops this weekend, with the emphasis, where possible, on locally-produced, seasonal and specialty foods. Kendal Fisheries: Windermere char........£5.46 per 1/2 kilo also, NEW LINE: own-smoked Greenland prawns ........£1.99 per pint. Steadmans
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Returning to first love
KEN Burdon won his first painting competition at the age of six. He moved from watercolours to oils as a teenager, concentrating on river scenes around his native Durham. He pursued a career in commercial art - the whole spectrum of graphic design and
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Artwork captures town's life
A NEW artwork created as part of the Creative Communities Millennium project by Kendal Windows on Art has been unveiled in Burton-in-Kendal's Memorial Hall. Members of the community, including youngsters from Burton Merewood School, were present as former
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A life of total devotion by Karen Barden
Harriet Martineau was quite a girl in sedate Victorian circles. She fell out with Charles Dickens, befriended the likes of Florence Nightingale and Charlotte Bronte, became an adversary of Thomas Carlyle, who banged on about her being too small and noisy
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Gardening by Sue Tasker
One of the great pleasures of gardening is finding plants that Mother Nature has sown for the gardener - those little free samples that crop up from time to time in the most unexpected places. Jacob's ladder, Welsh poppies, red and white valerian, aquilegias
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Win a £10,000 garden make over
TO CELEBRATE the launch of The Westmorland Gazette Gardening Club, we have teamed up with top London designer Nicky Roeber to offer one lucky reader a garden of their dreams worth ten thousand pounds! Your garden will be transformed and whether it be
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PrizeTime: Ibiza's Space sounds cd
SPACE is one of Ibiza's top clubs, packed to the rafters right through the season with clubbers from every corner of the world. The club is open six days and two nights a week and it' s estimated that over 250,000 people pass through their doors during
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LETS on show
PRINTERS, painters, wood-workers and massage therapists will all be showing off their skills at a two-day trade exhibition in Kendal this weekend. The local exchange trading scheme in Kendal has organised the exhibition of its members skills in complementary
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Learn Latin - dance
IF SALSA and Merengue sound like something you should eat, perhaps you should cha-cha-cha your way to Eden this weekend to get a dose of Latin fever and brush up your Latino credentials. With the fash-mag pack still going wild for the likes of J-lo, Gizelle
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Festival season is here
THE tang of crushed grass is in the air, the faint waft of chemical toilets drifts on the breeze and over-excited revellers are setting up camp in fields across Britain. The festival season is upon us and from the biggies such as Party in the Park, V
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Jurassic Park is back
DR ALAN Grant has devoted his entire life to the study of dinosaurs, but he never imagined he'd have to come face-to-face with them - again. But that is the fate that awaits the good doctor in Jurassic Park III (PG), which sees Sam Neill reprise his role
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Festival line up for summer
THE tang of crushed grass is in the air, the faint waft of chemical toilets drifts on the breeze and over-excited revellers are setting up camp in fields across Britain. The festival season is upon us and from the biggies such as Party in the Park, V
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Gig Guide by Beth Broomby
TO HAVE your gigs included FREE of charge in the Gig Guide, telephone Beth Broomby on 01539-720555, or send a fax on 01539-720990, or drop a line to the Gig Guide, The Westmorland Gazette, 22 Stricklandgate, Kendal, LA9 4NE, at least TWO WEEKS before
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Trust puts millions into Cumbria
UP TO 4,600 full time jobs in Cumbria were last year supported by the work of the National Trust, which also ploughed £3.5 million into the local economy in staffing costs and spent a further £ 3.4 million on goods and services. The findings have been
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Keldwyth finalists
THROUGH to this year's Keldwyth Award final at Levens Hall, on September 14, are cellist Rebecca Green, aged 21, from Kirkby Lonsdale; former Casterton student Alexia Pelling ,20, oboe; and mezzo-soprano from Dendron, near Ulverston, Michelle Larcombe
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Dog dirt patrol
Every year South Lakeland District Council receives around 250 complaints from people appalled by the dog dirt that litter the district's pavements and parks. The council, which spends £47,000 annually on its dog warden service, is in the middle of a
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How to complain...when the fly lands in your soup
WHEN the problem is as obvious as a fly in your soup, the matter ought to be straightforward to resolve; the waiter should take away the offending dish and bring you a replacement. But when your dilemma has more to do with the standard of cooking or the
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My Fair Lady a star
"IT DOESN'T get much better than that for a school production," marvelled Queen Katherine head teacher Stephen Wilkinson. And it doesn't -My Fair Lady was a mammoth undertaking, but how well it turned out. From the opening bars from Anne Pater's ensembled
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Royal day for Heron Theatre
DONALD Watson looked immaculate. Dark grey suit and deep red tie, with a matching subtle spot. He stood proud, shaking hands here and there, as the assembled crowds outside the Heron Theatre watched for the Royal visitor. "I've waited 50 years for this
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Join our Gardening Club
WELCOME to The Westmorland Gazette Gardening Club which provides a wonderful opportunity for the gardeners of the North West to get together to exchange ideas and information and to make new friends - while reducing the cost of their gardening. Benefits
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Hamsters at the Brewery
THEY may not be small, cute or fluffy but the Hamsters can fairly play guitar. After three years of absence from Kendal's Brewery Arts Centre the boys are back in town ready to play a full-blown set of powerful blues-rock. Originally borrowing their name
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Dubai...a hot destination
I was really annoyed... hopping mad, in fact. After all, it's not every day that you pass up a chance of winning a brand new luxury car delivered free to your home or your own weight in jewellery. What made me even more frustrated was I was one of the
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SPORTS: Rugby club appoint coach
KENDAL Rugby Union Club have reorganised their coaching team following news that Peter Kremer is facing a renewed battle against cancer. Kremer will be back in hospital for a prolonged course of chemotherapy after scans detected a new tumour. While he
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SPORTS: Cricket knockout semi-finals take shape
BURNESIDE, Bolton-le-Sands and Shireshead are through to the semi-finals of the Hackney and Leigh Trophy, the Westmorland League's main knockout trophy. Meanwhile, the first major final of the Westorland senior season takes place when Ibis meet Silverdale
