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CRICKET: Burneside cup looks brimful
BURNESIDE got their act together in the Hackney and Leigh Trophy on Sunday to book their second semi-final place this season with a 54-run victory over Second Division leaders Silverdale. Arnside's result card from Saturday was declared invalid by the
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CRICKET: Leaders find silver lining in the rain
THE GREAT British Summer struck again with the rain marring Netherfield's home match with Lancaster but there was a silver lining from the day's results in the Bay Northern Premier League. Going into Saturday's programme, Netherfield held a SIX-POINT
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Clebrating lung's third birthday
"LIFE is brilliant," says Betty Moorby, who has just celebrated the third birthday of Henry, her new lung. Until the Staveley grandmother's transplant operation, Mrs Moorby, 56, spent two years confined to a wheelchair. But now she captains the village
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Pain victim backs Collins' campaign
Victim of excruciating back pain Gussie Spence is hopeful of fresh progress in her long fight for justice. Mrs Spence has greeted efforts by MP Tim Collins to establish a House of Commons all-party group of MPs to look into the cases of people like herself
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New web site for tenants
AT THE click of a mouse button, tenants from miles around can share ideas, advice and the latest information about housing issues thanks to a new website. The Cumbria Tenants and Residents Participation Forum hopes to give tenants "a voice" through its
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Minister's vision is 'pie in the sky'
MARGARET Beckett, the minister in charge of DEFRA, this week outlined her vision for the future of farming in Britain based on reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. Speaking at an RSPB conference, Mrs Beckett described CAP market support and direct
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'Negative' death toll emerges
THE Government has now revealed how many farms where animals were slaughtered because of foot-and-mouth and where subsequently tests for the virus proved negative. Responding to a written Parliamentary Question from Westmorland and Lonsdale MP Tim Collins
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Plea for volunteers
VOLUNTEERS are needed to help carry out a range of environmental projects designed to improve and sustain the local environment. The Central Lakeland branch of the British Conservation Trust for Volunteers has launched a recruitment drive to help let
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From our files.....
25 Years Ago July 16, 1976 Secret talks on tourism SECRET talks have been held into the suggestion that South Lakeland Council should develop tourism in areas not previously touched by tourist activities. The influential Policy and Finance Committee decided
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Volunteers needed
VOLUNTEERS are needed to help carry out a range of environmental projects designed to improve and sustain the local environment. The Central Lakeland branch of the British Conservation Trust for Volunteers has launched a recruitment drive to help let
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The cost of a pint
SIR, I recently visited the Lake District and called in for a drink in Ambleside. My wife and I paid for two pints of beer. The price was £2 per pint. We decided to have another half a pint each and I got out £2, only to be asked for £2.10. When I asked
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Strange attitude towards tourists
SIR, I have come to England each year for the past 29 years, usually around autumn/winter, in order to be in the Lake district. I usually spend four weeks. Last November I came and stayed for six months, 16 weeks of that in the Lake District. I took advantage
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Tragedy of the virus
SIR, It is with great sadness and horror that we have watched the foot-and-mouth tragedy unfold, particularly in Cumberland and Westmorland, an area we love and know so well. It is not a coincidence how it has tracked right up the Eden Valley and has
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CheckOut - 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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Win Ibiza Space 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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FEATURE: Park at Your Peril
Westmorland Gazette deputy news editor MIKE ADDISON and chief photographer PAUL BRAMHAM took to the main street of Kendal this week to confront motorists and delivery drivers parking in contravention of the town's traffic regulation orders. Last week
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New store creates jobs
Up to 30 new full and part-time jobs will be created when a new home interiors shop opens in Kendal at the end of next month. Au Naturale plans to trade from a 2,000 sq ft store in the Westmorland Shopping Centre. The company has 83 stores nationwide
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Stoney path to show success
Natural stone supplied by Burlington helped The Evening Standard to win a silver gilt medal for its unique show garden at this year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The Kirkby-in-Furness firm's Broughton Moor stone was used for paving and as part of a water
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Big Brother staying power
THE daughter of an Eden family who is a contestant on Channel 4's second series of Big Brother is still on course to win the £70,000 first prize. Appleby-born Elizabeth Woodcock avoided nomination again this week and continues her stay in the camera-rigged
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Still there!
THE daughter of an Eden family who is a contestant on Channel 4's second series of Big Brother is still on course to win the £70,000 first prize. Appleby-born Elizabeth Woodcock avoided nomination again this week and continues her stay in the camera-rigged
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Residents win road plan re-think
KENDAL residents and churchgoers have won their fight for a rethink over traffic lights at a busy road junction in the town. Cumbria county councillors have bowed to public pressure and agreed that a pedestrian crossing should be included in new traffic
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IoM issues tourist plea
CANCELLATION of this year's TT Races because of the foot-and-mouth outbreak, has resulted in a drop in passengers for the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company. The number of vehicles travelling is down by 28 per cent over last year's figures, and passenger
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Renewed by-pass plea after another A590 death
ANOTHER fatal crash at an accident blackspot has led to renewed calls for a bypass to cut the carnage along a notorious stretch of the A590, which passes through the villages of High and Low Newton. The latest accident happened on a narrow stretch of
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Crack-down on dog dirt
DRIVING around South Lakeland in his van emblazoned with the words 'Dog Warden, Serving your Community', Mr Wood said he almost always got a very warm welcome. "People often wave and cheer when they see the van. I've had a lot of people who have come
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A590 anger over fatal accident
ANOTHER fatal crash at an accident blackspot has led to renewed calls for a bypass to cut the carnage along a notorious stretch of the A590, which passes through the villages of High and Low Newton. The latest accident happened on a narrow stretch of
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Car park shut
CUSTOMERS visiting Marks & Spencer in Kendal will be unable to use the underground car park from Sunday until Thursday, July 26, while repair work is carried out. Carol Wilson, M&S relief store manager, said the above ground car park - which has
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Same wavelength
RADIO ham Keith Seddon is hoping he is now on the same wavelength as his neighbours, after planners gave him the go-ahead for a 33ft retractable mast at the side of his house. The Kendal enthusiast has seven aerials attached to the gable end of his semi-detached
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College graduates
FORTY students from Kendal College graduate this week from their National Vocational Qualification III in Early Years Care and Education. The students, 20 from Cumbria and 20 from Lancashire, received their certificates from college principal Graham Wilkinson
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Oddsock's Othello
ODDSOCKS Theatre Company's version of Othello is regarded as family friendly. A novel and zany production of the Bard's romantic and powerful tale of Mediterranean murder and jealously. Normally Oddsocks performs outdoors and the play was originally set
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The way I see it... with Dennis Aris
I HAVE often wondered if our ancestors were the rough tough battling people they are portrayed as and this picture sent to us from Rheged seems to confirm my suspicions. It would appear that the mighty Arthur's feat of strength, which led to his coronation
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Youth record with BBC Phil
YOUNG musicians from three Lakeland schools tasted life in the big time this week when they recorded with the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester and looked forward to cutting their first CD. The 70 youngsters from primary schools in Ambleside, Coniston and
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Firms invest in technology for the future
A KENDAL business is aiming for expansion after completing its largest-ever investment. Kent Valley Colour Printers has taken delivery of a brand new £750,000 colour printing press which will substantially increase its production capacity. Director Tim
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GOLF: Inter-Club switch is no handicap
APPLEBY lost home advantage when the Westmorland Inter-Club Championship had to be switched to Windermere due to the foot-and-mouth outbreak, but they still took the Senior Championship for the first time on an opponents' course. Kendal captured the Junior
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CYCLING: Full Speight
ULVERSTON'S Mike Speight (Barrow Central Wheelers) continued his recent good form with the fastest local ride in the Derwent Valley CC 25 miles time trial beside Bassenthwaite on Sunday. Mike covered the out and back course in 58mins 38secs compared with
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RUGBY: Kendal give coach role to Bowman
KENDAL RUFC coach Peter Kremer is facing a renewed battle against the cancer that struck him last season and is likely to be out for long periods as he undergoes further prolonged treatment. While he is absent, the club have appointed Penrith-based Mark
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SPORT: Cricket - Watchful Hunte paves the way
PATIENCE is a virtue that Kendal are appreciating as the season progresses and it was the key to an impressive seven-wicket win away to Leyland Motors on Saturday, writes Richard Daniels. The 12-point victory keeps the Shap Road side fifth in the pecking
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Environment hope
A PROJECT to enhance Cumbria's landscape should form part of the county's foot-and-mouth recovery plans, according to district councillors. The Cumbria Landscape Project has been established to help enhance the landscape as an economic, social and environmental
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Ragwort alert
THE Country Land and Business Association has warned local authorities and landowners that they must act now if they are to control the killer weed ragwort. Each year horses and other animals die a slow, painful death after being poisoned by the weed
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Looking for lost love - and relatives
SIR, I live here in the US (Wisconsin) and am presently dating a wonderful woman from your beautiful town of Kendal. We will be visiting the area in late July and early August. The main reason I wish to visit the area is twofold. Foremost to meet her
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Traffic problems - what a surprise
SIR, So the long-awaited Kendal traffic scheme is in trouble. Oh what a surprise! The last minute intervention of Stagecoach must be questioned. Why was this need not recognised before? Were Stagecoach properly consulted? Was anybody properly consulted
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Obvious place for a car park
SIR, Your front page story headed 'Town traffic re-think is in tatters' makes sad and disappointing reading. Just think how much money could have been saved and how many optimistic hopes could have remained unraised if the simple questions, "can the purchase
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Lakes in TV role
PART of the Lake District's heritage will feature in the next series of The History of Britain following its presenter Simon Schama's recent visite to Grasmere. Mr Schama arrived in the village via Buttermere, where an episode of the BBC2 programme was
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Councillors double 'pay'
SOUTH Lakeland district councillors have voted to give themselves a £3,000-a-year basic allowance, reports Helen Long. This is almost double the average of £1,572 currently claimed each year by councillors in attendance allowances. The controversial increase
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MP questions cancer death
A 'heartbroken' husband has spoken out about delays in his wife's cancer treatment which he claims contributed to her death, writes Health Reporter Michaela Robinson-Tate. Jim McBride said he wanted to prevent a repeat of the ordeal faced by his wife,
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NEWS: Fells set to reopen
HUNDREDS of miles of footpaths in the Lake District will reopen on August 1 for the first time since foot-and-mouth restrictions closed them in February, writes Farming Reporter Justin Hawkins. Cumbria County Council was exempted from Government demands
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New plans for arts funding
CLIENTS of Northern Arts in South Lakeland are this week being consulted over Arts Council proposals to move Cumbria over to a North West regional office. The recommendation is being made by the Arts Council which this week published its revised proposals
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Historian finds Napoleon's death mask
A KENDAL-based historian has stumbled across a relic of one of history's greatest figures. Historian and author Geoffrey Abbott discovered a 6lb bronze death mask of Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France and one of history's greatest military leaders,
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Carnival day
FOOT-AND-MOUTH failed to halt the carnival weekend in Appleby. A shorter parade than usual was organised by the Appleby and District Carnival and Sports Committee and the usual festivities held on King George Playing Field were brought into the Public
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Dogs graduate
A NEW dog training club in Sedbergh has seen its first graduates win awards in the Kennel Club Good Citizen Dog Scheme. Sedbergh Dog Training, which started in April, meets at the People's Hall and has been running six-week courses leading up to the Kennel
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Police confront bikers
FORTY-FOUR motorcyclists were stopped following a police purge on bikers visiting a popular South Lakeland meeting spot. Officers from Cumbria Constabulary, in conjunction with representatives from the Vehicle Inspectorate and the Driver Vehicle Licensing
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Nursery flying high
LONG Marton Pre-School Nursery in Appleby-in-Westmorland has been awarded the Flying High Kitemark for achieving the highest accreditation available to it. The Cumbria Early Years Partnership launched the kite mark scheme last May, with aims to ensure
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A590 crash
PART of the A590 was blocked for more than two hours after a car left the road and hit a tree near Greenodd on Friday. The one-vehicle accident, on a narrow stretch between Greenodd and the junction of Bouth Road, happened just before 6am. The driver
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Free alarms
FREE rape alarms were issued to 200 women in Barrow following four indecent assaults on women walking home in the town during the last month. The police initiative is part of Operation Regulate, which was launched in October last year, to reduce the number
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Support needed for lottery bid
A YOUTH group is asking for letters of support from the community to back a new lottery bid. Spirit of Youth, at Bolton Place, is used by Ulverston youngsters as a drop-in centre where they can meet, have a game of pool and discuss activities in which
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Best folklore festival
MUSIC connoisseurs were served a real treat at the weekend during what has been described as the best Furness Folklore Festival Ulverston has ever staged. Visitors and locals were entertained from last Thursday, when the festival was launched with a young
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Busy weekend for mountain rescues
A FURNESS mountaineer who lost his footing while sorting out his equipment before making a start on a climb at Pike's Crag, on Scafell Pike, is recovering after suffering multiple injuries when he tumbled for 30 metres over rocky ground. The 47-year-old
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Outdoor centre plans
PLANS for a £45,000 outdoor activity course have been submitted to South Lakeland District Council by a Kendal hotel. The Castle Green Hotel wants to build the one-acre course for corporate clients, including senior managers on team-building exercises
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Parking outcry
A POLICE patrol vehicle is to be sent out to Silverdale at regular intervals following complaints from the parish council about parking, particularly on Stankelt Road and Emesgate Lane. Parish councillors are also to monitor the situation and report their
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Capsule of treasures
Trinkets, toys and even a child's tooth have been buried in a time capsule, marking the Millennium at Grange-over-Sands. Pupils at Grange CE Primary School con-tributed personal objects from photo-graphs to com-puter disks, to go into the box, which they
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Hall bid success
Pupils are finally to get a hall built at their village school following an 18-year battle for funds. Staff at Nether Kellet County Primary School are celebrating the news that their bid to build a hall has been included on a list of projects chosen to
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COMMENT: Crisis watershed
WE ARE approaching something of a watershed in the foot-and-mouth crisis. Next weekend's opening up of most of the Lake District's Fells is a major step on the road back to normality. All through the period in which this disease has ravaged livestock
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Tribunal to decide head's position
The former deputy head of John Ruskin School, Coniston, told an employment tribunal this week that he was forced out of his job by the head teacher. Stuart Lymath, 57, took early retirement after a period off work with stress. He claims he was constructively
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Over the Gate by Jeff Swift
SUMMERTIME would see Jim busy either cutting and working peats on his small peat dale up the lane, or trying to secure enough hay to see Jacob, his donkey, through the winter. He cut the grass in their orchard using an American scythe, which is the type
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Garden day
The Lakeland Horticultural Society's Holehird garden, at Windermere, is staging a national collections open day in aid of the National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens. The gardens will be open from 10am - 4pm on Wednesday, July 25,
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Dying trade
A craftsman with a string of distinguished work behind him is putting away his joinery tools with a heavy heart. Well-known Ambleside joiner George Long is winding down his business after 37-years, saddened that no-one has come forward to take his place
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Fresh outlook
WHEN their management training centre in a Victorian country house needed refurbishment, a team of directors and their staff decided to "walk the talk", reports Helen Long. Directors found themselves digging trenches, a chef laid pipes, and management
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ATHLETICS: Winning treble for Kendal jumper
A HAT TRICK of wins by Peter Rhodes was the performance of the day by Kendal AAC youngsters in the U11 and U13 age groups at the Cumbria League in Carlisle. They were joined by seven others in the U13 to U17 groups in wet conditions at the event. Peter
