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Big Gigs: Now Booking
Underworld, Manchester Apollo (November 15) Box Office 0161 242 2560 Beth Orton, Carlisle Sands Centre (October 10) Box Office 01228 625 222 Manic Street Preachers, Manchester Evening News Arena (December 6) Box Office 0161 930 8000 lAlso check out our
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Party night!
KENDAL is licensed to party tonight (Friday) as the torchlight procession wends its way through the streets and the townsfolk get stuck into the blues. Les Wilson and the Mighty Houserockers are set to serve up a double-helping of authentic floor-shaking
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Solid rock returns
LIVE music was well and truly back in action at The Cavendish, Dalton-in-Furness, when the two-day music festival Cavstock: Return To Rock got under way. The event, which featured bands such as Rusty Gate, The Scales, Watersound, The Prophets and Degrassi
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CD Review: Kisstory Ibiza Classics: Rewind to the 90's (Universal)
Prepare to lose your eyeballs somewhere in the back of your head with a selection of nineties club classics. Basically, it's a compilation of all the best tracks to feature on a million other club collections over the last few years, but because it's
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CD Review: Kerrang! 4: The Album (Universal)
Help create the refined, intimate atmosphere of the rock club in your own home with the fourth edition in the Kerrang magazine compilation series. Starting on a roll with a host of acts from the lighter side of planet rock, Weezer, Bowling for Soup and
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Hall celebrates first born bird
LEIGHTON Hall in Carnforth is celebrating of its first-born bird with the arrival of baby barn owl, Gillow. Gillow, the offspring of Solly and Elsa, hatched on August 19. It is still too early to determine whether Gillow is male or female - Leighton's
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CD Review: Groovy Baby!: Compilation (Universal)
The new Austin Powers film is in the cinemas, so to get yourself in a generally swinging and groovy state of mind tune into 'Groovy Baby!' From Jose Feliciano's Will Young beating (by 34 years!) lounge version of 'Light My Fire' to The Monkees, Sergio
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CD Review: Kisstory Ibiza Classics: Rewind to the 90's (Universal)
Prepare to lose your eyeballs somewhere in the back of your head with a selection of nineties club classics. Basically, it's a compilation of all the best tracks to feature on a million other club collections over the last few years, but because it's
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CD Review: Kerrang! 4: The Album (Universal)
Help create the refined, intimate atmosphere of the rock club in your own home with the fourth edition in the Kerrang magazine compilation series. Starting on a roll with a host of acts from the lighter side of planet rock, Weezer, Bowling for Soup and
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Award winning architecture sought
The SEARCH is on for outstanding new buildings, restoration works and a host of great, innovative projects for national architecture and design awards. Lancashire-based schemes are being invited to run for the 2003 Awards competition, the Civic Trust's
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Police launch 'specials' recruitment drive
So many special police officers in Cumbria have decided to join the regular force that more special recruits are being sought. Commandant of the specials for Cumbria Bill Oliver said that some special officers who joined up to discover if a career change
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Selfridges select local supplier
WOODALLS of Waberthwaite has been selected by Selfridges to supply speciality hams, bacon and sausages into its food halls in London and Manchester. Established in 1828, Woodalls has won local and national renown for its range of speciality products made
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Checkout: What's in the shops this week
What's in the shops with the emphasis, where possible, on locally-produced, seasonal and specialty foods. The Honeypot, Hawkshead: Saddleback pastrami from Aldby Farm, Dacre, near Penrith. Traditionally-made wafer-thin slices of venison, beef & lamb
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Storytelling festival timetable
Saturday, September 28: 10am, Stories or Children, featuring Helen East and Rick Nelson, Keith Donnelly, Tuup and Leslie Melville; 12noon, Chips for Lunch at Wilf's including the Fostbrooks music and dance with music and mayhem courtesy of the Chipolatas
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Seaside arthouse
GALLERY H is light and airy with open aspects, a draw for both tourists and locals alike. Sophisticated and swish it is. Flash or pretentious it is not. The former bank building on Arnside prom has been transformed into Cumbria's latest glistening arthouse
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One to think about!
THE Brewery Theatre Company's latest production promises to be a real cracker. A mixture of Regency comedy drama and modern detective thriller, BTC is pulling out all the stops staging Tom Stoppard's brilliant and intellectually challenging Arcadia next
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Historical unveiling
SEDBERGH-BASED artist Michael Madden is pretty chuffed with himself - and so he should be after his new sculpture has been added to the Natural History Museum. Michael's chimpanzee peering through banana leaves (pictured right) is the first and only new
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Heron off to a flying start
The Heron Theatre is off to a flying start with visiting professional companies, choirs, instrumental concerts, lectures and recitals packed into its most ambitious and extensive season yet. Tonight (Friday, 7.30pm) and tomorrow sees the curtain rise
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Jobs for the gardener this week
- Sow grass seed between now and mid-October. This will give it time to germinate and establish before winter. - Pick apples and pears as they ripen. - Order spring-flowering bulbs from a specialist firm such as Parkers or de Jaeger, they have a wider
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Sport: Weekend fixtures
KENDAL Town's high-flying footballers turn their attentions to the FA Cup Tomorrow (Saturday), when they host fellow Unibond League Division 1 side North Ferriby United, for the first qualifying round tie at Parkside at 3pm. KENDAL Rugby Union Club face
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Poppy day for Shrimps
FIFTH place Morecambe have the opportunity to cement their place in the play-off zone with two games in the next week. Jim Harvey's side make a visit to Kettering Town on Saturday. The Poppies are struggling on their return to the conference after a one
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Gig Guide
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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Individuality is Synko's cause
GROWING up is tough enough but when the folly of your youth is penned, played and preserved for posterity it makes for bitter-sweet listening. And Synko, a five-strong group from Furness who have been together since their early teens, know all about that
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CD Review: Clubmix Ibiza: Compilation (Universal)
The sun's finally shining, so whether you're off to the White Isle or not this year, what could be better than the inaugural Ibiza compilation to give you a taste of that sun-soaked hedonistic experience. This 2 CD package starts promisingly with The
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CD Review: Judge Jules presents ' Tried and Tested' (Universal)
The bespectacled one hand picks some of the largest trance and hardhouse tunes from his Radio 1 show. Split over 3 CDs the compilation begins with a mix of future anthems. It's recognisably hard and fast but the cheese factor is remarkably low. VPL, DJ
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CD Review: Judge Jules presents ' Tried and Tested' (Universal)
The bespectacled one hand picks some of the largest trance and hardhouse tunes from his Radio 1 show. Split over 3 CDs the compilation begins with a mix of future anthems. It's recognisably hard and fast but the cheese factor is remarkably low. VPL, DJ
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Bars boss is taking up a sea challenge
THEATRE by the Lake's bars and catering manager Dave Worthington has been preparing to take part in the Warsteiner Sea Challenge 2002 under the guidance of actor and sailor Roger Delves-Broughton. He will be taking part in the Sea Challenge next weekend
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Concerns as energy company's cash crisis grows
THE company which owns Heysham's two nuclear power stations could still go into administration - and faces claims that one of its reactors could be unsafe. British Energy was saved by a £410 million Government loan this week, while environmental groups
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Chocolate heaven
CHOCAHOLICS take note - on Monday, September 30, Sara Jayne-Staines, director of the Academy of Culinary Arts, truffle-maker extraordinaire and author of the award-winning Chocolate, The Definitive Guide, will be treating guests at The Punch Bowl Inn,
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Booths wins award
Booths has been named Britain's 'Overall Wine Merchant of the Year 2002' in the International Wine Challenge beating every supermarket group and off-licence chain in the country. " If you had to choose one word to summarise Booths it would be quality,
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Tall tales expected all weekend!
LEGENDS, tall tales and many a yarn will be in evidence when the third Lakeland Storytelling Festival opens on Friday, September 27, staged by Taffy and Chrissy Thomas's Northern Centre for Storytelling. Lyrical hotshots and nifty narrators of the highest
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Arts Diary
ULVERSTON Society of Artists holds its Charter Exhibition in the supper room of the Coronation Hall, from next Tuesday (September 17) until Friday, September 20 (9am-5pm) plus Saturday, September 21, 9am-4pm. Among more than 100 exhibits will be watercolours
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Bargain time for canny gardeners
I MUCH prefer September in the garden to August. Somehow August is always a battleground, a constant struggle to keep things flowering and looking fresh, when all the plants really want to do is go to seed, or fall over, or both! In September all these
