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How you can help with the Kiev appeal
We are appealing to Westmorland Gazette readers to help in providing any of the following items for our New Home, New Beginnings offensive. South Lakeland businesses might like to support our appeal, with a kitchen supplier donating money for the kitchen
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Loos for sale
TWO public toilets are soon to go under the hammer. Disused loos at Stramongate Bridge in Kendal (pictured above) and at Goadsbarrow, near Ulverston, are being offered for sale with a guide price between £8,000 and £12,000 at a property auction on February
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Valentines gig with local jazz band
THEY say dancing can get you in the mood for love, so why not head along to the Gregson Centre in Lancaster on Valentine's Day to get down to Off The Rails band. This 15-piece band from Lancaster has all the ingredients needed for a romantic evening -
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Lake District hosts international women's gathering
FRIENDS from around the world will soon be gathering in the Lake District to celebrate the lives of women through the creation of a special work of art. The gathering of members from the international friendship network "Women Welcome Women World Wide
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Cash machine vigilance required
POLICE are warning people to be more vigilant with their money following a late night attack on two teenage boys shortly after they used a cash machine. The incident occurred at 11.45 pm last Friday in the New Shambles off Market Place, Kendal, when it
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Keep the K in Kendal Shoes: Sons of Everest mountaineer back K
THE sons of a celebrated mountaineer who wore a pair of K Shoes hob-nailed boots during a famous assault on Everest have lent their backing to the Keep K for Kendal campaign, writes Michaela Robinson-Tate. James and David Somervell, the two surviving
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Appeal: Help the homeless children of Kiev
THE lives of ten desperate Ukrainian street children will be saved thanks to a Kendal-based charity, which has raised a remarkable £20,000 in just 12 months. New Beginnings has enough to buy them their first home, and today The Westmorland Gazette is
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Save the Loos: Decision by council coming soon
AS CAMPAIGNERS battle to save well-used community conveniences like those at Devil's Bridge, the pressure is on South Lakeland District Council to change its policy of selling off public toilets. This week, Coun Bob Barker proposed the creation of a partnership
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Sons of Everest mountaineer back Keep the K
THE sons of a celebrated mountaineer who wore a pair of K Shoes hob-nailed boots during a famous assault on Everest have lent their backing to the Keep K for Kendal campaign, writes Michaela Robinson-Tate. James and David Somervell, the two surviving
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Film Festival for Lancaster
IT'S not quite Cannes or Venice - but this summer Lancaster will be the venue for the world's newest film festival. The idea of local stunt man Martin Shenton, it is hoped that the festival will get bigger each year and put the city on the film industry
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Celtic roots shine at the Platform
Trendsetters from the word go, Mouth Music have a lot to answer for. Their cultural Afro-Gaelic trip hopping continues to redfine Celtic music. It's an exhuberant collision between Gaelic song, world music and soaring vocals, fiddle, guitars, flutes,
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It's a funny valentine...
THERE will be a multi-media Valentine's Ball at the Ashton Hall in Lancaster Town Hall on Friday, February 14, with stand-up comedy, a live band, international and local DJs, digital video projections and dance beat bliss. Organised by the Hearts on Fire
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Marian and Mollie Show
AT THE Gregson Centre on Friday, February 7, Marian Hughes and Mollie Baxter, voted the top two acts at Spotlight Club's open mic competition last summer, join forces to present their show, No Herring No Wedding.' Marian, Lancaster's Quirkiest Funnywoman
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Cult documentary hits town
IT'S finally arrived in Lancaster! Be sure to check out Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine' at the Dukes this week. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (Feb 7 10): Woody returns as C.W.Briggs, a veteran insurance investigator whose integrity is compromised
