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Motor Sport - On the up, it's Barbon Hillclimb
PROUD to be one of Britain's oldest motoring institutions, the Westmorland Motor Club, organises this weekend's Barbon Sprint Hill Climb for cars on Saturday. Founded in 1910, the WMC has a distinquished history of motor sport in the country, catering
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Rugby - Kendal players do Cumbria proud
KENDAL'S rugby players may have had to suffer relegation this season but they cut the ice when helping to propel Cumbria to a 24-20 victory over Hertfordshire in the County Championships at Aspatria's Bower Park on Saturday. Operating at full back rather
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Garden festival ticket giveaway
THE Holker Garden Festival celebrates its 11th year with a jam-packed three-day event. This year the May 30-June 1 festival will boast new entries like the Herb Marquee as well as old favourites, the Great Horticultural Marquee and the Floral Art display
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Motor Sport - On the up, it's Barbon Hillclimb
PROUD to be one of Britain's oldest motoring institutions, the Westmorland Motor Club, organisers this weekend's Barbon Sprint Hill Climb for car on Saturday. Founded in 1910, the WMC has a distinquished history of motor sport in the country, catering
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Cricket - Kabir lightens the gloom
MAY-DAY Bank Holiday and cricketers were thronging the bars as the revolution (of the ball) got put on hold because of the Atlantic depression sweeping in across Cumbria. The wet weather wiped out a tempting double-bill, starting on Saturday when both
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Nature lovers want mobile phones banned
NATIONAL park enthusiasts are calling for people not to use their mobile phones out on the fells because they intrude on people's solitude, and can make walkers less self-reliant. The Adventure and Environmental Awareness Group says not only would an
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Walkers from Holland and Alaska enter Keswick to Barrow fundraiser
ORGANISERS of the gruelling 40-mile Keswick to Barrow hike are hoping to walk all over last year's recording breaking amount raised for charity. The committee collected £47,000 for more than 90 charities, many of them local, last year. Secretary of the
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Walkers from Holland and Alaska enter Keswick to Barrow fundraiser
ORGANISERS of the gruelling 40-mile Keswick to Barrow hike are hoping to walk all over last year's recording breaking amount raised for charity. The committee collected £47,000 for more than 90 charities, many of them local, last year. Secretary of the
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Diary from Nepal by Charlotte Harnby
A team from the British Gurkha Camp here in Kathmandu have just returned from three weeks away, trekking around Dhaulagiri. They have been climbing in severe weather conditions, sleeping in ice encrusted tents and enduring all sorts of hard ships that
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Cricket - Kabir lightens the gloom
MAY-DAY Bank Holiday and cricketers were thronging the bars as the revolution (of the ball) got put on hold because of the Atlantic depression sweeping in across Cumbria. The wet weather wiped out a tempting double-bill, starting on Saturday when both
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Rugby - Kendal players do Cumbria proud
KENDAL'S rugby players may have had to swallow relegation this season but they cut the ice when helping to propel Cumbria to a 24-20 victory over Hertfordshire in the County Championships at Aspatria's Bower Park on Saturday. Operating at full back rather
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First ever town crier championship comes to Dalton
TOWN criers from across the globe, including Australia, will be competing in the first ever competition to be staged in Dalton-in-Furness later this month. On Sunday, May 25, eight town criers will be competing for the winning title in the Furness and
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Pub breaks tradition and goes no smoking
THE new owners of a Kirkby-in-Furness watering hole have taken a brave approach to smoking by completely banning it from the pub. Barry Postlethwaite, 47, and Tony Barton, 37, bought The Ship Inn at auction in December last year. The 17th century pub
