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Celebrity chef filming new series in Eden
CELEBRITY chef and real food enthusiast Rick Stein has been in Kirkby Stephen filming for his new series that highlights the great food being produced in the UK by local, independent farmers and businesses. Rick visited Dianne Halliday, the largest employer
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More cash for charter study
KIRKBY Stephen charter fair committee is to receive a further £20,000 from the Local Heritage Initiative to help shed light on the local customs and traditions surrounding the St Luke's fair of 1605. The Local heritage Initiative is run by the Countryside
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Rail bishop remembered
A SPECAIL event to commemorate the late Bishop Eric Treacy a celebrated photographer of steam trains will take place Saturday at Appleby station. Bishop Treacy collapsed and died at the station on May 13, 1978, while watching a steam train. To mark the
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Hillclimb - Class records fall at Barbon
Class records fall to Broughton drivers Last Saturday's Westmorland Motor Club Barbon Speed Hillclimb got underway in sharp showers that had competitors struggling to find grip and simply staying on the narrow, 890 yard, track was a challenge in itself
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Winning wines
VERDICTS were delivered on tipples to suit all tastes at the Kendal Wine Club Annual Show. There was a total number of 196 entries at the show, held at Kendal Town Hall, which was down on previous years, but said to be a sign of the times. Judges described
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Theatre bid wins vital support
PLANS to open a new intimate theatre in Ulverston are storming ahead. Overbeck Theatre is the brainchild of Chris Benefield and Liz Drew of Ulverston's Tinners' Rabbit Art Gallery and Bookshop. After announcing their plans in September to create the threatre
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Jazz fest
JENNINGS Brewery has teamed up with Keswick's Theatre by the Lake to sponsor the town's annual Jazz Festival for the eighth consecutive year. The Jennings Keswick Jazz Festival will see musical events taking place at approximately 16 venues across the
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Jazz fest
JENNINGS Brewery has teamed up with Keswick's Theatre by the Lake to sponsor the town's annual Jazz Festival for the eighth consecutive year. The Jennings Keswick Jazz Festival will see musical events taking place at approximately 16 venues across the
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Ski success in the Alps
THE KENDAL Alpine Ski Clubs Race Squad returned successful from the English Alpine Championship in Puy-St-Vincent in France and are now preparing for a summer season of artificial snow championships. The squad which includes youngsters from Upper Eden
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Ski success in the Alps
THE KENDAL Alpine Ski Clubs Race Squad returned successful from the English Alpine Championship in Puy-St-Vincent in France and are now preparing for a summer season of artificial snow championships. The squad which includes youngsters from Upper Eden
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Free diabetes screening
UPPER Eden Lions Club were amazed to learn that there could be as many as 900 Eden residents who have diabetes but do not know it. John Angst, a member of Upper Eden Lions and a diabetic himself, said "It is amazing to think that there could be many people
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Celebrity chef filming new series in Eden
CELEBRITY chef and real food enthusiast Rick Stein has been in Kirkby Stephen filming for his new series that highlights the great food being produced in the UK by local, independent farmers and businesses. Rick visited Dianne Halliday, the largest employer
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Celebrity chef filming new series in Eden
CELEBRITY chef and real food enthusiast Rick Stein has been in Kirkby Stephen filming for his new series that highlights the great food being produced in the UK by local, independent farmers and businesses. Rick visited Dianne Halliday, the largest employer
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Youth program funds growing
OVER the coming year Cumbria Community Foundation will be distributing £350,000 through the Local Network Fund, on behalf of the Government's Children and Young People's Unit - twice as much as the fund for Cumbria last year, which assisted 42 organisations
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Funds for story telling project
CUMBRIA County Council's Eden Local Committee has agreed to give Eden Arts £1,000 towards putting on the 12th North Pennine Storytelling Festival. The annual festival takes place between September 26-28 with events taking place in Appleby, Alston, Melmerby
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Funds for story telling project
CUMBRIA County Council's Eden Local Committee has agreed to give Eden Arts £1,000 towards putting on the 12th North Pennine Storytelling Festival. The annual festival takes place between September 26-28 with events taking place in Appleby, Alston, Melmerby
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Public participation urged
THE look of Appleby town centre in the future is to be discussed at a public meeting being organised by the Upper Eden neighbourhood Forum next Tuesday. The meeting, to be held in The Supper Rooms at Appleby Public Hall, will be chaired by local County
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Public participation urged
THE look of Appleby town centre in the future is to be discussed at a public meeting being organ-ised by the Upper Eden neighbourhood Forum next Tuesday. The meeting, to be held in The Supper Rooms at Appleby Public Hall, will be chaired by local County
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Win copies of The Yardbirds' latest CD
The Yardbirds, one of the most influential bands to emerge from the British pop scene of the 60's, have just put the finishing touches to their first new studio recording since 1968's Little Games'. The new album, Birdland', released by Favoured Nations
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Win copies of The Yardbirds' latest CD
The Yardbirds, one of the most influential bands to emerge from the British pop scene of the 60's, have just put the finishing touches to their first new studio recording since 1968's Little Games'. The new album, Birdland', released by Favoured Nations
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Lakes swim coach plea
Troutbeck Bridge Swimming Club is looking for a synchronised swimming coach or other volunteers to help out at the sessions on a Friday between 6pm and 7pm at the Toutbeck pool. Anyone who can help should contact Peter Townley on 01539-732207 or e-mail
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Health service goes hi-tech
Hospital patients will soon be able to tune into television and radio, make phone calls, surf the Internet and order a movie all from the comfort of their beds, writes Michaela Robinson-Tate. As part of the national patient power project', work has begun
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Gardening with Rosemary Ward
May is the time to take action against codling moth, which attacks apples and pears, and sometimes walnut and quince. The small, nondescript moth is seldom noticed as it flies in the evening. The first ones appear in late May and they are still about
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Win Robson Green videos
WIRE in the Blood's debut appearance achieved the strongest opening performance figures for any new drama on ITV in 2002 and it eventually went on to attract more than 37 million viewers across the series. Starring Robson Green (Soldier, Soldier) and
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What's on...
UNTIL May 28 l Group Exhibition by Ten Plus Textiles, Farfield Mill Arts & Heritage Centre, Sedbergh. May 14 l Westmorland D&FAS, I am the very Model', Supper Room, Appleby Public Hall, 2.30pm. l Appleby WI, That's an Unusual Job for a Woman',
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Kirby man runner up
KIRKBY Stephen runner Peter Brittleton (Howgill Harriers) was second to Wharfedale's Ted Mason in the nine-mile Coniston Fell Race with just 38 seconds separating the pair at the finish. "I took a bad line coming off Coniston Old Man," said Brittleton
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On line - promoting the Settle-Carlisle corridor
THE Settle-Carlisle Railway Business Liaison Group is one of the voluntary organisations helping to promote the popular line. Its aims are to support the railway and appropriate developments, which will benefit the economy and communities of the corridor
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On line - promoting the Settle-Carlisle corridor
THE Settle-Carlisle Railway Business Liaison Group is one of the voluntary organisations helping to promote the popular line. Its aims are to support the railway and appropriate developments, which will benefit the economy and communities of the corridor
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Calling all gardeners
ORGANISER of the Kirkby Stephen Cumbria in Bloom entry and member of the town's Garden Trail committee, Donald Walker and his wife, town councillor June Walker, are making an appeal to growers and bakers to donate items for the annual Royal British Legion
