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Youngsters chosen to perform at South Bank
A RICH vein of young musical talent runs through this region and there is no better platform to demonstrate this than the South Cumbria and Mary Wakefield music festivals; and the other entertaining youth ensembles that flourish around the county, reports
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She likes to sing
TALENTED soprano Tracie Penwarden is doing her stuff for the Arnside Choral Society on Monday. Hers is the second of two tuneful shows being presented by the society and is entitled I Hate Music But I Like to Sing!!! It starts at 7.30pm and takes place
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What's on this week
Fairs, concerts, ehibitions and more to mark on your calendar for the week ahead. Don't forget to check Lakes Guide - Walks and Cycling and Sports for a chance to get into the great outdoors. MISCELLANEOUS... STOCK up your garden this weekend -
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What's showing where
AMBLESIDE Zeffirellis 015394-33845 Van Helsing (12A) Secret Window (12A) Touching the Void (15) Kill Bill Vol 2 (18) Monster (18) Open Range (12A) BARROW Apollo 4 Cinema 01229-825354 Secret Window (12A) Eternal Sunshine of
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Cricket - Hunte in masterly form
CRICKET spectators had to pin their colours to the mast at the weekend and it was a difficult decision to make. Unlike the traditional format of avoiding a clash of the two local teams, this season's Northern Premier League fixtures see Netherfield
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Hotel aims to repeat success
A SOUTH Lakeland hotel company is aiming to repeat its success in Manchester with the reopening of a city centre hotel following a £500,000 refurbishment. The 85-bedroom Princess on Portland is a former silk warehouse converted into a hotel 20 years
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Big Cheez sweeps the board!
KIRKBIE Kendal School's team in this year's Young Enterprise competition lived up to its name with a virtual clean sweep of the prizes. The school-based business, named Big Cheez, walked off with the best company in South Lakeland award, along with a
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High flying firm lands jobs boost
HIGH-TECH gear to ensure fighter pilots can function in after-dark combat is being produced at a new £400,000 unit at an Ulverston factory, reports Jennie Dennett. Oxley Developments cut the cord of its Thin Film engineering facility, which is playing
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Van Helsing hunts down monsters
DURING a time in history when the supernatural still seemed as conceivable as the everyday, when storytellers supplied imaginative reasons for the unexplained and when mythic creatures still crept by nightthere was a single figure fighting the forces
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City go for youth
LANCASTER City have signed on some of the brightest young prospects in schools and college football and that's official. The Giant Axe club has forged a partnership with Cardinal Newman College in Preston with a view to forming a new official youth
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Origin match looms
LANCASTER'S summer rugby league season got off to a flying start with a 40-12 win over local rivals Blackpool Sea Eagles at Giant Axe at the weekend. But a whole new challenge is awaiting the men in the Lancaster team. They will be playing against each
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Residents deserve better treatment
NO HOME owner should be placed in the position of writing to a paper because he does not know whether his home and neighbourhood is to be demolished (Chris Ambler, Letters last week). Lancaster City Council has a new community strategy which stresses
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Treat litter louts the same
I READ with some dismay in the Citizen that dogs are not to be allowed on that part of the beach that stretches from the stone jetty to the Battery in Morecambe. My dog Bramble's favourite pastime is to play ball and this is the ideal place. I will have
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I still don't understand CND
MANY thanks to Audrey Harland for attempting to put my mind at ease by explaining what CND is really up to (Citizen Letters, April 22). But contradicting everything I said and then stating the obvious says nothing and serves little purpose. Of course
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What about the walkers?
I TOOK a walk along the canal towpath from Ridge Lane to the aqueduct, down to the riverside path and then to Sainsbury on Sunday. It may be a very pleasant route for cyclists but the stretch between the aqueduct and Sainsbury offers little comfort to
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Credit where credit is due
I WOULD like to take this opportunity to place on record my sincere congratulations to the hierarchy at Lancaster and Morecambe College for finally achieving their long-term aim. They have got the college in debt to the tune of £2.7 million and succeeded
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Take note of Storey covenant
I WRITE with regard to the Lancaster City Council plan to redevelop the Storey Institute in Lancaster. The covenant for the use of the building agreed between Sir Thomas Storey and the council states clearly that it is for the purposes of the advancement
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We must all back theatre's real friends
SINCE moving to Morecambe last year I have found the local weekly newspapers such as the Citizen of particular interest and value. Indeed, reading them has confirmed my view that Morecambe has real cause for optimism at last The weeklies do seem unanimously
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D-Day group wants old soldiers
OLD soldiers from all around the district are being invited out for a meal and a drink and it won't cost them a penny. The war veterans are wanted by a group of Morecambe people who are planning a massive commemoration of D-Day in the resort this summer
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Clock this...
A QUARTER of a million pounds has been pledged for waterproofing work to be done on Lancaster Town Hall's clock tower. Lancaster city council has approved a budget of £251,000 to fund the refurbishment. Scaffolding is set to go up later this month
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Dr Ruth lords it over city
WITH her 60th birthday behind her and a grandson to dote on, Lancaster's Dr Ruth Henig is preparing for a new career as a life peer in the House of Lords. The appointment, announced at the weekend, brings the title of Baroness to the proud grandmother
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Hospitals seek new status
HOSPITALS in Morecambe Bay agreed this week to bid for foundation trust status. Morecambe Bay Hospitals Trust chief executive Ian Cumming said the move should deliver greater local control over health care and unleash large sums of cash. It was also
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Dog 'phobia' taxi driver loses licence
A TAXI driver has been suspended after leaving two blind people and their guide dogs on the street because he has a phobia' of dogs. Abdul Rehman Shah has been banned from holding a hackney carriage driver's licence for three months for refusing to allow
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Fishermen are still taking risks
SOME fishermen are still putting lives at risk by not following new safety guidelines. The Health and Safety Executive warning came in response to claims from some city councillors that it was not tackling safety issues swiftly enough after the cockling
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ACT NOW TO SAVE LIVES
PRESSURE on the Government to tackle cockle picking in Morecambe Bay was mounting this week as the sands gave up another one of its dead. Growing frustration at the apparent lack of action to safeguard lives in the bay triggered an extraordinary meeting
