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Dancers ready to strut their stuff
THE serenity of the French countryside is being blended with Disney classics and musical hits from the Sixties and Seventies in a show with something for everyone. The Princess Margereta Hall at St Martin's College, Lancaster, will be the setting for
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Get wise at Lion
LANCASTER'S favourite alternative folk-blues-country-rockers are to play a free gig at the Golden Lion, Moorgate,this Saturday. The Wisemen will play two acoustic sets from 9pm. The band has just played successful gigs in London and Glasgow, with
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Fantasy Shrimps star in touring show
MORECAMBE Bay shrimps have made their debut at Manchester's prestigious Lowry Centre as part of a new national touring exhibition from the Hayward Gallery They are in an exhibit entitled Morecambe Night View 1991, on display in the Fantasy Architecture
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Blasts from the past
TWO legends of the British music scene are to hit Morecambe on the same night next month... Marty Wilde and Gerry Marsden will be at The Dome and The Platform, bringing back echoes of the Swingingg Sixtires in two very different shows on Friday, September
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Hunting is far from accountable
TOM Fell of the Countryside Alliance claims that hunting is fully open and accountable' (Letters last week) and invites people along to National Newcomers Week to reach their own conclusions. As a hunt monitor working with Protect Our Wild Animals (POWA
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Sickened by defence of grouse shooting
I WAS deeply offended by the letter from Nigel Davenport (Citizen last week) regarding grouse shoot sabotage. He seems to imply that people who try and protect birds from being shot out of the air are somehow violent or sinister, when in fact it is
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We always provide transport
I refer to your article in the Citizen headed Cross bay walks bring train strain' (August 2). May I assure you that on the Hest Bank to Flookburgh and Grange over Sands crossings we take the welfare of walkers returning to Hest Bank very seriously
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Reinforcing ignorance and prejudice
I WRITE following a feature I read in Starbuys' last week it was the first time I had picked up that free newspaper and it will definitely be the last. The article concerned Big Brother 2004 under the headline Does this con deserve to win?' It referred
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It's a scandal
I WAS saddened to read in Citizen last week of Coun Sheila Denwood's dismay at the plight of Lancaster's memorial gardens but appalled and disgusted by her attitude to the city's homeless population. Where do her priorities lie with vulnerable people
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Give us more homes
HAS Councillor Denwood no respect? While she goes home to a warm bed, she complains about people with no home sleeping in a public place. Does it really matter if they are sleeping in a memorial garden? These are people whose impoverished lifestyle is
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Even this Government cannot be so short-sighted
I HAVE heard from an old friend of mine, who served with the British Army for many years and was once a Colonel in the Queen's Lancashire Regiment (QLR), that there is some doubt as to the future of the regiment. I was fortunate to be a member of the
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Disguise cannot hide phone mast
LOCAL planning authorities recently refused planning consent for a 70-foot high phone mast on VVV land adjacent to the foreshore at Hest Bank. Vodaphone have now re-applied to have a mast disguised as a cypress tree installed at the same location. More
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Close the cockle beds call
FISHERMEN in Morecambe are calling for cockle beds in the Bay to be closed. They want to see beds shut down between April and September so that stocks do not dwindle. And they say beds at Middleton Sands should also be closed because the cockles there
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Terry in top 20
Green-fingered groundsman Terry Turner, pictured, is in line for a top national award. The man who keeps Morecambe FC's pitch in top condition has been nominated for the prestigious FA Groundsman of the Year' prize. Terry, who has been the Shrimps
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Cash pledge boosts Midland hopes
REGENERATION of More-cambe's landmark Midland Hotel will definitely go ahead - with work starting soon after November, according to resort MP Geraldine Smith. She says she has had assurances from the chief executive and director of regeneration of the
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M6 link road WILL be built
THE long-awaited M6 link road to Heysham will be built. That's the promise of local councillors as talks about the multi-million pound project are set to come to a head. Lancaster City councillors will consider which route between the motorway and Heysham
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Make it snappy...
MAKE it snappy... that's the plea from the people behind a spectacular battle due to place on a Morecambe beach next month. They want to see as many photographs as possible of the planned D-Day battle re-enactment at the heart of the annual Poulton Heritage
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Drink drive speeder may face jail
A DRINK driver who hurtled down the M6 hitting speeds of up to 130mph as police chased him faces jail as magistrates prepare to consider his fate. Shaun Robert Stewart, 27, of Austwick Road, Lancaster, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, driving over
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Roads get £1m boost
SLOWCOACH contractors are to fund a near £1 million boost to Lancashire's roads and pavements. Lancashire County Council says utility companies have been charged a total of £947,000 since 2001 for not meeting contract deadlines. But the money has
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Student Leanne hires an agent
A LANCASTER student who lost most of her memory to a brain virus has had to hire an agent after her story sparked an international media frenzy. News of Leanne Walker's remarkable recovery from encephalitis a brain disease that wiped 21 years of her
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Stub it out
MORE than half of Morecambe Bay people want to see a ban on smoking in public places. That's the claim of the Tobacco Alliance following an opinion poll of locals. Sixty seven per cent of people questioned would like smoking banned in restaurants
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Uni team develops DNA 'detective'
A LANCASTER University academic has developed a way of detecting and pinpointing the source of pollution in bathing waters - thanks to studying the sea around Morecambe Bay. Research by Dr Keith Jones (pictured) centres on a DNA-based finger-printing
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Churchyard joins national elite
ONE of the best-kept churchyards in Britain is in the Lancaster district. The churchyard at St Luke's, Slyne, has made it into a national shortlist of 12 churches competing for the prestigious title. The winner of the competition which offers a top
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Volunteers clean up canal
MODERN day navvies are undertaking restoration work on the flight of locks along Lancaster Canal at Tewitfield, near Carnforth. Members of the Waterway Recovery Group, who give time voluntarily, are clearing stone crusted bywash' channels, which allow
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We'll do it ourselves
A HEYSHAM grandmother's crusade to get new play facilities for kids is gathering pace.... Christine Anderson set up the Trumacar Action Group after Lancaster City Council took down swings and slides in a local park. She pledged to raise cash to buy
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Warton slow down title challengers
WARTON may not be in the thick of the Westmorland Cricket League title race themselves but they are determined to have a mighty big say in its destiny. A week ago they held up Westgate's seemingly inevitable charge towards the champion-ship by hanging
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Russell rules rugby roost
RUSSELL Birkett was the star of the evening as Lancaster rugby league club held its annual end of season evening at the Dolly Blue Tavern. Birkett was the winner of four man of the match awards during the course of the season and it was no surprise as
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Thomson rescues point for City
A PETER Thomson goal in the final quarter saved a point for Lancaster City in a pulsating game at Stalybridge on Tuesday night. But the Dolly Blues will feel they could have done better after dominating the opening stages of the affair at manager Phil
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Stanley spoil the party
STREETWISE Accrington Stanley battled, blocked and kicked their way to a precious three points at Christie Park as the new Nationwide Con-ference season opened on Tuesday night. Morecambe started full of confidence and tried to play their football from
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Lucky to be alive?
A MORECAMBE teenager was airlifted to hospital after plummeting 30 feet onto rocks from a cliff. The 14-year-old, from Stanley Road,suffered head and leg injuries in the fall at Heysham Head. He was playing with three friends on Tuesday when he lost
