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What's on where?
Things to see and do in and around the area this week. Miscellaneous Knights in shining armour will be rescuing damsels in distress at Brockhole this weekend (Saturday & Sunday). Medieval Merriment weekend also features jousting and jesters. For
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The light fantastic
MUSIC from the Beach Boys to the Bee Gees and Queen will sound across Morecambe Bay as the resort's biggest music festival of the summer comes to town. The annual Festival of Light and Water this weekend promises fantastic live music and stun-ning firework
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Hlen homes in on Dome
A SINGER who sprang to stardom at the tender age of 14 is promising to deliver a top evening in More-cambe in October. Helen Shapiro has been singing since 1961 and will wow crowds at the Dome on Friday, October 8. Helen has performed with the likes
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Potting on the style
POPULAR local band Potting Shed Gene will be headlining at Freestage at the Dome in Morecambe tomorrow (Friday) with a new star' member. Drummer David Blaikie has rapidly learned the PSG set so he can blend with Chris for the rhythm section and David
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Stand up and go radio ga-ga
LANCASTER and Morecambe people are being invited to stand up and be counted for their 15 minutes of fame The call comes from a new community radio station due to start broadcasting in October. Diversity Radio says it will give an airing to anyone who
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Back the regiment campaign
IT WAS great to see the Citizen backing the campaign to save the King's Own Royal Border Regiment it is very much part of my family history in that I had father, uncle, brother and two husbands all in the King's Own. I have just returned from Gibraltar
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Green pretence is cynical
I WAS fascinated to receive a leaflet this week from Anne Sacks, the Labour Party's prospective Parliamentary candidate for Lancaster. I thought it strange because the Government is only three years into its five-year term of office - unless there
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I was asked to clear garden
I WISH to answer criticisms made in two letters last week in regard to homeless people sleeping in the Memorial Remembrance Garden at Lancaster Town Hall. I acted on this because of comp-laints brought to me by several people who thought it, to quote
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Let's debate real link road issues
NEXT Thursday, the County Council will make a decision on the Heysham M6 link. The City Council will meet on Tuesday in order to give the County its views. Whether to have a link and, if so, whether it should take the Western or the Northern route
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Road can't come soon enough
I WAS glad to read in the Citizen last week that Heysham will get an M6 link it can't come too soon. But why does Cllr John Whitelegg have to keep poking his nose in to stop it? As long as they keep building houses in Heysham more and more cars will
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Wise up to by-pass facts
LOCAL folk need to wise up. By crafty spin the proposed Lancaster western by-pass is being sold on the basis it is an answer to our horrific traffic problems - but let's not kid ourselves. The major point of the new road is to improve Heysham's business
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Hunt monitors a disgrace
I WOULD like to reply to the letter from Judy Gilbert of POWA headed Hunting is far from accountable' published in the Citizen) last week. I am not surprised she says that hunts make it difficult for POWA. Hunt monitors are unlikely to be welcomed
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Police crackdown snares resort 100
MORE than 100 arrests were made as part of a summer crack-down on crime in Morecambe. The resort has traditionally seen a rise in crime over the summer - but police launched Operation Sustain' in an effort to change the story. Now, Insp Jill Townley
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The joy of text
CHURCHES are turning to the joy of text in a bid to pack the pews. During the autumn, churches across Lancaster and Morecambe will be hosting Alpha courses and the ultra-modern text technology is just part of an advertising campaign to promote the initiative
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Model workers raise pub cash
A UNIQUE leaving present has turned into a money making scheme thanks to the model staff of a Lancaster Pub. When the duty manager of the Green Ayre Pub on North Road left, his thoughtful employees decided to strike a pose in their own calendar as a
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If at first you don't succeed...
A BOLD thief casually walked out of a city centre supermarket with almost £1,000 of electrical equipment just 24 hours after an identical raid on the store was foiled. The cool crook strolled into Lancaster's Sainsbury's store and just six minutes
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Charles finds buried treasure
AFTER digging up nothing more than several tin cans, a metal-detecting enthusiast was about to pack it in for the day when he struck gold. Charles Kenyon of Lancaster was hunting through fields in Garstang when he stumbled across a silver medieval brooch
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Happy days are here again
HAPPY days are heading to Happy Mount Park with Morecambe's Winter Gardens all set to benefit. For six days next month the park will be transformed into an outdoor theatre with a panto-mime which could turn into an annual event. The panto in the
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Course offered on extreme sport film making
MOUNTAINEERS, climbers and extreme sports enthusiasts who fancy themselves as the next Steven Spielberg are being offered the chance to learn the tricks of the trade at the second Extreme Film School. The course runs over two weekends in October and
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Police seek bodies help
POLICE are appealing for help to identify two bodies found in Morecambe Bay. The body of a woman, origi-nally thought to be one of the missing Chinese cocklers, was found 12 miles west of Fleetwood on July 11. She is believed to have been aged between
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Pensioner hurt in holiday horse horror
A pensioner from Bolton-le-Sands was one of three people from the area injured in a horse stampede in Norway. Phyllis Knight and two people from Lancaster were among the 13 Britons injured while riding horse-drawn carts near the Briksdal glacier on
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Thieves swan off with Charlie
A REGULAR at a country pub has been snatched by thieves - leaving other punters devastated'. Charlie - a male mute swan spent most of his time at the Golden Ball pub at Heaton with Oxcliffe and has been a big hit with customers since he arrived last
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Come to our party call
MORECAMBE people are being invited to a free party It will be centred on Lord Street in Poulton from lunchtime on Thursday, September 9. The Morecambe Hotel, new Inn and Smuggler's Den pubs will be at the heart of the revelry. But the catch is that
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Stormy weather
IT'S raining, it's pouring, it must be August - but rain-sodden tourists have still headed to Morecambe. The supposed height of summer has seen deluge after deluge with floods and misery across the country. But Jim Catterall, of the Morecambe Hotel-iers
