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Video View: Hidalgo
Hidalgo (15) Buena Vista Home Entertainment Rating: 3 out of 5. Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen jumps from one epic to another in this extraordinary tale, based on the true story of long distance cavalry despatch rider Frank Hopkins. He plays
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Video View: Meet the neighbour from hell
OUR House (12) Buena Vista Home Entertainment Rating: 3 out of 5. When a house-hunting couple stumble upon the home of their dreams, it just seems too good to be true. Unfortunately, that proves to be exactly the case, for when the young New Yorkers
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On The Box: Lifting the lid on lax security
AS THE third anniversary of the 9/11 atrocities passed us by at the weekend, we were once again reminded of the poor security at airports. Not a month seems to have passed by without a story in the newspapers about an undercover reporter having smuggled
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Celebrity Interview: Tim Wheeler
UNDERNEATH the calm, mild-mannered exterior that is Tim Wheeler burns a fire that rages, writes Kieran Fox. It must. How else do you explain such an inferno of an album that is Meltdown, the fifth long-play offering from Ash? His soft northern Irish
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Time for a treat
IF you are feeling run down with the thought of summer nearing its end or find you have more time on your hands now the kids have gone back to school, then why not treat yourself and enter our pampering prizetime. Fresh Beauty, a new and exciting beauty
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Bug watch team targets the Bay
A FAR-reaching hygiene survey has been carried out throughout hospitals across Morecambe Bay in a bid to stamp out the hospital superbug - MRSA. A team of volunteers from the Patient and Public Involvement Forum North West have put 35 hospitals across
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Board with success
MANY of us have sat around a Monopoly board passing Go' to collect our £200 or building hotels on Mayfair trying to bankrupt friends and family. But a man from Kendal reached the final of the British leg of the World Monopoly Champ-ionships despite
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Forever blowing bubbles
IN Kendal and across the country, bright pink bubbles were popping over children's faces as more than 200 heats for the Great British Dubble Bubble Blow-Off took place on Saturday. The bubble-blowing bonanza, only for children between six and 12-years-old
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Bumpy road ahead
Councillors give thumbs-up to pedestrianisation -despite flawed' traffic proposal. COUNCILLORS have decided to ignore the warning signs and have given backed the pedestrianisation of Kendal town centre, writes ANDREW DANIELS. Despite voicing a number
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Ex Euro MP joins board
FORMER Cumbria Euro MP Lord Inglewood has been appointed a non-executive director of Cumbria-based agriculture, food and engineering group Carr's. Carr's chief executive Chris Holmes said the company looked forward to benefiting from the hereditary peer's
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Decision day for hunting
MPs will today (Wednesday) be asked to vote on the Hunting with Dogs Bill, which will decide once and for all the future of the area's fell packs. MPs will also be asked to vote on an additional motion to delay enforcing the ban for two years for fox
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Sizzling news for Eden village
UP TO 30 new jobs could be created in Shap with the sale of the village's sausage factory, reports Andy Bloxham. Sheffield-based sausage-makers J. and J. Tranfield Limited have bought the former KingsCourt Foods Limited, on Main Street, which employs
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Blooming success
THE TOWN'S and villages of Westmorland once again made an impact in the Cumbria in Bloom awards, announced at a the presentation dinner at Windermere. Kirkby Stephen, which last year won the Hayes Garden World Trophy for best Larger Villages, received
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Doorstep sellers are not welcome
HOUSEHOLDERS in Cumbria are warned to be on the lookout for doorstep builders, following a complaint to Cumbria County Council's Trading Standards Department. The latest con came to light when builders started dismantling barge boards and guttering at
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Town set to Respond
A YEAR on from Cumbria Community First Responders calling for volunteers to set up a group in Appleby, the first six members are being trained. The volunteers are being trained, under Cumbria Ambulance Service guidance, in Basic Life Support skills and
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What's on in Eden...
Sept 15: Penrith & District Camera Club: Fun knock out - bring five slides for Slide & Print of 2003-4, Friends Meeting House, Penrith, 7.45pm details on 01768-890652. Sept 16: Home Made Cards', Ladies Friendship Group, Sands Methodist Rooms, Appleby
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Air ambulances put supporters in a spin
A WAR of words has been whipped up by the launch of a major fund-raising campaign by the North West Air Ambulance. Fund-raisers collecting cash to keep another emergency helicopter based in Cumbria operational are upset that the Blackpool-based NWAA
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Rural women to host national conference
EDEN Valley based Rural Women's Network is to host a National Rural Women's Conference, to be attended by the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, the Rt Hon Jenny Shipley. The event, to be held at Carlisle Racecourse next spring, was the idea of the
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Inspiring interest in childcare...
A TASTE of the wide range of career options in childcare will be given at a series of courses being held across the region to encourage more people to work in this growing sector, reports KAREN MORLEY. From tomorrow (Thursday), and running until September
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Show in which everyone takes part!
THE PARISH show at Kaber celebrated country life, but the sheep, for which the event was famous, can no longer be part of the day. Due to restrictions imposed following the foot-and-mouth outbreak of 2001, Kaber Parish Show no longer has the popular
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Fun on 4 legs
THE tenth annual Trainriggs Horse and Pony Fun Day raised £500 for the British Heart Foundation as 30 riders and 20 entrants for the Driving Marathon enjoyed the hot, sunny day, near Kirkby Stephen. The event was organised Kathleen Haughey and Hayle
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Appleby succumb to strong visitors
FOOTBALL: Appleby found Kendal County too strong them in the Talbot Insurance Westmorland League on Saturday, and went down 4-2. Appleby went 1-0 up after 20 minutes when a County defender turned a John Coward cross into his own net under pressure
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Upper Eden up...and running
AFTER a stalemate 7-7 draw in their first fixture of the season at Kirkby Lonsdale last week, Upper Edem were keen to notch up a victory against division new boys St Benedict's and they did so in style. Scoring all their points in an impressive first
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Rallying with the best in Wales
DOUGI Hall from Crackenthorpe, near Appleby, mixes it with the world's best when he tackles the Wales Rally GB which starts in Cardiff next Thursday evening. Amateurs take on the professionals when on the four-day, 806-mile World Rally Championship event