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Arms embrace Gazettes Eatery of the Year title!
CELEBRATING success in The Westmorland Gazette's annual Eatery of the Year' competition this week was the Kendal Arms on Milnthorpe Road. Proprietors Trudi and Paul Duar captured an amazing 41 per cent of the reader vote in the competition, which is
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Riding: Covered in glory
THE Lakes Riding Club's senior and junior teams covered themselves in glory at the British Riding Clubs' National Finals at Lincoln. The Lakes' senior open showjumping team comprised of Beth Sutcliffe, Simon Buckley, Jane Clark and Ken Drysdale took
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Bus service to nature spots
A NEW bus service will help visitors travel to the RSPB nature reserve at Leighton Moss, near Carnforth, this autumn. The Limestone Line is an initiative to encourage people to visit the reserve and the surrounding area, without their car. Operated
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New Nature Buss service
A NEW bus service will help visitors travel to the RSPB nature reserve at Leighton Moss, near Carnforth, this autumn. The Limestone Line is an initiative to encourage people to visit the reserve and the surrounding area, without their car. Operated
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Helping Hands...and Job of the Week
TEN Marie Curie Cancer Care nurses who between them have dedicated more than 75 years of their life to caring for terminally ill cancer patients are to be rewarded for their hard work. On Monday, October 4, four South Lakeland nurses will be among those
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Cigarettes and alcohol...and that's just the girls
LADETTE culture is on the increase in classrooms across the Lancaster and Morecambe area, say teachers. A study carried out by Lancaster University found that girls as young as 13 are smoking, swearing, fighting, drinking and disrupting lessons in ever
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Walks this week
THERE will be a photography themed walk in Scorton led by photographer Ken Blackburn on Saturday He is a professional photographer and an artist and there is a practical side to this excursion so walkers should bring some kind of camera with them.
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Sport this week
AFTER a Powergen Cup success, Kendal RUFC return to National League 3 North action on Saturday when Cleckheaton visit Mint Bridge (3pm kick-off). Kirkby Lonsdale are host to De le Salle in the North Lancashire and Cumbria League, while Windermere
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Mud, mud, glorious mud
BOY racers had a muddy good day out as they got together for the last time this season at the weekend with their lawnmowers all revved up and ready to go. Members of the North West Lawnmower Racing Association held their final championship meeting at
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No more jobs to be AXA-ed
A MORECAMBE-based company which shed 155 jobs last year has struck a deal which should stop further redundancies. AXA Direct personal lines insur-ance has agreed in principal that motoring giant the RAC will take-over its motoring services. The company
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This week's flicks
AMBLESIDE Zeffirellis, 015394-33845 Wimbledon (12A) The Motorcycle Diaries (15) Stage Beauty (15) Collateral (15) The Bourne Supremacy (12A) BARROW Apollo 4 Cinema, 01229-825354 Wimbledon (12A) The Punisher (18) Cellular (
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Pick of the week
Events in the area this week. MISCELLANEOUS THE Lakeland Festival of Storytelling kicks off on Friday night and this year's event promises a sparkling array of storytelling events in Staveley and Ings. The grand opening takes place at Wilf's Caf
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Crash leads to barrier call
AN accident blackspot in the centre of Lancaster could get crash barriers after a campaign from local businesses and police. Two cars have careered into an empty shop at the junction of North Road and Rosemary Lane in the space of a fortnight - leading
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Big deal for estate
A MULTI-MILLION pound project to which would create a dentist's, a doctor's and a community centre on a Heysham estate is one step closer. Despite more than 40 letters of objection from residents living near Mossgate Park, Lancaster City councillors
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Stunt boss to jump to it
KIDS will soon be able to follow in the footsteps of a Morecambe man and throw themselves off buildings and wing walk with the help of a new stunt school. Martin Shenton, who has appeared in a long-list of hit films and TV programmes thanks to his daring
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Help us tag vandals - police
DO you know Kirk', Wemb' or Lah'? Police are appealing for anyone who may know three graffiti vandals by those names to come forward. Late on Friday night the three names were daubed onto a garden wall on Sandylands Promenade, Morecambe, in letters
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Tributes paid to death crash couple
FRIENDS have paid tribute to the lives of a cherished young couple who died in a car crash on the M6. Neil Davy, 28, and his wife Caroline, 26, of Carnforth, died in Walsall when their car was crushed between a tanker and a 17-tonne lorry. The lorry
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Shock as nursery shuts
PARENTS have been left in utter shock and dismay after losing a battle to save a well-loved nursery. Pupils, parents and staff took to the streets of Lancaster in droves to protest at Lancashire County Council's plans to shut Greaves Park Nursery.
