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Best way to clear field!

ANYONE who has attended traditional Lakeland Sports events over the years must surely have been subjected to the biggest single argument for banning foxhunting - that excruciating record of hunting songs that they insist on playing to give atmosphere.

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First Responder group goes live

DENTDALE First Responder group has gone live after more than 18 months of fund-raising and planning. The group is one of several in the county that have been set up under a Cumbria Ambulance Service initiative. First Responders are alerted by the ambulance

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Staff view on council's shortfall

Sir, I refer to your article and Comment on the staff of South Lakeland District Council (Gazette, September 17, Council's staff to bear brunt of £1m shortfall' and Comment, Authority faces hard choices'). There were certain assumptions made in your

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Low flying must go...

Sir, Do I read correctly that Ms Colquhoun (Letters, September 13, Low flying jets shatter Lake District environment') feels it is no longer worth protesting at the noise of RAF jets passing overhead? Yet she saw fit to write to the Gazette in order

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“Use it or lose it” is community slogan

COMMUNITIES throughout South Lakeland and beyond are striving to maintain services they see as essential to the well-being of the local population. These facilities take on many guises. Here it may be a pub, there it may be a post office, somewhere else

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GREENWOOD

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MITTON

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This week's fixtures

Who's playing where this week. CRICKET Sunday Thwaites 20-20 Regional final Northern League (Kendal) v Central Lancs League (Crompton) and Great Harwood Ribblesdale League) (at Great Harwood) RUGBY Saturday (3pm) NATIONAL DIVISION THREE

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Hesketh's View: Improve discipline orders

TONY Hesketh is to have words with his squad in a bid to improve the disciplinary record. In only 10 league and cup games played this season, Town have ended half of them with ten men, although a red card against Nigel Taylor was later rescinded by the

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Quality in a name...

...especially when its Pouilly-Fuiss from Burgundy. Once a playground for the well-heeled, Burgundy is becoming a firm favourite for Brits moving across the Channel seeking a new life in the sun and some French joie de vivre. And if you want to produce

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Brigg are next test

Saturday Kendal measure themselves against Brigg Town, who have already shown that they are one of the main UniBond League First Division contenders this season. Kick-off at Parkside in the Cock and Dolphin-sponsored match is at 3pm. On Tuesday evening

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Fell Running: Stainer wins with minutes to spare

AMBLESIDE'S Simon Stainer won his second fell race of the year when he romped home with two minutes to spare in Saturday's 12 mile Three Shires Race from Little Langdale, writes Mike Addison. The 35-year-old English Nature conservation officer allowed

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Cycling: Greenwood grabs third

NETHER Kellet's Ben Greenwood (Recycling.co.uk/ MG Xpower) clinched third place in the National Under-23 Series road racing championship on Sunday by finishing third in the final round, the 81-mile Chase Classic at Sixpenny Handley in Dorset. The battle

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Westmorland: Reserves hit top spot

KENDAL Town Reserves went to the top of the first division table in the Talbot Insurance Westmorland League when taking a point from a goalless draw at Coniston on Saturday's weather-hit programme. Town lead Kendal County on goal difference, but Town

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Town rue misses: Kendal Town 1 -Prescot Cables 1

THERE should have been no need for Kendal's FA Cup first-round qualifying match to go to a replay for Town created a host of chances against Prescot Cables on Saturday. Unfortunately they were only able to make one of them count and a red card for influential

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Cup misery: Prescot Cables 5 - Kendal Town 2

KENDAL lost goalkeeper Mark Thornley through injury and had full-back Paul McMenemy sent off as they bowed out of the FA Cup at Prescot's Valerie Park on Tuesday evening. Prescot front men Lee Cooper and Karl Connelly made an impression on this replay

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Love match

Britain's Peter Colt (Paul Bettany) has never quite lived up to his dreams of tennis stardom. Once ranked as high as number 11 in the world, the journeyman veteran has watched his number slip to 119 as his confidence on the court slowly ebbs away. Now

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Musical nomads...

...download their untainted sound in South Lakeland. YOU would be forgiven for not owning a Bays album, because their unique selling point is that they're not trying to sell anything. They do not record anything they play, and everything they play

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This week's gigs

FRIDAY 24: Eclectic, Kendal: Nisha Pannu (breaks, electro, downbeat); Dickie Doodles, Kendal: Off The Record; Outgate Inn, Outgate: New Riverside Jazz Band; Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal: Focus; Victoria Hall, Grange: Tina May and Nikki Iles; Bootleggers

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THE Hamsters ....

...return to the Brewery Arts Centre next month. Described by Radio 2's Bob Harris as "one of Britain's very best live bands" the blues rockers return to Kendal for a two date gig. On October 8, the band perform a Jimi Hendrix and ZZ Top show while, on

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Still time to for young bands to come together

THERE are still spaces for young bands and musicians on a Carlisle course designed to shape them up to face the modern music industry. Come Together which runs from October 25 until October 29 for under 18s has been organised by live music development

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Debut night for offbeat four-piece

BROUGHT together by a Kirkbie Kendal School talent show, rock and blues band Decayed make their debut at Dickie Doodles on Sunday night. However, the four-piece who can be found rehearsing in the school's music rooms every Tuesday night are not your

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Check Out...

... your guide to local, seasonal and speciality food & drink. Lucy's of Ambleside: Gluten-free chocolate cake, £6.50. Higginsons, Grange-over-Sands: All-day breakfast pie - bacon, black pudding, beans, egg & sausage, £1.60. Low Sizergh Barn Farm

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Touchline Talk: Day-glo effect

"What a difference a week makes. Only seven days since the Great Macclesfield Fiasco came an hour of outstanding rugby with pride and confidence restored in a performance that bore the hallmark of players with a point to prove. This week, not even

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County Cup draw

WINDERMERE are away to holders Wigton in the second round of the Story Construction Cup which has to be played by January 30. Kendal face a trip to Workington, while Kirkby Lonsdale are also away to Greengarth. The ties: St Benedicts v Carlisle; Silloth

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Windermere 37 - Whitehaven 22

THE INTRODUCTION of two substitutes and a general reshuffle of the side at half time transformed Windermere in this cup thriller with Whitehaven at Dawes Meadow. Fly-half Jonothan Cooper and tall lock forward Stuart Long gave Windermere a new cutting

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Kirkby Lonsdale 8 - Upper Eden 3

KIRKBY Lonsdale hung on to a slender lead to progress in the Intermediate Cup in this rearranged first-round tie played under floodlights at Underley Park on Tuesday. Handling was difficult on a blustery cold, rainy night but both sides tried to

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Student proves he's the area's top young chef...

If CUMBRIA ever had any doubts about its culinary supremacy in the North West, its recent success in two prestigious young chef competitions illustrates the county is well ahead of the game when it comes to providing fantastic food. Building on the success

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Flowing cup victory

A SMOOTH Powergen Cup victory over Longton on Saturday got Kendal into a winning frame of mind and they go seeking their first league success of the season against newly-promoted Cleckheaton at Mint Bridge on Saturday. Ex-British Lion and England threequarter

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School gets top accolade from FA

A TOP accolade from the Football Association has gone to Windermere C of E Primary School. The school are North West regional winners 2004 of the FA's Charter Standard Development Primary School awards. Almost threequarters of the boy and girl pupils

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Filling in with late colour

A few years ago we planted an autumn border at Brockhole, stocked with plants that look their best in September and October. A whole border dedicated to late-flowering plants is not an option for those of us with smaller gardens but, with careful planting

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Top accolade from FA to primary school

A TOP accolade from the Football Association has gone to Windermere C of E Primary School. The school are North West regional winners 2004 of the FA's Charter Standard Development Primary School awards. Almost threequarters of the boy and girl pupils

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Potter among the spires

Drifting along the calm river in a narrow wooden punt, I mused that a weekend break in Oxford really did speak volumes. Because although Harry Potter, Alice in Wonderland and Inspector Morse may be fictional characters, they are all still very much alive

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Replica of an earlier Bluebird goes on show at Holker

THERE was more than one Bluebird, a point increasingly forgotten with recent media concentration on Donald Campell's fatal world record attempt in 1967 and the recent raising of the wreck from the Coniston lakebed. Long before

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Red letter days

IT HAS been an exciting time for arts books, what with Jane Renouf's Lake Artists Centenary reaching the book shelves this year and the Walter Sickert catalogue to go with the artist's fantastic Human Canvas exhibition at Abbot Hall. So you can imagine

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Try-divers take the sub-aqua plunge

KENDAL and Lakes branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club hosted 30 try-divers between the ages of 12 and 16 at Kendal Leisure Centre. The youngsters were on an activity week in the Lakes organised by Paul Cooper from the Gurney Charity Fund for Police Orphans

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Magnificent Mass

FIFTY voices of Cumbria Baroque Choir, featuring members of Kendal Madrigal Singers and invited vocalists from all over the North West, join together for what promises to be one of the great choral performances of the year. Staged at Kendal Parish Church

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Endeavour sails in...

A SPECTACULAR visitor will arrive in Whitehaven on the evening tide tomorrow (Saturday). An historically authentic replica of Captain Cook's famous 18th century ship will be sailing in for a ten-day visit, her last appearance in England before departure

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Midday magicians set to enthrall

YOU would be hard pressed to find a bigger galaxy of musical talent performing lunchtime concerts than at Kendal Midday Concert Club. Crowds flock from far and wide to sample the club's legendary recitals. The 2004/2005 season gets off to a flying start

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Adrian's arts diary

SHAP Memorial Hall is host to Robert Chafe's Tempting Providence The Nurse Myra Bennett Story, staged by the highly imaginative and inventive Canadian theatre company, Theatre Newfoundland, Labrador, on Sunday (7.30pm). The play is a story of courage

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Fears climbers may damage prehistoric rock art

EXPERTS have voiced fears that climbers could be damaging important prehistoric rock art in pursuit of their sport, reports Lisa Frascarelli. The rock carvings at Copt Howe, Chapel Stile - believed to have been created between 4,000 and 6,000 years ago

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Classic ballet comes to the Bay

THE excellent European Ballet presents Sleeping Beauty at Ulverston's Coronation Hall on Saturday, October 9 (7.30pm plus 3pm matinee) as well as a performance at the Lancaster Grand on Sunday (September 26, 6.30pm). Originally penned by Charles Perrault

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Testing time on the net

If the dumbing down' of news, entertainment and cultural interaction in general is worrying you, or if you just want to know how smart you are, these sites can offer some enlightening activities and information. Using the online intelligence' of a variety

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Climbers 'damaging prehistoric rock art'

EXPERTS have voiced fears that climbers could be damaging important prehistoric rock art in pursuit of their sport, reports Lisa Frascarelli. The rock carvings at Copt Howe, Chapel Stile - believed to have been created between 4,000 and 6,000 years ago

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Srah Hall shortlisted for Man Booker

CUMBRIAN author Sarah Hall has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2004. She is one of six writers challenging for the £50,000 reward with her second novel, The Electric Michelangelo, which is set in Morecambe. Miss Hall, 30, was born

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Government pays for F&M clean-up

THE Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has paid out £1.4m to Lakeland Waste Management for work done during the foot-and-mouth epidemic. Although LWM, based at Newbiggin, Penrith, was originally pursuing £1.7m in outstanding invoices

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Kendal's highstreets face more disruption

KENDAL'S motorists and businesses face fresh disruption to traffic and trade in the run-up to Christmas as Transco begin ripping up the roads in the town centre next month. The news comes only weeks after United Utilities completed similar works on the

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Kendal faces fresh traffic chaos

KENDAL'S motorists and businesses face fresh disruption to traffic and trade in the run-up to Christmas as Transco begin ripping up the roads in the town centre next month. The news comes only weeks after United Utilities completed similar works on the

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Kendal's K Village sold

IT IS business as usual at Kendal's K Village according to management at the retail outlet after it was announced that the centre has been bought for an undisclosed sum. The new owner is a newly-formed company called Kendal Riverside Ltd. It has bought

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Leisure magnate buys Caribbean resort

LEISURE sector magnate John Morphet has acquired an exclusive resort in the Caribbean, said to be a millionaires' playground, in a deal worth 100 million US dollars. The millionaire boss of South Lakeland Carvans plans to further develop the 500-acre

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Locals eye private flood control

FLOOD-weary residents of Grange-over-Sands are considering paying a private contractor to keep water out of their homes. The move comes after residents of Windermere Road realised Cumbria Fire Service had ruled that it was "beyond their resources" to

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Doctor hangs up his stethoscope

GETTING locked in a chapel of rest on Christmas Eve and being picked up by the coastguard during the heavy snow of the early 90s are just two of the memories for an Arnside GP who retired from his surgery after 30 years' service at the weekend. Dr Andrew

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Grand finale for grand festival

THOUSANDS of people turned out for Ulverston's annual arts extravaganza the Lantern Festival. Around 12,000 spectators spilled on to the cobbled streets on Saturday night as hand-crafted candle-lit lanterns converged from the four corners of the town

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Golf: Amateur takes the north

NICK Ludwell, a former Great Britain and Ireland and England amateur international, won the Marlborough Fund Managers PGA North Region Club Professional Championship at Kendal then admitted he should not have played. "I've been suffering from back trouble

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Wrestling: Joseph sneaks a win

DON'T tell Joseph Robson's mum that he wrestled and won at the Westmorland Show, writes Roger Robson Six weeks ago he injured his ribs at Ambleside Sports and looked like being out for the season, but he sneaked his wrestling strip out of the house to

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Crackdown on speed limit protestors

LAKE District National Park chiefs have promised to crackdown on speed limit protestors determined to defy restrictions on Windermere. Ten-mile-an-hour opponents were also warned that a similarly tough stance would be taken against any further "personal

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Sailing: Respectable finish for first dinghy race

KILLINGTON Sailing Association entered the Southport 24-hour dinghy sailing race for the first time at the weekend and and finished a respectable 41st out of 77 finishers, winning a coveted finishers' plaque. Gusts up to Force 7 did not faze the 15-strong

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Farleys out putt Highgate

Beaten only once this season, Highgate Hotel were firm favourites in the final of Kendal Putting Association's Knockout Cup. Opponents Farleys had other ideas, however, and long-time team members Brian Clemmet, Trevor Jackson and Ian Birkbeck tore the

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Sisters-in-law show power of teamwork

AMBLESIDE'S opening Cumbria League game was against local rivals Windermere. After two promising tournaments, and excellent training sessions Ambleside felt they were ready for the encounter, and so it proved with a 4-1 win. Within five minutes Ambleside's

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Course of cricket umpires

South Lakes and Lancaster Branch of the Association of Cricket Umpires is holding a 10-week course on Monday nights at Warton Cricket Club starting on October, 4 from 7.30pm to 9.30pm. It will be an in-depth study of all 42 Laws with the opportunity

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North Lancs: Right royal win

INGLETON have started this season far better than last and have won their last three games, lifting them to sixth in the Premier Division and only four points off the pace. On Saturday they fully deserved their 3-1 victory over Morecambe Royals. Ingleton

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West Lancs and Furness: Dalton on a song

DALTON United continued their good form in the Premier Division of the Aegon West Lancashire League with a 1-0 home win against Barnoldswick, Dave Mansergh netting. In Division One bottom of the table Milnthorpe Corinthians slumped to yet another defeat

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Volunteers needed to help save endangered plant

CUMBRIAN nature lovers have been asked to volunteer their services to help monitor the decline of an eye-catching feature of the Lake District fells. Leading plant conservation organisation Plantlife International has organised a nationwide survey of

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Council at risk over needs of disabled

GRANGE councillors have been warned they need to do more to cater for the needs of disabled people or risk expensive court action. Margaret McDuff, of the Townswomen Guild and a trustee for the Blind Society, told Grange Town Council to think harder

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Footpath becomes official...

AN UNOFFICIAL footpath near Hawkshead - which has been maintained by the National Trust for many years - is set to become a dedicated public route helping to provide improved access between Tarn Hows and Grizedale Forest. Although only 325 metres long

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New bridleway in South Lakes

A PUBLIC bridleway is to be created in the Winster Valley, in the south of the Lake District National Park. The route will allow walkers and horse riders to avoid an existing narrow road. Members of the Lake District National Park Authority's Implementation

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Stairs get a lift

RESTORATION work has started on an historic flight of stone steps at Natland Mill Beck Bridge. The Grade II listed structure on the former Lancaster Canal was built to a standard design by canal system architect John Rennie, and the steps down the side

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Skills council has new chief

THE man charged with attracting new jobs and investment to Cumbria has become the new chairman of the county's Learning and Skills Council. Jack Stopforth, who is chief executive of Cumbria Inward Investment Agency, took up the post after an LSC board

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Lancaster Canal plans move forward

AMBITIOUS plans to reopen the northern reaches of the Lancaster Canal have been given a major boost with the news that funding is likely to be received for the crucial first phase of the project. South Lakeland district councillor Andy Shine, who has

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New sailing shcool opens

A NEW sailing school is aiming to make a big splash with an eye on next year's impending 10mph speed limit on Windermere. Windsurfing and sailing tuition will be on offer at the newly-launched Windermere Sailing and Adventure. The two water sports are

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Ambitious canal plans move forward

AMBITIOUS plans to reopen the northern reaches of the Lancaster Canal have been given a major boost with the news that funding is likely to be received for the crucial first phase of the project. South Lakeland district councillor Andy Shine, who has

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New code guides walkers with dogs

WALKERS are welcome on to the moors with their dogs as long as they follow a new code. The Moorland Visitors' Code welcomes ramblers but warns them to keep their pet pooch under control to help save rare birds and wildlife. From last Sunday, parts

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Sweet shop offers rail passengers a treat

SWEET-toothed rail travellers will now have something to savour when they step on to the platform at Carnforth Railway Station. For an old-fashioned sweet shop packed full of confectionery has opened its doors at the station, which featured in the classic

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Rights and responsibilities of roaming

WALKERS are welcome on to the moors with their dogs as long as they follow a new code. The Moorland Visitors' Code welcomes ramblers but warns them to keep their pet pooch under control to help save rare birds and wildlife. From last Sunday, parts

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New fish plant opens

TWO entrepreneurs have joined forces to open-up a new Bardsea fish-packing plant, reports Jennie Dennett. Rob Benson from Barrow and Hampshire-based Omar Namor are set to invest more than £100,000 to turn a coast road industrial unit into a centre for