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Amy Poses: Whats that annoying lump underneath the carpet?
Why is it that when something is on your mind, there are reminders on every street corner and your innermost thoughts are displayed in neon lights or on billboards? For anyone worried about marriage or divorce, there's plenty of food for thought at the
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This week's prices at the Marts
KENDAL, Monday, September 27. Forward: 1,012 lambs; 126 ewes and rams; 12 calves; 3 dairy cattle. Prices (averages) Black and white bull calves £14.83. New season lambs: standards 107.72 pence per kilo; medium 107.10p; heavy 98.82p. Cast ewes £21.74.
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Helping Hands - Have a ball!
THE Lakeland Charity Ball takes place at The Castle Green in Kendal tomorrow (Saturday) and is aiming to smash its previous fund-raising efforts by raising £10,000 for CancerCare South Lakes. The bi-annual ball raised £5,000 last time but the generosity
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Great burst of energy for Great North Run
RUNNERS from across South Lakeland joined people from all over the country who set themselves the challenge of completing the Great North Run. Sunday's event which is the world's biggest half marathon - proved popular with charity fund-raisers as well
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This week's movies
What's showing where. AMBLESIDE Zeffirellis, 015394-33845 Wimbledon (12A) Layer Cake (15) Bride & Prejudice (15) From Thur Dodgeball (12A) Collateral (15) Sky Captain & The World of Tomorrow (12A) BARROW Apollo 4 Cinema, 01229
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A Party to be proud of
AH, THE 1970's an era of gin and tonic, snobbery and punk - with a little bit of Demis Rousoss thrown in for good measure. All what is good about the decade's taste largely forgot and quite a bit of what was bad take centre stage at Lancaster Dukes Theatre
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Cool Yule!
GET ready! They're coming! The toys are back in town for the coolest Yule ever! Disney On Icesm presents Disney/PIXAR Toy Story 2 is coming to the M.E.N. Arena December 22-27 (not including Christmas Day) and the Citizen are offering readers the chance
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Author returns to her roots with 'Mermaid's Child'
AN author has returned to her roots and used the village she grew up in as the inspiration for her latest novel. Jo Baker, originally from Arkholme, moved back to the village of her birth from Belfast to write her second novel, The Mermaid's Child,
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New Dance show premieres at Platform
LUDUS Dance - Britain's leading Dance-in-Education Company - premieres its new show Perfecting Eugene at the Platform in Morecambe on Friday October 8 at 7.30pm. The show is directed by 2004 Olivier Award winner, Mark Whitelaw and choreographed by Emily
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Oz comedian invades the Dome
ONE of Australia's most talented and widely respected comedians will present positive and uplifting comedy with rampant spontaneity in Morecambe. Adam Hills has received universal acclaim and rave reviews throughout Australia, Great Britain, Ireland
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Petition sent to 10 Downing Street
A PETITION of nearly 30,000 signatures has landed on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street from residents in North Lancashire to help preserve the identity of a historic infantry regiment. The signatures piled up after Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon, recently
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Oranges are not the only fruit
Oranges are not the only fruit Anyone having read "The Orange Book; Reclaiming Liberalism" must see what a ferment is going on within the Lib/Dem party. It is not at all clear what sort of party it is. The idea of capping tax on GDP, as the writers
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Council's attitude appalling
WE are appalled at the cynical attitude that the county council has taken in its so-called consultation over its plans to close Greaves Park Nursery. Clearly the vast majority of responses from the local community were against its closure. If the
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Trees are what city needs
Readers of my last letter will probably, apart from describing the scripts in a mood of cynical contempt, realise my obsession with trees and greening the city. My question is why does the City Council have this middle class bias regarding the outer
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City look to Cup
LANCASTER City take the first step towards a big pay day on Saturday as they take their bow into this season's FA Cup. The Dolly Blues have reached the first round proper of the world's most prestigious cup competition several times and recent years
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Shrimps swallowed up
MORECAMBE'S attempts to make it into the second round of the LDV Vans Trophy for the first time in their history were derailed by 10-man Huddersfield Town. The Shrimps travelled into West Yorkshire buoyed by recent good form but were always going
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City battles to keep unbeaten streak
PHIL Wilson's Lancaster City battlers made it two games unbeaten with a hard fought 0-0 draw at Redditch United on Saturday. The Dolly Blues made the long trip to Worcestershire buoyed by their draw with Altrincham in midweek and they showed even more
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Local heroes hit the Plains
LOCAL neighbours Wayne Sisson from Holme and Carnforth's Stuart Newby put South Cumbria on the score sheet at the National British Trial & Rally Drivers Association Series penultimate round, the Plains Rally. After competing throughout the year, in
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Water way to go
LANCASTER used their final Northern Counties water polo match of the season as a warm up for the second weekend of National League fixtures and hammered Stoke side Paragon 16-2. Neil Bowers was a persistent thorn for the opposition as he top scored
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Bojang's brace
PREMIER Division pacesetters Kirkby Lonsdale were pushed all the way by a young Caton United side before running out 3-1 winners to maintain their place at the top of the league. After a tenser first half, the deadlock was finally broken in 75 minutes
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Lune bouce back
AFTER two disappointing defeats at West Port St Helens in the Powergen Cup and Liverpool St Helens in North 1, the Vale of Lune recorded their first league win of the season against undefeated Morley, to restore confidence and boost the morale Powder
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Morecambe 1 - Farnborough 1
By MATT DONLAN MORECAMBE'S attempts to make it three and easy were foiled on Saturday as Farnborough bored the pants off Christie Park. Despite the Shrimps best efforts, they ran into a brick wall of Farnborough defensive stoicism and, possibly,
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Cocklers' bodies to be flown back to China
THE Home Office is to pay out for the bodies of 21 cockle pickers to be flown back home to China. The Chinese migrants drowned in February when they were caught in fast-rising tides on the sands of Morecambe Bay. The 11 survivors of the tragedy
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Home Office to fly bodies back to China
THE Home Office is to pay out for the bodies of 21 cockle pickers to be flown back home to China. The Chinese migrants drowned in February when they were caught in fast-rising tides on the sands of Morecambe Bay. The 11 survivors of the tragedy
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Multi-million pound plan for Morecambe
AN ESTIMATED £75 million pound 'masterplan' to radically regenerate the West End of Morecambe and save it from the depths of despair has been unveiled. A St Martin's College campus on the former Frontierland site, apartments lining the coast at the
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Nursery battle set to go on and on
COUNCILLORS in Lancaster say the fight to save Greaves Park and Willow nurseries is far from over. The fight will go on, is the claim from Cllr Sheila Denwood in the wake of Lancashire County Councils shocking announcement last week to close two of
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Boy killed in tragic accident
FLOWERS and cards are mounting on a Morecambe street where a 12-year-old boy was killed after a car swerved across a road and ploughed into him. The youngster was riding his bike and a 15-year-old girl was walking next to him when the accident happened
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This week's happenings
Events in and around the area this week. MISCELLANEOUS KENDAL born TV historian David Starkey will be giving a talk entitled England's Early Kings: The Beginnings of English Difference at Kendal Leisure Centre, on Monday (October 4). The talk begins
