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Putting for glory

BRENDAN Blee gained a thrilling third win in Kendal Putting Association's Open Singles final against Chris Jones. At the halfway stage of the 18-hole showdown, both finalists were locked on 22 strokes. Blee went one up at the 10th but Jones levelled

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Catchy hooks from McFly

Room on the 3rd Floor: McFly (Universal). Titles including That Girl, Met This Girl, She Left Me and Surfer Babe give a fairly good indication of the subject matter of the songs on McFly's debut album. These are songs which explore the concerns of

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Highest rail station up for sale

Dent Station is known as the highest working railway station in the country at 1,150ft above sea level but for one particular Second World War American air crew it has some very special memories indeed. The station is currently up for sale at £280,000

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Six months of disruption ahead for repairs

Sport fans, shoppers, and tourists face six months of disruptions and delays as a major railway upgrade arrives in South Lakeland on December 12. The West Coast Main Line between Preston and Carlisle, which passes through Oxenholme, will be closed most

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Prepare for rail delays on West Coast Main Line

Sport fans, shoppers, and tourists face six months of disruptions and delays as a major railway upgrade arrives in South Lakeland on December 12. The West Coast Main Line between Preston and Carlisle, which passes through Oxenholme, will be closed most

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People power

PEOPLE power persuaded members of a town council to change their minds over a planning recommendation. A group of 13 people attended Windermere Town Council to ask councillors to alter their views about a planning application for a workshop at North

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Blue Peter badge for Lakes guide

A PROFESSIONAL mountain guide from Kendal has been awarded a BBC Blue Peter badge for guiding one of the children's television show's presenters to the summit of Mont Blanc, reports Andy Bloxham. Andrew Owen, who lives on Aldercroft, took presenter Simon

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This week's fixtures

Who's playing where this week. RUGBY Saturday (3pm) POWERGEN CUP Second round Kendal v Reading Cumbria & North Lancs League Kirkby Lonsdale v Aldwinians Fairclough Homes Leagues Halbro Cup First round Kendal 2 v Warrington 2 Halbro Shield

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Guide awarded Blue Peter badge

A PROFESSIONAL mountain guide from Kendal has been awarded a BBC Blue Peter badge for guiding one of the children's television show's presenters to the summit of Mont Blanc, reports Andy Bloxham. Andrew Owen, who lives on Aldercroft, took presenter Simon

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Residents fight home closure

Elderly residents of a South Lakeland sheltered housing complex have joined forces to fight plans to knock down their homes, reports Ruth Lythe. A recommendation to demolish Gowan Lea, in Burneside, has been approved by South Lakeland District Council's

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New head for Lakes school

New head for Lakes School A NEW head has been appointed for the Lakes School, Troutbeck Bridge, and will take over in January. Dr David Selby has been deputy head of technology college Joseph Rowntree School, in York, since 1996. Chairman of

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Flow lines

Jens map out lives of local people... Distance Made Good: Flow Lines is a cracking example of one of the Folly gallery's major strengths working with the community. Canadian artist Jen Hamilton and her Huddersfield counterpart Jen Southern have

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Witherslack group show off their talents...

TWO highly respected makers from the world of ceramics and printmakers, Hans Ullrich and Judy Evans, are among the 11 distinguished artists included in this year's Witherslack Group exhibition at the Old Schoolroom until October 17 (10am-5pm). Chairs

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Snobbery in suburbia

THE Dukes Theatre, Lancaster, is playing host to Abigail's Party, Mike Leigh's hilarious portrayal of the frustrations of the middle-classes trapped in a semi-detached suburbia of social snobbery and marital conflict. The setting is a getting to know

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Musical jewels shine..

THE initial impact of the Lakeland Sinfonia Concert Society's 30th season was one of absolute chaos; few people in the hall would have expected such ravaging of the ears as was presented by the opening bars of Jean-Fry Rebel's The Elements. This extraordinary

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Right, said Fred

Sculptures made from car park tickets and a six-feet high sheep called Dotty are just some of the wacky but wonderful ways of bringing art to the masses during the next ten days. Billed as the first annual Art Invasion in Cumbria, FRED gets under way

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AsArt are ready to raise a few eyebrows

Distinctive and very much contemporary, there is no doubt that the work of the latest two additions to the Green Door Studio membership are bound to raise a few eyebrows. AsArt is Paul Macfarlane and Jenny Wroe, who work independently of each other,

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Lakes developers could face 'profit' fee

Developers of homes in the Lake District could be asked to share their profits to help ease the affordable housing crisis. The novel idea would see a "community fee" being charged on those who build homes within the national park. Lake District National

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Keldwyth for Alexa

ALEXA Mason has landed this year's Keldwyth Award and the £1,000 prize money that goes with it, after receiving the thumbs up from the judges at the Levens Hall final. Alexa was born in Kendal, went to Endmoor Primary and Bentham Grammar schools and

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Police search intensifies to id body

POLICE are beginning door-to-door inquiries in an increasingly intense search for clues to the identity of a mystery body. A woman's body was found face down in a stream near the route of the long-distance Pennine Way walk at the entrance to Sell Gill

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Still ripe in old age

A TEAROOM in the centre of Kirkby Stephen seemed an odd venue for me to see my first gig by The Strawbs, a band I admired in the 1970s but which I had never previously caught live, writes Andrew Thomas. Around 70 people packed into candlelit Rattan and

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Mint is determined to stay fresh

MINT is shaking up its music nights. The Kendal caf bar will be serving up regular resident nights so punters know what sounds to expect with their pint. Friday nights will bring guest DJs and live music including monthly nights featuring bands which

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Folk frenzy in limestone country

THE fourth Ingleton Folk Weekend kicks off today (Friday). If you didn't manage to get tickets for Ralph McTell or Show of Hands, don't panic, as everything else on the three-day event is free of charge with no tickets required. Bands will be appearing

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Furness: Blown out of Vase

Holker went out of the FA Vase preliminary round 1-0 on Rakesmoor Lane against Whickam in a tie spoiled by the end-to-end wind. Although Derek Birrell's side put in 100 per cent effort this was not enough as they failed to create any real chances. Tomorrow

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North Lancs: Bojang double

THE EARLY leaders in the Premier Division of the British Energy North Lancs & District League both won on Saturday. Kirkby Lonsdale were pushed all the way by a young Caton United. Both sides battled hard to break the other down and Kirkby opened the

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This week's gigs

FRIDAY: High Cross Inn, Broughton-in-Furness: Matt Palmer's Millennium Jazz. Eclectic, Kendal: Andi Chappel. Zeffirelli's, Ambleside: Stan Sulzmann-Marc Copland Quartet. SATURDAY: Sun, Hawkshead: Jamie Green. Outgate Inn, near Hawkshead: New Hall. Zeffirelli's

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Cross-country season starts

The new Cumbria Cross-Country Series starts at Cockermouth on Saturday. The series comprises four low-key cross-country races aimed at encouraging new runners to try cross-country while providing serious racers with an opportunity to fine-tune their

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Ezio head north

EZIO, the ballsy band who in their early days sold out Shephard's Bush Empire without a record deal or a manager, are heading north. The band, who pin their acoustic sound somewhere between Jeff Buckley and outfits put together by phone polls and text

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Relays races along Prom

KENDAL Athletic Club's men competed in the Northern Six-Stage Road Relay in Blackpool on Saturday. The men's event involved six athletes per team running a blustery 4.1 mile leg along the North Promenade. Over 100 clubs entered the competition with

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Fourth Three Peaks title for Jebb

ROB Jebb's reign as King of the Three Peak Cyclo-Cross Race goes on after a fourth consecutive individual title in Sunday's renewal. He also led the Wheelbase-Ron Hill team to victory for the second year running. Jebb, 29, from Staveley, finished

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Cycling: Evans in a fast finish

Riding in the last local time trial of 2004, the Pendle Forest CC 10 at Garstang, Furness rider Jon Evans signed off with a zippy 21mins 55secs behind winner Ian Stott, of Blackburn CTC, who clocked 21-12. Kent Valley Road Club veteran John Ingham rode

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Roaming the net

Everyone has something to crow about these days with the Countryside and Rights of Way (CRoW) Act 2000 now in force. But there are points of view from both sides of the fence, and mountain bikers seem to be caught in the middle. These sites can help you

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Rallying: Plains sailing fo rSissons

ARNSIDE'S Wayne Sisson/ Allan Whittaker (Horwich) put in a controlled drive on last weekend's Plains Rally in mid Wales for a fourth consecutive Group N win and sixth place overall among many more powerful cars to clinch the 2004 BTRDA Mitsubishi Motors-run

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In too deep..

Sleek, well dressed and polite our hero (Daniel Craig) looks like any other businessman. Treating cocaine and ecstasy like any other commodities, he has made a fortune for himself without ever really getting his hands dirty or losing his anonymity. Now

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Dynamic display by Mere

WINDERMERE Ladies' Cumbria League squad stepped up their game to beat Carlisle 3-2 on Sunday. After conceding an early goal, Windermere's determination levelled the score through a well worked short corner resulting in Carole Quill firing home.

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Appeal for players

KENDAL Men lost their opening match of the season 2-0 in the North West league division five (north). With only ten men available, the signs were bad from the start but Kendal managed to hold visitors Lytham St Anne's until after half time. Calm

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Hesketh's View: All present and correct

BELIEVE me, equally impressive as the 5-0 scoreline against Clitheroe on Tuesday evening was us keeping 11 men on the field for the second game in succession! Once we get the discipline right we are certainly going to win more games than we will lose

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Fell Running: Sharp calls time on Breweries rivals

AMBLESIDE'S Nick Sharp timed his race to perfection to win Saturday's final British championship event over the 18-mile Two Breweries Hill course from Innerleithen in Scotland, writes Mike Addison. Sharp tucked in behind Colin Donnelly of Camuslang

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Heath happy

HEATHWAITE U16s had a good 5-0 win at Wattsfield United in the Kent Valley Junior League with goals from Zach Clark (2), Sam Fletcher, Bob Skelly and an own goal. Ryan Taylor netted nine times for Heathwaite U14s in a win over Endmoor. George Clay

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Check Out...

...your guide to local, seasonal and speciality food & drink. Plumgarths farm shop: English wines from £5.99 - More than 20 different examples. A Taste of Lakeland, Ambleside: Stumpies from Thornby Moor Dairy at Carlisle - fresh, young individual

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Kendal Town U18s 3 - Accrington Stanley U18s 1

NW FLOODLIT LEAGUE: Kendal Town set off the better of the sides and never let Accrington settle with a first goal coming when Adam Pashley harassed the visitors into a mistake and crossed for Tom Clark to knock in the ball after 14 minutes. Kendal

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Westmorland: Hall gems prompts tussle

LEAGUE champions Wethering United took the Westmorland FA Invitation Trophy off holders Kendal County with a 3-1 win at Parkside on Wednesday night. County did all their best work in the first half and took a sixth-minute lead when Ian Alplin's flick

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Schools way ahead

Cumbria is ahead of the game for putting into action the Government's new Healthy Living Blueprint' for schools, thanks to a pioneering resource pack published nearly a year ago. "We are already well prepared and well placed to deliver this initiative

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Kendal Town 2 - Brigg Town 2

WITH regular goalkeeper Mark Thornley ruled out with a thigh strain boss Tony Hesketh drafted in 21-year-old Ryan Robinson to the side as Kendal played well in a 2-2 draw against third-placed Brigg Town. The former Blackburn Rovers and Southend stopper

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Top drawer finish by slick Town

IF THIS meeting was to bethe dress rehearsal for the forthcoming FA Trophy tie between these two sides then all bodes well for Tony Hesketh's side for the rematch a week on Friday. Two goals from striker David Foster in this five-goal rout saw Kendal

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Cowburn - Latest cheese on the block...

What an honour! Fledgling cheese-maker Phil Latham has named his first creation after yours truly. Cowburn' is a soft and creamy cow's milk cheese whose versatility has already won plaudits from professional chefs and speciality food outlets. "It's

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Stir crazy challenge

MORECAMBE Bay Primary Care Trust is challenging schools, cafes, workplaces, nurseries, cooking clubs, and community centres to go stir crazy' today for the first annual Stir Fryday. With the National Diet and Nutrition Survey showing that only 13 per

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They’re the tops

ACCOLADES have been raining down on Cartmel recently. Aynsome Manor has been voted a Country House Comforts winner in The Which? Guide to Good Hotels 2005 awards. While Uplands Hotel and Restaurant, and L'Enclume The Restaurant with Rooms, have made

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Touchline Talk: A texting time from South America

"The ups and downs of Saturday's performance clearly provided the crowd with an even more radical version than usual of the roller-coaster of emotions that accompany watching any sporting event. These highs and lows seem to be particularly intense

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It’s time for you to take control..

You are what you eat, according to Linda Stott, one of the UK's Herbalife distributors who provides personalised health and nutrition programmes helping people to lose weight, feel good and look great. Lucinda went to find out what is involved. You

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Final of 20-20 halved

KENDAL Cricket Club represented the Northern League as champions in the Thwaites 20-20 Final on Sunday, but the weather was not kind. Rain forced the matches to be reduced to 10 overs as they finished third behind winners Crompton (Central Lancs

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Best waits until last...

AFTER a slow start Windermere took control in this Cumbria League game at Dawes Meadow yet made hard work of beating a moderate Millom side. Windermere 21 - Millom 5. Too many mistakes and wrong options contributed to the home side's failure to put

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Hunting for Robin Hood

The glazed pie, still warm from the oven, was placed before me, packed with all the food of the forest - venison, partridge, pheasant and hare. Dipping into the rich, red wine gravy, I was reminded of a time when this feast would have been food that

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Kirkby fall to the maul

A REPUTATION for physical confrontation preceded De La Salle and Kirkby were conscious of not being drawn into hostilities and probably paid for it in the result, said coach Drew Anderson. He explained: "Guys have got to go to work on Monday morning

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Dodds saves the day

A LEAGUE win under their belt, Kendal return to Powergen Cup action tomorrow with a home match against Reading at Mint Bridge on Saturday. This second-round tie will be the first competitive match between the clubs. Kendal beat Longton 34-12 in

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Liverpool St Helens 31 -Kendal A 19

CONTROLLING play with forward drives from Ian Ross and new Kiwi recruit Louis Thompson, Kendal were a tad unlucky to go behind to a long-range try. Outside centre Richard Saunders replied for Kendal, powering over after fly-half Andrew Boardley's probing

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Stem the growth

Cuttings are the best answer. MY THANKS to the readers who responded to an earlier article about digger wasps, especially to Neil Robinson who has suggested that an alternative identification for my wasps might be the field digger wasp, Mellinus arvensis

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Two-day mast vigil

MORE than 50 villagers held a two-day vigil outside the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team's base to demonstrate their displeasure at a communication mast due to be built there by firm mm02. The site is close to houses and the school. Nationally, fears

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MP’s on-line plea

SOUTH Lakeland MP Tim Collins has this week launched a campaign to safeguard local television services when the Government switches off all existing non-satellite TV signals in 2007. As reported in The Westmorland Gazette, the Border TV area will be

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Library may open Sundays

KENDAL library could be the next place to embrace Sunday opening if the powers that be can find enough people prepared to staff it. The plan is to open up the Stricklandgate premises to the public on the Sabbath between noon and 4pm. However, there

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Parking free-for-all!

OVER-STRETCHED South Lakeland traffic officers are struggling to cope with extra responsibilities being heaped upon them and law-flouting motorists are taking advantage. As decriminalised parking enforcement was put under the microscope last week, council

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Villagers fight to save public loos

VILLAGERS campaigning to save a public convenience from closure have collected thousands of signatures in support. Campaigners placed a petition book inside the conveniences at Shap and have so far collected almost 3,000 signatures from local people

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Crisis hit council brings in consultants

EXPERT consultants have been brought in to help plug the gaps at troubled South Lakeland District Council reports Michaela Robinson-Tate. It has emerged that one of the three senior officers suspended during the crisis has quit the authority. As the

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Suspension Watch: Council in crisis brings in experts...

EXPERT consultants have been brought in to help plug the gaps at troubled South Lakeland District Council as it emerged that one of the three senior officers suspended during the crisis has quit the authority, reports Michaela Robinson-Tate. As the council

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Patients trek 100 miles to dentist

DESPERATE dental patients from Morecambe Bay are being told they could register with an NHS dentist in Chorley after a mystery man from Kendal led the way. The unknown man was filmed by television crews as he queued at St George's Dental Practice in

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100 mile trek to see a dentist

DESPERATE dental patients from Morecambe Bay are being told they could register with an NHS dentist in Chorley after a mystery man from Kendal led the way. The unknown man was filmed by television crews as he queued at St George's Dental Practice in

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Epic trek to all four corners of Lake District

WINDERMERE-based photographer Rob Fraser today (Friday) begins an epic trek to all four corners of the Lake District National Park for a project which is destined to leave a unique footprint' on the landscape. Mr Fraser won the Royal Geographical Society's

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Poultry plan set to take off

TWELVE thousand squawking new residents will soon be moving into a South Lakeland dairy farm. The dairy farming Dixon family of Selside recently decided to take the radical move of diversifying into free-range egg production. "We wanted to diversify

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Cumbrian police officers to be honoured

POLICE officers from Cumbria who have been killed or died while on duty are being honoured, along with colleagues from all over the country, at a national service of remembrance. The first National Police Memorial Day takes place at St Paul's Cathedral

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Nigh Club wants restrictions lifted

ANGRY residents who live next to a Furness nightclub claim they are enduring sleepless nights as noisy clubbers spill out on to the streets. Neighbours who are opposing an appeal by Ulverston nightclub Buffers told Furness Magistrates they often endured

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Developer wins award on service

A SOUTH Lakeland property developer has secured a prestigious award after earning glowing praise from its customers. Robert Hughes Ltd was one of four firms from across the country to receive a commendation in the Customer First Awards, which are open

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Printer competes for industry Oscar

A SOUTH Lakeland printer is in the running for a prestigious award in a competition widely regarded as the industry's equivalent of the Oscars. Absolute Digital is one of a handful of firms from across the country to be shortlisted in the digital printer

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Business briefs...

Learn to innovate... A FREE networking event for Cumbrian entrepreneurs is being staged at Rheged, Penrith, on October 12. A number of businesses support organisations, including Campus Ventures, Business Link Cumbria and Cumbria Chamber of Commerce

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Film Festival boosts economy

Organisers of the Kendal Mountain Film Festival expect the event to boost the local economy to the tune of nearly £1 million next month. They say a study has shown the level of spending gener-ated by the event would support the equivalent of 18 jobs

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Hotel accused of polluting river

The owners of Newby Bridge Hotel have been accused of discharging high levels of effluent into the River Leven, South Lakeland Magistrates court heard. Lakeside Inns Ltd are accused of nine offences over an 18-month period between October 2002 and April

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Ellison seals Superbike championship

KENDAL motorcycle ace James Ellison and his team Jentin Racing have won the British Superbike Cup championship with a round to spare following another convincing double victory at Oulton Park. Ellison qualified as the fastest of the British Superbike

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Villagers rally for hurricane victims

A RURAL community is rallying round to send aid to the hurricane-devasted Caribbean island of Grenada after a South Lakeland couple sent an e-mail plea for help. Keith Rodber from Barbon is on a 17-month assignment for Cable and Wireless and he and his

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Coroner dismisses family's concerns

A PENSIONER who died in Kendal's Westmorland General Hospital was suffering from natural disease but had also had a number of falls, a coroner's court was told. Frank Herd, 86, had been living in a care home in Windermere when was admitted to the hospital

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Off roaders face double passes ban

OFF road vehicles are to be banned from one of the Lake District's highest and most contentious routes Gatesgarth Pass for four months of the year. The 4x4 ban is part of a new management scheme designed to regulate vehicle use on the four-mile stretch

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Over The Gate: Moving site of straw bales

I HAVE written about peat-cutting, drying, stacking and burning for different jobs, but last week I learned of a method of stacking peats that I had never heard of before. When in farm work I well remember each year building a peat stack as big as a