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Festive fair at Holker
CHRISTMAS rolls into town early as Holker Hall launches its first festive fair this month. More than 25 of the region's food producers and crafts people will be showcasing their wares at the Holker Christmas Fair on November 13 and 14. The two-day event
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Well-known councillor dies
SOUTH Lakeland District Council has been saddened by the news that Coun Noel Spendlove has died. Coun Spendlove was a very active councillor who had represented the Crake Valley ward since 1994. He has served on a number of committees since then with
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Royal visit to Windermere
HER Royal Highness Princess Alexandra will open a new extension at the Windermere Manor Hotel next Wednesday (November 10). The hotel, run by sight charity Action for Blind People, provides an environment in which blind and partially sighted people are
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Platform offers diversity
LANCASTER'S much-vaunted Diversity Festival has just finished to great acclaim and now The Platform at Morecambe is joining in with a trio of diverse acts. Treats as different as chalk and cheese will feature on consecutive nights next week. Starting
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What the Dickens?
LANCASTER'S Grand Theatre is coming over all Dickens with adaptations of two of the legendary author's favourite classics. Morecambe Warblers will start the ball rolling with their version of the smash hit musical Oliver next week. And it will be followed
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Ian stars in concert series
LANCASTER University's own organist is to be the next soloist in the Lancas-ter International Concert Series. Ian Hare will present works for organ by JS Bach, CPE Bach, Mozart, Schumann, Leighton, Franck and Dubois in The Great Hall at the university
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Haffner offers a treat
LANCASTER'S Ashton Hall stages a musical treat on Sunday week (November 14) when the Haffner Orchestra gives a concert including Britten's Serenade - featuring top tenor Nicholas Hurndall Smith, pictured. Originally from the North West, he gets an opportunity
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The never ending Storey
PERSONAL stories from the fascinating history of one of Lancaster's most enduring landmarks are to be brought vividly to life in a new book to be launched this month. Storey's Story' recreating moments from the history of the Storey Institute is being
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Police hunt bag snatch attacker
POLICE have made an appeal for witnesses to come forward after a violent attack on a young woman in Lancaster city centre. The 21-year-old was walking along St Leonards Gate at around 2.20am on Tuesday when she was attacked by a handbag thief. She had
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Crimewatch appeal turns up new leads
A NATIONAL TV appeal for help to solve a Carnforth bank raid has given police several new lines of enquiry. The brutal heist, which saw armed robbers raid the town's Barclays Bank branch in August, was reconstructed on BBC 1's Crimewatch programme last
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A flare for trouble?
DO NOT use flares as a substitute for fireworks during the Guy Fawkes Night celebrations. That's the plea from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and Maritime and Coastguard Agency - because they are worried that rescuers' lives may be put at risk
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Treat yourself to a bonfire party
BONFIRE Night goodies including traditional gingerbread and treacle toffee plus a free tombola will be on offer to a select band of people at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary tomorrow (Friday). The gifts from the National Blood Service will go to anyone
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Stop the Park pain
THE woman in charge of Lancaster's famous Williamson Park has blasted mindless' vandals who have been on a wrecking spree. Over the last three months vandals and burglars have besieged the park now Elaine Charlton wants to see the rampage end. She
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Enough is enough!
BRYSON'S Brewery is no more - after owners George and Caroline Palmer decided to cease trading. And that means fans of the Shrimpers' Stout and Quayside beer have less than a month to swig their final mouthfuls of the favourite tipples. George and
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MP rebels against gambling change
MORECAMBE MP Geraldine Smith reckons new, more relaxed gambling laws could mean the death of seaside towns and increase the number of gambling addicts. Ms Smith was one of a group of back bench MPs who voted against the Gambling Bill in Parliament
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Two face rail death charges
TWO men charged with manslaughter following the deaths of four rail workers at Tebay earlier this year, appeared before the courts for the first time this week. Mark Connolly, 47, of Coed Ana, Anglesey, and Roy Kennett, 27, of Old Mill Road, Maidstone
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You deserve every day - judge tells attacker
AN INTRUDER who terro-rised a young nurse in a nocturnal sex attack deserved every day of his 10-year jail term, top judges have ruled. David Douglas Watters, of Thirlmere Road, Ridge, Lanc-aster, stole into the nurse's room while her flatmate slept
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Any questions
RENOWNED gardening broadcaster and journalist Fred Downham will be among the expert guests at Morecambe's Platform on Sunday (November 7. Radio Four regular Fred will be on the panel for a Gardener's Question Time' event to raise money for the Morecambe
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Church under attack
YOBS ripped a statue erected in memory of a road accident victim from its foundations outside a Lancaster church. The vandals caused hundreds of pounds of damage by ripping down the statue of Saint Bernadette in the grotto outside St Joseph's Roman Catholic
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Make Christmas special
LANCASTER'S Total Fitness centre wants local people to make Christmas special for disadvantage children. It is asking locals to buy an extra gift and donate it to the centre to be passed on to the Children's Society and anyone making a donation will
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Sue makes a difference
A LANCASTER mother of four, who stomped out of school without sitting any exams, is enjoying a new career helping other people to turn their lives around. Thirty-nine year-old Sue Arthington, who has battled against a debilitating heart condition all
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Mumps is back
THOUSANDS of students at the University of Lancaster are being offered the MMR immunisation after cases of mumps across the North have gone through the roof. So far this year, 371 cases have been reported in Lancashire, way up on figures for 2003. And
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Uni boffin wins top accolade
A LANCASTER University environmental scientist has received a major accolade from the Polish Academy of Sciences. Dr Renata Romanowicz, who specializes in environmental modelling, was granted an habilitation' after being invited to take part in a rigorous
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Students come 'home' for dinner
ONE hundred of Lancaster University's very first students are to return to the city next week for a special 40th anniversary dinner. The Beatles and The Supremes were riding high in the charts when the class of 1964 embarked upon their studies at Lancaster
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Quick or dead?
CHILDREN who go to church often wonder what the quick and the dead' means in the Creed. In Lancaster we have a perfect example. Take them to the crossing of King Street, by Waterstone's. After the green light for pedestrians to cross goes out there
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Gambling with the Midland?
THERE have been many excellent letters published in the Citizen in recent weeks, detailing the extra cost to the local taxpayer of things like cycleways, bridges, lighting in parks and primary schools. It would seem that many of these costly problems
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Give us firework figures
THE October 21 edition of the Citizen highlighted an incident where a firework was pushed through a letter box, setting fire to items of mail and causing smoke damage. The same story detailed a pledge by a PC Craig Mossop, who is beat manager for Skerton
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It's not all about cuts
I SEARCHED in vain for any reference on last week's Letters Page to festivals either to extra measures we are putting in place to encourage new festivals or to the council's financial position. Cabinet increased the funding available for community groups
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Back my plan to help the aged
I RECENTLY received a charity leaflet asking for donations for Help the Aged'. It was a good advertisement but it made me wonder just how much of any donation the aged' would actually receive and that set me thinking. If your parents or an elderly
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I risk the 'dash of hell'
I AGREE with G Clarke (Letters last week) that traffic calming measures are a waste of time his reference to Barley Cop Lane striking a real chord. I have seen several incidents there where speeding cars have hit stationary vehicles when trying to avoid
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Make a date to solve parking problem
IN AUGUST St Martin's College applied for planning consent for a 186-space car park on the campus. The application has been refused by the planning and highways committee, creating an acute parking problem for local residents. On several occasions bad
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Regime change is needed
WE ARE told that the recent deployment of the Black Watch troops near to Baghdad is for purely military reasons. This is on the back of the admission, finally, that the war was started on the basis of a lie the non-existent weapons of mass destruction
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Tough at the top
IT'S getting tight at the top of the North Lancashire League with top dogs Kirkby Lonsdale and CCM Dynamos both being held to draws at the weekend. Kirkby were involved in the match-of-the-day with highly rated Marsh United, but neither side was able
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Boxing clever
SOME of the brightest hopes in amateur boxing across the North West are to feature in a tournament at Lancaster's Ashton Hall. Following the Olympic success of Bolton teenager Amir Khan, interest in amateur boxing has reached new heights, with children
