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Turks defend 'image' as Kendal man remains in jail
TURKISH tourism bosses have apologised if people have been left with a poor impression of their country following the ordeal of South Lakeland businessman Paul Cleasby, reports Michaela Robinson-Tate. The director of the Turkish Culture and Tourism Office
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£6m plan for prom unveiled
Exciting and controversial proposals for the £6 million regeneration of Grange-over-Sand's rundown promenade have gone under public scrutiny this week. Details of the Time and Tide project were displayed for the first time yesterday (Thursday) amid a
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Bay promenade plan unveiled
Exciting and controversial proposals for the £6 million regeneration of Grange-over-Sand's rundown promenade have gone under public scrutiny this week. Details of the Time and Tide project were displayed for the first time yesterday (Thursday) amid a
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High hopes for skate park
A LARGE indoor skate park could be built in South Lakeland after a £60,000 bid for funding was submitted to the district council. South Lakeland District Council's overview and scrutiny committee heard a report from its recreation group, which came up
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Pair face manslaughter charges
TWO men charged with manslaughter, following the deaths of four rail workers in Tebay earlier this year, appeared before the courts for the first time this week. Mark Connolly, 47, of Coed Ana, in Anglesey, and Roy Kennett, 27, of Old Mill Road, Maidstone
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Cold War bunker may fetch £10,000
THE saying as safe as houses' will take on a whole new meaning when a underground bunker in Hawkshead, built at the height of the Cold War to monitor a nuclear strike against Britain, goes under the hammer at a public auction, reports Luke Dicicco. Billed
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Step out in style
WIN a pair of shoes worth £55 If you do a lot of walking and find it hard to find comfortable shoes that will be the envy of the High Street then this week's feet-first Prizetime could be just for you. At last! A quality British-made comfort shoe
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This week's flicks
AMBLESIDE Zeffirellis, 015394-33845 The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (15) Man on Fire (15) Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (15) Advance previews, Sat, Sun & Thur De-Lovely (PG) Fri, Mon-Wed BARROW Apollo 4 Cinema, 01229-825354
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This week's gigs
FRIDAY, Nov 5: The Dome, Morecambe: T & Latouche; Bootleggers, Kendal: Storm; Wheelhouse, Penrith: Misdemeanour; Eclectic, Kendal: Toby Weymouth DJ (breaks); Yorkshire House, Lancaster: Ambrose Tompkins + The Wisemen + 5 Divinity Avenue; Mariners, Bowness
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Kendal fighters help win Battle of Roses
JUDO: Members of Kendal Judo Club were called upon by Lancashire Judo to help them out in the annual Battle of the Roses Judo Tournament held at Preston Guild Hall. Several teams fought out this hotly-contested tournament, which is held alternately in
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Women's: Hat-trick crumbles Wigton
WINDERMERE hosted Wigton on Saturday in their Cumbria League fixture but they gave the visitors a toasting on the pitch, eventually winning 8-2. Helen Telford fired Windermere into an early lead by converting a Carol Quill cross and, spurred on by this
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Men's: Kendal's away appetite still keen
KENDAL continued their unbeaten away record with a 4-2 victory over Liverpool University in North West Division Five (North). Kendal started the game strongly with two short-corner attempts going close and soon opened the scoring with a sharp Steve Barclay
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Hesketh's View: Cup need to bring in cash
"WE DOMINATED for the first ten minutes at Stockbridge then lost our way. After they scored they could easily have got a second and if we had gone in to the interval two goals down it would have been difficult to get back in. "Kenny Mayers' strike just
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Hot shots strike twice
FOR the second month in succession Kendal Town have won the Endsleigh Sport Insurance "Goal-Scoring" Award. During October, Town scored 20 goals in seven matches, an average of 2.86 per game. Tomorrow, Town are away to Colywn Bay in the FA Trophy and
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Westmorland: Harrison double spurs Sedbergh on
SEDBERGH Wanderers remain the only unbeaten team in Division One of the Talbot Insurance Westmorland League following a 3-2 home victory over Coniston. The win lifts them up to fourth place, five points adrift but with two matches in hand on Kendal
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UniBond: Stocksbridge PS 1 - Kendal Town 2
Meyers 'Steels' the show... STRIKER and captain Kenny Mayers struck twice against fourth-placed Stocksbridge Park Steels to give Kendal Town an important away victory. Town have not always taken their formidable home form with them on their travels
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Action around the county this week....
RUGBY... Saturday (2.15pm) POWERGEN CUP... Fourth round Kendal v Waterloo POWERGEN JUNIOR VASE... Round 3 North Wallasey v Windermere FAIRCLOUGH HOMES LEAGUES... Division 4 (N) Kirkby Lonsdale 2nd v Preston 2nd Division 5 (N) Wigan 3rd
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Toucline Talk: Developing a trend, but not as we planned
"Is there anyone left in Tonga and Samoa? The entire male population of these islands appears to be playing in the English leagues, and, in common with most of the teams we have encountered this season, Saturday's opponents had their quota. They
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Ellison in running for awards
SPORTS AWARDS: Superbike racer James Ellison is among the nominations received by the Gazette for the Sports Personality of the Year Award to be presented at the Cumbria Sports Awards at the Low Wood Hotel, Windermere, on Friday December 3. There is
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Fell Running: Helm Hill runner comes out tops
KIRKBY Stephen fell runner Paul Brittleton won the INOV-8 seven race series when he triumphed in the last event of the season - the Ayhope Skyline at Hamsterley Forest at Bishop Auckland, writes Mike Addison. Brittleton, 37, who runs for Helm Hill,
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Glory rides on hills...
KENT Valley Road Club's Lynn Hamel finished third in last weekend's National Women's Hill Climb Championship near Otterburn in the North East. The 19-year-old Oxenholme rider covered the 2.2 miles long climb, that included a section of 1-in-6 gradient
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Bold first half: Wigton 31 - Kirkby Lonsdale 7
COMFORTABLY beaten in the end, Kirkby Lonsdale put up a spirited effort in the opening 40 minutes against the North Lancs/Cumbria leaders, especially considering their long injury-list. A reorganised Kirkby front row competed well and the pack scrummaged
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Rugby: Saturday's action will be sever test
THE SEVEREST test of Kendal's abilities so far this season comes when cast as Powergen Cup underdogs for the visit of Waterloo Drummers to Mint Bridge on Saturday (2.15pm kick-off). The Black and Ambers defied the pundits by defeating Richmond in
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Powergen: Cup quest to silence Drummers
THE SEVEREST test of Kendal's abilities so far this season comes when cast as Powergen Cup underdogs for the visit of Waterloo Drummers to Mint Bridge on Saturday (2.15pm kick-off). The Black and Ambers defied the pundits by defeating Richmond in
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Cross Country: Rush on to slog it out at Burnely
AN ALTERED course at Burnley in the Mid-Lancs League looked deceivingly less strenuous than the test in previous years, but a warning from the youngsters, who had already raced, about heavy conditions proved accurate. Traffic queues just outside the
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Heat on for Miller in Haverigg Run
KENDAL'S Paul Miller and co-driver Helen Davies (above) came tenth overall and won the award for first mixed crew to finish at the Mild and Bitter Stages Rally at Haverigg. It was the first completion of the season for Miller's Sierra Cosworth, though
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Playground duty outcry
A BACKLASH is expected over suggestions that South Lakeland District Council may hand responsibility for its children's playgrounds to parish councils and community groups, reports Andy Bloxham. SLDC's overview and scrutiny committee has recommended
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Suspension Watch: 'Sign or risk your job' says SLDA
HUNDREDS of staff at South Lakeland District Council have been asked to change their contracts to help the authority out of its financial black hole or face the sack. The staff were reported to be "extremely upset and distressed" after receiving a personal
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Bay Gunners' fans kick off new era
AN ARSENAL-MAD Grange man scored a place in the club's history books when he made a fan-friendly suggestion for a piece of memorabilia to include in a time capsule celebrating 91 years of football at Highbury, reports Luke Dicicco. John Sayle, of Fell
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Furness grows at the double
FURNESS Building Society has doubled in size in under a decade, with its total assets now standing at £700 million. The Furness has shot up the league table' for building societies over the past nine years, rising from 33rd largest society in 1995 to
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Financial firm is in demand
A FIRM of financial of advisors is spreading its net ever wider in response to growing demand across the country for its specialist services. Financial Management Bureau Ltd now handles financial advice for firms as far afield as the Home Counties, after
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Marina homes plan scuppered
LAKE District planners have unexpectedly rejected a major scheme to build 27 new homes at the Windermere Marina Village. On the casting vote of the chairman, John Hayton, the national park authority's development control committee turned it down because
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'Set aside has to be faced' says NFU chief
FARMERS need to face-up to tough new rules on set-aside or risk losing their Single Farm Payment next year, Cumbria's National Farmers Union chairman warned this week. Alistair Mackintosh said there were still a lot of farmers who did not understand
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Furness grows at the double
FURNESS Building Society has doubled in size in under a decade, with its total assets now standing at £700 million. The Furness has shot up the league table' for building societies over the past nine years, rising from 33rd largest society in 1995 to
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Visitor centre wins green award
THE National Park Visitor Centre at Brockhole, near Windermere, is the first in the country to be awarded a coveted Eco-Centres Award following a three-year campaign by staff and visitors to protect the environment. Sharing the flagship recognition with
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Shaping lives
Sir, We would like to take the opportunity of thanking all those supporters of the Cumbria Outward Bound Association who contributed to, and attended, the fund-raising lecture at The Percival Theatre, St Martin's College, Ambleside. We are pleased to
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Hands-on fun for guests
GUESTS at a Lake District Hostel have been given the opportunity to get in touch with nature thanks to a group of conservation volunteers. Derbyshire-based Bolsover Woodlands Enterprise provides opportunities for people with learning difficulties to
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Lake should be for everyone
Sir, I write on behalf of myself and four friends who have been travelling to the Lakes for many years, specifically to take advantage of the water skiing on Windermere. We have stayed in both rented accommodation on the lake itself, the marina and also
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Wind farm venture generates top prize
A COMMUNITY enterprise has earned a national accolade for its success in generating renewable energy. Furness-based Baywind Energy Co-op was one of five winners of this year's Enterprising Solutions Awards, established to recognise and celebrate the
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A time to remember
Sir, Little did people realise the consequences of those fateful shots on June 28, 1914. They were in a faraway land and who was the Archduke Franz Ferdinand anyway? What did Balkan politics and the obligations of a convoluted treaty have to do with ordinary
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Town set to ride crest of TV wave
A south Lakeland town is racing to ride the wave of publicity it expects to be unleashed when a television programme about it is screened. Sedbergh is the subject of a BBC documentary to be broadcast in January called Twin Towns, which sees it matched
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Sheepdog sold for £4,300
A CUMBRIAN sheep farmer has bought a two-year-old sheep dog for what is believed to be a world record price of 4,100 guineas (£4,305) virtually 1,000gns more than the previous record. The black-and-white bitch, Floss, was sold by Tom Lawrenson, 20,
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Bus shelter plan
CARNFORTH Town Council will replace an ageing bus shelter on the Highfield estate after members voted to spend around £2,000 on a new one. The poor condition of the present shelter necessitated its replacement. The price is standard for a normal bus shelter
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Sisters get animated on being own bosses
A TALENTED trio of sisters making a name for themselves in the world of animation are among the guest speakers at an event aimed at firing the imagination of young would-be entrepreneurs. Award-winning sisters Bryony, Cadi and Linnhe Callow, who are
