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Comprehensive new collection
Love and Affection, Classics (1975 1983): Joan Armatrading (Universal) One of the most talented of singer/songwriters, Joan Armatrading has also been prolific, producing 11 albums in the nine-year period covered by this collection. All of her hit
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Bad weather hits Cumbria
PEOPLE are being warned to take extra care out on the roads as heavy rain and strong winds batter the county today (Friday). The A66 has been closed to high-sided vehicles and caravans at Stainmoor between Brough and Bowes. Cumbria Police have reminded
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Don't forget to feed garden birds!
CUMBRIA Wildlife Trust has asked people still polishing off the last of the Christmas chocs and treats to spare a thought for hungry wild birds. The charity is urging people to put food out in their gardens and help save the lives of thousands of birds
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Plea for 4X4 ban
COUNTRYSIDE campaigners are calling for off-road vehicles to be banished from the ancient green lanes of the Yorkshire Dales, reports Paul Duncan. A petition launched by the Yorkshire Dales Green Lanes Alliance has now received 4,000 signatures, which
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Over the Gate: 'There are no reform experts'
WE HAVE all heard it said that when a New Year dawns, you must look forward not back. I do not altogether go along with that so I tend to look back a little bit anyway and hope that the great world tragedies do not recur, that the rotten weather is not
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You read it here first...
NEW Year predictions have been flying around all week and I see no reason why I should not have a go at this remarkably inexact science. So here's my view on the likely happenings in this part of the world in 2005. January: The Government sees sense
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Tsunami response -shock and generosity
Sir, Members of The Rotary Club of Kendal were seeking donations last Friday following the tsunami disaster on Boxing Day. We felt that being able to send water purification equipment immediately through Rotary's Aquaboxes was the type of project that
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Mishandled move needs rethink
LAKE District National Park Officer Paul Tiplady is to be commended for his bluntness and honesty, at least, in defending the proposal to scrap the authority's events programme, including the free guided walks, and instead target the urban youth, ethnic
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Walks decision: common sense must prevail
Sir, Like many other people I am staggered by the Lake District National Park Authority's plan to axe the scenic walks that have been led by volunteer rangers for over 50 years. This decision will be depriving more than 4,500 people of the opportunity
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Kendal pedestrianisation planned for Easter
WORK to create a pedestrianised centre in the heart of Kendal will start in early February. A number of alterations will take place from the beginning of next month to ensure the town is ready for a six-month trial of the scheme from mid-March. Under
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Pedestrianisation begins at Easter
WORK to create a pedestrianised centre in the heart of Kendal will start in early February. A number of alterations will take place from the beginning of next month to ensure the town is ready for a six-month trial of the scheme from mid-March. Under
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Civic Society pleads for 'hidden jewel'
A NEGLECTED building on the proposed site of a large-scale development in Kendal should be saved at all costs, says a civic society spokesperson. Thought to date back to the late 17th century, the stone building sits at the rear of Woolpack Yard in
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Driving duo reach North Africa
TWO South Lakeland men who are crossing the Sahara in an ageing Land Rover for charity have reached North Africa. Kendal duo Clive Bradley and Darren Ready were waved off from K Village by crowds on December 27 as they embarked on their 4,500-mile trip
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'Lady in Lake' lover tells of break-up
GORDON Park is expected to be scrutinised in the witness box for two days next week as he gives evidence in the Lady in the Lake' murder trial. Park, 60, of Norland Avenue, Barrow, is set to be the first witness as the defence case gets under way following
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Furness home to Viking burial site?
FURNESS archaeologists believe a metal detector enthusiast might have stumbled on an important Viking burial site after unearthing an ornate merchant's weight. The man was pottering around Low Furness farmland before Christmas when his detector's bleeping
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'Lady in Lake' lover tells his story
GORDON Park is expected to be scrutinised in the witness box for two days next week as he gives evidence in the Lady in the Lake' murder trial. Park, 60, of Norland Avenue, Barrow, is set to be the first witness as the defence case gets under way following
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Lib Dems target South Lakes seat
At the beginning of what is being widely touted as a General Election year, the Liberal Democrats have once again set their targets on the Westmorland and Lonsdale seat. The party leader, Charles Kennedy, has been quoted as stating that several members
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Mountain rescue team prepares to help out
Members of mountain rescue teams in the Lake District are on standby to travel out to Indonesia to help in the humanitarian effort following the earthquake. The news came after the teams were initially disappointed by the reception to their offer to
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Couple run for their lives
A HONEYMOONING couple ran for their lives up a beach as the deadly Asian tsunami roared in behind them, reports Michaela Robinson-Tate. Hannah and Steve Irwin said they could not believe they were safe at home after the terrifying ordeal, which claimed
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Westmorland: County drive on...
LEADERS Kendal County host third-placed Sedbergh Wanderers in the top of the bill fixture from the Talbot Insurance Westmorland League programme on Saturday. Although Sedbergh can be ranked still only as "dark horses" rather than front-line title
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Rails passengers get fresh aroma
RAIL passengers could experience a more relaxing journey than ever this year as First TransPennine Express introduces scented seat headrest covers to services in the area. An aromatherapy blend of citrus, orange and grapefruit fragrances will be specially
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Hesketh's View: Video shocker foils Kendal
KENNY Mayers has been banned for three matches as no video evidence was available to support Kendal's view that the ace striker was wrongly dismissed during the game against Clitheroe. UniBond League rules now require video evidence to be supplied within
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UniBond: Start-again time for Town
AFC Telford......................4 Kendal Town.......................1 KENDAL Town's promotion hopes suffered another setback in this 4-1 defeat at Telford's impressive Bucks Head stadium on Monday. It was not the result that boss Tony Hesketh
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The year is off and running...
RUGBY... Saturday (2pm) NATIONAL LEAGUE DIVISION THREE NORTH Kendal v Blaydon NORTH LANCS & CUMBRIA LEAGUE Kirkby Lonsdale v Carlisle Trafford MV v Upper Eden CUMBRIA LEAGUE Silloth v Windermere FAIRCLOUGH HOMES LEAGUES Bateman BMW Premier
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Rising star takes on TG Racing Superstock challenge
UP-and-coming motorcycling racer Ross Connolly has signed up to launch a new challenge for the British Superstock Series being made by Kendal motorcyle enthusiast and businessman Tony George. Competing under the name of TG Racing, 23-year-old
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Touchline Talk with Neil Rollings
"The New Year brings us into the hundredth year of the club's existence. It offers a chance to reflect upon the year's achievements and consider the challenges ahead. Most of 2004 has seen us in the bottom half of the league. We have won 14
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Martindale in, Green out
KENDAL make an enforced change to the front row for Saturday's home match against Blaydon at Mint Bridge (2pm kick-off), with Allen Martindale called up at hooker in place of Duncan Green. Green is sitting out the RFU's obligatory three-week period
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Centenary pride for Kendal
THE YEAR 2005 is set to be a momentous one for Kendal Rugby Union Club which is preparing to celebrate its Centenary season starting next August. For the Kendal club's historian Derek Kingwell and a team of volunteers it will mark the completion of
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Fell Running: Symonds sets high standards
SEDBERGH'S Joe Symonds cantered to victory in the annual Nine Standards Fell Race from Kirkby Stephen but just failed to bag the course record and a £50 prize by a margin of only four seconds, writes Mike Addison. But the 21-year-old, who is studying
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Expansion builds confidence
A SOUTH Lakeland company is aiming to clean up in its market place after carrying out a major expansion of its operation that will create a number of new jobs. Work is nearing completion on a major 6,000 sq ft extension at Sunlight Service Group's laundry
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Winning cheesemaker seals Wallace and Gromit deal
AN AWARD-winning cheesemaker has sealed a tasty licensing deal with the creators of Wallace and Gromit that they say represents the perfect partnership. Hawes-based Wensleydale Creameries, the only makers of the fictional characters' favourite cheese
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Rail delays after man dies on tracks
Rail death hold-up RAIL services through South Lakeland were disrupted on Wednesday after a 31-year-old man was struck by a train and sustained fatal injuries on a level crossing at Hest Bank, near Morecambe. British Transport Police said the 06.34
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SLDC suspensions report complete
THE long-awaited report into the suspension of two senior officers at South Lakeland District Council has been completed and recommendations are due to be discussed at a closed doors meeting next Friday (January 14). An un-named independent expert in
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Player attacked
POLICE are investigating a serious assault on a 24-year-old Kendal Rugby Union player who was attacked at the rear of the former Booths store on Highgate in the early hours of Christmas Day morning. Duncan Green, who is a forward, was taken to the Royal
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Out with dairy, in with beef
ASK any chef and they will tell you that a good bit of a beef needs to be well hung to develop its flavour. But in south Cumbria there is something of a space shortage and finding a corner in a cold room to hang a carcass is proving increasingly difficult
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EU payment row still raging
A FOUR-year-old row over unpaid foot-and-mouth bills is still raging after the Government only received a third of the support cash it was hoping for from Europe. The European Commission has agreed to pay £350 million to the Department for Environment
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Gazette launches 'Save the Walks' Campaign
A DEFIANT Lake District National Park Officer has this week defended the Lake District National Park Authority's controversial recommendation to ditch its 900-strong events programme, which includes much-loved free guided walks, reports Lisa Frascarelli
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Park chief unvowed by 'walks loss'
A DEFIANT Lake District National Park Officer has this week defended the Lake District National Park Authority's controversial recommendation to ditch its 900-strong events programme, which includes much-loved free guided walks, reports Lisa Frascarelli
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New call for cockling licence
A SURVEY of residents in an area of Grange-over-Sands most affected by weeks of disruption caused by gangs of cocklers has shown overwhelming support for a national licensing system to tackle the problem. Some 200 Kents Bank residents were asked by Westmorland
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Gazette Campaign: Save the Walks
A DEFIANT Lake District National Park Officer has this week defended the Lake District National Park Authority's controversial recommendation to ditch its 900-strong events programme, which includes much-loved free guided walks, reports Lisa Frascarelli
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Bequest buys new air ambulance
NORTH West Air Ambulance will take delivery of a state-of-the-art helicopter later this year thanks to a half-a-million pound bequest from a supporter of the charity. North West Air Ambulance (NWAA) has received a £500,000 residual legacy from the estate
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A Year at Killington Hall, by Judith M.S. Robinson
Bridget Jones depicted the trials and tribulations of her life in 1990s London in her diary, but the famous, fictional scribbler had a real life counterpart living in 19th century Westmorland. During 1876, 19-year-old Agnes Ann Kendal kept an almost
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New Year's Splash for charity
A PAIR of fairies and a couple of men in women's clothes were among the brave souls who saw in the New Year by jumping into Windermere. The annual dip event proved as big a draw as ever with the crowds, who swarmed around the floating jetties at Bowness
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More Cat Tales From Moon Cottage by Marilyn Edwards
Many people keep diaries and some make for interesting reading when published but a Cumbrian author has just launched the second of her books charting the lives of cats in More Cat Tales From Moon Cottage. This is only the second book Marilyn Edwards
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Moment the tsunami disaster began
THIS photograph captures the moment holidaymakers fled the deadly incoming tsunami on the paradise island of Phi Phi, unaware of the devastation about to be wrought. A few seconds after the picture was taken, by Staveley man Steve Irwin, two of those
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Cumbria :True to the Land by Tony Hopkins
THE shelves of Cumbrian bookshops have long creaked under the weight of tomes chronicling the mountains, lakes and poets that have become synonymous with the Lake District. At a time when the Cumbrian farmers' grip on the land is at its most tenuous,
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Starting to stir...
ALTHOUGH it's only the first week in January, we are now well past the shortest days of winter and, throughout the garden, plants are beginning to stir. The catkins on birch, hazel and Garrya are starting to lengthen, Bergenia buds are getting fatter
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Day camp program expands
THE YMCA National Centre at Lakeside is to extend its popular day camps for local children during the summer. Each year around 1,200 children between the ages of eight and 15 visit Lakeside for activity adventure weeks in the summer. They offer a wide
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YMCA day camp program expands
THE YMCA National Centre at Lakeside is to extend its popular day camps for local children during the summer. Each year around 1,200 children between the ages of eight and 15 visit Lakeside for activity adventure weeks in the summer. They offer a wide
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Star jazzman takes platform
HOT on the heels from his last sell out UK tour, platinum selling American singer and saxophonist Curtis Stigers (pictured, left) appears at the Platform in Morecambe this month. The jazzman who shot to international fame with his worldwide hits I wonder
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Raucous night coming up
SKA seven-piece The Beat (pictured, left) are heading for Kendal's Brewery Arts Centre. With a line-up featuring Ranking Roger, vocals; Everett Morton, drums; Saxa, saxophone; Blockhead, keyboards; Neil Deathridge, guitar; Tony O'Donnell, vocals; and
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Celtic band set to cast their spell
IRELAND'S Lnasa head for the Brewery Arts Centre at the end of this month. The all star quintet, whose latest album The Kinnitty Sessions has just been nominated for Album Of The Year in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, play at the Brewery's Malt Room in
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Splash out in Venice...
THE sight that greeted me as I glided the inky canal could have come straight from an old Carry On movie A party of enthusiastic, but totally perplexed, Japanese tourists were crammed into a gondola festooned with state-of-the-art cameras and video recorders
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Sword and sandals epic...
OLIVER Stone's new film Alexander is based on the true story of one of history's most luminous and influential leaders a man who had conquered 90 per cent of the known world by the age of 25. Alexander led his virtually invincible Greek, Macedonian,
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Season specials and fresh produce
Kendal Fisheries: Fresh whole seabass £2.99 each. Greenbanks, Kendal: New season Seville oranges for marmalade-making....55p per lb. Peppers, all colours...£1.25 per lb. Button mushrooms......32p per 1/4 lb. Bowland Bridge Stores: Eden organic red
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Bold poineer
THOUGH he is remembered today as an eccentric billionaire who became a mysterious recluse, few know the full story of the industrialist Howard Hughes nor how Hughes, as a young man in love with risk, beauty and technology, became a towering figure who
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Making a business out of dirty nappies
DIRTY nappies are not a subject most people like to linger over but one Furness woman is making them the core of a new business, reports Jennie Dennett. Baby swimming tutor Alison Wood of Newbiggin has resolved to help local parents go green and ditch
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Union says fire calls move 'dangerous'
A CONTROVERSIAL government plan to close Cumbria's fire control room and move it out of the county as part of a national regionalisation scheme has been branded dangerous and likely to end in failure by the Fire Brigades Union. The union says that the
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Fusion cooking leads the way...
MADE any New Year's resolutions yet? If you have, then I bet one of them has something to do with a) losing weight and b) improving your diet. Fortunately, help is at hand from the 'king of fusion cooking' - New Zealand-born Peter Gordon of the famous
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Former Gazette reporter takes on editorship
FORMER Westmorland Gazette reporter Jeremy Craddock has been promoted to his first editorship. Mr Craddock, 36, has been made editor of the award-winning Runcorn and Widnes World newspapers, part of Newsquest, The Westmorland Gazette's parent company
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What's showing where...
AMBLESIDE Zeffirellis, 015394-33845 The Aviator (12A) The Merchant of Venice (12A) Alexander (15) Phantom of the Opera (12A) Ladies in Lavender (12A) BARROW Apollo 4 Cinema, 01229-825354 The Aviator (12A) Alexander (15) White Noise
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Search tools under the microscope
THE information age is pushing the performance boundaries of the search engines as hard as it is pushing for new technological toys. Search engines are listening to customers' demands for more accurate and appropriate results and the race is on. A look
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Welfare State chief moves on
I FIND it difficult to believe that John Fox is actual stepping down as the main creative force behind Welfare State International. Greatly respected across the arts world, both here and abroad, it will be strange to think that the highly imaginative
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A sea of change at the Brewery
COMEDIAN Jack Dee, the excellent, award-winning comic duo Lip Service, plus Kendal Amateur Operatic Society performing Richard III, are just some of the high spots of the new and exciting Brewery season. Yet, as New Year dawns and Sam Mason sits at his
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Lights extend playing time
SPORTS fans in Ingleton will be able to play well into the night thanks to a new set of floodlights that will illuminate the village's all-weather pitch. The Ingleton Rural Community Association (IRCA), which looks after the running of the pitch, received
