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Gig Guide
TO HAVE your gigs included FREE of charge in the Gig Guide, telephone Lisa Frascarelli on 01539-710160, or send a fax on 01539-720990, or drop a line to the Gig Guide, The Westmorland Gazette, 1 Wainwright's Yard, LA9 4DP, at least TWO WEEKS before the
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Blind dog gives owners the slip
A BLIND collie, who has hiked 4,200 miles over the fells gave his owners the run around when he disappeared as gale-force storms battered Cumbria. Tip, a former rescue dog was taken in 18-months ago by Ulverston couple, Norma and Roger Marsh of Oubas
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Mart prices...
KENDAL, Monday, January 10. Forward: 247 sheep. Prices prime hoggs (averages): to 32 kilo to 121 pence per kilo, £37.50 each; to 39 kilo 126p, £48; to 45.5 kilo 126.20p, £52.50; to 52 kilo 114p, £52.50. Cast sheep: Continental ewes £42; Mule £35; Horned
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Floods and power cuts wreak havoc
SEVERE storm weather ravaged parts of Eden district on Friday night leaving thousands of residents to cope with floods, road closures and damage to property. Hours of rain accompanied by strong gale force winds of up to 80mph contributed to some of the
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Floods and power cuts wreak havoc
SEVERE storm weather ravaged parts of Eden district on Friday night leaving thousands of residents to cope with floods, road closures and damage to property. Hours of rain accompanied by strong gale force winds of up to 80mph contributed to some of the
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What's showing where
AMBLESIDE Zeffirellis, 015394-33845 The Aviator (12A) Being Julia (12A) Alexander (15) Ladies in Lavender (12A) The Merchant of Venice (PG) BARROW Apollo 4 Cinema, 01229-825354 Closer (15) Million Dollar Baby (12A) The Aviator (12A)
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Charity donations may be taxed
Many of those making charity donations to the flood victims at both home and abroad may not be aware that the tax man might take a cut. As the clean-up begins there will be hundreds of people in Carlisle and the Tyne Valley who will have no hope of
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Unmissable treat
AN unmissable evening of Beethoven performed by the orchestra of Opera North comes to The Great Hall at Lancaster Univer-sity next Thursday, January 20 at 7.30pm. On its first visit to the Lancaster International Concert Series the orchestra's programme
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Go to work on a song
PLACES are still available on a two-day workshop for musicians and writers in Lancaster this month. Facilitators Jon Moore and Mollie Baxter are seeking people to take up the offer of joining the weekend event at The Gregson Centre on Saturday and Sunday
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Leaders of the fitness training pack...
DO YOU fancy a career in the fitness industry. Are you a fitness enthusiast wishing you could become a teacher? Are you 18 or over? Answer yes' to all these questions and you could now find it all on your doorstep! The Low Wood Leisure Club, near Ambleside
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Picture this...
CONTEMPORARY art focussing on the theme of Morecambe Bay is causing a stir in a Lancaster gallery. It is the work of AIM artists formerly known as Artists in Morecambe who have spent 10 months working on the theme of the bay to come up with a challenging
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Strictly ballroom
AFTER the success of the popular BBC1 series Strictly Come Dancing', Blackpool Tower is getting in on the act. The world-famous Tower Ballroom is set to stage a dance contest so that members of the public can trip the light fantastic in one of the best
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Comic Dee-lay
COMIC Jack Dee's appearance at Lanc-aster's Grand Theatre has had to be postponed until June. The deadpan laughter maker was set to perform in th4ecity on Sunday, February 6, but has had to switch the date. No new time has yet been set but the Grand
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Start the year off on your bike...
BLOATED, overweight, lethargic? Has your get-up and go got-up and gone, along with the leftover turkey? Why is it that, at this time of year, so many of us start to slip into hibernation mode? asks fashion stylist Lucinda Hayton. The festive period
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Students strut their stuff
DRAMA students from St Martin's College will take to the boards at the Dukes in Lancas-ter with two distinctly different productions this month. First up comes Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes', a touching drama written by Sue Townsend, author of the
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Biking away the blues...
BLOATED, overweight, lethargic? Has your get-up and go got-up and gone, along with the leftover turkey? Why is it that, at this time of year, so many of us start to slip into hibernation mode? asks fashion stylist Lucinda Hayton. The festive period
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Quips with everything
IMPROVISED comedy from five local people appearing in the guise of famed writers will light up Lancaster's Gregson Centre tomorrow (Friday) evening. Each will have to impress the audience and defend their right to remain high in the literary echelons
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Help me put Lancaster in the picture
PAST in Pictures is one of the leading producers of local interest and nostalgia videos. Since 1998 we have produced more than 50 social history films for towns across Britain that have become bestsellers. We have chosen Lancaster to form the next chapter
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Canal walk and swim - a healthy combo
GET fit and meet new people on a 1.5-mile walk along the canal path in Kendal followed by a swim in the Leisure Centre with the Walking the Way to Health group on Sunday (Jan 16). Meet at Kendal Leisure Centre, at 11am. For details of this and other
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Get fit with a walk and swim...
GET fit and meet new people on a 1.5-mile walk along the canal path in Kendal followed by a swim in the Leisure Centre with the Walking the Way to Health group on Sunday (Jan 16). Meet at Kendal Leisure Centre, at 11am. For details of this and other
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Don't play this game
I WRITE to inform people about the appalling way in which gamebirds are being reared. Over the Christmas period the shooting industry was attempting to market intensively reared pheasant and partridge as some sort of free-range, natural alternative to
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Cops must learn how to clean up
HAVING decided to go into town on New Year's Eve, I was expecting to see the town packed with people shopping. What I did not expect nor want to see was a steaming drag of horse muck in the middle of Penny Street, kindly donated by the police horses
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Cautious over extra choice
I was struck by the confidence in your recent headline, Patients will get more choice NHS chief vows'. The foundation for this seems to be that hospitals will in future be paid job-by-job on the basis of a national price list, where each type of treatment
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Re-scheduled match dates announced
AFTER last week's home postponement, Kendal RUFC head south to Rugby Lions in National League 3 North Saturday for a 3pm kick-off. Windermere are at home to Moresby in the Cumbria League, while Upper Eden travel to Trafford MV. KENDAL Town footballers
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Council leader right to tell us how it is
I WAS delighted to see that Cllr Ian Barker came out on accountability in the Citizen on November 25. He answered the letter from Mr S Williams point for point and also took a long overdue swipe at the many correspondents who try to undermine the work
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Give power to local people
THE driving force for the effective regeneration of the West End of Morecambe must be its residents. Our elected leaders should ensure there exists a steering group consisting largely of bona fide local residents backed by people who have businesses
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Wilson sticks with City
BOSS Phil Wilson has pledged his future to Lancaster City Football club despite the lure of his old club. Wilson, one of the most highly rated managers in non-league circles, has been in charge of the Dolly Blues for 18 months. He took them into
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The bus stops here...
BUS services could be stopped in parts of Lancaster if vandals con-tinue to use passing double deckers for target practice. Buses have been in the firing line of stone-throwing yobs across the area in recent weeks. And now local bus operator Stagecoach
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Trial date set
A TRIAL date has been set to hear allegations against a woman facing cruelty charges following an RSPCA investigation. Rosalind Gregson, 55, of Wellbank, Lindeth Road, Silverdale, denies 69 charges involving 61 dogs and eight birds kept at her home.
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Insurance hitch threatens walks
THE future of cross bay walks in Morecambe Bay hangs in the balance. Guide to the sands Alan Sledmore says that since the tragedy in the bay last February - when 23 cockle pickers drowned - he has had problems getting a company to insure him. He told
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Life on the line
In this week's Prizetime I'm giving you the chance to win the nail-biting thriller Cellular or the sweeping epic The Notebook both on DVD. Cellular starring Academy Award winner Kim Basinger is the tale of a dramatic race against time. Recently dumped
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The rain's a pain
GALE force winds and heavy rain swept across the area over the weekend but Lancaster and Morecambe escaped with little more than superficial damage. While thousands of people in Carlisle, Kendal and North and West Yorkshire were hit by devastating
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Drink-drive war goes on
MOTORISTS in Lancashire listened to police warnings not to drink and drive over Christmas and the New Year - but now bobbies are warning they intend to clamp down on drunks behind the wheel all year. Nationwide figures showed a breath-test failure rate
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Cops hunt conmen
POLICE are hunting two thieves who posed as water board officials to steal money from an 85-year-old Heysham woman's house. The two men called at the house in Levens Drive and claimed to be checking the drains after the weekend's heavy rain. But once
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Look back to victory
VE DAY will be remembered at a special event in Lancaster in May. A City and Community Remembers will feature a march from the city's historic castle to the Remembrance Gardens, where organisers hope to hand over the names all the VE Day dead and those
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Resort recruits get top marks
A TRENDSETTING training scheme for new police officers has won praise and could now be extended after its success. The Morecambe police training project has just sent out its second group of graduates and local MP Geraldine Smith says she is delighted
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Hot drier
FIRE fighters were called to a launderette on Lancaster's Dunbarton Road on Tuesday night after youths torched a bag of rubbish and placed it in a tumble drier. The alarm was raised just before 8.30pm by a woman living in a flat above the shop. Her
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Northern writers opportunity
CUMBRIA-based authors and poets are once again being invited to submit works for a chance to win an esteemed northern writers award. The 2005 Northern Rock Foundation Writers Award is worth £60,000 over three years and aims to give established writers
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Hundreds swell disaster fund
THE tsunami disaster has seen Lancaster and Morecambe people - in common with others up and down the country - digging deep to raise as much money as possible for the South East Asia appeal. Pictures of the Boxing Day tidal wave continue to shock and
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High flier Justin lands dream job
MORECAMBE man Justin Mawtus has landed a dream role as a flying paramedic. The extreme sports fan, pictured, has been appointed as the North West Air Ambulance's first full-time airborne medic. He has been with the NWAA since 1999 when he worked part-time
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No action against cabbie
NO action will be taken against a Lancaster taxi driver who allegedly abandoned three teenage girls in the city before Christmas after evidence proved to be inconclusive. City council taxi licensing officers launched an investi-gation into the incident
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Anne Pierson Award deadline extended
LEAFING through the anthology of sparkling prose and poems showcased at last year's Anne Pierson Award for Young Writers, which has just been published, my mind flicked briefly to the competition's presentation night at the Brewery Arts Centre and the
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Labourer jailed after 'disgraceful' attack
A LANCASTER man who carried out a disgraceful' attack on an innocent guest spending the New Year at an hotel has been jailed for a total of two years. Former boxer Darren O'Connor reacted violently to a request to keep the noise down when a lengthy row
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History project boost
DELVING into the day-to-day lives of ancestors is set to become much easier thanks to a partnership project led by Lancaster University. The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded £46,000 to a project to help people to access underused historical records
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Julie gets on board
A FORMER accountant and NHS fund manager has joined the board of Lancashire Ambulance Service NHS Trust. Julie Kennedy, of Galgate, has taken up the new four-year post which she will combine with her job working as the principal officer for children
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Uni students go it alone
A GROUP of students from Lancaster University Management School have set up their own company to create a virtual community for fellow students. They have launched a website aiming to help fellow students to communicate more effectively with one another
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Call to fight pension threat
UNION bosses are warning civil servants and teachers that their prized pensions could be under threat - unless they fight back now. Lancaster and Morecambe TUC claims that new Government proposals mean public sector workers will have to carry on working
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Three-in-a-bed?
LANCASHIRE'S top darters will be hoping to land three-in-a-bed when they face London's finest at the Carleton in Morecambe this weekend. The men's A-team, unbeaten this season, plays on Sunday, while Saturday sees the B-team and women in action. Doors
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Trophy hunters
SILVERWARE is the order of the day as both Morecambe and Lancaster City go hunting FA Trophy glory on Saturday. The Shrimps host minnows Sutton Coldfield Town while City are on their travels to Vauxhall Motors and both go into the games high on confidence
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Holders pass Nelson test
HOLDERS Morecambe edged into the next round of the Lancashire Cup despite a scare against lowly Nelson. The Shrimps, flying high in the Conference, were ahead inside 15 seconds at Christie Park thanks to Lee Elam. And that became 2-0 when Michael
