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South Asian music
AN EVENING of South Asian music and dance is being staged at Heron Theatre on Friday, January 28 (7.30pm), as part of the Beetham venue's season of entertainment. Billed as Indigo, it features Sawa Teen and Dr Swati Raut in an imaginative and expressive
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Creative force: Network brings together county's artists
REMEMBER FRED, and the ten-day art invasion across Cumbria in October 2004? Well, one of the driving forces behind the event was Kate Brundrett, an artist in her own right, but also a creative woman whose ambition to pull the county's artists and arts
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Star Turn continues to shine...
Each year, Theatre by the Lake continues to build its reputation for great entertainment, both home produced or staged by touring companies. The Keswick theatre was recently named a North West winner for 2004 in the Culture Northwest
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Making good the storm damage...
WITH all the heavy rain, flooding and gale-force winds we have had to cope with in the last few weeks, it's fair to say that our gardens have taken quite a beating. Once things have begun to settle down again, it will be time to take stock of the damage
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Royal retreat...
There's something terribly nostalgic about the smell of wood smoke. It evokes feelings of cold crisp mornings, rosy-cheeked children playing in the snow a scene straight from an old picture postcard. Imagine snuggling up in front of your own log fire
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Pick of the week
MISCELLANEOUS ENJOY a celebration of art and literature at the Wordsworth Trust Weekend Arts and Book Festival from today, Friday (Jan 21) until Sunday (Jan 23). The festival is a residential course of lectures and workshops, which takes place at
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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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Sea Power to drop anchor in Grasmere...
BRITISH Sea Power head back home as they precede their April tour with an intimate date at Grasmere Village Hall next month. The hydro-powered five-piece will be giving tracks from their forthcoming album Open Season an airing at the Lake District venue
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Scratching the night away...
DEXTEROUS DJs The Funk Rhythm collective descend on Kendal club Tintos tomorrow night (Saturday, Jan 22) for the second of their monthly slots. The trio self-taught scratcher Shaolin Monkey, relocated Londoner i.me and knick knock, a man adept in the
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Scassa could be just your ticket for...Park night out
WITH the sound seal of approval from some of Britain's hip hop heavy-weights, drum and bass band Scassa Monakee take a detour from the bright lights of the city clubs and head to Kendal. The northern five-piece, who have been given the thumbs up from
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What's showing where
AMBLESIDE Zeffirellis, 015394-33845 The Aviator (12A) Ladies in Lavender (12A) Elektra (12A) House of Flying Daggers (12A) The Merchant of Venice (PG) Ladder 49 (12A) BARROW Apollo 4 Cinema, 01229-825354 Ladder 49 (12A) Elektra (12A)
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Riding high: Latest comic strip film adaptation aims to be different..
IN THE ultimate battle between good and evil stands a warrior who makes the choice that tips the balance. Jennifer Garner takes the title role of Elektra, a strong, mysterious and sexy action heroine based on the Marvel comic strip character. Not long
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Dry weather hopes...
RUGBY... Saturday (2.15 except where stated) NATIONAL LEAGUE DIVISION THREE NORTH (2pm) Kendal v New Brighton NORTH LANCS & CUMBRIA LEAGUE Kirkby Lonsdale v Wigton Upper Eden v Rossendale CUMBRIA LEAGUE Keswick v Windermere FAIRCLOUGH HOMES
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University summer school for gifted youth
Lancaster University's Department of Continuing Education (DCE) is set to run an exciting programme of summer courses for 11 to 16 year olds. Through DCE, the University has received £561,000 funding to run these prestigious summer schools for NAGTY
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Meet the planners
A SURGERY scheme where planners meet the public to iron out planning issues affecting the Lake District is opening its doors in Glenridding. Planning surgeries are already held in Keswick, where hundreds of people have turned up for free on-the-spot
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Generosity helps victims
Generous South Lakeland residents have continued to pledge their support for the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami. Thousands of pounds have been collected for the relief fund by volunteers and organisations keen to give their help to the estimated
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Teams get ready for Lakes biggest challenge
WHILE most of us have resolved to make 2005 the year we get fit and lose those excess pounds, plucky plumbers, solicitors, nurses, engineers, bankers and HGV drivers stuck to their fitness regimes over the festive period in a bid to ensure they are in
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Governor of Bank of England address CBI
The Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, is to be the special guest at the CBI North West's Economic Dinner in Manchester on Thursday 20 January. The "on the record" speech is one of only a handful that the Governor makes each year and
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Keswick Film Festival gets a design makeover
As a glance at the TV schedules will tell you, makeovers are big news. And in keeping with the spirit of the times, The Sixth Keswick Film Festival has been given a great new look. In 2005, the focus is firmly on the contemporary, with 24 of the best
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Time to do pension "MOT" or risk losing out
Staffordshire based Need An Adviser.com is urging people to take action now and review their pensions in light of the new Pension Simplification laws that come into force in April 2006. Pension Laws have been simplified by the Government meaning that
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Word Market Festival programme
The third annual Word Market Writers' and Readers' Festival is taking bookings for events. The Festival, which runs from Friday 4th Sunday 13th of February, features a Writers' and a Readers' Day, the climax of a major script-writing project New Plays
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Third annual word festival in launch mode
The third annual Word Market Writers' and Readers' Festival is taking bookings for events. The Festival, which runs from Friday 4th Sunday 13th of February, features a Writers' and a Readers' Day, the climax of a major script-writing project New Plays
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Word Market Festival for readers and writers
The third annual Word Market Writers' and Readers' Festival is taking bookings for events. The Festival, which runs from Friday 4th Sunday 13th of February, features a Writers' and a Readers' Day, the climax of a major script-writing project New Plays
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Mart prices...
KENDAL, Monday, January 17. Forward: 639 prime hoggs; 150 cast ewes. Prices prime hoggs to 132.4 pence per kilo (average 111.69p). Continental lambs £12; Suffolk £7; Mule £5; Horned £3.50. Continental cast ewes £35; Suffolk £31.50; Mule £30; Horned £18
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Popular tracks study results in
A NINE-YEAR study into one of the best used paths in the Lake District has revealed more than 9,000 walkers and bikers used the trail in one 29-day survey. Since 1995, the Keswick to Threlkeld path, which follows a former rail route, has been under scrutiny
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Sunday read
KENDAL Library will start its new Sunday opening arrangements this weekend. The new noon to 4pm opening times begin on Sunday (January 23) and Kendal joins Cumbria County Council's Library Service's other main libraries at Barrow, Carlisle, Penrith,
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Sunday read
KENDAL Library will start its new Sunday opening arrangements this weekend. The new noon to 4pm opening times begin on Sunday (January 23) and Kendal joins Cumbria County Council's Library Service's other main libraries at Barrow, Carlisle, Penrith,
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Rugby - Terrace Talk
RFU pundit Stephen McCormack give his weekly preview and predictions on what might happen in the National League 3 North matches this weekend, including Kendal's home match with New Brighton. Checkout the website address below.
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Who wants a record deal?
LOCAL bands are being invited to fight for the opportunity of a £20,000 record deal in the UK's biggest ever online competition for new music. It is open to any style of band, provided they play original material. And the winner, to be named in September
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Appealing music
A SPECIAL afternoon music festival in aid of the Tsunami Appeal will be held at the Gregson centre in Lancaster on Sunday between noon and 4pm. Top local artists including howdenjones, Boogie Bill Roberts and Mark Townson, Get Carter and Salamander Hipflask
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Natalia wins new friends
LANCASTER'S Haffner Orchestra has begun rehearsals for its second concert under brilliant new conductor Natalia Luis-Bassa. The Venezuelan made waves at her first concert with the orchestra last autumn, prompting members of the audience to write to commend
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Shoppers urged to buy Herdwick products
HERDWICK sheep breeders are hoping ethical shoppers will expand their horizons and invest in their fell-bred lambs to preserve Lakeland's cherished landscape, reports Jennie Dennett. With support from among others Friends of the Lake District, the Lake
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Last chance to see...
ONE of the world's foremost string quartets is to feature in the Lancaster International Concert Series next Thursday, January 27. The Lindsay String Quartet has been together for an incredible 39 years and 20 since the only change in personnel. Peter
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Footlights stage Irish battle
JOHN B Keane's seminal Irish drama The Field' is coming to Lancaster's Grand Theatre next month. Lancaster Footlights Club will perform the rural masterpiece, which was made into a 1991 feature film starring Richard Harris and John Hurt, for five nights
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On the road again
LANCASTER songstress - and favourite of Radio 2 legend Bob Harris - Angie Palmer hits the road next month on a tour to further enhance her reputation. Palmer, compared to Joni Mitchell, hits the road with the intention of delighting audiences who have
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Make poverty history
AS LANCASTER'S local development educ-ation centre we had to think about our response to the tsunami, which raised interesting questions. Like many people, I've been very affected by the disaster as the media has beamed out constant images of devastation
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Missed opportunity
ABOUT three years ago I contacted Lancaster city council's car parks department to suggest it could earn a bit of cash by installing a temporary pay and display machine where the people of Lancaster used to park when going to Kingsway Baths. I got a bland
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Castles and restoration...
LEARN more about the work being done to help the elusive bitterns on a Restore the Reedbed walk around the beautiful RSPB Leighton Moss Nature Reserve, on Sunday (Jan 23), at 2pm. For details, call 01524-701601. GET fit and meet new people on a 1.5-mile
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Nothing to be proud of
LIKE most people in this country I have made a donation towards the Asian disaster relief fund. However, I don't find this a cause for pride. It is our duty to help fellow humans, and this duty is one that should not end here but carry on with further
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RUFC chase fourth consecutive win
KENDAL RUFC go for a fourth successive league win when New Brighton visit in National League 3 North Saturday, 2pm kick-off. Kirkby Lonsdale are at home to Wigton while Upper Eden entertain Rossendale in the North Lancs/Cumbria League of the Powergen
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Moon landing
MANKIND has got its first glimpse of the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. The spaceship which travelled there was launched in 1997. Not much later, Lancaster City Council stated deliberations on how to have a cycle lane on Morecambe Promenade
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Don't knock the Greens for trying
MY FIRST reaction to Steve Metcalfe's letter headed Ordinary people have voices of their own' (Citizen last week) was one of utter astonishment. Like Steve, I was unable to attend the Green Party's public meeting on Iraq. I am both a supporter of Lancaster
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How free can birds be?
IT IS with some confusion that I write in reply to Emily Chadwick's letter (Citizen, last week) saying the labelling of shot game as free range is a lie concocted by the shooting community. If birds are released into the wild, fed in the wild and shot
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You cannot be serious
I READ with amused interest the letter from Ms D Garlick regarding the wilful fouling of the highway by constabulary horses (Citizen last week). Are we to understand from the ramblings of this individual that she honestly expects the police force to
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It's no big deal
SOME say the jug is half full, others say it is half empty. It takes all sorts. But in contrast to your reader Ms D Garlick, who was sickened and disgusted' by manure from the police horses in town on New Year's Eve, (Citizen, last week) I was also in
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Workmen start on baths site
ONE of Lancaster's neglected corners is getting a facelift at last seven years after it closed to the public. Work has started on redeveloping the landmark Kingsway Baths and bridge houses but it comes with a warning to motorists. Contractors need
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Stop this madness
A WOMAN believes she could have died after a brick was hurled at her car as she drove along a quiet Lancaster street. Kelly Akister was left terrified and shaken by the flying brick attack and says: "I could have been killed." Police have described
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Judge delays sentence of resort rapist
SENTENCING of a Morecambe man facing a life term for raping a teenage girl at a secluded spot has again been put back. The case of Andrew Price (pictured) has been adjourned until February 17 because a psychiatric report on the defendant is still not
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Park is still in the dark
THE lights may eventually be turned on in Ryelands Park perhaps even by the end of this month. In October the Citizen reported how Lancaster City Council had installed smart new lamp posts around the park's cycle track. But local people were still
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Conman steals cash
AN 86-year-old woman was duped out of more than £100 by a bogus workman who conned his way into her home. The man went to the house at The Rise, Bolton-le-Sands, claiming to be fixing a boundary wall for the woman's neighbour and needing access to the
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Nobody cares
A RIVERSIDE resident is threatening to take Lancaster City Council to the European Court of Human Rights. Richard Norris, of St George's Quay, Lancaster, says he is shocked' that his home will receive no special protection from floods despite the fact
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Wish you were here
A NEW Year and a new brochure Lancaster City Council wants to see visitors flocking to the district in 2005. It has just published a new holiday guide aiming to give holidaymakers and day-trippers a comprehensive look of what to do and where to stay
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Angry MP slams far right BNP
LOCAL MP Geraldine Smith has hit out at the British National Party for targeting parts of her constituency with a leaflet campaign. Houses around the Ryelands and Skerton area of Lancaster have received BNP leaflets but Ms Smith says: "People can see
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NCT Touring Theatre performs without power!
A VISIT to Shap by NTC Touring Theatre was threatened by power cuts that affected areas of the village during the afternoon of January 5, including the venue, the memorial hall. However, the supply was restored in time for the performance of The Snow
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Tracey can manage
MORECAMBE'S Festival Market is about to get a new manager and she can't wait to get her teeth stuck into the new job. Tracey Bruce, pictured, is making the move from supervisor at Lancaster Market after 20 years with the city council. She joined the
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We must never forget
IT IS 60 years since the horrific events of The Holocaust were first revealed to the world. And the six million Jews and children who perished are to be remembered in a week of events in Lancaster. NCBI Lancashire an organisation dedicated to ending
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Mossgate under microscope
THE future of a planned multi-million pound new development in Heysham hinges on a public inquiry. The Mossgate development which includes a medical and dental surgery, a community centre, 400 homes and a police station will go under the microscope
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Dogs come out for disaster relief
WHO let the dogs out? Four-legged friends will be on parade in force in aid of the Tsunami Relief fund early next month. A dog show is being arranged for Saturday, February 12, at the Salt Ayre Sports Centre - with the aim of making as much as possible
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Jonathan is hotel king
A LANCASTER man has been appointed as the new general manager of the Holiday Inn, Preston. Jonathan King is no stranger to hotel management in Britain's newest city he was general manager of the hotel when it was formerly a Poste House property. He
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Con alert
BEWARE of bogus tradesmen knocking on doors after the recent storms, warn police. Already cold callers have been targeting residents offering to replace lost slates or guttering for cash and never doing the job. In one case, a Morecambe, a woman was
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City shoppers get the bird
SHOPPERS in Lancaster are to be urged to take up bird-watching this weekend. Staff and volunteers from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds will be out in force at St Nicholas' Arcade on Saturday to ask people to take part in its 26th annual
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Power workers lift award
HEYSHAM Power Stations' fund-raising efforts have been recognised by RADAR the company's chosen charity for 2004. The sites at Heysham raised £15,000 for the charity the Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation through a series of events
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We just want to play - Atoms
HEYSHAM Atoms' coach Dave Crow says he is desperate for a game before his frustrated players kill' each other. Crow's men were left kicking their heels again on Saturday when Widnes Tigers called their game off less than three hours before the scheduled
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Glory beckons Vale women
VALE of Lune women stand on the verge of glory - just one win away from being crowned as Women's Premiership 2 champions. Lune travel to Richmond on Sunday with a chance to win the title - and will almost certainly be confirmed as the title winners
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Welcome win eases Vale pressure
THE New Year may be more than a fortnight old but Vale of Lune's 2005 got off to a great if late start on Saturday. Vale had not played a game since December 18 but had been sweating near the bottom of Powergen North 1 and went into their delayed game
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Clubs vote on new match rules
THE 2005 Northern Cricket League will kick off on April 16 with clubs hoping for a long, hot summer. But while the on-field action doesn't start until the heady days of spring, the action off the field begins tonight (Thursday) at the league's annual
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Shrimps aim to extend run
MORECAMBE managed to get through their first FA trophy test against Sutton Coldfield Town but are not thinking about the Trophy yet. They travel to York on Saturday and face Scarborough in the Conference Cup at Christie Park next Tuesday night. But
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FORGET MORECAMBE
STRICKEN skipper Gary Bauress is ordering his Lancaster City teammates to forget about Morecambe and get on with their jobs. The skipper, on the slow road back from a hamstring injury, is fully aware of the excitement over the possible FA Trophy tie
