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Kendal woman missing
POLICE are concerned for the welfare of a Kendal woman who has been missing since January 28. Jeanette Worthington, 44, is described as 5ft 6in tall, of slim build with long dark brown wavy hair. She was last seen in the Kendal area wearing a beige coloured
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Manhattan Nights
FOR fans of Neil Diamond and Barbara Streisand this week's musical spectacular Prizetime is a must for you to enter. The much loved music of the two stars has been woven together to form the exciting musical celebration Manhattan Nights and we are offering
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Charlotte gives centre the bird...
ART student Charlotte Bird is putting the final touches to the new indoor play area at Eden Ostrich World. Carlisle College of Art student Charlotte, 19, from Skelton, works at the family attraction as a general assistant, but when the owners decided
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Toilets to close at night
KIRKBY Stephen's main public toilets are to be closed at night due to the increasing problem of vandalism. A letter from Eden District Council confirmed the Stoneshot public conveniences will close at night because it could not cover the costs of the
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Flood-hit properties may get tax relief
HOMEOWNERS and businesses in Eden who were forced to vacate their properties in January's floods may be given exemption from council tax and business rate payments while repair work is carried out. Eden District Council has announced that properties
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Art critics online...
Everyone is a critic and art critic web sites are a fascinating genre of their own. It was like opening Pandora's box. As we had just announced the winner of our Young Art Critics Online project (see the Artists in Residence section on www.thisisthelakedistrict.co.uk
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Dutiful heads credit frozen by school trip
A HEAD teacher who paid out more than £7,000 from his own pocket to safeguard a school trip found himself without his flexible friend after his creditors froze his card. Not wanting to disappoint the 35 pupils set to visit Slovenia at Easter, Settlebeck
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Windfarm inquiry delay plea
THE MUCH anticipated public inquiry into plans to build the biggest windfarm in England near Tebay could be put back until the autumn after objecting councils said they needed more time to scour highly technical environmental documents. A "consortium
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Cyclists death was 'accidental'
A MAN from Kirkby Stephen was killed after he lost control of his mountain bike and collided with a van. An inquest heard how Daniel Crookes, 23, of Station Yard, Kirkby Stephen, lost his life when the bike he was riding along the A685 struck an oncoming
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Eden what's on...
February 9 Penrith Camera Club, A Journey to Iran, Friends Meeting House, Penrith, 7.45pm, details on 01768-890652. The Sheltering Sky film showing at Rheged, Penrith, 7.30pm, details on 01768-860090. Watercolour painting class, Wetherigg Potter
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Anna joins Haffner
A FORMER winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year award is to join Lancaster's Haffner Orchestra in concert next week. Anna Markland (pictured) will play Ravel's Piano Concerto with the ensemble under the baton of charismatic conductot Natalia Luis-Bassa
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Free web space
ARTISTS based in the Lancaster and Morecambe area are being offered free gallery spaces on a new website. The Aim artists group formerly known as Artists in Morecambe has just redesigned and updated its website with links to it from other quality galleries
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V is for violence
SPECIAL benefit performances of Eve Ensler's ground-breaking play The Vagina Monologues' are coming to Lancaster this month. The aim is to raise cash for V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. Performances will take place
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A great start...
A NEWLY signed band from Essex will make its Northern debut at Lancaster University on Friday. The Starts (pictured) have never ventured outside their home county until now. But on Friday afternoon they will give a live interview on the university's
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Estates are asked to shun battery-reared pheasants
A game shooting organisation has condemned an intensive method of rearing pheasants so that country estates can charge visitors high prices to shoot the birds for sport. The Council of the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) criticised
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Where to go and what to do
THURSDAY LIVE blues and folk music can be heard at the John O'Gaunt, Market Street, Lancaster from 8pm; A karaoke roadshow lands at Last Orders, Church Street, Lancaster, from 8pm; It's cabaret night from 9pm at Kampus, China Street, Lancaster; The
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Latest plans for Eden
Planning applications submitted to Eden District Council include: Ainstable: New sewage treatment plant and associated foul and surface water drainage at The Nunnery, Staffield, Penrith, for Mr D. Hodgkiss. Appleby: Rear air conditioning unit at Barclays
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Child's play at Dukes
SPRING season has opened at the Dukes Theatre with a nostalgic look back at the trials and tribulations of childhood. Dennis Potter's Blue Remembered Hills takes seven grown-up actors and turns them into mischievous 1940s schoolchildren whiling away
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Heavy going at Sedbergh
HEAVY underfoot conditions made it tough going for Cumbrian youngsters competing in an inter counties invitation cross country match against the North East that was staged in the grounds of Sedbergh School on Saturday. Pictured here is Emma Stuart daughter
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Commit to recycling
I AM shocked to see people complaining in the Citizen about recycling bins and wheely bins. Where we are living there is no such scheme in place, therefore everything goes to plastic bags and we are forced to put together garden rubbish, glass, paper
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The choice is yours
IT WAS as if salt was being rubbed in the wound. Hard on the heels of Inland Revenue threats that if tax for 2004/5 was not paid by January 31 came a form with the code for 2005/6. The Inland Revenue is insatiable and we are on as ghastly treadmill;
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Here we go again...
I REGRET I must keep returning to the same old subject on the Citizen letters page - but the litter and vandalism problems seem to be never ending. Over the weekend and on Monday morning I was stopped by several residents while walking into town from
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Flooding is no act of God
I WRITE in response to Roger Kemp's comments in his letter headed Council cannot be liable for acts of God' in Citizen (January 27). It is true that in October last year I issued a formal notice of legal action against Lancaster City Council and the
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Bishop firing at wrong target
BY ATTENDING my local church for nearly 40 years, I must qualify as one of the stubborn, hard-hearted and demanding churchgoers the Holy Spirit has led Bishop Pedley to lambast (Citizen, last week). Because he has been elevated within the apostolic succession
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Smoke ban a daft idea
THE Citizen reported on January 27 that the J D Wetherspoon pub chain plans to ban smokers. Does boss Tim Martin really want to ban all smoking in his chain of pubs - it's a noble gesture but quite frankly his revenues are going to take a massive (but
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Appleby held to goalless draw...
FOOTBALL: Appleby could not find a way past the Ambleside United keeper in a scoreless draw in the Talbot Insurance Westmorland League on Saturday. There were enough chances for Jock Nugent's side to have gone ahead and the visitors' keeper was fortunate
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Write to back parking protest
I WOULD like to thank readers who responded to my letter in regard to plans to introduce a residents' parking scheme for the Bowerham and Primrose areas of Lancaster. But we need more if we are to fight this issue. I received a fair number of e-mail's
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Bright start for girls
GIRLS FOOTBALL: The newly formed girls section of Kirkby Stephen Junior Football Club for girls aged 6-11 years have been training since September. Three female FA qualified coaches, Debbie Barr, Lou Barr and Pauline Tyson, conduct a weekly training
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University must put its house in order
IT WAS great to read in your paper last week about yet another academic at Lancaster University whose work is making an important contribution to our understanding of environmental problems. Lancaster University had one of the first ecology degree courses
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Eden are now table-toppers
A PURPOSEFUL, disciplined and highly-motivated Upper Eden moved to the top of the North Lancs/Cumbria League with a super display of all-round rugby at Pennine Park on Saturday. In a game blighted by incessant rain, Eden countered Carlisle's every
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Rail pair face court
TWO men charged with manslaughter following the deaths of four rail workers in Tebay will enter pleas at Carlisle Crown Court next month. Mark Connolly, 47, of Coed Ana, in Anglesey, and Roy Kennett, 27, of Old Mill Road, Maidstone, will face the court
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Fire fighters rescue three
THREE children screamed out of a window to be rescued as a blaze ripped through their Morecambe home. Fire-fighters from the resort were called to the West End Road building to pluck the children from the inferno. Officers dramatically hauled the youngsters
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Battling Geraldine wins gong from MPs
THE decision to put the needs of residents before a glittering political career has earned Morecambe and Lunesdale MP Geraldine Smith a top prize. Ms Smith beat off competition from other outspoken MPs to be named as Channel 4's Campaigning Politician
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Will someone do something now?
A FREEZING wind whips across the car park at Hest Bank, bringing with it icy rain and an eerie, confusing mist. The time is rapidly approaching 4am and a deep darkness engulfs Morecambe Bay - it is anything but beautiful. It is February 5 - 12 months
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Cockle licence scheme a must
ANOTHER tragedy on Morecambe Bay will only be prevented with the introduction of a licensing scheme, say local fishermen. But this week Government ruled the system out. Since last February when 23 Chinese cockle pickers lost their lives on the sands
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It's the ex-con con
THE number of ex-convicts being housed in Morecambe needs to be curbed to build a brighter resort. So says Cllr Peter Robinson, who was expected to put the issue to a full meeting of Lancaster City Council's today (Wednesday). He told the Citizen that
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Man denies eastate murder
A MAN is standing trial accused of murdering a young mum addicted to heroin in his Lancaster flat, which was frequented by drug users. It is claimed that Clare Sabear Benson-Jowry was strangled by Paul Culshaw in what appeared to have been a sexually
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Crack open the bubbly
A RARE bottle of champagne signed by 10 members of the triumphant 1966 England World Cup football team is up for grabs in Lancaster. The bottle, being shown off (left) by Chris Ashby from Cancercare in Lancaster, is the star prize in a raffle to raise
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Ban hits uni team
DRUNKEN student rugby players have seen their team suspended by Lancaster Uni-versity after an hotel in Poland was smashed up during a tour. The men's rugby union club has been sanctioned by the Athletics Union after a complaint from tour company Teamlink
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City crash at home
POOR Lancaster City slumped to a dismal Nationwide Conference North defeat at home to Alfreton Town on Tuesday to leave their play-off hopes hanging by a thread. The Dolly Blues and the visitors matched the miserable weather - both teams appearing to
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The road to disaster
A MORECAMBE road is to be closed after two deaths in a year but a local councillor believes traffic will now be just as dangerous in side streets. Cllr Evelyn Archer says another child could die after Lancaster City Council decided to shut South Road
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I don't believe it
A TIN can recycling bin can-not be filled up because the hole is up against a fence. Perplexed punters have tried to put their old cans in the bin on the car park of the Dog and Partridge pub in Bare, but it was put back the wrong way round when it
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4,000 miles in £100 vehicle
After 25 days driving 4,000 miles across some of the world's least hospitable terrain, a six-hour aeroplane trip brought two Kendal men back to the safer surroundings of South Lakeland. Clive Bradley and Darren Ready, both 35, drove a 40-year-old Land
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Better broadband services
INTERNET users in Kendal are set to receive a boost with the news that broadband services in the area are to be speeded up. The exchange in Kendal is one of 500 to be upgraded to symmetrical broadband services (SDSL) as part of BT's 12-month expansion
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Broadband services boosted in Kendal
INTERNET users in Kendal are set to receive a boost with the news that broadband services in the area are to be speeded up. The exchange in Kendal is one of 500 to be upgraded to symmetrical broadband services (SDSL) as part of BT's 12-month expansion
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Cash boost for community groups
COMMUNITY groups in South Lakeland, Eden, north Lancashire and North Yorkshire are being invited to apply for grants which could help them achieve their aims. Around £270,000 is available to worthy causes in the United Kingdom from the Gannett Foundation
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Market organiser shocked by apathy
ORGANISERS of Kendal's Medieval Market have confirmed that this year's event is definitely off after a potential sponsor pulled out this week. Market chairman John Studholme said the lack of interest and financial contributions from Kendal retailers
