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Inquest opens into police gunshot death
AN INQUEST jury has been hearing evidence surrounding the death of an Ulverston firearms officer who was found dead with a single gunshot wound to the head. PC Philip Beckett's body was discovered in the back of an armed response vehicle parked outside
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Rugby - Kirkby's Vase draw
KIRKBY Lonsdale have been drawn at home to Whitehaven in the fourth round of the Powergen Junior Vase. Kirkby beat Bedians 23-0 away on Saturday in the previous round.
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Rescuers issue warning about shorter days
WALKERS are being warned to be aware of the changing weather and shorter daylight hours after a number of call outs from people getting into difficulty on the fells. On Sunday afternoon a couple who lost the path when descending and became stuck on Kettle
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Writing competition deadline approaches
The Gazette's and Word Market's annual online poetry and short story competition entries now far exceed previous years, with over forty in, and the deadline is still three weeks away. Entries, on the theme of Nature, have come in from all over the
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Prize for poem about Ulverston
GETTING poetic about Ulverston could land a local scribe a £1,000 prize. United Press Ltd is inviting poets to send a stanza about Ulverston of no more than 20 lines and 160 words. The best poem written about someone's home town from anywhere in the
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Hard work indoors as well as out...
For the gardener, when the weather is too wet to work in the great outdoors, the inevitable act of internal confinement, seated at a desk has to take place. But, with a major restoration on your hands, in terms of the plants at least, the business of
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Racing - Carlisle races off
CARLISLE Racecourse's jumps meeting, scheduled for Monday, has been abandoned because of waterlogging. Racng went ahead on almost bottomless ground eight days ago, but the track has received almost ten inches more rain since mid-October. Carlisle's
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Hello from Hong Kong
While sitting on the runway at Heathrow, waiting for our adventure to begin, we watched fireworks exploding all over West London. From the air it looked like a multi-coloured war-zone and was surrealy beautiful - I recommend everyone to try flying somewhere
