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Football - Double blow dents Town hopes
STRIKER Peter Wright put Kendal Town ahead with a 26th-minute strike against sixth-placed Burscough, but two goals in a minute before half time punctured hopes of a home victory. Five minutes from the break, Burscough defender Farrell Kilbane was allowed
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Inquiry to focus on points
AN INQUIRY into a train derailment outside Kendal in which dozens were injured and one woman died is focused on a set of points. Ambulances, fire crews, helicopters and mountain search and rescue teams flocked to the scene, after the Virgin Pendolino
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Road closed
CUMBRIA police said that the A685 between Kendal and Tebay would remain closed in the vicinity of Grayrigg until probably the evening of next Tuesday, February 27, following the train derailment. This was following information from British Transport
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Dead woman named
BRITISH Transport Police have named the woman who died in the train derailment as Margaret Masson, 84, from the Cardonald area of Glasgow. The BTP also issued a statement from Mrs Masson's family. Margaret Jones, 41, daughter of Margaret Langley, 61
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Train driver hailed a hero
THE driver of the derailed Virgin Train, who used to be a policeman in Cumbria, has been hailed a hero by the company's boss Sir Richard Branson. Speaking from the scene, at Grayrigg, near Kendal, Sir Richard said it was a "miracle" that there were not
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Pennies help red squirrels
LAKE District investors have helped save the endangered red squirrel by paying their pennies into a special bank account. The Save our Squirrels project has been presented with a cheque for £10,999 by the Furness Building Society. The cash was one per
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Global roots stars head to Kendal
THERE'S always a buzz about the Brewery Arts Centre but it will be practically vibrating with energy when a host of exciting, emerging artists turn up for one of the finest music festivals on the British calendar. Yes, Gateway, the incredible month-long
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Background - Tilting train and the West Coast line
THE Class 390 Pendolino trains were built by Alstom in Birmingham utilising Fiat tilt systems. Pendolino is Italian for tilting. A total of 53 nine-car sets, costing £11m each, were built for Virgin Trains from 2001 to 2004, and were introduced on the
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BREAKING NEWS - One dead - massive rescue after Pendolino derails
EMERGENCY services worked through the night at the scene of a train derailment near Kendal. An eighty-year-old woman was killed and five other passengers seriously hurt when the Virgin Pendolino train derailed at Grayrigg. Several carriages of the
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Youth's death a 'tragic accident' - police
POLICE are treating the death of a South Lakeland schoolboy as a "tragic accident" after he was in collision with a horsebox on the A6 between Lancaster and Bolton-le-Sands, reports Andrew Daniels. Kieran Elvey, 15, of Willow Lane, Flookburgh, was struck
