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Freeserve offers new career site to women
In response to public demand for better information and support for workers, FreeServe has launched iCircle.com a new Careers Channel aimed at women. Recent surveys show women want more help or support in both their working lives and with juggling work
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Competition - FreeServe offer chance to win career makeover
Want a change of career direction, but not sure where to start? Get back on track with iCircle.com, the new website for women from Freeserve. Most of us lead such busy lives that we rarely stop to think about what we really want out of our careers, but
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Norweb temporary road closure in Bolton-Le-Sands
MILL Lane at Bolton-Le-Sands will be closed temporarily from 5pm on Tuesday until 6am the following day as Norweb Connections installs electricity service to a lamp column. The closure will be from Mill Lane Bridge for 70 metres. The alternative traffic
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SAILING: Vintage performance by Deva
STRONG south easterly winds were not perhaps what John Curtis would have chosen as he sought to clinch the Royal Windermere Yacht Club's Classic Fleet averages in his 1934 vintage Deva on Saturday. Deva has always been regarded as a light weather flier
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MOTORCYCLING: Ellison brothers storm round Brands
DEAN Ellison once again proved he is a force to be reckoned with in British Championship motorcycle racing. At last weekend's rain-lashed meeting at Brands Hatch, Dean, from Kendal, took his Bradgate Containers sponsored Honda SP1 superbike to a win and
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Possible bomb forces firm to evacuate staff
STAFF fled from a Kendal engineering firm today after a member of the maintenance team discovered what is believed to be an unexploded bomb. Around 170 people from pump and turbine manufacturers Gilbert, Gilkes and Gordon cleared the Canal Head site after
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Online vote on proposed traffic changes
thisisthelakedistrict.co.uk has launched its first online polling station with a vote on the traffic changes proposed for Kendal. Everyone is encouraged to register their level of support for the proposed changes - including re-routing traffice, to bus
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Competition - FreeServe offer chance to win career makeover
Want a change of career direction, but not sure where to start? Get back on track with iCircle.com, the new website for women from Freeserve. Most of us lead such busy lives that we rarely stop to think about what we really want out of our careers, but
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Test drive a poem
POETRY will soon be entering people's lives when they least expect it, thanks to a new scheme designed to bring verse to a wider audience. Drivers collecting cars from rental firms across the region will find copies of works by contemporary Cumbrian poets
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Lancashire crime reduction
A DRAMATIC reduction in Lancashire's crime rate was achieved by police working with other organisations and people in the community, the county's Chief Constable points out in her annual report. Pauline Clare says the 7.9 per cent fall in crime - the
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Online vote on proposed traffic changes
thisisthelakedistrict.co.uk has launched its first online polling station with a vote on the traffic changes proposed for Kendal. Everyone is encouraged to register their level of support for the proposed changes - including re-routing traffice, to bus
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Wanted: rail passenger watchdogs
OBSERVANT train passengers are needed to e-mail their comments about journeys to a rail watchdog. The Rail Passengers Council hopes to link up electronically with 400 travellers who use Virgin CrossCountry or ScotRail trains. The passengers will be asked
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RALLYING: Four-wheel frustration
RALLY driver Steve Head's first competitive experience of a four-wheel drive ended half-a-mile from the finish when a top-10 finish looked likely in the Hexham-based Centurion Rally. Head, from Carnforth, and Penrith-based co-driver Andrew Dugdale were
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Firm given all-clear from bomb squad
ARMY bomb disposal experts have given a Kendal firm the all-clear after a second world war bomb was found Tuesday morning. Staff at Gilbert Gilkes and Gordon were evacuated from the site at 11.20am when a device was found as a worker relocated machinery
