RUGBY Saturday NATIONAL LEAGUE DIVISION TWO Kendal v Sedgley Park (2pm kick-off) Merit League Kendal 2nd v Furness North Lancs/Cumbria Division One Blackpool v Kirkby Lonsdale Cumbria League Windermere v Egremont Whitehaven 2nd v Ambleside Division Two
A WEEK of traffic chaos down a narrow country lane has strengthened residents' resolve to get some kind of barrier installed. Motorists have been experiencing lengthy tailbacks on Kendal's Burton Road while workmen replace Victorian water pipes and re-lay
In just two weeks £5,000 has poured in for a campaign to equip a safe house for ten destitute street children in the Ukraine. Westmorland Gazette readers have rallied to a call for help in a £20,000 offensive to transform a village haven on the outskirts
Disgruntled supporters confronted Cumbria's School Organisation Committee this week about claims that its voting procedure which decided the fate of Lowick C of E School was "grossly abused". Ahead of the committee meeting on Monday, campaigners at the
THIS year's Appleby Horse Fair will be busy if telephone inquiries are anything to judge by. A meeting of Appleby Town Council's tourist information centre joint working party heard the centre had received 400 calls about the horse fair in January double
A NEGLECTED area of Kendal could be in for a makeover with plans to build a new footbridge over Blind Beck, in Kirkland. Recently the area was cleared to remove overgrown vegetation, rubbish and stone as part of a package of improvements for the area.
AMBLESIDE has been shocked and saddened at the deaths of two people well-known in the local community within a day of each other last week. Andrew Flitter, 57, died suddenly in Kendal's Westmorland General Hospital on Tuesday, and Jim Fuller, 76, died
A NEW community group is hoping it will be given first option to buy a Kendal property for the benefit of people in the town and beyond. Members of the Castle Street Centre Association are eagerly awaiting a decision of Cumbria County Council's cabinet
A SPONTANEOUS whip-round in a village hall raised more than £400 to launch a "fighting fund" in a bid to stop a proposed timeshare development in its tracks, writes Tourism Reporter Nadia Jefferson-Brown. Members of Grasmere Village Society staged a special
CUMBRIA Under-18 Schoolgirls have achieved what was considered impossible a few years ago by landing their first-ever Northern County Championship title. The Under-18s wrapped up the honours in fine fashion with a memorable 4-2 victory over the powerful
CHILDREN at a Cartmel school have backed a campaign to see their church roof and organ restored to their former glory. Cartmel Primary School has stumped up a sum of money to sponsor one of the 2,700 organ pipes in the historic Cartmel Priory, which need
KENDAL town councillors are looking to fill the seat formerly held by bus driver and father-of-four Pete Wilson, who died from a brain haemorrhage last December. Coun Wilson, 56, was voted on to Kendal Town Council last May, and he wished to help the
One of Britain's finest film-makers will discuss his long career in the movies at the fourth Keswick Film Festival on Sunday evening at the Theatre by the Lake. Nicolas Roeg, whose films include Don't Look Now, The Man Who Fell to Earth and Performance
TO HAVE your gigs included FREE of charge in the Gig Guide, telephone Beth Broomby on 01539-720555, or send a fax on 01539-720990, or drop a line to the Gig Guide, The Westmorland Gazette, 22 Stricklandgate, Kendal, LA9 4NE, at least TWO WEEKS before
A SHORT sharp blast from the past hit the west coast when "Three Men and Black" took an acoustic walk through the music and influences of the late 70s and 80s. Between them Jake Burns (Stiff Little Fingers), JJ Burnel (The Stranglers), Pauline Black (
IF YOU like your rock raw take a trip to the Milnthorpe Institute to taste one of a series of gigs with a bit of attitude. Live music fans have banded together to set up Raw Promotions dedicated to securing a series of rock nights at the Milnthorpe Institute
DUB music pioneers Zion Train are playing at the Brewery Arts Centre tomorrow (Saturday). Purveyors of fine Roots Reggae, the group have been on the scene for more than a decade putting out an album a year along with innumerable production credits, remixes
CALLING all babes, kittens and honeyz, its time to make some noise in the forest. As part of Grizedale Art's Grizedale Live festival this year the venue is laying on a road show complete with a battle of the bands competition at each destination. And
After working alongside two local historians, who collected personal histories from residents involved with Carnforth station during the steam rail days, Helen Burrows has created a photographic collection entitled Carnforth Oral History Project. "The
KEEPER Ian Taylor, who first stood between the posts for Cartmel at the age of 16 and is still there at 40, proved his worth again on Saturday. He saved the first three Slyne-Hest penalties in the Adam and Gaskell Senior Cup shoot-out to put his side
AMBLESIDE'S Nick Sharp became the fifth runner to win one of the Kendal Winter League races this season with a comfortable victory in the sixth event at Cautley. For good measure his wife Louise took the honours in the womens' race by beating series leader
- Start Begonia tubers into growth by putting them into trays or boxes of moist compost; water sparingly until they begin to sprout. - Cut down canes of autumn fruiting raspberries to within six inches of the ground. - As the ground becomes drier and
If you go down to the woods today that's Serpentine Woods, in Kendal you can soak up the atmosphere, history and an arboreal vision that was first planted in 1790. Formerly common grazing land, this side of Kendal Fell where the woodland was laid out
I THINK it was somewhere around the middle of the foot-and-mouth disease crisis that DEFRA was formed to take the place of the MAFF. I could not have got all that excited about it at the time or I would have recalled the date rather more precisely. But
A CELEBRATION of the life and work of Austrian composer Franz Schubert will ring out at Kendal Town Hall this coming Sunday, February 23 (6pm). In aid of the South Lakeland Support Group of the Winged Fellowship Trust (which provides breaks for disabled
WORD Market, the region's first literature festival, gets under way next week across Ulverston and Broughton with wordsmiths of all types showcasing their talents and giving a helping hand with a readers and writers' day, children's workshops, pub scripts
FARMERS will get the chance to learn about the crucial implications of Franz Fischler's mid-term CAP review proposals at a special meeting at the Castle Green Hotel in Kendal at 7.30pm on February 24 organised by the NFU. Spokeswoman Gill Shearer said
TAFFY Thomas runs The Art of Storytelling, at Tullie House, Carlisle, tomorrow (Saturday) featuring a workshop from 11am-1pm, where Taffy will share his considerable yarn-spinning skills with young people aged eight-plus and adults. Not only will he be
THE Ovid Ensemble, a young and highly acclaimed chamber music ensemble, offers a widely varied repertoire of works in which the well-known are combined with rarely heard works and new commissions. As guest of the Kendal Midday Concert Club the ensemble
INTEREST in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien has probably never been greater and that was reflected in the near full house at the opening night of The Hobbit at Blackpool's Grand Theatre. There was a large contingent of children in the audience but, despite
CONSERVATION groups have joined forces to object to a Lake District National Park planning application for fencing near Skiddaw. The application for the five-mile fence is to separate the two commons of Caldbeck and Uldale. Caldbeck commoners want to
A RECENT piano recital given in St Thomas's Church, Milnthorpe, by the director of Arnside Choral Society Glyn Hopkins, attracted a goodly-sized and appreciative audience. The recital was given to raise funds for the Arnside and Milnthorpe Music Festival
Women workers in Cumbria still lag behind their male colleagues when it comes to pay, according to new research. Men in full-time jobs earn an average of £19,020 while women are paid an average of £15,440, a survey of households and employers across the
BOBBIES on bikes are to become a familiar sight on a rural North Yorkshire beat. Officers based at Ingleton have taken delivery of a brand new mountain bike and are planning to saddle up to stamp out crime in the countryside communities that make up their
A MOBILE police office to cover rural crime "hot spots" in the Furness area is on the beat, reports Zoe Casson. As well as putting the multi-purpose vehicle on patrol, police in Dalton-in-Furness have also found money within the budget to re-open the
HELP is at hand to enable green-thinking groups to get to grips with renewable energy, reports Nadia Jefferson-Brown. A new project has been launched, offering first-hand advice on accessing funds, overcoming planning problems and how to find out what
25 Years Ago February 11, 1978 Step down A STEEP flight of steps on Carnforth's council estate is causing difficulty for mothers with children in prams. The mothers have to take their children out of the prams before negotiating the steps because they
Former high-flying advertising executive and Blind Date winner - Kiki Kendrick spent her working life wanting to be an actress. It didn't matter that she was with top agencies in London and New York, or that Bobby Kennedy Jnr was a client. The gate-maker's
Freaking out at 40 is a far from rare phenomenon - Jane Moreland used the looming watershed to set off with a rucksack to travel solo around the world. The experience changed her life. After seven months she decided there was no more thinking left to
WAITING times for cancer patients have been reduced dramatically thanks to new equipment. Local people anxious about the killer disease are receiving faster diagnoses as a result of more than £5 million spent on new scanners and other equipment over three
POLICING in Lancaster and Morecambe received a major boost this week - with the arrival of eight new Community Support Officers. They will have minor ticketing powers and will be in constant touch with officers through radios. Their main role, however
The Royal National Institute for the Blind wants you to take the 13 Mile Great North Run Challenge on Sunday 21st September 2003. Every day, over 100 more people like you will start to lose their sight. For around 9,500 people with sight problems in Cumbria
The Royal National Institute for the Blind wants you to take the 13 Mile Great North Run Challenge on Sunday 21st September 2003. Every day, over 100 more people like you will start to lose their sight. For around 9,500 people with sight problems in Cumbria
If Mint Bridge had been a golf course on Saturday, there would have been temporary greens, tees on mats and preferred lies. The vital encounter with Newbury was played in the heaviest winter conditions experienced this year, and this dictated the character
DOZENS of neighbours are protesting against plans for a pub at Kendal's luxury apartment block Sand Aire House. Fears about noise, safety, vandalism, graffiti and drugs have sparked 63 letters and two petitions from objectors "primarily" from people living
A major Sedbergh tourist attraction was this week given the go-ahead to expand but can expect to come under closer scrutiny from planners in future following complaints from nearby residents. The Farfield Mill Arts and Heritage Centre won planning permission
PLANS to expand a South Lakeland golf course have been backed by town councillors. This week Grange Town Council heard how Grange-over-Sands Golf Club had submitted plans to turn more than three hectares of land next to the course into new fairways. Coun
KENDAL Library is to close for two weeks to allow it to be re-decorated and re-carpeted. Users will be allowed to borrow more items than usual up to the February 24 closure date. No fines or late returns will accrue during this period. Renewals will be
MOTORISTS are to be banned from making dangerous turns on the A590 near to the Brettargh Holt roundabout in a £30,000 bid to cut accident rates. Local traffic regulations have been changed to make it an offence to turn right across traffic from side roads
A NEW community group is hoping it will be given first option to buy a Kendal property for the benefit of people in the town and beyond. Members of the Castle Street Centre Association are eagerly awaiting a decision of Cumbria County Council's cabinet
The imposing Lake Vyrnwy Hotel stands proud against the backdrop of the Berwyn Mountains in North Wales, reflecting the bright blue skies in the waters of the lake itself. But don't for one minute be lulled into the belief that this sylvan scene is a
THE CUMBRIA men's hockey derby between Kendal and Carlisle at Queen Katherine School on Saturday ended in a 3-1 revenge victory for the visiting team. Kendal had beaten them by the same scoreline in the North West Men's League earlier this season, but
FIREFIGHTERS from Grange-over-Sands and Kendal used cutting equipment to free a man from his car after a crash in Grange-over-Sands last Sunday. The 44-year-old man from Lockerbie was the driver of a Peugeot 206 involved in a crash with a Peugeot 306
AN OUTDOOR adventure centre has won the right to build an extension, which will enable more young people to enjoy the facilities on the shores of Coniston Water. The Lake District National Park Authority had refused planning permission for the development
CHICAGO,1929. Murder. Passion. Fame. Sex. And All That Jazz. The Windy City's promise of adventure and opportunity dazzles Roxie Hart, an outwardly innocent performer who dreams of singing and dancing her way out of her ho-hum life. Roxie's one wish is
Taxi drivers have accused a council committee of ignoring police advice and government regulations to grant permission for a three-wheeler Tuk Tuk taxi service. Members of the Windermere and Ambleside Taxi Association are angry that the vehicle, common
ONE of the greatest adventure stories ever told Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island takes on a new dimension in new animated film Treasure Planet. The story takes us on a daring and imaginative journey across a fantasy universe that combines expert
A SHARP suit and a swagger will get you a long way in this world but if you want music that sounds as good as it looks you need to check out High Society. As they take to the stage in a cloud of expensive aftershave, crisp shirts and sober ties, members
A SEVEN-PIECE worldbeat music experience with an African twist will play in Furness this coming Sunday. ZubopGambia brings together Zubop, an acclaimed group of performers influenced by a myriad of global grooves, and two Gambian musicians - Juldeh Camara
ACTIVITIES: TAKE a three-hour cruise on Windermere and relax with a lunch and entertainment by the New Hall Jazz Band. The Windermere Lake Cruise takes place tomorrow (Saturday) and departs from Bowness pier at 12.30pm. For more information and to book
FORMER Kendal Town striker Lee O'Keefe hit two goals as Dalton United got back to winning ways in the ASDA Logic West Lancashire League Premier Division. In their 5-0 home win against Springfields, at Railway Meadow, Dave Mansergh (2), Lee O'Keefe and
Valentine hearts may be everywhere, and available in every shape and form, but the season of the heart' means different things to different people. A healthy heart is worth its weight in gold but with reports saying a glass of wine a day or was that a
THE chief feature of Kendal Academy's Cumberland and Westmorland winter programme was a series of bouts between David Parsons, of Levens, and Graham Brocklebank, of Carnforth, in the Club's Ages Competitions, writes Roger Robson. Parsons usually tried
I saw from my TV guide that Alan Titchmarsh has begun another series of his programme How to be a Gardener and I began thinking about the terms that are used to describe people in the plant world. Alan Titchmarsh almost certainly includes himself in the
BURNESIDE Brass Band performs music for all tastes' in a fund-raiser for Staveley United Football Club at Staveley Village Hall on Sunday (7.30pm). February 13, 2003 11:00
CUMBRIA Farm Plastic Recycling Scheme will be holding collections from the following places in coming weeks: Penrith Auction Mart on February 20; Westmorland Agricultural Society, Lane Farm, Crooklands, near Kendal, on March 3 and 4; Ulverston Auction
KENDAL NFU is urging farmers to check draft access maps to see how their land might be affected by the "right to roam" proposals. Under new legislation the public is to be given increased access to the open countryside. For some farmers, however, the
Not a speck of dust in sight. Gleaming walls, shiny floors and staff poised like a coiled spring. Here we go again, a new season dawns at Abbot Hall Art Gallery, this time around opening with a classy and important exhibition tracing the development of
A PAIR of keen conservationists are leaving behind the South Lakeland winter and heading for the lush jungles of Sri Lanka to take part in a primate study. Kendal women Valerie Macconnell and Mary Ullrich fly out to south Asia next month to work alongside
PLANS to create a new footpath within the churchyard at St Anthony's Church, amid open countryside on Cartmel Fell, have been approved by the Lake District National Park Authority's development control committee. The Parochial Church Council plans to
CHARACTERISED as Beckett meets Bill and Ted, Horse Country is an absurd, hysterical and provocative take on late 20th Century culture from one of America's leading new writers, C.J. Hopkins. On stage at the Brewery Arts Centre next Wednesday (8pm), it
PLANS to create a new footpath within the churchyard at St Anthony's Church, amid open countryside on Cartmel Fell, have been approved by the Lake District National Park Authority's development control committee. The Parochial Church Council plans to
PLANS to create a new footpath within the churchyard at St Anthony's Church, amid open countryside on Cartmel Fell, have been approved by the Lake District National Park Authority's development control committee. The Parochial Church Council plans to
A COVEN of no less than nine horribly glamorous witches bestrode the Grasmere stage, their mission to transform every nasty child into a mouse. Roald Dahl's bizarrely imaginative tale The Witches, adapted for the stage by David Wood and directed by Hugh
Champagne might seem the obvious choice for a Valentine Day tipple. Having met Paul Simbeck-Hampson, however, I'm more inclined to suggest to my other half that we indulge in tea for two tonight. Rose petals, cactus flowers and "eight treasures" of the
CONSERVATION-KEEN children had a close encounter of the feathered kind when a birds of prey demonstration came to school. Pupils at Old Hutton Primary School were visited by feathered residents of Corio Raptor Care, High Bentham, and Nick Henderson -
Head in sand' SMALL businesses in Cumbria have a "head in the sand" attitude towards their environmental responsib-ilities, according to the Environment Agency. A survey of small and medium-sized businesses revealed many believed they had little or no
MICHAEL Proudfoot, Kendal-based partner of Lonsdale & Partners Chartered Account-ants, reviews the new state pension, in his latest article for Business Gazette. The new Second State Pension (S2P) replaced the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme
LOOKING for the ultimate love gift for Valentine's Day? Enterprising Joanne Wilson, of the Grasmere Gingerbread Shop, reckons she's got just the thing a heart-shaped Sarah Nelson original celebrated Grasmere Gingerbread the Valentine gift with aphrodisiac
PARENTS in Haverthwaite are fund-raising to open a toddlers group in the village. Mother-of-two Caroline Handy said the former parent and toddlers group in the village folded about three years. Recently the demand for such a group had increased because
What's in the shops this weekend with the emphasis, where possible, on locally produced, seasonal and speciality food. The Honeypot, Hawkshead: Saddleback Pates (Penrith) including duck liver with gin & lime, also salmon with honey & mustard -
GIANT Axe could have an international future after being revealed as the new home of rugby league in Lancaster. City's ground will play host to the newly formed Lancaster RLFC, who will play in next summer's national conference. And club chiefs say the
PATIENTS who suffer problems with their NHS treatment in Lancaster could be left with nowhere to go when the community health council closes later this year. The CHC, established in 1974, will cease operating on September 1. But its replacement a new
Patients who suffer problems with their NHS treatment in Lancaster could be left with nowhere to go when the community health council closes later this year. The CHC, established in 1974, will cease operating on September 1. But its replacement a new
