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  • Football - Invitation reply beyond Town

    KENDAL Town Reserves' hopes of securing a trophy early on in the season were dashed when Wetheriggs United, the current Westmorland League champions, beat them 2-1 in the Invitation Trophy final at Parkside on Wednesday. Kendal dominated the attacking

  • Sports line-up...

    Kirkby Lonsdale RUFC are in form and travel to Old Bedians, Manchester, a Celtic' rugby club, in the Powergen Vase (2.30pm kic-off). Kendal's home match with Cleckheaton has been postponed because Cleckheaton are still involved in the Powergen Trophy

  • Curly as a pig's tail

    Real, traditional Cumberland sausage. What a great product. But anyone can make anything anywhere and give it that name. Something should be done. Hopefully, it will be. A group of Cumbrian butchers are trying to use EU law to protect this famous

  • Fire hits Farm...

    SIXTY fire-fighters tackled one of Lancaster's biggest blazes for years on Monday as the city's controversial Fats and Proteins UK plant went up in smoke. Flames ripped through the animal rendering plant on Quernmore Road, sending acrid black smoke

  • ‘Faster Lakes trains by 2006’

    NEW trains with easier customer access and first class facilities could be running on the Lakes Line by December 2006. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Lakes Line User Group, Paul Jackson of TransPennine Express said the 185 trains were now being

  • Funds available for sustainable projects

    MONEY to fund sustainable new projects in the Yorkshire Dales National Park is still available for community groups, businesses and individuals to bid for. The money on offer is from the YDNPA's sustainable development fund which has been operating for

  • Nominations open for tourism awards

    Nominations have opened for the Cumbria Tourism Skills Awards 2005 run by Cumbria Tourist Board. Now in its third year, the event recognises outstanding individuals, teams or businesses, which have made a difference to the tourism industry in Cumbria

  • D - Day

    Today is departure day. We're off to spend the next six months travelling round the world. We say 'Round the World' as our tickets do, but in actual fact we're only going to see a pretty small corner of it. Our itinerary takes us from Heathrow to Hong