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Boxing Day hunt attracts crowds to Tewitfield, Carnforth

12:52pm Wednesday 26th December 2012

MORE than 300 people chose a traditional festive event over the lure of the Boxing Day sales as they supported the Vale of Lune hunt at Tewitfield.

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Boxing Day sales under way across the region

10:25am Wednesday 26th December 2012

BOXING Day sales have got off to a slow start with only a handful of early shoppers keen to grab a post-Christmas bargain.

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New-look Peter Rabbit makes Christmas Day debut on BBC1

7:10am Tuesday 25th December 2012

THE Lake District’s best-known children’s characters have undergone a 21st Century makeover – more than a century after Beatrix Potter unveiled them to the public.

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Shoedunnit? Can you help solve the bizarre trainers-in-the-tree riddle on Cumbrian roadside?

11:22am Wednesday 19th December 2012

CHRISTMAS trees usually capture people’s imagination at this time of year but this bizarre sight on a Cumbrian roadside is causing quite a stir of its own.

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From a £310-a-year rent to a £16 million turnover. Why a Lake District hotel group is celebrating 60 years at the top this Christmas

12:41pm Wednesday 19th December 2012

A MAJOR Lake District employer will be toasting 60 years of service this Christmas.

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Thought you were busy in the countdown to Christmas? Inside the Kendal Delivery Office of the Royal Mail

11:04am Wednesday 19th December 2012

IF you thought where you work was busy at Christmas, spare a thought for postmen and women. In Kendal, all leave has been cancelled for the last three weeks, its staff will deliver four times the amount it usually does and it is not uncommon for 5am starts.