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UIverston girl designs high street firm's logo

3:34pm Monday 15th March 2010

NOT many 16-year-olds get the opportunity to design a brand for a new company and see the results of their work so quickly on the high street.

Chernobyl aftermath still hitting Cumbria farmers

12:51pm Monday 15th March 2010

FARMERS who are still having their livestock tested for radiation poisoning 24 years after the Chernobyl disaster are still getting the same compensation they received when contamination first hit the Cumbrian fells.

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County's dentists in oral health pilot scheme

9:59am Monday 15th March 2010

CUMBRIA is to be at the cutting-edge of national improvements to NHS dentistry.

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Milnthorpe man dies on Andorra skiing trip

10:32pm Sunday 14th March 2010

A MILNTHORPE man has died while on a skiing trip in Andorra.

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Window damaged in Kendal

10:16pm Sunday 14th March 2010

POLICE are appealing for witnesses to an act of criminal damage which saw £150 damage caused to the window of Dixon's Printers, in Burneside Road, Kendal, some time between March 11 and 12.

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Star rating for SLDC website

4:40pm Sunday 14th March 2010

SOUTH Lakeland District Council’s website has been given a rating of three stars out of four by IT experts.

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Lottery boost for counselling service

1:40pm Sunday 14th March 2010

RELATE Lancashire and Cumbria, which offers a counselling service to help victims of domestic violence and abuse in the two counties, has been boosted by £192,328 from the Big Lottery Fund.

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More help at hand for flood-hit farmers

10:10am Sunday 14th March 2010

EXTRA support is being given to help Cumbrian farmers hit by last year’s flooding.

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Charity walk hopes to be fishermen's friend

9:30am Sunday 14th March 2010

A CHARITY walk is to take place on the sands of Morecambe Bay to help raise money for the families of shipwrecked fishermen.

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Man charged with murder following stabbing of Ingleton woman

8:10pm Saturday 13th March 2010

A MAN has been charged with murder following the fatal stabbing of an Ingleton woman in Halton yesterday morning.

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Cumbrian World Heritage Site lit by beacons

7:59pm Saturday 13th March 2010

ONE of the UK's most famous sites has been lit up tonight in a spectacular launch of British Tourism Week.

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Turbine delivered to South Lakes green hydro project

4:40pm Saturday 13th March 2010

A HYDROELECTRIC turbine has been delivered to a South Lakeland green energy project.

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Big Freeze flashmob strikes Kendal

1:36pm Saturday 13th March 2010

TIME stood still for people in Kendal town centre today as Market Place witnessed a stationary ‘flashmob’.

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Halton stabbing victim from Ingleton

12:18pm Saturday 13th March 2010

POLICE have confirmed that the female victim of a fatal stabbing incident near Lancaster yesterday was from Ingleton.

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Kendal shop window smashed in roadworks collision

11:15am Saturday 13th March 2010

A KENDAL shop window has been smashed after a car collided with roadworks.

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Kendal to be 'flashmobbed' today

9:55am Saturday 13th March 2010

KENDAL town centre is to be ‘flashmobbed’ today.

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Police seek 'large' woman following Kendal theft

9:40am Saturday 13th March 2010

POLICE are looking to speak to a ‘large’ woman in relation to a theft in Kendal.

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Man arrested on suspicion of murder in Lancaster

12:49pm Friday 12th March 2010

DETECTIVES have launched a murder investigation after a woman was attacked in Lancaster this morning.

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Major works to start on Lake District adventure playground

5:37pm Friday 12th March 2010

A MAJOR redevelopment of an adventure playground used by 60,000 visitors a year starts tomorrow.

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