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           <title>Quiet revolution is positive for the community</title>
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  A QUIET revolution has been taking place in the market town of Kirkby Lonsdale - and it’s all down to a community determined to help itself for the benefit of all its members.
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           <title>Comment: Community spirit is alive and well</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  IF EVER proof was needed that Cumbria has an abundance of public spirited people, a number of stories in this week’s Gazette provide it.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 16:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Comment: South Cumbria is in danger of missing out on crucial transport links</title>
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  The next two decades will see some of the most extensive investment in Britain’s railways in modern times -from the glamour of the High Speed Line between London and Birmingham, and eventually,
  Manchester (HS2, as it’s known in “industry speak”), to the Northern Hub development around Manchester.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 12:23:04 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Comment: Runner's death will raise questions about extreme sports</title>
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  THE tragic death this week of 63-year-old Brian Belfield, who was competing in the gruelling Buttermere Sailbeck Mountain Race, is bound to raise questions about the nature of extreme adventure
  sports in the Lake District.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 14:29:16 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Comment: People are increasingly prepared to fight for a better quality of life</title>
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  It can be very tempting to adopt the Homer Simpson principle "trying is the first step to failure", especially when times are tough. At the heart of this resignation is a feeling that there is a
  yawning gap between what people want and value and the decisions made by those in power at a local, as well as a national level.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 14:33:57 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>There's more to the Lake District than its 'chocolate box' image</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  I’m very lucky to have the job I have and to be able to live where I do. Like many of my generation, the fells and crags became both my escape and my inspiration.
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           <title>Plan could create iconic building</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  Plans to build a world class convention and exhibition centre right on the lakeshore between Windermere and Ambleside are bound to stimulate huge local debate.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>New tax will hurt holiday home owners</title>
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  Since the Budget, much has been made in the media of the proposed ‘pasty tax’ and ‘granny tax’ while another tax seems to have slipped unnoticed through the net.
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           <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:27:31 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Green transport plans have merit</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  TOURISM businesses, green campaigners and many members of the public will welcome the ambitious investment of £6.9 million in environmentally friendly transport alternatives for the Lake District.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Two amazing Easter stories</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  DESPITE the poor weather, tens of thousands of visitors flocked as usual to the Lake District and surrounding areas over the Easter break.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>South Lakeland's worrying undercurrent of poverty</title>
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  SOUTH Lakeland is often touted as one of the most desirable and affluent places to live in the UK.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:32:42 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>South Lakeland needs more houses</title>
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  South Lakeland is short of housing, especially affordable housing.
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           <title>Comment: Twitter is a great thing - just don't overdo it!</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  Wait a minute I’ve totally got to tweet this...” For those of you who have yet to stumble upon Twitter, tweets and twitpics let me just ask...where have you been hiding?
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           <pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:21:48 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Comment: Green shoots of recovery are visible in Lakeland</title>
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  THE Government has been criticised for focusing too much on deficit reduction and too little on job creation, which most would agree is the way to finally haul us out of the economic downturn. But
  here in Cumbria there are encouraging signs that the longed-for ‘green shoots’ of growth could already be germinating.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:19:08 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Staveley . . . the new Las Vegas?</title>
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  SEAN CAFFERTY, managing director of Atlantis Kitchens at Kendal, says people must make better sue of the area’s great public transport links.
  


  Is Staveley the new Las Vegas? I think it is!
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           <pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
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           <title>Celebrate the Olympics in honour of Kendal's Councillor Jameson</title>
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  There are now just 127 days to go before the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games and it is finally beginning to seem real to people who live outside London.
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           <title>Local people want health services provided locally</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  There were some encouraging signs this week that problems at the troubled University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust are being tackled.
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           <title>Give go-ahead to radiotherapy treatment centre at Kendal</title>
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  Anyone in Kendal town centre on Saturday lunchtime will have witnessed a truly amazing and inspiring sight. More than 2,000 people marched through the town to call for a radiotherapy cancer
  treatment centre to be created at Westmorland General Hospital.
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           <title>Park authority should be ready to talk to geese cull opponents</title>
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  THE Lake District is becoming the focus of high-profile nationwide attention - much of it outrage - in the wake of plans to cull 200 Canada geese on Windermere.
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           <title>Talking should be first priority</title>
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  South Lakeland District Council has made the right decision to lift the immediate threat of legal action against any Kendal traders failing to comply with its A-board regulations.
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