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Letter: Roundabout needed at new auction mart

1:38pm Thursday 13th December 2012

The ‘disarray’ (Gazette, December 6, ‘New auction mart hits crisis’) concerning the protracted delays in opening the auction mart near Junction 36 of the M6 at Preston Patrick is distressing to stock farmers.

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Letter: Amazing community spirit after hospice flood

5:33pm Thursday 6th December 2012

On behalf of the Board of Trustees and all the team at St Mary’s Hospice at Ulverston, I would like to thank our wonderful local community for their help and support during our recent flood.

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Letter: Wind is not the solution

2:12pm Thursday 29th November 2012

Dr Searle-Chatterjee raises the spectre of global warming (Leters, November 8, ‘Warming is a threat to us all’). She re-quotes scares that have been debunked on many occasions. She even mentions the supposed scientific consensus that is opposed by many thousands of other scientists.

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Letter: Town out of step with the rest of the country

5:01pm Thursday 22nd November 2012

Some of my earliest memories are of being at the Cenotaph in Kendal Market Place with my family, many of who had been in the Armed Forces in both the World Wars and in later conflicts.

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Letter: Plea for help by Talking Newspaper Association

5:15pm Thursday 15th November 2012

The South Lakes Talking Newspaper has been an active and much-used charity for almost 40 years, serving blind and partially sighted people in our area and beyond.

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Letter: Kendal must not become a ghost town

2:00pm Thursday 8th November 2012

Kendal must not become a ghost town In 1997 Kendal was voted top of the list of the most attractive towns in the United Kingdom, placing Stratford-Upon-Avon, Chester, York into second, third and fourth positions respectively.

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Letter: Footpaths can reduce levels of town traffic

5:10pm Thursday 1st November 2012

The reaction to the enhancement work on Highgate at Kendal over the last few weeks has been, unsurprisingly, hostile.

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Letter: Nuclear waste is the biggest issue facing Cumbria

10:09am Thursday 25th October 2012

Regarding the proposed high level nuclear waste repository for Cumbria/the Lake District I am concerned that too many people appear to be unaware about what is really happening or are, at best, very trusting.

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Letter: Up in arms over parking

1:29pm Thursday 18th October 2012

Council tax payers are rightly up in arms as a result of the decision of the council to install 66 pay and display machines in council car parks at a cost of £340,000, more than £5,100 each.

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Letter: Parking tickets should be transferable

4:40pm Thursday 4th October 2012

Tickets should be transferable Recently my niece from the South came for a visit and as she is not a keen walker and five months pregnant we became tourists.

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Letter: Why is Westmorland Show held on a Wednesday?

1:58pm Thursday 27th September 2012

I noticed a sign for the Westmorland County Show proclaiming it to be a ‘family show’ and it caused me to wonder how this could be so.

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Letter: Families face higher costs

3:38pm Thursday 20th September 2012

Families face higher costs I have real misgivings regarding Cumbria County Council's current policy of providing one return journey each school day and the lack of information provided before the start of the new school term.

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Letter: Will council start charging for each person in the car?

1:28pm Thursday 13th September 2012

On one of my not so frequent trips into Kendal with my car, I see that South Lakeland District Council has now put yet another obstacle to discourage visitors to the town.

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Letter: ‘Uni’ plans are concerning

4:27pm Thursday 30th August 2012

I write as Chair of the Greenbank and Castlefield Residents’ Association at Ambelside.

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Letter: Crayfish may well be alive

4:26pm Thursday 30th August 2012

In response to the report (Gazette, August 2, ‘Windfarm ‘a threat’ to protected species) and subsequent letter

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Letter: Monkey tree must be saved

4:25pm Thursday 30th August 2012

The fine Monkey Puzzle tree at the Brockhole Visitor Centre, near Windermere

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Bank holiday weekend wine recommendations

4:00pm Thursday 23rd August 2012

A DOUBLE header wine extravaganza for you as the last Bank Holiday of the year beckons, starting with the Waimen sauvignon blanc situated on the southern tip of New Zealand, blessed with long hours of sunshine for more intense flavours.

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Letter: Future of rail service is in the balance

3:58pm Thursday 23rd August 2012

The loss of the West Coast Main Line rail franchise by Virgin Trains to First Group may be a blessing in disguise for South Lakeland rail users, depending on your point of view.

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Letter: Access fears as university makes return

4:20pm Thursday 16th August 2012

So the University of Cumbria is to return to Ambleside after having taken a quite dreadful decision to move out.

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Letter: Plans would hit the elderly

4:52pm Thursday 9th August 2012

Plans would hit the elderly Cumbria and Lancashire Vascular Review Group has decided there should be three vascular intervention centres across Cumbria and Lancashire, one in Carlisle with the other two centres 90 miles south in Preston and Blackburn (Gazette, July 26).

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