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Running - Bendrigg race coming up

11:07am Saturday 30th May 2009

BENDRIGG Lodge are staging their annual 10k road race on Saturday, June 6 to coincide with the charity's summer fete.

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Superbikes - Joy for Ellison with Donington win

8:07pm Monday 25th May 2009

KENDAL'S own British Superbikes star James Ellison was jubilant after securing his first-ever BSB in Bank Holiday Monday's racing at Donington.

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Cricket - Walmsley's derby dash seals easy win

6:00pm Monday 25th May 2009

A QUICKFIRE unbeaten half-century from Craig Walmsley helped Netherfield put Kendal to the sword in an eight-wicket victory in the Furness BS Northern League derby match at Parkside Road on Monday.

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Racing - American touch fancied at Cartmel

10:05am Monday 25th May 2009

IT'S a sunny outlook for Cartmel's Bank Holiday Monday meeting and a Venetia Williams' runner is always to be respected so look to American Art in the 3.00pm race to put us in the picture.

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Superbikes - Ellison third in Superbikes qualifying

10:40am Monday 25th May 2009

KENDAL'S James Ellison ran third best for the Airwaves Yamaha team in qualifying ahead of Bank Holiday Monday's ViSK British Superbike Championship meeting at Donington.

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Cricket - Parry leads Netherfield run harvest

10:00am Sunday 24th May 2009

NETRHERFIELD finished on top in a winning draw at Darwen in the Furness Building Society Northern League on Saturday with porofessional Glen Batticciotto make good contributions.

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Racing - Gersh win fancied at Cartmel

4:04pm Saturday 23rd May 2009

CARTMEL'S evening meet gets under way at 5.50pm and Donald McCain's GERSHWINNER represents an improving chaser who could be up to overcoming top weight in the Burlington Slate Handicap Chase, writes Flared Nostril.

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Racing - Top jockey at Cartmel

8:40am Saturday 23rd May 2009

TOP jockey Denis O’Regan, who took the Cheltenham Festival by storm in 2008, breaks new ground tomorrow (Saturday) when he has his first ever rides at Cartmel.

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Football - Thommo joins Wembley trail....

9:55am Saturday 23rd May 2009

KENDAL-born Garry Thompson is off to Wembley yet again as part of Scunthorpe United's party for the televised League One play-off final against Millwall on Sunday.

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Rallying - Wilson in top ten in Rally d'Italia

11:41am Saturday 23rd May 2009

STOBART VK M-Sport Ford drivers Henning Solberg and Cumbrian Matthew Wilson are lying in eighth and ninth place midway through day two of Rally d’Italia Sardenga after a difficult morning on the rough roads to the south-west of Service Park in Olbia.

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Racing - Carlisle flat programme starts Monday

12:59pm Saturday 23rd May 2009

THE starting stalls are about to fly open at Carlisle Racecourse for the first time in 2009.

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Cycling - Winds blow times off course

8:40am Friday 22nd May 2009

STRONG winds and unseasonally chilly conditions were the real winners in the first open 50 miles time trial of the season on the A66 beside Bassenthwaite Lake last weekend.

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One run for 'Bluebird' on Coniston

8:20am Thursday 21st May 2009

Donald Campbell’s iconic Bluebird K7 British water speed record craft looks likely to speed down Coniston Water again – if only for a “one-off” Lake District proving trial.

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Rugby - Cumbria head for Leics

8:30am Tuesday 19th May 2009

CUMBRIA travel to Leicestershire on Saturday in the InterCounty Shield competition, hoping for a win at Vipers RFC to wrap up a season that has contained plenty of positives despite two defeats.

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Running- Rebecca flies at Manchester

12:06pm Monday 18th May 2009

IT WAS a great weekend for running in South Lakeland as Kendal AC's Rebecca Robinson was the first British woman to finish in the prestigous Great Manchester Run over 10k.

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Cricket - Duckworth/Lewis defeat for Cumberland

5:09pm Monday 18th May 2009

CUMBERLAND struck out again in the MCCA Trophy at Bedford School when Bedfordshire beat them under the Duckworth/Lewis system in a reduced overs match because of the rain.

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Cricket - Netherfield hit Knockout depression

12:20pm Monday 18th May 2009

NETHERFIELD had to endure an unsatisfactory end to their rain-hit ECB National Clubs' Knockout match against Preston at Parkside Road on Sunday.

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Rugby - Cumbria bow knee to Cheshire

12:42pm Monday 18th May 2009

CUMBRIA could not stop Cheshire setting themselves up for a 'winner-takes-all' finale in the Northern group of the County Championship Shield in a 34-18 at Aspatria.

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Orienteering - Stickle success for Lakeland juniors

12:43pm Saturday 16th May 2009

THERE were local winners at Stickle Pike, near Broughton-in-Furness, in Lakeland OC’s Cumbrian Galoppen series event. Over 200 competitors took part in a range of colour-coded courses catering for different technical abilities on the complex craggy and hilly terrain.

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Running - 1,000th entry in for Windermere marathon

10:41am Saturday 16th May 2009

TOM Southward, a member of the Glaxo Hoad Hill Harriers, the running club based in Ulverston, is the 1000th entrant in Sunday's Brathay Windermere Marathon.

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Rugby - Coxon bows out on winning note

6:02pm Saturday 16th May 2009

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Running - Open Day at Brathay Hall

2:13pm Saturday 16th May 2009

IT'S Open Day at Brathay Hall Trust's HQ on Sunday, the hub of the Brathay Windermere Marathon and the Ten Marathons in Ten Days Challenge.

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Cricket - Kendal Second riding high in Northern League

10:49am Saturday 16th May 2009

KENDAL Seconds kept their place as Second Division leaders in the FBS Northern Premier League with two-wicket win over Fleetwood on Saturday.

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Hillclimb - Barbon speed merchants make a splash

10:52am Saturday 16th May 2009

IT WAS dry for the practice runs at Saturday’s Barbon Hillclimb, but just as the class runs in the afternoon began the heavens opened and forced the action to be suspended to allow the excess rainwater to run off.

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Hayton's View - More Ba-Bas than Bees

12:34pm Saturday 16th May 2009

KENDAL’S Director of Rugby Chris Hayton offers his weekly view:.

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Motor Sport - Aaron is a rallying whizz-kid

2:23pm Saturday 16th May 2009

WHILE most 14-year-olds are playing football and computer games, Aaron McClure has been getting behind the wheel of a Formula 1000 specification Nissan Micra rally car.

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Cycling -Ten years on - a new Fred Whitton record

12:10pm Saturday 16th May 2009

THE Biketreks Fred Whitton Challenge is classed at Britain’s toughest sportive cycling event - “the Daddy of them all, according to Cycling Weekly.

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Cricket - Test star at Netherfield today

10:25am Thursday 14th May 2009

FORMER England Test star Mike Gatting is at Netherfield Cricket Club today (Thursday) to mark the club's successful grant application to the England and Wales Cricket Board, which is the 1,000th to go through.

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