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  • SPORTS: Cricket - Date set for Lancs Cup showdown

    NETHERFIELD Cricket Club have arranged to play Ormskirk in the semi-finals of the Thwaites Lancashire Cup on Sunday week, August 12. The Parkside Road club will be hoping for a repeat result of last year's final when these teams met at Old Trafford and

  • FEATURES: Sharks spotted in Morecambe Bay

    FOUR basking sharks have been spotted in Morecambe Bay as the latest sightings to form part of this summer's major marine study. The Solway Shark Watch aims to assess the status of basking sharks and 22 other marine species throughout the North East Irish

  • Public give input on care

    MORE than twenty members of the public made comments on the care they had received at hospitals in the area as part of an intensive assessment of the Morecambe Bay Hospitals Trust. The Commission for Health Improvement - set up in 1999 to help monitor

  • NEWS: Dirty drivers targeted

    Drivers are being encouraged to ditch their dirty habits of throwing rubbish out of car windows onto the motorways. With summer bringing large inflows of tourists to Cumbria, a mission to reduce the widespread problem of litter on motorways and trunk

  • Environmental fun for kids

    YOUNG people in Eden are enjoying ecological and artistic fun in the summer holidays thanks to Eden Community Outdoors. The future of the summer holiday scheme, which is in its fourth year, was in doubt after sites which were to be used became out-of-bounds

  • Solutions sought for train delays

    A cooling system accidentally placed next to a heater has held up train services for people living in north Lancashire. Rail company First North Western trains have apologised for the design fault, which led to a series of complaints from residents in