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  • PrizeTime: Choral Chillout CD

    Choral Chillout is a double CD collection featuring more than two hours of some of the most beautiful vocal music ever composed. The perfect accompaniment to the longer, lighter days of Spring, this new release from BBC Music rises above other chillout

  • Hear Blunkett speak

    A KENDAL church is looking forward to a capacity congregation as Home Secretary David Blunkett takes the floor to deliver his vision for a 'just, tolerant and safe society'. The Saturday (April 20) gathering at St George's Church has been organised by

  • What's online

    Market towns have long been at the heart of traditional rural life in Cumbria, although in recent years many have experienced decay and decline with employment and services being whittled away. In an attempt to breathe new life and purpose to these towns

  • Antiques road show in Ulverston

    AN antiques roadshow style event due to be held at Ulverston's Coronation Hall on May 4 has had to be postponed. Bonhams auctioneers are instead sending a team of valuation experts down on September 11 to hold an antiques valuation event for the Barrow

  • Safe window design

    Kendal Civic Society has asked planners to give shopkeepers guidance on good design for shutters to protect their windows from vandals. Speaking at the society's annual meeting, president Peter Crewdson said he believed traders in Kendal's main street

  • Police crackdown on speeders

    TRAFFIC police have pulled up hundreds of drivers during a major safety crackdown on the busy A590 road to Barrow, reports Rachel Kitchen. The motorists were stopped during a high visibility police road safety campaign along the road, targeting the highest

  • Tickets for Games

    SCHOOLCHILDREN across Cumbria could win a share of 800 free tickets to the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester. United Utilities has asked pupils to demonstrate what the athletics showcase means to them in the form of either music, dance, art, design