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  • Internet group raises funds for local charity

    An online chat group has begun meeting all over the UK to raise funds for charity. And they are coming to town. The AOL chat group, Life Begins At Forty, have started holding meetings around the UK to get to know their cyber friends in person, and at

  • The County Show must go on

    Thursday's Westmorland County Show will definitely go ahead according to Society Chairman John Geldard. Mr. Geldard told the Gazette: "The Show is definitely going ahead. We accept that in one way or another the fuel crisis is going to affect us. But,

  • Cartmel surge up the table

    CARTMEL showed that they will again figure prominently in the North Lancs League Premiership battle with a 3-1 trouncing of early pacesetters Storeys. Storeys took the lead on ten minutes when an intended cross by Guy Green deceived Taylor and went in

  • Secrets of the school lunch box revealed

    Is your child a politically-correct picky eater or a lunch-box faster? The answer, it seems, is in the contents of those brightly-coloured sandwich boxes that increasing numbers of children take to class instead of having school dinners. A new survey

  • Are the chips down for healthy school meals?

    The government recently fulfilled every school pupil's dream when it renged on its pledge finally to banish chips from school dinner menus. Britain is a nation with a long and proud history of school meals. After all, free meals for schoolchildren were

  • Petrol crisis results in station closures

    GARAGES in South Lakeland started to close for petrol sales today (Tuesday) as the fuel crisis deepened and pumps ran dry. By yesterday morning, ASDA in Kendal was just one of many garages to have run out of fuel and shut. Others were open only for lead

  • Secrets of the school lunch box revealed

    Is your child a politically-correct picky eater or a lunch-box faster? The answer, it seems, is in the contents of those brightly-coloured sandwich boxes that increasing numbers of children take to class instead of having school dinners. A new survey

  • Petrol crisis results in station closures

    GARAGES in South Lakeland started to close for petrol sales today (Tuesday) as the fuel crisis deepened and pumps ran dry. By yesterday morning, ASDA in Kendal was just one of many garages to have run out of fuel and shut. Others were open only for lead

  • Agony Aunt on Schoolsnet offers back to school advice

    If the prospect of changing jobs, moving home, losing your friends or being parted from those you love fills you with dread, then think how your children feel when changes happen in their lives. All too often we mistakenly think that our children will

  • Indoor bowls starts

    THE INDOOR bowling season starts on new mats at the Coronation Hall in Ulverston with the Charter Open Doubles this Saturday. As usual there will be a friendly atmosphere mixed with fierce competition, say the organisers. Two new mats will be in use bought

  • Clean sweep bid fails

    THE ATTEMPT by Netherfield Cricket Club to make it a clean sweep of trophies this season came unstuck in the very last over of the season due to be bowled. Netherfield, new champions of the Bay Northern League and with the Lancashire Cup and the league's