If you're not content curling up in front of the fire this Christmas, there are scores of tempting offers to have you packing your suitcase for a cracking surprise. Holiday Place, one of the UK's top independent tour operators, is underpinning local
SAMMY McIlroy and Mark Lillis have telephones fixed to their ears at the moment as they search for a goalkeeper in time for Saturday's Conference clash with York City. The Morecambe caretaker manager and assistant have been rocked by the ankle injury
PHIL Wilson has laughed off reports that he is about to sign Clint Marcelle to solve his striking crisis. Website rumours suggested that Lancaster City's manager was set to snap-up the 37-year-old former Trinidad and Tobago international. Marcelle played
MARIANNE Birkby is among a select few wildlife artists whose images have the ability to take your breath away. Geoff Taylor and Phillip Allder also spring to mind as having that wonderful gift of capturing nature at its best. In Marianne's latest show
November 23 Concert: Cumbria Opera - Operatic Gala Concert including Pagliacci, L'Elisir d'Amour, Yeomen of the Guard, Penrith Methodist Church, 7.30pm. Members' supper night for Appleby Gardeners' Society, Supper Room, Appleby Public Hall, 7pm.
In the mid late Eighties Rick Astley was a multi-million selling boy wonder who was tipped by the man who discovered him, producer Pete Waterman, as being Britain's answer to Frank Sinatra. Astley had the boy next-door good looks but what really defined
THE KICKABOUT sessions organised and launched in October by Eden District Council, along with a number of partners, is proving to be a great success at Kirkby Stephen. For two hours (6pm to 8pm) every Friday, the astroturf pitch at KSGS Sports College
LEARNER of the Year 2005 at Fellside Community Development Centre Mavis Head signed up for her first course because she wanted to learn about computers to help her grandson after seeing a learndirect display at the Cumberland Show in 2003, reports Karen
AN APPLEBY education centre could soon receive a £500,000 boost to help renovate the building and extend its training facilities for young people in the Eden Valley. Appleby Training and Heritage Centre, which provides a range of vocational courses for
A CUMBRIAN charity appeal aimed at building a children's hospice in the county has past the quarter million pound mark less than five months after its launch. The Jigsaw appeal plans to raise £1 million to build a four-bed hospice in Carlisle for Cumbrian
RESIDENTS who suffered from the devastating January storms in Appleby and Kirkby Stephen should brace themselves for an increase in flooding due to global warming. Following the worst flooding for more than 30 years a report from the Environment Agency
A DELEGATIION of nine tourism professionals have been testing their legs and lungs in the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Beauty, The members of the group were all part of a Walking Tourism Network' spanning County Leitrim and North Roscommon in the
KIRKBY Stephen's Paul Brittleton won Saturday's seven-mile Kirkbymoor Fell Race by the narrowest of margins. He beat Cheshire's Colin Fray by just one second in the downhill road sprint to the finish outside the village hall in Kirkby-in-Furness. They
BELLA Vista's aura of invincibility was shattered last week on a night when the Kirkby Stephen 7-a-side football league really opened up. Carnt Say, last year's league runners-up beat the current champions 2-0 in a close encounter to give all the other
FOOTBALL: Iced-up pitches caused wholesale abandonment of the weekend's soccer fixtures in both Westmorland FA Cup ties and the Westmorland League. Among the casualties were Appleby's second round Benevolent Cup match at Tebay-based Lunesdale United
MEMBERS of the UK Independence Party took part in a protest outside a meeting of the North West Regional Assembly in Wigan on Friday. For those who are unaware, this is an unelected bureaucratic body which is financed to the tune of £2,500,000 by our
FURTHER to the letter from S H Singleton about waste removal, I would like to add my own experience concerning the removal of large items. One Monday I arranged for the removal of an old fridge/freezer. I was told it would take up to 28 days and it must
IS IT right that soldiers that from the Border Regiment, many from Lanc-aster area, should be risking their lives for a war launched by Blair and Bush on our behalf? I think not. But more significantly, nor do the majority of British people, according
D.LAYCOCK of Heysham wrote in the Citizen that the Lancaster Pride week has no relevance' to her. She misses the point. As a council tax payer, there are also many things that I pay for that are of no benefit or relevance to me but I do not begrudge
IF MISS Walker, writing in the Citizen last week, thinks that I am bizarre and the aqua park will be free, she should really make an attempt to sharpen up her information skills. I quote Cllr Ron Sands' report to the Cabinet of June 21 this year: "As
I BELIEVE we should relocate the Maritime Museum from Lancaster's quayside to the Morecambe Town Hall site. By doing this we would take it to the seaside, where it belongs and where it suits the environment. We could also hold the Maritime Festival in
CITIZEN Smith bemoans the state of Post Offfice deliveries. He should remain silent a little to reflect on the following idio-syncratic deliveries my own household has received: a letter delivered to the right house number but on an adjacent road.
HAVING sat on a number of licensing panels in the past few months I think the new licensing laws are seriously flawed. They raise local residents' expectations that they could have a say in the details of a pub or club licence but in reality the leeway
I WENT to Morecambe Town Hall to listen to the Cabinet discuss and decide on the question of selling off Morecambe Town Hall and building a new one. I didn't realize I would be watching a farce'. It was led by chief executive Mark Cullinan, regeneration
AS THE matter of a new town hall now moves to consideration by full council and public consultation, let us be clear about its real and abiding consequences. Cabinet voted to approve the proposal without addressing the essential issue of its impact on
I CAN appreciate that some people are concerned about the possible selling of Morecambe Town Hall. However, for me, there are great benefits in the council's proposed new scheme. The most obvious one for Morecambe is that it would have a purpose-built
CLLR Robinson is wrong to say that a vast majority' of people who attended the public meeting on the merits of a new town council for Morecambe were from the Poulton Residents' Association (Citizen Letters, last week). The names and addresses supplied
RESIDENTS across South Lakeland are being called on to have their say on how convicted offenders pay back the community for their crimes, reports Luke Dicicco. Under the Home Office's Community Payback scheme launched today (Wednesday), local people
I CANNOT think of a better symbol of Lancaster City Council's commitment to Morecambe than to move its headquarters there. Think of it, Lancaster City Council in the New Morecambe Town Hall. Doesn't that say something positive about the unity of the
PHIL Wilson is ready to rack-up a big phone bill as he tries to solve his striking crisis ahead of Saturday's FA Trophy showdown with Workington at Giant Axe. Lancaster City's increasingly frustrated boss needs attacking options with young Alex Taylor
LANCASTER Bombers have signalled their intent ahead of the 2006 Surridge Northern Cricket League season by snap-ping up Andy Flintoff's brother. Chris Flintoff has signed in at Lune Road after performing magnificently in the Palace Shield for Penwortham
JOHN McGuinness claimed his fifth successive podium at Saturday's Macau Grand Prix although the Morecambe rider had to once again settle for second behind Michael Rutter. Having claimed the title back in 2001, hopes were high going into the race but
A RADICAL step which would see the Lake District National Park Authority working to develop the region's tourism industry for the first time has been criticised for not going far enough. Members of the authority voted to accept a 35-page report called
LOCAL darter Mick Connerton kept his eye on the bull to become the Pontin's Darts Champion 2005. The 36-year-old, of Edenvale Crescent, Lancaster, triumphed over 35 other contestants who had returned to the finals after winning heats in the competition
FIRST-aiders at two hotels have been given heart defibrillators and trained to use them. Hotel chain English Lakes Hotels has invested in the equipment at the Low Wood Leisure Club at the Low Wood Hotel, Windermere, and the Sandpiper Leisure Club at
ULVERSTON announced its arrival on the fashion scene with its first sell-out catwalk show. The Ulverston Fashion Festival is a regular on the town's events calendar but for the first time ever its Coronation Hall show was completely full with 530 tickets
A LANCASTER man is considering visiting every home in the city with a petition to keep Lancaster's Town Hall. Jim Capstick, a member of one of the area's oldest families, says the central administration building of the area must not be moved. He
CONCERNED Lancaster people plan to be taken seriously as stakeholders' in the future of the city. They want a say in all major projects which change the face of the area. And they will kick off the new It's Our City' campaign with a public meeting tonight
THE biggest test of new licensing laws happens this weekend - when the booze can flow 24 hours a day. Controversial reforms of the Licensing Act see a major change from tomorrow. And that means a busy weekend for Lancaster licensing bosses. "We will
BLIND people all over Lancashire are being kept in touch with local news - thanks to the Lancaster and Morecambe Citizen. We have won a £6,650 grant from the Gannett Foundation for the Galloway's Society for the Blind. The massive cash boost will ensure
THREE local councils have joined forces in a bid to encourage people living in the Bay area to do their bit for recycling. Recycling is high on the agenda for Lancaster City Council, South Lakeland District Council and Barrow Borough Council but this
A DERELICT and contaminated Lancaster eyesore is to be transformed into an 'urban village' as part of a multi-million pound revamp. The Luneside East site on the banks of the River Lune is largely derelict. But the reclamation and redevelopment of
UNWANTED mobile phones are about to earn a fortune for a Lancaster company - but it won't be keeping a single penny. ShP Solutions is preparing for the rush of old phones from Blue Peter viewers. And it will turn them into cash for the national charity
A CONTROVERSIAL skate park in Carnforth has moved another step closer. Lancaster City Council's Cabinter has jumped to support the plan in partnership with the Carnforth Area Regeneration Partnership (CARP) and the local Town Council. They want to
POLICE in Morecambe are asking residents to look out for two bogus rubbish collectors who they believe are responsible for a large amount of fly-tipping. Community Support Officer Cliff Riley says bobbies are keen to hear from anyone who may have information
It is obvious to most visitors to Kendal where the town's castle sits, so dominant is its position on a hill near the River Kent. Not so obvious is that there was another castle in Kendal which predated the current one. This original Kendal Castle
Morecambe 0 Bradford City 1 A GOAL in the fourth minute of stoppage time was enough to prevent Morecambe from claiming a second Football League scalp of the season and end their interest in the LDV Vans Trophy. It was rough justice on the Shrimps
