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Phone app gives hygiene ratings

A NEW mobile phone application is making it easier for people to find out how clean restaurant and takeaways are in South Lakeland.

Last updated 29 July 2010
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Vehicle donated to rescue team

A RESCUE team has taken delivery of a new emergency vehicle to help its life-saving work.

Last updated 28 July 2010
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Walkers cross bay for charity

MORE than 200 fund-raisers, aged four to 80, braved the elements to complete an eight-and-a-half-mile charity cross-bay walk in water that, at one point, came up to their chests.

Last updated 28 July 2010
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Planning powers at local level ‘welcome’

RURAL communities will be able to give themselves permission to build on land including local green belt without planning permission following a local referendum.

Last updated 27 July 2010
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Road closure is slammed

CONTROVERSIAL plans to shut a vital link between Furness and west Cumbria have been slammed by councillors.

Last updated 27 July 2010
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Top flight airshow draws thousands

AERIAL display teams left thousands of people awestruck at the 10th Windermere airshow.

Last updated 26 July 2010
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Flookburgh Steam Gathering

SMOKE filled the air as steam engine enthusiasts fired up their machines.

Last updated 26 July 2010
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Campaigners successfully oppose plans for walking and cycling trail

FARMERS and landholders have successfully opposed plans for a 10-mile walking and cycling trail that would have passed through their land. (5 comments)

Last updated 26 July 2010
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Lakeland slate marks the last resting place of Britain’s own ‘Rain man’

IT began with a television programme and ended with a Lakeland quarry owner taking part in a moving memorial service in London to remember the forgotten “Rain man of Britain” –over a century after he died.

Last updated 24 July 2010
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