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‘Take Monday Off’ Successful City Music Festival creates its own unofficial Bank Holiday Responding to the record breaking attendance figures of the 2013 Lancaster Music Festival this year’s festival is promoting its own special “Unofficial Bank Holiday” with the mantra “Take Monday Off” to accommodate the nearly 200 acts covering numerous genres performing at over 40 city centre and University venues on the long weekend of Oct. 9-13th, 2014.

Lancaster Music Festival has decided to create their own unofficial Bank Holiday. When asked for the thinking behind this idea, festival coordinator Ben Ruth responded ‘people kept asking us why we didn’t put the music festival on a Bank Holiday weekend so we could fit more shows in.

Well, last year we warned all those involved in the festival production to take Monday off anyway only to realise a lot of festival goers did the same.

That led to the realisation that we could create our own long weekend in Lancaster simply by announcing it. So that’s what we’re doing. Only we’ve thrown in Thursday as well.’

Almost all of the shows are free and all the city venues are within easy walking distance of each other while a regular bus service connects with Lancaster University. It will be a long and packed weekend of around 200 top notch local and global musical talent at over 40 locations with new acts arriving and proven favourites returning to a city which has always welcomed and nurtured live music. Based on the festival successes of the last five years this will be Lancaster’s sixth and biggest music festival so far with new venues including the city’s iconic 1000 year old Castle, the town’s historic squares, late closing bars and clubs and greater involvement of Lancaster University (and a bank that will in fact be open).

From folk, jazz, blues, soul, funk, grunge, punk, pop to classical, avant garde and even bicycle powered music on the back of a beer dray we expect everyone to find outstanding music that they will enjoy in a lively and festive atmosphere.

Most of the music will be provided by the outstanding talent and variety of acts that perform in the Lancaster district, for example, Get Carter Experience with Madness ex-keyboardist

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James Mackie, singer songwriter loop sensation Alex Hulme, beatboxer Nathan Loopz, reggae explosion Jeremy Ferrari, Celtic fiddle virtuosity from Hard Times, mod punk boogaloo mayhem from the Convulsions and award winning Latin guitarist Howard Haigh. There will also be acts from as far away as Austria, Canada, USA, and from all over the UK (even Yorkshire). The full calendar of events will be available after August 31st.

The festival will also host street theatre, mini ale festivals and plenty of food both in the venues and the market stalls. The event is family friendly during the day and evening with adults being able to enjoy live music through the wee hours with at least one venue open 24 hours and another two licensed to 4am.

A few of the events are ticketed and tickets can be obtained after August 31st online from the festival website (www.lancastermusicfestival. com/tickets.php), at Lancaster’s Visitor Information Centre and the venues themselves.

The 64 page festival brochures will be produced by @Lancaster Magazine and are available from September 15th for £1 from participating venues and the Lancaster and Morecambe Visitor Information Centres.

Further info: info@lancastermusicfestival.com or www.lancastermusicfestival.com Please note: Music applications for the festival ended on July 1st. The festival is still accepting sponsorship and advertising up until August 31st.

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Libra

(Sep 24th - Oct 23rd) You’ve got to be 100 per cent comfortable with the company you keep this month, so you’ll naturally attract like-minded people into your life. Quiet time at home is also important, but you won’t be able to avoid the pull of the social scene completely, mainly because it won’t be long before the hole left by your absence becomes so big that others start falling into it. Love enters your life with a whisper.

Scorpio

(Oct 24th - Nov 22nd) Applying undue pressure isn’t really ever the trick with you, yet someone just doesn’t appear to be able to comprehend this as the month begins.

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(Nov 23rd - Dec 21st) You’re the top of the heap this month, the Big Cheese. This is because the sun is beaming down its most powerful rays on you before the rest of the zodiac, and this kind of elevated status gives you a head start on the rest of us. Use this power wisely, because you have tremendous influential sway right now, and you’re also transmitting all the right signals for a potential new love interest.

Capricorn

(Dec 22nd - Jan 20th) Wouldn’t you just love to feel the sun on your back and the sand between your toes? The cosmos allows you plenty of right to roam this month so making travel arrangements looks likely. If you don’t arrange something, the likelihood is that somebody else will. Do you have an up-to-date passport? This is also the time when you’re seen as wise, so expect more bending of your ear than normal.

Aquarius

(Jan 21st - Feb 19th) Extra resilience will be called for should you get any form of knockback or rejection this month, because you’re feeling a lot more sensitive all in all. In fact, and if you listen very carefully, you can hear the sound of eggshells crunching beneath the feet of your loved ones as they pick up on this. The great opportunity this presents for you is the ability to get closer to someone, and not to spread yourself too thinly, as true contentment lies in one soul-union.

Pisces

(Feb 20th - Mar 20th) The sun in your opposite sign reflects well on you, and opens up new perspectives in your life. This helps you to walk a mile or two in somebody else’s shoes, and this is fantastic for reinventing a relationship. If you’re looking for love, then you will attract what you are projecting, so positive thoughts all the way please Pisces.

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Get your grown-ups

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TV gardening guru David Domoney is calling on all schools to ‘get their grown-ups growing’ as part of a nationwide event organised by the Royal Horticultural Society, to be held across October.

et Your Grown-ups Growing forms part of the RHS’s Campaign for School Gardening, - a national initiative that encourages schools to create gardens, teach the skills of growing and in turn enable their pupils to learn outside the classroom.

Each October schools are invited to hold a Grown-ups Growing event so they can involve their local community to help develop the school garden. Grandparents, parents, carers and friends are invited to help.

Activities suggested for event organisers include tool swaps, taste tests of produce grown in schools or alternatively locallygrown fruit and veg, a range of gardening classes and even a mini garden show.

Schools with gardens can encourage adults within the community to help develop new areas such as a wildlife garden or help construct raised beds.

A Get Your Grown-ups Growing event can also see adults passing on their gardening experience to children by helping them sow seeds, plant trees and assist in weeding.

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For schools without gardens it’s the ideal opportunity to involve adults in the community from the beginning to establish some form of gardening facility in the school.

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Entering its fifth year, Get Your Grown-ups Growing has developed from a small pilot project based in Yorkshire to a national success. Of the schools that held an event last year, 74% said it had increased their children’s interest in gardening, while more than half reported an increase in adult support and adult interest in gardening.

Jacky Chave, RHS strategic schools manager, says: “Having a school garden is a fantastic asset for teachers and pupils as it provides a multitude of learning opportunities, but we know it can take a lot of hard work to maintain.

“By involving parents and other local adults, through an event like Get Your Grown-ups Growing, we hope that school gardens will be looked after all year round and enthusiasm for gardening and growing will spread beyond the school gates and into children’s homes.”

The RHS hopes to see 2,000 schools register for this year’s Get Your Grown-ups Growing event. All registered schools will be entered into a free prize draw to win garden tools and materials.

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Your home should be special and at Kingston Fitted Bedrooms and Kitchens we believe that this is easier to achieve than you might think.

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or more than 25 years Kingston have designed and installed fitted bedrooms, home offices and lounge furniture, across the North West and in August 2010 they launched Kingston Kitchens.

From their showroom and workshop on Aqueduct Street, Kingston’s experienced team will help you to plan a room that reflects your life. Their personal design service is completely free of charge and tailored to suit individual requirements. Using only the highest quality materials and components to create your furniture, whether it be a bedroom, a kitchen, a study, bathroom cabinets, a foldaway

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bed or sliding wardrobes. With such an incredible reputation, it goes without saying that Kingston’s craftsmen and installers are second-to-none in their skills. As recommended traders by the Safe Trader Scheme, every member of staff at Kingston is honest, trustworthy and committed to exceptional customer service.

Whatever your dreams for your bedroom, kitchen or living space, Kingston Fitted Bedrooms and Kitchens can turn them into a reality.

To book your free designer visit call 01772 202010 or pop into the showroom to speak to an expert.

The kitchen looks fabulous...we’re so pleased with it, everything works brilliantly. It looks even better than we hoped. We now have our dream family kitchen and we love it! Thank you so much for all you have done for us, we will definitely recommend you to others.

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Lancaster News

Lancaster Race For Life Turns Passion Into Progress THOUSANDS of women united at the Lancaster University on Sunday with one mission in mind – to conquer cancer.

Now Cancer Research UK is calling on Lancaster’s formidable army of mighty-mums, gutsy-grans, feisty friends and go-getting girls to make every step count by paying in their sponsorship money as soon as possible. Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life, in partnership with Tesco, is an inspiring women-only series of 5k, 10k and Pretty Muddy events which raises millions of pounds every year to fund life-saving research.

Jennifer Ward, Race for Life event manager for Lancaster, said: ‘I want to say a heartfelt “thanks” to everyone who took part in Race for Life, and their supporters, as well as our heroic volunteers.

It was a fantastic day, full of emotion, courage, tears and laughter as over 1052 women joined forces to show cancer who’s boss. Now I’m asking all the women who took part - and all the friends, family and colleagues who pledged to sponsor them - to transform their passion into progress by returning the money they’ve raised as soon as possible.

She continued ‘Cancer Research UK doesn’t receive any Government funding for its groundbreaking work. So every single individual contribution matters. It enables our researchers to help more men, women and children in Lancaster survive this devastating disease. Many people don’t realise that their entry fee only covers the cost of the event. It’s the sponsorship money that really makes a difference. So, whatever the amount, we’re asking everyone to make every effort to return their sponsorship money as soon as possible. It can be paid in online, by phone or by cheque.’

Every hour, more than four people are diagnosed with cancer in the North West* Cancer survival rates have doubled since the 1970s and Cancer Research UK’s work has been at the heart of that progress. Today, more than 95% of men diagnosed with testicular cancer are cured. More women are surviving breast cancer and more children are surviving childhood cancers than ever before.

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Nell Barrie, Cancer Research UK’s Senior Science Communication Manager, said ‘We want to see people with every type of cancer, including those that are hard to treat, get the same chances of living a long life. The progress made over the last 40 years shows we are moving in the right direction. As advances accelerate, our researchers are already laying the foundations for new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer. These include personalised medicine where patients will have treatment tailored to their cancer, immunotherapy which harnesses the immune system to target the disease, better screening and tests to diagnose cancer earlier, and ways to help prevent the disease in people who are at risk. But each year more and more people are diagnosed with cancer, so there’s still much more to do. That’s why we need we need everyone who took part in Race for Life in Lancaster to make every step count by supporting our doctors, nurses and scientists so they can take strides forward in the fight against this devastating disease.’

For information on returning sponsorship money, or to make a donation, visit www. raceforlife.org.

For further information about Cancer Research UK’s work or to find out how to support the charity, please call 0300 123 1861 or visit www.cancerresearchuk.org. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook

About Cancer Research UK

• Cancer Research UK is the world’s leading cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through research.

• The charity’s pioneering work into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer has helped save millions of lives.

• Cancer Research UK receives no government funding for its life-saving research. Every step it makes towards beating cancer relies on every pound donated.

• Cancer Research UK has been at the heart of the progress that has already seen survival rates in the UK double in the last forty years.

• Cancer Research UK supports research into all aspects of cancer through the work of over 4,000 scientists, doctors and nurses.

• Together with its partners and supporters, Cancer Research UK’s vision is to bring forward the day when all cancers are cured.

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Win tickets to see Jackson Live in Concert To be in with a chance of winning 2 fantastic tickets, simply answer this question correctly: What was the name of Michael Jackson’s pet Chimpanzee Answer Name Adress Tel No Email

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Lancaster Grand Theatre, Saturday 27th September, 7.30pm.

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Rosemere Cancer Foundation Effective treatment remains a priority within the NHS but it is expensive and there is little left over for non-essential items and facilities that may make all the difference to a patient’s experience of the treatment process.

The Rosemere Cancer Foundation, founded in 1997 when the cancer centre opened exists to provide those extras wherever possible. It is your local cancer charity. Rosemere supports the regional specialist cancer centre at Royal Preston Hospital, as well as all the local cancer units across this part of the North West. Cancer patients from the Lake District can all benefit from the services that Rosemere provides.

Rosemere supports patients during treatment by providing additional facilities and services in a clinical setting wherever they are being treated.

Rosemere’s target is to raise £800.000 in 2014 to help fund research, patient welfare projects, additional equipment and training right here on your door step, to help give these cancer patients the best possible care.

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The Rosemere Foundation Morecambe Bay walk will take place on Saturday 6th September at 3.15 pm, application details are on the next page

A few projects recently funded in the Morecambe Bay area were: • Research into prostate cancer - £150,000 • Creation of a Breast Cancer Survivorship Scheme - £11,300 • Olympus Scope Guide Position Detecting Unit - £30,000 • The Grizedale Unit at Westmoreland Hospital -£100,000

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Lancaster News

Jackson Live In Concert Starring Ben and his incredible live band and dancers There will only ever be one Michael Jackson and though he is sadly missed his legacy will continue well into the future. He was the greatest entertainer, a creative genius and is a musical legend who will continue to inspire countless people across the world for generations to come.

Jackson Live in Concert sees long-time fan and hugely talented Ben recreate the Michael Jackson experience with a mesmerising, energetic and dynamic performance that captures the essence and magic of the “King of Pop” live on stage.

Ben says “From as far into my childhood as I can remember, I have always been obsessed with Michael Jackson. Everything about the King of Pop mesmerized and enchanted me.

I used to spend hours pouring over album covers, photographs, interviews, videos and anything I could find that was about Michael.

Even my 7th birthday party was Michael Jackson themed! I always loved to dance and began copying Michael’s signature moves as I dreamt of being a performer just like him” Ben’s portrayal of Michael Jackson has to be the most vocally and visually accurate tribute to the King of Pop to have ever toured UK theatres. Ben is joined on the stage by his incredible live band and amazing dancers who work their way through all of MJs hits with impeccable precision. Ben’s got the look, the moonwalk and the voice and his renditions of Thriller, Beat it and Billie Jean are truly sensational.

This is it ! This is as real as it gets. Jackson Live in Concert is so much more than just a tribute show - this will be a performance and an event that audiences who witness it will remember forever.

Lancaster Grand Theatre, Saturday 27th September, 7.30pm.

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LANCASTER VISITOR INFORMATION CENTRE The Storey, Meeting House Lane, Lancaster, LA1 1TH. Opening hours: Monday to Saturday 9.30am-5pm.

01524 582394 lancastervic@lancaster.gov.uk www.visitlancaster.co.uk

MORECAMBE VISITOR INFORMATION CENTRE Old Station Buildings, Marine Road Central, Morecambe LA4 4DB. Opening hours: Monday to Saturday 9.30am-5pm. 01524 582808 morecambevic@lancaster.gov.uk www.visitmorecambe.co.uk LANCASTER CITY COUNCIL How to contact us By phone (8am to 5pm Monday to Friday) Please note that our Customer Service phone lines are closed every Wednesday from 9am to 10am to allow for essential staff training. You can still contact us via email or in person during this time.

• General Enquiries 01524 582000 • Out-of-hours Emergencies 01524 67099 • Domestic Waste and Street Cleaning 01524 582491 • Housing Standards and Homelessness 01524 582257 • Residents Parking 01524 582972 • Elections 01524 582905 • Ideal Choice Homes 01524 582005 • Tell Us Once 01524 582000 In person (9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday)Customer Service Centre (Lancaster) Town Hall Dalton Square Lancaster LA1 1PJ Customer Service Centre (Morecambe) Town Hall Marine Road East Morecambe LA4 5AF Email (24 hrs): customerservices@lancaster.gov.uk

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ACCESS Counselling and Emotional Support Services for Families, Groups and Individuals aged 6 years and over. We are counsellors that volunteer our time to provide an affordable therapeutic service for people within the Lancaster, Morecambe and surrounding areas.

Visit our website at www.access-counselling-cic.co.uk/

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Rosemere Cancer Foundation Coffee Shop, Royal Preston Hospital. Do you have time to volunteer in a rewarding role in the Rosemere Coffee Shop?

Whether you can spare 5 hours a week or on alternate weeks or could be called upon as a reserve for holidays, please think about joining us. You don’t need experience as full training is given.

Marion Jackson, Coffee Shop Manager says ‘we give a lot but we get more in return.’ give Marion a call on 01772 718252 Rosemere Coffee Shop Ltd. Registered Charity No: 113158 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Do you have 2 hours to spare?

The Baby Beat Appeal is a registered charity which raises funds for the Sharoe Green Maternity Unit at Royal Preston Hospital. We purchase vital equipment designed to monitor the unborn baby from conception to birth. We have a small shop based at the Unit which raises funds for our charity and we are desperately seeking anyone who would like to become a volunteer and help run it. All we’re looking for is someone who has 2 hours to spare, whether per week, per month or on an ad-hoc basis.

Despite being a ‘charity shop’ – all our stock is brand new and you don’t need experience as training will be given. If you would like to help us, we would love to hear from you. Please contact Karen on (01772) 524414. Reg Charity No: 1051194-7

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BAY CAT RESCUE is a new charity dedicated to improving the welfare of feral and stray cat. Wherever possible feral and stray cats will be rehabilitated and found good, loving, caring homes. Our many years of experience has proven that many cats thought to be strays and ferals often do desire and accept human care and companionship. Every cat deserves this opportunity to have a good home. We need new volunteers to help! We will be fundraising in order to pay for veterinary care and equipment. If you feel you can help in any way please get in touch, everyone is welcome, all skills and expertise will be found a use for, from media and publicity skills, to baking and crafts, to building and joinery and especially fostering - Please get in touch! Thank you.

Info: 07460636565 or baycatrescue@hotmail.com. www. facebook.com/baycatrescue or www.baycatrescue.wix. com/bay-cat-rescue’ THE CONTINUING LEARNING GROUP aims to provide opportunities for mature people to upgrade their knowledge; it is run by volunteers and based on Lancaster University. It hosts regular Wednesday Lunchtime Lectures on campus. These are given by academics and cover a wide range of topics. All are welcome, no booking is needed. The CLG also facilitates attendance at Open Lectures where members of the public have the opportunity to attend a selection of undergraduate lectures on a variety of subjects. CLG’s Website (www.seniorlearners-forum.wikispaces.com/) is continuously updated; an estimated average is around 300 hits per day, 7 days per week.

FREE COMPUTER HELP AT HOME For disabled people. Simply phone 0800 269 545 CATS PROTECTION - ADOPT A CAT We are looking for the right homes for our cats currently in foster care. If you would like to know more please contact us on 0845 177 0708 and check out our website www.cats.org.uk/preston

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------------------------LANCASTER PRIORY CHOIR Very good amateur choir, rehearses on these nights in the Priory; Boys Monday: 6.30 - 7.30 - Girls Wednesday 6.30 – 8.00 - Boys and Men Friday 7.15 - 8.15 and sings choral services every Sunday at 10.00am and 6.30pm plus other occasions.

Telephone 01524 66204 for more details of vacancies.

More information at at ww.lancasterpriory.org ACTIVE HEALTH WEDNESDAY WALKS Salt Ayre Sports Centre Come and join us for this friendly led walk every Wednesday and experience the physical and social benefits of walking with a group. We begin at 11.00am and go for a walk around the running track. This walk lasts around an hour. To join the FREE walk, please meet at Salt Ayre Sports Centre every Wednesday.

This walk is organised by the City Council’s Active Health team. For more information about the walk please contact Donna Swarbrick on 01524 847540 ext. 206.

PEER SUPPORT LANCASTER AND MORECAMBE Drop-in user-led support service for people with mental health issues. Various activities such as art, music, and relaxation. Cheap beverages and snacks.

Opening times: 10am - 4pm Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Lancaster Peer Support, Lower Hall, Trinity Community Centre, Middle Street, Lancaster, LA1 1JZ, Tel: 07875 025009, www.peersupportlancaster.org.uk Morecambe Peer Support, United Reform Church, Sefton Road, Morecambe, LA3 1AJ GUITAR WITH ANDY Have you always wanted to lean to play guitar? Come along and have a go. Small friendly groups, Develop confidence and new skills, beginners welcome. £4 per session. A small number of guitars are available for loan, booking necessary. At Positive Futures, Lancaster Wednesdays 11-12:30 and Thursdays 11-12:30. Also at Morecambe Library Mondays 1:303:00. Contact us to book your place 01524 383394, email: office@mypositivefuture.net. Positive Futures, YMCA Building, Fleet Square, Lancasterm LA1 1EZ. POSITIVE FUTURES Our new drop-in is for people who want to improve their mental health and wellbeing. Come along: Meet a trained and friendly Positive Futures Advisor. Find out how Positive Futures can help you to move on at your own pace. Tuesdays 10-12 at Morecambe Library. Contact us for more information, Phone 01524 383394, Email: office@mypositivefuture.net

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Markets will be held the first Saturday of each month.

Special Halloween Market on 4th October Contact Jean on 01524 61832 JAZZ NIGHT IN HALTON Saturday September 13th from 7.30pm The Centre @ Halton, Low Road, Halton-on-Lune, Lancaster LA2 6NB The Centre @ Halton is organising a great Jazz night. This will be a fantastic night of music and is especially suitable for the 14+ age group. There will be a licensed bar as well as soft drinks available. A number of bands will be playing live in a range of styles and types – acoustic, rhythm, contemporary and modern These bands are performing at Halton, just prior to their appearance at the Lancaster Jazz Festival. Over the last few years the Centre has built up a great reputation as a venue for live music and this Jazz Night promises to be one of the best. Tickets are £10 per person which includes a light supper.

Tickets are available from Maureen Richardson on email: centremanager@haltoncentre.org or tel: (01524) 811316.

Tickets are also available from the Coffee Shop at The Centre and at Halton Village Newsagents in the High Road. www.haltoncentre.org

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SPIRIT OF PLACE 4th to 29th September, Open daily 9am to 5pm Brabin’s Shop & Gallery, 22 Talbot St, Chipping, PR3 2QE An exhibition and sale of contemporary textile art by Natural Progression. All welcome YUKON BILL, SKY VALLEY MISTRESS + THE ALEXINES Fri 12th September, 8pm The Ferret, 55 Fylde Road, PR1 2XQ. Yukon Bill are a seriously tight band, known for pulling a funk rabbit out of rock hat …then hammering it to death with killer beats and bad man riffs. Formed in 2011 by three of the members of popular local act Blackbird. The bands first EP ‘People Round Here’ is due for release in October 2013 and an Album is penciled to follow in mid 2014. With support from Sky Valley Mistress and The Alexines. www.theferret.info NORTHERN VEGAN FESTIVAL/BLACKPOOL LIVE A BETTER LIFE FAIR Saturday September 13, from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m Winter Gardens, Church Street, Blackpool, FY1 1HL 200+ vegan, green, fairtrade, and human rights stalls, films, talks, cookery demos, children’s activities, aftershow. www.northernveganfestival.com VINTAGE FAIR 13th-14th September, 10am - 5pm Winter Gardens, Blackpool A two day spectacular of design, vintage, entertainment and music, a vintage tearoom and lots of handmade goodness. 100 handpicked stalls selling the northwest and beyond’s finest designer, makers and collectors, vintage, gifts, clothes, handmade toys, accessories, artisan food, art, cards and home wares. Various bands and solo artists performing over the weekend on the stage, on the hour every hour from 11am and tea and cakes served on vintage china all in the beautiful art deco surroundings of the Pavilion theater at the Winter Gardens. £1 entry for adults, children go free.

TURRENTINE JONES, SKINNY WRIST GUMBO + CAT CALLED DOG Sat 13th September, 8pm The Ferret, 55 Fylde Road, PR1 2XQ. Turrentine Jones are an English rock band influenced by the likes of The Animals, Lou Reed, The Strokes. www.theferret.info LANCASHIRE TEACHING HOSPITALS MEMORIAL SERVICE Sunday 14th September, 4p.m Preston Minster, Church Street, Preston For relatives and friend to join together to remember their loved one who have died at Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley Hospital. The Service will be ecumenical and we welcome all Faiths. There will be the opportunity to make an entry into a Memorial Book, join in the act of remembrance and stay after the service for refreshments.

If anyone would like to know more about the service or wish to attend, please contact the Chaplaincy on 01772 522435/522350 or e-mail:- jean.harris@lthtr.nhs.uk A COFFEE MORNING IN AID OF MACMILLAN NURSES Friday 26th September, 10am till 12pm Christ Church Parochial Hall, Victoria Road, Fulwood Please support this worthy charity.

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CHARITY LUNCH FOR CANCER HELP PRESTON Tuesday 30th September Ferrari’s Hotel, Chipping Road, Thornley PR3 2TB Stalls from 11.30am lunch served at 12.30pm.

Admission £25 by prior booking only. Includes 3 course lunch; coffee & mints (choice of menu on the day) Followed by Barbara’s of Standish showing fashions for Autumn & Winter.

Information or tickets Tel. 01995 640185 / 01772 864689 .

Reg. Charity No.1032828 TABLE TOP SALE Saturday 11th October 10am - 1pm Victoria Institute, Brookhouse Road, Caton, LA2 9QT Fundraising event in aid of our Kitchen Refurbishment Project. Entry 50p (Children no charge). Refreshments, parking, and toilets available. Table hire £10.

All enquiries to Judy Powell, 01524-771733 Website: www.victoria-institute.org.uk LANCASTER MUSIC FESTIVAL 2014 Thurs 9th to Mon 13th October Various venues across Lancaster Responding to the record breaking attendance figures of the 2013 Lancaster Music Festival this year’s festival is promoting its own special “Unofficial Bank Holiday” with the mantra “Take Monday Off” to accommodate the nearly 200 acts covering numerous genres performing at over 40 city centre and University venues on the long weekend of Oct. 9-13th, 2014.

Further info: info@lancastermusicfestival.com or www.lancastermusicfestival.com CHILDREN’S NEARLY NEW SALE Saturday October 18th from 10am to 12 noon The Centre @ Halton near Lancaster The centre is continuing its successful events programme with a Children’s Nearly New Sale. There will be tables selling a wide variety of children’s goods, including nursery equipment, toys, clothes and relevant household items. They need to be booked in advance at £10 per table. There will also be refreshments in our successful Coffee Shop, a cake stall and a raffle. Donations of cakes and raffle prizes are most welcome. Entry is 50p for adults and children are free. Funds raised on the day will help to finance continuing improvements to the Centre and its facilities.

For more information and to book a table, contact the organiser Maureen Richardson on tel: 01524 811316 or e-mail: centremanager@haltoncentre.org BLACKPOOL RSPCA SPONSORED BIKE RIDE Sunday 19th of October from 10:30am St Anne’s Pier to Fleetwood Pier Sponsored bike ride in the hope of raising money to go towards the completion of the ISOLATION unit desperately needed at the new site in Stalmine. The isolation unit plays a very crucial part at the animal centre as it keeps new arrivals away from all the current healthy animals that are up for homing. This is in case of any infection which might be brought in by a new arrival and then spread on to healthy animals.

People are welcome to contact them to take part or to sponsor one of the staff taking part.

For all information email: enquiries@rspcablackpool.org. uk or visit www.rspcablackpool.org.uk

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help and advice from the police, the co-ordinator will receive information about incidents likely to affect the neighbourhood. This could be information about burglars operating in the area, reports of bogus doorto-door ‘salesmen’ etc.

When neighbours unite and act together it means that many eyes and ears are ready to pick up on anything that happens in the neighbourhood that could cause worry, concern or impact on quality of life. This in turn will assist to reduce crime and antisocial behaviour leading to increased reassurance and make the community a safer place to live. By working together, neighbourhoods can band together to improve the local environment by addressing local issues including vandalism, graffiti, fly tipping, poor lighting and a lack of local amenities.

Joining or starting a NHW scheme gives you the chance to play a vital role in your community, and to make a difference. The result is something we all want - a better quality of life. The NHW sign is not only a warning to would-be criminals. It is also the sign of a united community where people care for each other.

How does it work? Everybody who joins a NHW scheme will play an important role in making their neighbourhood a more secure, friendly and pleasant place to live in. Each scheme is run by a local ‘coordinator’. He or she is initially chosen by the members of the scheme and acts as a link between them, the local Neighbourhood Policing Team, the council, other Watches and community groups.

In summary, Neighbourhood Watch; Brings people closer together, Builds a stronger community spirit, Helps to reduce crime, Reduces an individual’s anxieties about crime, Strengthens links with the local Neighbourhood Policing Team, Develops closer relationships with local councils, Improves the local environment, Creates a better quality of life.

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