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PERMISSION has been granted to remove a concrete store and replace it with a three-bed stone-built cottage at 17 Main Street, High Bentham.

THE latest planning applications to be approved by the district council include: Demolition of existing dwelling and industrial unit and erection of residential development of 16 dwellings - Felstead, Low Bentham Road, High Bentham. Construction of five-bed holiday cottage - Moss Side Farm, Wigglesworth. Conversion of two barns into three dwellings - Fountain House Farm, The Green, Clapham. Demolish garage and replace with three-storey building containing two flats - land west of Navigation House, Back Bridge Street, Skipton. Demolition of single-storey side extension and porch an...

In February 2003, The Westmorland Gazette reported how the three teams fielded by Windermere Sports Club in the Westmorland Talbot Insurance League boasted seven sets of footballing brothers. And the club had worked out that in its recent history 22 sets of brothers had pulled on a Windermere shirt. Also in 2003 the Gazette reported how a pair of keen conservationists were leaving behind the South Lakeland winter and heading for the lush jungles of Sri Lanka to take part in a primate study. Kendal women Valerie Macconnell and Mary Ulrich were due to fly out to south Asia to work alon...

MOUNTAIN rescuers were called out to assist a man and his two young children after their car became stuck in a ditch. When rescuers arrived at the scene they found three other cars that had been abandoned on the icy road. The Cave Rescue Organisation (CRO) was asked to assist Lancashire Constabulary with the incident at Lythe Fell - on the road between High Bentham and Slaidburn - at around 2.30am on Thursday. A CRO spokesman said the road was so icy that team members were forced to stop 200m short of the stranded family's car, which was partially in a ditch.