IN TODAY'S SCOOP
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DOGS ARE BACK ON MORECAMBE'S BEACHES
Morecambe's two bathing beaches hold a Seaside Award, and the price of it is a summer without dogs! From 1st May to 30th September each year they are kept off the North and South beaches, with a £100 fixed penalty for anyone who ignores it.
That ended on Thursday 1st October. Dogs are allowed back on both beaches until the end of April 2027, at any hour, for nothing. Lancaster City Council's reminder comes with one condition: on the promenade, in the gardens beside it and on Sunny Slopes, dogs stay on a lead.
The ban only ever covered those two stretches. The shore from the Battery down to Heysham, and from the Green Street breakwater up to Hest Bank, is open to dogs all year.
An update on last week's lead. The appeal to repair the King's Guide's tractors stood at £1,430 from 42 donations on Tuesday morning, up from £1,385. The target is £5,000. GoFundMe
Around the Bay
A new art fair at Junction 36
Green Door Artists, the Kendal collective, are holding a new art fair this weekend at the Junction 36 Exhibition Centre at Crooklands, LA7 7FP, beside the auction mart. More than 60 artists, makers and galleries from Cumbria, North Lancashire and the Yorkshire Dales are showing paintings, prints, sculpture, ceramics, textiles and photography.
It opens on Friday from 4pm to 7pm, then runs 10am to 5pm on Saturday and 10am to 4pm on Sunday. Entry and parking are free and there is a pop-up cafe.
Lancaster Music Festival starts today
Lancaster Music Festival took last year off. It is back today and runs to Sunday, with more than 300 acts playing over 500 shows in more than 50 venues, almost all of them free.
New this year are the keep and chapel at Lancaster Castle and Westfield War Memorial Village. There is a ceilidh and a kazoo orchestra to join in Market Square, and for small children the BBC Philharmonic plays a live version of the CBeebies show Music Storyland.
Kanteena has free entry from Friday to Sunday. The Pub closes the festival with Rave Against The Machine at 10.30pm on Saturday.
Bake Off, the musical, in Ulverston
Ulverston Amateur Operatic Society are staging The Great British Bake Off Musical at The Coro, and the society calls it an area premiere. It is on tonight and Friday at 7.30pm, with doors at 6.45pm.
The last performance is a 2.30pm matinee on Saturday. There is no Saturday evening show, so don't turn up for one.
Tickets are £17, or £15 for students. Book online or ring the box office on 01229 820000.
Two shows opening in Lancaster
Lancaster Footlights open Frankenstein at the Grand on Friday. It plays at 7.30pm on Friday and Saturday, with a 2pm performance on Sunday, then returns from Thursday 15th to Saturday 17th at 7.30pm.
At The Dukes, How Soon is Now? runs tonight to Saturday at 7.30pm. It is an indie musical from Box of Tricks, set in a Manchester club on New Year's Eve 1997, with a live soundtrack of nineties songs. Tickets are £18 and it is for ages 14 and over.
WHAT'S ON · 8th - 15th OCTOBER
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Thursday 8th
👪 Lancaster Music Festival | Across Lancaster, to Sunday. Almost all free
How Soon is Now? | The Dukes, Lancaster. 7.30pm, nightly to Saturday. £18. Ages 14 and over
The Great British Bake Off Musical | The Coro, Ulverston. 7.30pm, doors 6.45pm
👪 Holker Wild Venison Week | Holker Hall, to Sunday. Free tastings and cookery demonstrations in the courtyard
Supper and Stories, Wild Venison Week Special | Holker Hall. Ticketed. 015395 58328
Bra on the Bar | Thirteen Morecambe pubs and venues, to Sunday. For CancerCare
Roxy Film Club: No Other Choice | The Roxy, Ulverston. Doors 7.30pm, film 8pm. £7, or £6 for members
Friday 9th
👪 Junction 36 Art Fair | Junction 36 Exhibition Centre, Crooklands. Today 4pm to 7pm, Saturday 10am to 5pm, Sunday 10am to 4pm. Free
Frankenstein, opening night | Grand Theatre, Lancaster. 7.30pm
The Great British Bake Off Musical | The Coro, Ulverston. 7.30pm. The last evening performance
👪 Arnside Country Market | Village Hall, Arnside. 9.30am to noon. Free
Saturday 10th
The Great British Bake Off Musical, final performance | The Coro, Ulverston. 2.30pm matinee only
Frankenstein | Grand Theatre, Lancaster. 7.30pm
Nish Kumar: Angry Humour from a Really Nice Guy | Ashton Hall, Lancaster, presented by The Dukes. 7.30pm
Rogues' Gallery by Black Liver | Bolton-le-Sands Library, Main Road. £12. Ages 14 and over. Ring the library on 0300 123 6703 for the start time
Autumn painting day with Elle Morse | Leighton Hall, Carnforth. 10am to 3pm. £60 including materials
Oktoberfest afternoon | The Sun Inn, Ulverston. From 2pm, with live music, bratwurst and pretzels
Soul Movement ecstatic dance | Swarthmoor Hall, Ulverston. 5.30pm to 8pm. Book through Suliko Sounds
Rogues' Gallery by Black Liver | Bolton-le-Sands Library, Main Road.
Sunday 11th
👪 PromArt, the last fair of the year | The Promenade, Grange-over-Sands. 10am to 4pm. Weather permitting
Holker Hosts the Roast | Holker Hall. 1.30pm. Ticketed
Frankenstein | Grand Theatre, Lancaster. 2pm matinee
Paul Merton and Suki Webster's Improv Show | Grand Theatre, Lancaster. 8pm
Cinema at the Vic: Finding Emily (12A) | Victoria Hall, Grange-over-Sands. 7pm
👪 Harvest Festival | Morecambe Parish Church. 10am and 6.30pm. Bring tins or packets
Monday 12th
Quiz night | The Canal Turn, Carnforth. 7.30pm
Games night | Kings Arms, Morecambe. Free pool and darts
Quiz night | The Canal Turn, Carnforth
Tuesday 13th
Coffee morning for St John's Hospice | Royal Station Hotel, Carnforth. 10am to noon. £2 including a drink
Genomics, a talk by Kate Orvis | Victoria Hall, Grange-over-Sands. 7pm to 9pm
Coffee morning for St John's Hospice | Royal Station Hotel, Carnforth
Wednesday 14th
Paul Smith: Happy | Grand Theatre, Lancaster. 7.30pm
Thursday 15th
Frankenstein | Grand Theatre, Lancaster. 7.30pm, nightly to Saturday
The Royal reopens | Heysham. From 5pm, after its refurbishment
Any day
Morecambe's North and South beaches | Open to dogs until the end of April. Free
👪 RSPB Leighton Moss | Silverdale. Car park dawn to dusk. Ring 01524 701601 for the day's opening
👪 Holker Hall and gardens | Cark-in-Cartmel. Wednesday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm
👪 Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway | Trains daily until 1 November. Dogs ride free. Ring 015395 31594 for train times
👪 Lakeland Motor Museum | Backbarrow. Adult £13.25, child £7.90, family £36, under fives free
👪 Lakeland Wildlife Oasis | Milnthorpe. Open every day from 10am. 015395 63027
👪 The public telescope | West End Promenade, Morecambe, opposite the Battery play area. Free
🎶LIVE MUSIC 🎶← click the link - tell us what you think!
Talon: The Best of Eagles | The Platform, Morecambe
ONE GOOD THING
Morecambe's pubs have gone pink this week.
Bra on the Bar runs until Sunday in thirteen pubs and venues across the town. It raises awareness of breast and chest cancer, and money for CancerCare North Lancashire and South Cumbria. It is the idea of local campaigner Vicki Edwards, and the thinking is simple: a bit of fun and silliness to get people talking about something serious.
Every venue has a collection box and leaflets on knowing your normal and spotting the possible signs, with information from Breast Cancer Now. Several bars are adding fundraising of their own. On Saturday, look out for Vicki and Hayley from CancerCare doing the rounds in pink tutus.
Taking part: The Pier Hotel, Soul Bowl, Morecambe's Palatine, The Bull Hotel on Fisherman's Square, The Chieftain Hotel, The Royal Bar & Shaker, the Crown Hotel, Harry's Bar, The York, O'Nellys, Brittlestar Wine Bar, The Pestle & Mortar and The Hurley Flyer.
Pop in, take a photo with the bras and share it. And save the date: the Big Bra Chain comes to the promenade on Saturday 24th October.
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