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Countryman Clifford Thompson hopes the isolated acres at his St Micheal's farm, near Garstang, will be the ideal spot for the sky-high antics of parachutists. He is planning to establish a weekend parachute school with light aircraft taking off from a pastureland air strip. He is pictured on his land which he hopes to convert Photo: Archive
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Walking his way into the book world is Ian Brodie, a teacher at Garstang High School, who has produced a rambling guide entitled Walking From Garstang. He hopes to emulate his own walking hero Bruce Clucas who wrote the hiking bible Forty Rambles Photo: Archive
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Dave Spencer is the newly crowned cycle king of Lancashire. The 21-year-old from Nottingham was forced to pedal through the worst Easter weather for years to claim his first major race title. The conditions were so severe almost half the riders in the Lancashire Enterprises Tour failed to finish. Here are the leading pack approaching the finish line in Blackpool Photo: Archive