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Third sevens win for Swans' ladies
SWANAGE Ladies hockey team are again the proud holders of the Ladies Hockey Lytchett Sevens cup and title. A total of 13 teams, including three from Swanage, took part in the competition over the bank holiday weekend. The Swanage first team regained the
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A life less ordinary (and all that jazz)
If you thought film work was glamorous, how would you fancy being duffed up for 30 years, asks Jeremy Miles... HE'S been in hundreds of car crashes and, for years, being smacked around the head with an iron bar was all in a day's work. Yet Alan Stuart
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BOOK REVIEWS
Kevin Nash takes a look at some newly published titles The Cripps Version: The Life of Sir Stafford Cripps by Peter Clarke, Penguin Press £25 A towering figure in 20th-century British politics, Cripps - a fun-loving Christian teetotal vegetarian landowner
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Eeet's zat crazy Englishman!
WHEN he sets out to become the first person to conquer the English Channel on a cycle-powered craft, Scott Bonnar is hoping it will be third time lucky. The intrepid seafarer aims to set a record by cycling from Poole to Cherbourg covering 70 miles in
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Cliff members dominate Plomer's team
BOSCOMBE Cliff dominate the first team named by Hampshire's new Middleton Cup manager John Plomer. They have a nine-strong contingent - including skips Russell Morgan, Nicky Jones and Chris Daniels - for the opening friendly against Wiltshire at Atherley
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Squash: West Hants women are county best
WEST Hants ladies are back on top of the Dorset squash world after an absence of six years. The squash players from the tennis club won a double header for the county Knockout Cup and their last league match of the season which brought them the cup and
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Hockey: Third sevens win for Swans' ladies
SWANAGE Ladies hockey team are again the proud holders of the Ladies Hockey Lytchett Sevens cup and title. A total of 13 teams, including three from Swanage, took part in the competition over the bank holiday weekend. The Swanage first team regained the
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Premiere show for merged opera group
YOU don't have to sit in the gods to join them at the Regent Centre next week, when South Wessex Opera Company present Offenbach's classic comic operetta, Orpheus In The Underworld. This will be South Wessex Opera's premiere performance as a new company
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Super trooper clocks up 77 years on stage
THEY say the show must go on - and for Alan Lawrence it has for 77 years. The 80 year old veteran performer, who lives in Radipole, has been treading the boards since a tiny tot and his dedication has scooped him a prestigious acting title. Alan, who
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Litter louts ruining gateway into town
CAMPAIGNERS are today demanding action to clear up Dorchester's gateway roundabouts amid fears litter louts are putting tourism at risk. Householders and local dignitaries appealed to people to bin their rubbish instead of dumping it on the roadside,
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Getting fit to stay young
SHOPPERS and pensioners aiming to beat the ageing process were given food for thought at a health fair in Dorchester. People queued up for blood pressure checks and lifestyle advice at the Age Concern-organised event in the United Church Hall in South
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Players back on stage with comedy
FORDINGBRIDGE-based Victoria Players have had more than their fair share of bad luck lately, culminating in the cancellation of their autumn production and the resignation of their chairman after more than 20 years' service. The lack of active members
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A flipping good start for festival
PANCAKE races yesterday got the weekend's third Christchurch Food Festival off to a flipping good start. Local celebrities, chefs and business teams puffed and pan-ted along Church Street from the Priory gates to the finish line outside Splinters restaurant
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Entertainment venues plans are thrown out
PLANS for two major entertainment venues on the site of Bournemouth's former ice rink have received their second major setback this week. Bournemouth Borough Council's planning board turned down the idea - two days after the authority's licensing board
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Umpires are kept busy by wide boys
UMPIRES and scorers were forced to work overtime as Colehill and Stalbridge shared a staggering 123 extras in their opening Dorset League clash of the season. And with umpires having been instructed to clamp down on wayward bowling, particularly on the
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TOP 10 ART BOOKS
with Borders of Bournemouth 1 Earth from The Air 365 Days - Bertrand Arthus 2 Stencil Graffiti - Tristian Manco 3 Mario Testino Portraits 4 Ads of the 1950s - Jim Heiman 5 New York - Ray Furse 6 England Photographic Atlas 7 End of Print - David Carson
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Time to get your skates on
SKATE-mad teenagers took time out from practising tricks to give their skate park a fresh new look for this Sunday's Tempt Fate festival. Half-pipes and ramps at Poole's Baiter Park have all benefited from a new lick of paint ahead of the Daily Echo-backed
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Police warn elderly after third mugging
A MUGGER who has been targeting elderly women in a Boscombe street is a "dangerous man" who needs locking up, say police. Three elderly women have now been attacked and their handbags stolen as they walked along Sea Road and police believe the same offender
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A short trip out
Paul Allen's weekly look at the world... IT'S just not fair. They say if there's a light at the end of the tunnel it's just a train coming, and that's putting it optimistically. For weeks and weeks, my wife has endured all the pain that goes with a slipped
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Monty's still a Major player
Colin Montgomerie does not appear to be a man carrying the weight of a nation's sporting expectation on his broad shoulders. The 38-year-old veteran of five Ryder Cup campaigns has enjoyed an almost unchallenged stranglehold on the Volvo European Order
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Development aim to build on win
THE Dorset Development XI began their season with a five-wicket victory over Bournemouth University at Dean Park and included five under-18s in the side which adapted itself well to give much encouragement for the future. The University won the toss and
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From the Cape to new green action for Dean
FRESH from test matches in South Africa and Wales Dean Morgan travels to Manchester this weekend for a taste of the green that will be used for the Commonwealth Games. This will be the first time the Boscombe Cliff bowler and the rest of the England team
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Traffic chaos as road works start
TRAFFIC chaos is expected in Weymouth and Portland following a number of road closures and maintenance work next week. Motorists are being warned of delays on Portland Beach Road from Monday as traffic control will be in use for around four weeks as workers
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Pupils get to grips with technology
YEAR Nine pupils from schools across Dorset enjoyed a peek behind the scenes at Winfrith and Bincleaves Technology Centres. QinetiQ, which runs both sites and was formerly known as the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, held an open day to allow
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Knight urges PM to act
SOUTH Dorset MP Jim Knight has called on Tony Blair to tackle drugs-related crime and antisocial behaviour more effectively. Speaking in Parliament, Mr Knight said that although crime-busting measures such as drug treatment and testing orders (DTTOs),
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High power team looks at the heritage coast
THE future of Dorset's heritage coast came under the spotlight at a meeting of councillors and politicians in Dorchester. West Dorset MP Oliver Letwin and East Devon MP Hugo Swire joined in the talks about the impact of tourism on the treasured coastline
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I'LL MAKE MY STAND
A MOTHER heartbroken by the state of the area's schools has spoken of her first hand experience of the classroom chaos teachers face. Supply teacher Dawn Adams says she has been so shocked by what she has seen in schools in Bournemouth, Christchurch and
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Victim dies six years on from brutal attack
A MAN who was brutally attacked in Bournemouth town centre died six years later as a result of his injuries - but the man identified as his killer is a free man. Robert Carr suffered severe brain damage during the assault in February 1996 and almost died
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Porter tried to con his family
A scheming Bournemouth man who tried to con his family out of their share of his dead brother's estate narrowly escaped being sent to prison yesterday. Kitchen porter William Dean, 58, of Cunningham Crescent, Kinson, had earlier admitted obtaining £13,727.97
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Emo's bad day at the office
BOURNEMOUTH'S Gary Emerson suffered a bad case of the Belfry blues as he crashed out of the Benson and Hedges International Open yesterday. The 38-year-old Broadstone touring professional failed to build on a promising opening round with a seven-over-par
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My relief at being alive
A DAD who suffered horrific injuries after being crushed against a wall by a car today spoke of his relief at simply being alive. Weymouth bricklayer Gary Allen, 46, lost both his feet and part of his bowel and had to have his nose rebuilt following the
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Town's first folk festival hits right note
ORGANISERS say the opening of Weymouth's first ever folk festival has hit the right note. They are pleased with early audience numbers for the event at Weymouth Pavilion, which runs until Sunday, and hope to hold the festival annually. Weymouth and Portland
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Bill's will says 'drink my health'
FUNDRAISERS will be toasting the memory of a Weymouth builder after he left them £500 in his will. War veteran Bill Clough died of cancer at the age of 78 last December, leaving an estate worth nearly £1million to his wife and two children. One of the
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Row brews on new regional assembly
THE battle lines were drawn up in Dorset today over proposals to create an elected South West regional assembly at the expense of county councils. The government hopes to set up eight elected mini-parliaments nationwide of 25 to 35 members to take charge
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Motorway link plan for county
PLANS to improve south Dorset's connection to the motorway network have today been backed by council chiefs. A government study has recommended that the A358 road, between Yeovil and Taunton, should be widened and made into a dual carriageway. It is also
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Our man in Afghanistan
BY day he pores over intelligence reports and maps of barren, inhospitable lands. By night he sleeps under canvas on an old minefield, planes and helicopters intermittently echoing through the night skies. In the near distance the Hindu Kush mountains
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Attractions voted best for families
A NEW Forest theme park and Bournemouth's beach have been named among the most family-friendly attractions in Britain. Paultons, in Ower, was voted the best family theme park in the country in a survey commissioned by Mother and Baby magazine. Bournemouth
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Review: Convincing performance
Arms and the Man - Wimborne Drama, Tivoli Theatre A CHORUS line of costumed, folk-dancing scene-changers was just one of the amusing touches in this production, but it did add to my feeling that everyone might burst into song at any moment - the operetta
