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1 (2) Panic Room 2 (1) About A Boy 3 (-) Dog Soldiers 4 (3) Bend It Like Beckham 5 (4) The Scorpion King 6 (6) Showtime 7 (5) Ice Age 8 (7) Roadkill 9 (-) Slackers 10 (-) I Am Sam o Supplied by UCI Cinema
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Silver screen delights for week starting Thursday, May 16
STAR WARS: EPISODE II ATTACK OF THE CLONES (PG) sEQUEL set 10 years after Phantom Menace. The awesome action scenes will delight - see review. I AM SAM (12) Sean Penn was nominated as Best Actor at this year's Oscars for his performance as a mentally
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Enemy is within
NO MAN'S LAND (15) Fresh from its triumph at this year's Oscars, where it collected the trophy for Best Foreign Language Film, No Man's Land invades selected cinemas across the country. Writer-director Danis Tanovic uses black humour to illuminate the
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Anakin loses it all for love
STAR WARS EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES (PG) The eagerly awaited second instalment of George Lucas's sprawling space opera is finally here - and it's certainly been worth the wait. Writer-director Lucas has marshalled all of the Episode I cast and
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Get text alerts on Cup scores
FOOTBALL CRAZY? Worried you will miss some of the magic moments of the World Cup? Not a chance if you sign up to World Cup Alerts, available on Vodafone, BT and Orange only and at a cost of just 25 pence for each message. What do you have to do? Just
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MURDER HUNT: MAN HELD
A MAN has been arrested in connection with the killing of soldier Glen Hudson in a Bournemouth nightclub last year. Mr Hudson, 35, an army physical training instructor was shot in the head in Elements in December. Last night Dorset murder squad detectives
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Studland hit the heights
MORE than 600 runs were scored for the loss of just eight wickets as Studland recorded a stunning victory over Henstridge in Sunday Division One of the Nationwide Sun Awnings Dorset League. Put into bat, Henstridge lost a wicket at 29 but then Paul Travers
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Close calls in channel
THE first of the PYRA Channel races took place over the Bank Holiday weekend, reports Laura Kerr. The Poole-Alderney race got off to a good start with the 11 yachts taking part enjoying perfect conditions with a north-westerly blowing 9-17 knots giving
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Fab four in the groove
POOLE'S 10-year-old girls defeated the best in the West to claim gold and bronze medals at the Western Counties relay competitions in Millfield's 50m pool. The quartet of Claire Rafferty, Shauna Burns, Charley Gale and Louise Linley-Adams upset the form
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Green for go in memorial move
VERWOOD'S War Memorial has been moved as part of the development of the town centre. With the blessing of the Royal British Legion, the town's memorial was moved in a military-style operation from the recreation ground by the Memorial Hall, across the
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Tony's tops at the Road
TONY Rickardsson reeled off another top-notch performance as Pirates beat Ipswich fairly comfortably to climb into a top-five title play-off place for the first time this season. The Swede, who won the Nor-wegian Grand Prix in Hamar at the weekend, looked
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Operatic snippets
AN evening of operatic snippets is on offer next Saturday when Dorchester Choral Society and The Dorset County Opera get together with soloists Julia Simpson (soprano) and William Adams (bass). The evening will include pieces from Mozart's Magic Flute
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Final stage of facelift
POOLE Arts Centre closes its doors on Friday to allow the final stage of its multi-million-pound facelift to get under way. The venue will reopen in October for the launch of the autumn/winter season, although the box office will be ready to sell BSO
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Still stuck in traffic
HUNDREDS of furious motorists were today caught up in road chaos despite attempts to reduce congestion between Portland and Weymouth. Travellers reported long delays despite an emergency route being opened in an attempt to cut waiting times along Portland
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Delays as bus and bike collide
A COLLISION between a bus and a motorcycle in one of Weymouth's busiest streets earlier today caused heavy congestion. Traffic was diverted through the First bus depot after the accident in King Street at 7.30am. The motorcyclist from Weymouth was treated
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Faulty kit is blamed for diver's death
A FORMER Royal Navy diver from Portland suffered an epileptic fit and died after his state-of-the-art equipment pumped a lethal amount of oxygen into his body, an inquest heard. West Dorset Coroner Michael Johnston has warned divers they should be "very
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It's a total standstill
PORTLAND is today holding its breath to see if an old road can solve the worst traffic queues to hit the island for decades. Furious drivers have found themselves brought to a beach road standstill by enormous tailbacks of traffic caused by gas main work
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Heritage Site in middle of road
AMERICAN student Damon Ayers is leading a team of stonemasons and sculptors in a unique project to mark Dorset's World Heritage Site status. Damon, 29, from Vermont, in the USA, plans to transform Foord's Corner Roundabout in Wyke Regis, Weymouth, into
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Children have ball getting fit
FITNESS can be fun is the message at Weymouth's Holy Trinity Infants School, where children have been taking part in a new after school fitness club. The club, for six and seven year olds, meets every Tuesday and Thursday for an hour at the school in
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Villagers' victory as church agrees to talk
DETERMINED villagers battling to prevent a half-million pound church hall going up on their local graveyard have scored their first minor victories of the campaign. The Winchester Diocese has agreed not to proceed with the sale of Hordle Memorial Hall
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KSE clinches Navy landing ship contract
POOLE-BASED Hamworthy KSE has secured further contracts to supply equipment for four new Royal Navy landing ships. Last month Hamwor-thy KSE delivered sewage treatment plants to the Swan Hunter yard for the first of two landing ships being built there
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Bobbies get on their bikes
IT'S a complaint of modern day society - whatever happened to the good old-fashioned bobby on the beat? But these eight men and women are making a concerted effort in Christ-church to ensure policing is very much part of the community. As the Police Federation
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Gibbs in the 400 fast lane
TWENTY-eight boats from 16 clubs competed in the RS 400s at Parkstone Yacht Club, sailing in Poole Bay. With light winds and sunshine forecast, Saturday turned out even worse. Race officer Mike Collins tried to get the fleet away on the first race, but
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Arts listings for week starting Thursday, May 16
THURSDAY (16) Think Floyd, Weymouth Pavilion Out of Focus, Bridport Arts Centre Orpheus in the Underworld, Regent Centre, Christchurch A Night with the Stars, Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis A Night at the Musicals, Octagon Theatre, Yeovil FRIDAY (17) Sleeping
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Singers' spring time
SPRING is in the air in Beaminster where the town's singers are gearing up for their seasonal concert this Saturday. For the concert in St Mary's Church, Beaminster, they will be joined by soprano Pippa Goss, pianist Murray Davis and the Newenham Quartet
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Bryanston fare
SHAKESPEARE, classical music and teenage angst are on offer in Blandford over the coming week. Tomorrow night, Illyria performs As You Like It in Bryanston School's Outdoor Greek Theatre (7.30pm, £7.50), followed by the Bryanston Senior Orchestral Concert
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Going Totally Tchaikovsky
YOUNGSTERS from Weymouth will be fired up when they take part in a tribute to one of the greatest classical composers. Members of WOW, the resort's operatic workshop will be joining the orchestra of the Bournemouth Philharmonic Society to perform in Totally
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Bard times are back
THE Bard's back in Bridport next week when students of the Bristol Young Vic Theatre School bring their adaptation of Love's Labour's Lost to the town. The production, which has received rave reviews from theatre critics, uses wit and sparkle to tell
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Attitudes come out of The Closet
THE CLOSET (15) Francis Veber's delightful comedy exploits political correctness to hilarious effect. Mild-mannered accountant Francois Pignon (Daniel Auteuil) has worked in the finance department of a condom factory for years. Overhearing a conversation
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Gig listings for week starting Thursday, May 16
TONIGHT (16) Brat (The Kiva, King Street, Weymouth): The Kiva maintains its record of booking cutting-edge rock and nu metal bands with this London-based band. Music from 10.30pm, admission £3. Think Floyd (Weymouth Pavilion Theatre, The Esplanade, Weymouth
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Get in line for a C&W weekend
Oh, I see - The Rossi has heeded the call of his Mediterranean blood and high-tailed it to Corfu for a couple of weeks, leaving me to 'cover his ass', as our American cousins would have it. Well I'm not having it, tell you, his ass shall remain exposed
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Housing scheme 'threat to town's heritage' claim
A RESIDENTS' association is fighting plans to put housing on Boscombe's seafront. The proposal to let developer Barratt have land for homes at Honeycombe Chine is central to council plans to revive the area. But Boscombe Cliff Residents' Association has
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Huge response to teacher's stand
THERE has been an overwhelming response from Daily Echo readers to the stand taken by supply teacher Dawn Adams. The Echo reported on Saturday that the 46-year-old from Charminster was so appalled by classroom chaos experienced in local schools that she
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Gran blocks bed in funding fiasco
A GRANDMOTHER is blocking up a bed in hospital after social services withdrew funding for a place in a home. Sylvia Orchard, 81, has been stuck in Wimborne Hospital for seven weeks while her granddaughter Nicky Oliver looked for a place, based on the
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Figaro's here for al fresco festival
ONE West Dorset village is preparing to celebrate midsummer's day with two superb al fresco performances of Rossini's Barber of Seville. Picturesque Abbotsbury is preparing to stage the lively comedy performed by The Garden Opera in the grounds of the
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We can't afford to stay in Dorset
PARENTS Pete Judd and Kate Illsley are considering a 250-mile move from Dorchester to Skegness because they can't afford rocketing house prices. The couple are planning a fresh start so they can buy their own home in the Lincolnshire seaside resort at
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Road crash traps horses in trailer
RESCUERS led horses to safety after they were trapped in a trailer in a crash that closed the Puddletown bypass, near Dorchester. Firefighters cut free two animals from the horse-box after their owner's Ford Ranger pick-up car jack-knifed at the Tolpuddle
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MP backing campaign to save coastguard helicopter
THE Shadow Home Secretary has thrown his weight behind efforts to save Portland's vital rescue helicopter service. Oliver Letwin is piling the pressure on the Government's department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions in the wake of speculation
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An amazing plan for village farm
A MILLIONAIRE farmer is planning to launch an amazing new attraction in a tiny Dorset village. Landowner Paul Swaffield is building a five acre maze, created from maize crops, as part of a proposed 10 acre complex on his farm in Rodden, between Chickerell
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Welcome home Max
MUM Carole Brimble is today celebrating having her son home after nine months of hospital treatment for critical brain injuries. Six-year-old Max Brimble has battled back to health after suffering two heart attacks and extensive surgery after being kicked
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Village gears up for jubilee fair
COMMUNITIES across Dorset are gearing up for a spectacular weekend of celebrations to mark the Queen's Golden Jubilee. Dozens of street parties and one-off special events are planned during the extended bank holiday weekend, from June 1-4. One community
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Masons aim to boost charities
DISADVANTAGED and special needs children are set to benefit from a week-long programme of activities and events organised by Dorset Freemasons. As part of a National Freemasonry in the Community Week, from Wednesday, June 26, to Tuesday, July 2, a number
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Young runners in a rush to help others
A GROUP of young Bridport people will be running to help others when they set off on this Sunday's Jurassic Coast Challenge and fun run. They will be raising money for The Children's Society and, in particular, the WAVES initiative in Weymouth, which
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Key decision could leave elderly villagers stranded
HOUSEHOLDERS in a group of West Dorset villages fear hundreds of elderly people could be forced to pay a massive premium on their electricity bills - or be left stranded without power. When the Royal Mail stops recharging electricity keys at post offices
