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Tall Order
IF you want a room with a view, take a look at this. These are the views from a major new block of flats, appropriately named The Panoramic, almost finished at Bournemouth's Richmond Hill. AFC Bournemouth players, along with their manager Sean O'Driscoll
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Expect roads at gridlock
MOTORISTS are being warned this bank holiday weekend could spell one long headache. Travel organisations are predicting Dorset roads will be gridlocked with thousands heading to the coast to enjoy the last days of August. They say major engineering works
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Stallholders targeted by shopkeeper
A CAMPAIGNING shop-keeper has appealed to a local government watchdog for help in controlling street trading in Dorchester. Paul Graham, a partner at Graham Woodhouse Floral Design in South Terrace, reported West Dorset District Council to the Ombudsman
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Doctor Guy's cannabis spray is ready to roll
DORCHESTER doctor Geoffrey Guy is today a step closer to launching a cannabis painkiller following government backing for new trials. Mr Guy is waiting for regulators to give permission for his company, GW Pharmaceuticals, to sell prescription-only sprays
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I'll sing for my supper
SINGING student Jonathan Pugsley is hitting the high notes to pay his way through music college. Jonathan, 25, from Broadmayne, needs to raise £10,000 to enrol for a professional performers' diploma at the prestigious Royal Northern College of Music in
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Cherries are finally beaten by a Furlong
FORMER Birmingham hot-shot Paul Furlong struck with a second-half header to inflict another defeat on Bournemouth at Loftus Road on Saturday (Aug 23). Cherries launched the first serious assault on goal when a volley by Stephen Purches went over the bar
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Heatwave puts cloud over profit for stores
THE SCORCHING summer may have been great news for sun-worshippers and holidaymakers. But it has cast an unexpected cloud over parts of the High Street, with a shopping stayaway that has caused an eight per cent sales dip in at least one Bournemouth store
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Terror alert as diver spotted under pier
ONE minute he was marvelling at the rich fish and plant life, while the next he was squinting into a clutch of bright torches attached to five anxious police officers. Diver Paul Homer had inadvertently sparked a major police security alert while diving
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Male nurse in child porn shame jailed
A MALE nurse who downloaded and printed indecent pictures of children from the internet has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Married father-of-one Phillip Taylor, 38, will also have to register as a sex offender for the next seven years after
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IT'S NOT FALIRAKI ...but we're not too far off, warns top cop
A SENIOR police officer has warned that scenes of wild and drunken nightlife in the Greek resort of Faliraki are "not too far off" what is happening in Bournemouth on Friday and Saturday nights. Chief Superintendent Bob Boulton, Bournemouth divisional
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Poole is 'softer touch' for illegal immigrants
THE "jungle drums" are beating alerting would-be people smugglers that Poole is a port where illegal immigrants have a chance of evading detection. That is the fear as a man who helped mastermind the smuggling of illegal immigrants into the UK through
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Tindall's ready for the call if needed
CHERRIES star Jason Tindall is focusing his attentions on earning a first-team recall after stepping up his whirlwind comeback this week. Tindall took another giant step on the road to recovery when he came through his first 90-minute run out for more
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La Belle Charlotte
CHARLOTTE Moore's trainer Christina Boxer has heaped praise on the Bournemouth AC runner ahead of one of the biggest races of her life at 4.25pm today, when the 20-year-old goes in heat one of the Women's 800 metres at the World Championships in Paris
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Cherries are finally beaten by a Furlong
FORMER Birmingham hot-shot Paul Furlong struck with a second-half header to inflict another defeat on Bournemouth at Loftus Road on Saturday (Aug 23). Cherries launched the first serious assault on goal when a volley by Stephen Purches went over the bar
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Homeless centre gets green light
PROTESTERS have lost their fight to stop a drop-in centre for the homeless in Dorchester town centre. Residents petitioned against plans to move the Hub in Durngate Street to a site near their homes in Maumbury Road. Now plans to build the new centre
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Booming bittern now a summer visitor to resort
ONE OF Britain's rarest birds was spotted in Weymouth this week giving hope to conservationists that a long-term decline has been reversed. The bittern, or bog blutter, as it's known to twitchers, is a secretive and difficult to spot member of the heron
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Riverfront hotel given go-ahead despite its size
A SWISH new riverfront hotel at Christchurch could be open by May 2005 after plans for the long-awaited replacement of the former Wick Ferry holiday camp were approved. But despite the recommendation of planning officers and years of wrangling to secure
