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By Royal appointment
THIS summer Poole Park will ring to the sounds of a joyful day-long celebration to mark the Queen's Golden Jubilee. The People's Park will be full of family picnics, music, arts, stalls, fun and games on June 3 - a huge community event to mark the royal
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Women were on a roll
IMAGINE going roller-skating or ice skating or playing tennis in a crinoline. It was said in the 1860s that the only sport crinolined ladies played was croquet where their crinolines were extremely useful for moving the ball about unseen. By the 1890s
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Credit card fraudster is jailed for string of crimes
A CREDIT card conman was jailed for two and a half years on Friday after a judge told him: "It is difficult to see how anybody's property is safe while you are around." Fraudster Christopher Sturman, 31, admitted 13 offences of handling stolen goods,
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You gotta roll with it
A WOODEN wagon from 130 years ago has been returned to the Wareham area where it started its life transporting clay on to barges in Poole harbour. It might not look much but the well-preserved narrow gauge wagon is a rare link back to a bygone age in
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Brought to book
LOCAL historians take note, a book publisher is on the look-out for writers. In the past few months Snapshots of the Past has featured The Book of Swanage and The Book of Stourton Caundle, and publishers Halsgrove are keen to extend their Community History
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First Lady of the Carnivals
SNAPSHOTS' FAN Mary Montgomery and her brother John, who live in Canada, keep abreast of events in Bournemouth by reading Daily Echos sent to them by their brothers, Bob and Peter, who still live in the area. Their parents moved the family to 13 West
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Women were on a roll
IMAGINE going roller-skating or ice skating or playing tennis in a crinoline. It was said in the 1860s that the only sport crinolined ladies played was croquet where their crinolines were extremely useful for moving the ball about unseen. By the 1890s
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Ice cream man who abused girl, 7, jailed
AN ICE cream man who sexually abused a seven-year-old girl was jailed for three years at Dorchester Crown Court on Friday. John Frederick Marshallsay, formerly of Parkstone, Poole, had admitted two counts of indecent assault on the youngster between September
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Diabetes hits women hard
DOES diabetes affect women differently from men? A new survey released to coincide with this week's World Diabetes Day suggests that it does. The International Women's Diabetes Survey found that the role of women as family carer is negatively affected
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The gift of mobility
WHEN Rachel Perry was born in Germany without a right foot nearly 15 years ago, it was not the biggest problem she and her parents had to face. She had to be flown home for emergency treatment of an intestinal blockage at Great Ormond Street Hospital,
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Widower calls for NHS system change
A PENSIONER who believes his late wife was let down by the medical profession is calling for an overhaul of the way complaints are investigated. For the past two years Norman Tilley feels he has been going round in circles trying to raise concerns with
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Having fun in the sun, by George
CHEERING residents packed out the streets of Ferndown on Saturday afternoon for a special Jubilee-themed carnival. The sun shone down on the procession which wound a circular route through streets including Cherry Grove, Church Road and Penny's Hill,
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Village video project to mark Queen's Golden Jubilee
A THRIVING Dorset village will come under the spotlight when it stages the world premiere of a new film. But instead of a glittering array of celebrities walking up a red carpet for the occasion, around 100 villagers will pack the local hall to see the
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Jubilee plan to light up town bridge
WAREHAM civic leaders have launched a £9,000 appeal to create a permanent Golden Jubilee memorial on the town's South Bridge. The plan is to place six decorative three-quarter size lamps - three on either side of the bridge to enhance the historic entrance
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Deluge sparks flood alert at start of year
JANUARY DORCHESTER began the New Year by being placed on flood alert as rain swept across the county. Many villages around the town were flooded, including Charminster, Maiden Newton and Bockhampton. The Heritage Lottery Fund gave town councillors the
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A helping hand in a time of need
THINK back. Stretch your imagination and try to remember when you last worried about having enough food to eat? When did you last fret about whether to switch the heater on, stay in bed or sit in your sleeping bag? Thankfully, the answer for most of us
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Camping site plan threat to future of Forest Show
PLANS for a giant campsite could sound the death knell for the New Forest Show. The Forestry Commission has pledged to forge ahead with its scheme to create a giant campsite on the showground site at New Park, Brockenhurst - albeit slightly scaled down
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Plan to replace old motel with homes
A FORMER motel said to have been the inspiration for the long-running television soap Crossroads could soon be flattened. Owners of The Open Country bar/restaurant near Fordingbridge have appealed to the Department of the Environment against council refusals
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Routes are top of the tracks
TWO New Forest routes are the best of the bunch when it comes to walking and riding in Britain. The Forest has scooped double honours in the Forestry Commission's annual "top ten" guide to leisure trails around the country. Experts plumped for Radnor
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Jenny's legacy will help others
SHE was inspirational, wonderful and lived life to the full - just a few of the many sentiments the great and the good have used to describe one very courageous New Forest woman, Jenny Rose-Wolfeld. Jenny died on December 23 from breast cancer at the
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Commission has no plans to restrict dog walking
THE Forestry Commission has told concerned dog owners that it has no plans to restrict people walking their dogs in the New Forest. Following a meeting with the newly formed, powerful New Forest Dog Owners' Group the Forestry Commission said it welcomed
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Backlash over carnival cash
CARNIVAL chiefs have hit out at businesses which benefit from the money-spinning extravaganza but give nothing in return. And they urged companies which made money from the annual event to dig deep and make a donation to charities the carnival supports
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Rescue boy still fighting for life
THE seven-year-old boy washed out to sea after playing on a Dorset beach is today fighting for his life in hospital. Jack Shelton, from Stroud, Gloucestershire, was said to be in a critical but stable condition in the paediatric intensive care unit at
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We'll pass on that
CALLS for a cheap car-parking pass for holidaymakers have been dismissed by Wey-mouth's tourism chiefs. A regular visitor to the resort, dismayed at the amount drivers have to pay to park their vehicles, has suggested the move. Jenny Cox from Weston-super-Mare
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Council accounts hit by public's interest rate fall
PEOPLE in Weymouth and Portland shunned the chance to examine the borough council's accounts. Council chiefs said they were amazed that no one contacted them during August when a statement detailing the borough's financial dealings during 2002/03 was
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Domino Appeal gets £10,000 bequest
THE FAMILY of a Highcliffe woman brain damaged since infancy by a whooping cough vaccination have given a £10,000 bequest to the Wessex Autistic Society's Domino Appeal. Karen Green had suffered severe brain damage as a result of the whooping cough jab
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Cherries secure first win
Stephen Purches struck an early goal to lift AFC Bournemouth to their first Nationwide Division 2 win of the season at Wrexham on Saturday (Aug 30). Cherries made the perfect start, taking the lead through Stephen Purches after just eight minutes. The
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A real musical Odyssey
THE year was 1964 and Cilla Black, the Dave Clark Five and the Beatles all made it to number one in the charts. But in Bournemouth a group called The Dictators emerged as the best in town, sweeping the board in the first Bournemouth Beat Contest at the
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Education bosses hit out at funding crisis
HEADTEACHERS going back in front of classes to fill the spaces left by lost staff... more pupils crammed into classes... extra curricular activities being axed from the timetable altogether... This will be the scene in Dorset secondary schools next week
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Sunseeker sea school
POOLE'S luxury powerboat company, Sunseeker, is not only selling boats but teaching people how to handle them with the launch of its own RYA-approved sea school. Offering instruction to customers is nothing new to Sunseeker but its efforts have only recently
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Memories frozen in time
AN OLD photograph of a tram struggling along the road at Boscombe after a blizzard in 1908 tells a poignant story. It was taken the day after a snowstorm that caused a disaster in the Solent claiming 27 lives. That snowstorm resulted in a liner, St Paul
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Jemma's a racing cert to succeed
SHE'S jumped a lot of hurdles and now she's hoping to gallop her way to becoming the first female jockey to win the Grand National. Sixteen-year-old Jemma Phillips, from New Milton, is one of only 52 people to win a place at the prestigious Newmarket
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WHAT LIES BENEATH?
HOW toxic is a former gasworks site in Poole set to be re-developed for a massive housing project? Residents living near the Pitwines site fear lethal materials such as asbestos and arsenic could be unwittingly released into the ground, air and Poole
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Water therapy takes strain
TWO chartered physiotherapists have set up the first private hydrotherapy practice in Bournemouth offering one-to-one treatment in a pool. Sarah Oakley and Jane Haynes, who both work for the NHS at Poole Hospital, launched their Therapy Wave service at
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Little miracle
HE is his parents' little miracle - and he would not have survived to celebrate his first birthday yesterday without the skill of staff at the Wessex Cardiac Unit. When Aaron Drew was born in a text-book delivery at Poole Hospital on October 25 last year
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Parkinson's study will help sufferers
FALLS among sufferers of Parkinson's disease could become a thing of the past, thanks to a new study. People with the tremor condition are being recruited for the research, which aims to find out whether exercise programmes can help to prevent falls.
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Look back in anger
IF you have ever watched a child stagger off to school under the weight of a loaded back pack, a new study commissioned by the British Chiropractic Association will come as no surprise. More than half the parents questioned for the association's research
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Animal magic therapy
IT'S a grey day on the Purbecks, but just to be out among the beautiful countryside lifts the spirits. I am on my way to meet Dave Pagett, a community mental health nurse who has hit on a winning formula for helping clients. The Margaret Green Foundation
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Long to rain over us...
IF YOU are determined to party then Poole people have proved the weather doesn't matter a jot. The thousands of Jubilee joysters who crowded into Poole's massive Party @ the Park might as well have been sheltering under sunhats rather than tents and umbrellas
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Jubilee mugs for all town's children
THEY may be dreaming of the World Cup trophy, but school children across Bournemouth will be holding royal cups above their heads. All children in the borough are being given commemorative Golden Jubilee mugs courtesy of the town's education bosses. Youngsters
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Parties fit for a Queen
FOR months it has been feared that all that's golden will far from glitter. Newspapers have been full of speculation that this year's Golden Jubilee celebrations will fall flat. Public support today has been compared over and over again to interest in
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Cherries secure first win
Stephen Purches struck an early goal to lift AFC Bournemouth to their first Nationwide Division 2 win of the season at Wrexham today. Cherries made the perfect start, taking the lead through Stephen Purches after just eight minutes. The Bournemouth midfielder
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Stone Age tools found in pit excite experts
STONE Age artefacts unearthed in a gravel pit near Ringwood are causing excitement among the Oxford University archaeologists who discovered them. Scientists believe the chipped flints dating from the upper palaeolithic era, around 12,500 years ago, are
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Economy 'facing ruin' over homes
A JOBS shortage combined with a major lack of affordable housing could spell disaster for Bridport's future prosperity, warns a councillor. Former mayor and district councillor David Tett is warning of a "double whammy" and wants urgent action to provide
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WHAT LIES BENEATH?
HOW toxic is a former gasworks site in Poole set to be re-developed for a massive housing project? Residents living near the Pitwines site fear lethal materials such as asbestos and arsenic could be unwittingly released into the ground, air and Poole
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Farmer applauds foot-and-mouth report
A FARMING leader has applauded the findings of a preliminary report which described the handling of the foot-and-mouth crisis as "lamentable". Dorset county chairman of the National Farmers' Union Simon Banfield said he totally agreed with the main thrust
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MP speaks out over 'nursing home jails'
MEMBERS of the public already paying thousands of pounds for relatives in private care homes could be left fuming at plans to set up special "nursing home jails" for elderly inmates, a Dorset MP has warned. Although support is growing locally for the
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Time for your jab
LEVELS of colds and flu in the South West hit "high risk" this week for the first time in the autumn/winter season, according to Beechams. The company's Cold and Flu Scale estimates that more than six million people nationwide are currently suffering,
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Jon's website task is a real labour of love
WHEN internet whizkid Jon Davies was invited to set up yet another new website he had no idea he was about to undertake a project so dear and personal to his heart it would set him on an emotional rollercoaster. The 25-year-old was asked to set up and
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Business booming at towns' markets
OPERATORS today claimed business was booming as markets in Dorchester and Weymouth enjoyed their best ever summers. Brendan George, from operators T Ensor and Son, said the attractions were heaving as Dorset basked in a hot summer. The success came as
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Ridley answers the backbiters
AN Ridley has hit back at critics who claim Weymouth are spending more than they can afford. The Terras chairman says while Steve Claridge's wage bill is more than what was given last season to previous boss Geoff Butler, he says the Wessex Stadium outfit
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You gotta roll with it
A WOODEN wagon from 130 years ago has been returned to the Wareham area where it started its life transporting clay on to barges in Poole harbour. It might not look much but the well-preserved narrow gauge wagon is a rare link back to a bygone age in
