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Flash in the sand
CYCLISTS might brave bad weather and inconsiderate motorists as they make their way around town but they've never had to worry about speed cameras - until now. Pacy pedallers racing along Bournemouth seafront were in for a shock yesterday as they were
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The Cat's Meow (12A) preview
ACCLAIMED director Peter Bogdanovich chronicles a supposedly true episode from 1924 in this stylish whodunnit. On November 15, notorious media mogul William Randolph Hearst (Edward Hermann) threw a swanky party on board his private yacht Oneida, including
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The Terminal (12A)
WHEN it comes to feel good movies, there aren't many combinations that hit the spot quite like Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. And, like it or not, The Terminal is right on the money... Hanks plays Viktor Navorski, an Eastern European traveller who finds
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STAGE BEAUTY (15)
THE streets of 17th century London are brought vividly to life in Stage Beauty, a bawdy costume romp with heaving bosoms and cross-dressing aplenty, and strong echoes of Shakespeare In Love. In 1660s London, Charles II (Rupert Everett) ascends to the
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Another fine Messiah
IF I ever become ill, please don't send me to St Paul's, the hospital in Messiah III: The Promise (Monday/Tuesday, BBC1, 9pm). I mean, I know the National Health Service is a bit under the weather at the best of times, but this place looked like it was
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Hospital one step ahead in bug-fight
POOLE Hospital is ahead of the game in tackling life-threatening superbugs with alcohol rubs. A specialist health authority has instructed NHS hospitals to ensure staff clean their hands with Propyl alcohol rubs before dealing with each patient. The aim
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Thief banned from 17 town shops
A PROLIFIC thief has been banned from 17 Bridport shops in the latest crackdown on anti-social behaviour. Shoplifter David Cant, 31, has been issued with an Anti Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) by magistrates. He is now banned from the shops in East Street
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Search to find unsung heroes
THE Bridport News is teaming up with the town's rotary club to celebrate those people who have made a special contribution to the life of the town and surrounding area. To mark rotary's centenary year two new awards are being created with the backing
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Canaries set to fly again
SOCCER fans at Burton Bradstock have revived the village football team after a gap of almost 25 years. They're hoping the Canaries will get off to a flying start when they play their first competitive game in the Bridport five-a-side league on Sunday.
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Company expands to meet growing demand
A WEST Dorset company which helps rural businesses to prosper has done so well itself it has undergone a major expansion. Pineapple Developments was initially set up to develop Pineapple Farm at Salway Ash into business units. In the four years it took
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Bridport club gets stay of execution
BRIDPORT'S long established West Dorset Club has been given a stay of execution. Brewers JC and RH Palmer, who own the Grade II listed building, has withdrawn plans for major alterations which would have forced its closure. But any reprieve for the South
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Jubilant Ford has final goal
PIRATES chief Matt Ford today lauded his side's "great achievement" in finishing top of the Elite League table for the second year running. But he has been quick to stress that "there is still a lot of hard work to be done" as Poole RIAS look to become
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BACK HOME
WEYMOUTH and Portland's Olympic medallists have returned home to a heroes' welcome. Gold-medallist Sarah Ayton and her bronze medal-winning colleagues Nick Dempsey, Chris Draper and Simon Hiscocks reunited at a special Weymouth and Portland Sailing Academy
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Thief banned from town centre shops
A PROLIFIC thief has been banned from 17 Bridport shops in the latest crackdown on anti-social behaviour. Shoplifter David Cant, 31, has been issued with an Anti Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) by magistrates. He is now banned from the shops in East Street
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Peter has a ball with his £1,000 win
WINNER Peter Biles was celebrating today after scooping £1,000 in the Dorset Echo's Find the Ball contest. Mr Biles, 72, of Cedar Drive, Weymouth, won the runner-up prize after being one of the closest to the ball in last week's competition. But the retired
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Sunflower giant soars to 15 feet
AT 15 FEET high, Denise Higgins reckons her sunflower is one of the biggest of the summer. Mrs Higgins, 58 and husband Peter, 59, of St George's Close, Dorchester, planted their seeds in June and have watched while their sunflowers reached skywards. But
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Pub couple win back entertainment licence
PUB landlords in Weymouth have won their appeal to get their public entertainment licence back. Howard and Antonia Samways, licensees of the George Inn on Custom House Quay, feared they would lose valuable business if the original decision was upheld.
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Appeal for help to solve memorial plaque mystery
CAF owner Linda Cooper today appealed for help after a memorial plaque was found on Chesil Beach. A customer handed the stone tribute to her at the Blue Anchor Caf at West Bexington after finding it lying on the pebbles nearby. The six-inch square tablet
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Twenty per cent rise in cost of parking clocks
JUST eight months after the introduction of the New Forest's controversial pay and display scheme the council has agreed to increase charges. The £5 parking clock's annual season tickets have been available since January when free parking in district
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Volunteers flood in to help dredge river
VILLAGERS at Tarrant Gunville rolled their sleeves up and donned their wellies to clear out around 400 tons of silt in their river which had built up over decades. Now they are being held up as a role model for flood prevention work at North Dorset District
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Fat bottomed girl is fast lady
AN innovative new racing dinghy built by a former Woodroffe schoolboy was launched in Lyme Regis over the bank holiday. The Fat Bottomed Girl, which takes its name from its distinctive shape, was designed and built by Chris Turner, who runs Specialised
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Flying club's tribute to air crash victims
A FLYING club from the Channel Islands has placed flowers at the site where an aeroplane from Guernsey crashed killing one man and leaving two others fighting for their lives. The single-engine aeroplane plummeted to the ground and burst into flames moments
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CARL IS A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW
EDDIE Howe says Carl Fletcher will be a "hard act to follow" for the next Cherries skipper. Fletcher's departure to West Ham this week has left boss Sean O'Driscoll searching for a new team captain. His obvious replacement would have been club captain
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Relief short-lived in return of roadworks
LONG-SUFFERING motorists have breathed a huge sigh of relief when the horrendous Castle Lane East roadworks in Bournemouth reached their conclusion. After months of tailbacks and delays, drivers felt they were entitled to look forward to faster journeys
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Route 35 back on the buses
YELLOW Buses has announced it is to resume bus services through the trouble-hit Townsend estate in Bournemouth from Monday (Sept 6). Managing director of Yellow Buses Roy Edgley said the decision was taken following recent initiatives to increase community
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Firm aims to catch disgusting bus yobs
BUS drivers in Bournemouth will be issued with DNA testing kits to help catch disgusting passengers who spit at them. The managing director of Yellow Buses Roy Edgley says he is keen to issue drivers with the sterile swabs so the saliva of violent yobs
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Firm another victim of estate agent
A BOURNEMOUTH-based overseas property firm is lucky to still be in business after they fell victim to Spanish estate agent Audrey Dixon. As reported recently in the Daily Echo, Dixon has gone to ground in Spain owing hundreds of thousands of pounds to
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Farmers call for help after crops washout
FARMERS in Purbeck and South Dorset are calling for help to save them from ruin as they struggle with fields of crops near-ruined by this summer's wet weather. Harvests are in danger of being decimated by the rains and water-logged ground with some crops
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Shattered Glass (12A)
SHATTERED Glass is an incredible and gripping real life story of a journalist corrupted by ambition and an unquenchable thirst for attention. At a time when the media is increasingly under the spotlight, Billy Ray's mesmerising directorial debut reminds
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HELLBOY (12A)
HERE is a comic book adaptation that retains the dark, brooding atmosphere of the source material and still manages to appeal to a mainstream audience. Pivotal to the film's success is acclaimed Mexican writer-director Guillermo Del Toro, who possesses
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THE ALAMO (12A)
DENNIS Quaid and director John Lee Hancock, who previously worked together on The Rookie, reunite for this latest dramatisation of one of the most famous episodes in American history. In 1836, a platoon of 300 American soldiers took charge of an outpost
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Birdport News welcomes new editor
THE Bridport and Lyme Regis News welcomed a new editor this week. Holly Robinson, 28, has joined the newspaper after six years working on another title owned by Newsquest, publisher of the Bridport News. She was previously news editor at the Wiltshire
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Boy, 4, lucky to survive cliff fall
FRESH warnings to respect West Bay's dangerous sheer cliffs have been issued after a child plunged 30ft at the weekend. Coastguards say the four-year-old boy, from Southampton, was lucky to be alive after the fall and if he had fallen just 50 yards further
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Have your say on the medical centre
BRIDPORT residents are being given the chance to have their say on the proposed move of the town's medical centre. Plans have been laid to move the centre to the outskirts of the town at Gore Cross. Although the town council will not decide on the application
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JOBSHOP OFFERS YOU SUCCESS ON A PLATO
THE PLATO programme, an innovative business development scheme set up by Business Link Wessex with owner/managers of small and medium sized companies, has resulted in Poole based Jobshop UK winning new business. PLATO encourages companies to learn together
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THE MISERY OF MIGRAINES
DEBILITATING, frightening and much misunderstood - migraine is the most common neurological condition in the developed world but few non-sufferers appreciate how serious it really is. It affects 10 per cent of the population and there are more than six
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Sophie just wants to be like her friends
ALL little Sophie Sivess wants is to walk around again like her friends. The four-year-old from Ferndown suffered such severe blood poisoning after a septicaemia infection got in through a chicken pox spot that she had to have her right foot and the toes
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STAGE & MUSIC (Sept 3)
THE heady brilliance of one of the 1960s landmark radio comedies is re-visited live on stage in Round The Horne Revisited which plays The Pavilion Theatre in Bournemouth next week. The show, direct from its success in the West End, opens on Monday (September
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Arts festival evolves
THE second Lyme Regis Arts Festival takes place in October taking as its theme this year 'evo lution'. And if evolution is about sur vival of the fittest, the arts festi val has certainly been training at the gym of late. Following the huge success of
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Have say on conservation area
RESIDENTS of Lyme Regis have been asked for their opinions about changes to the conservation area bound ary being proposed by West Dorset District Council. The conservation area, desig nated in 1970, protects Lymes buildings, landscape and impor tant
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Council busy slip buildings
PROPERTIES in Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, that were boarded up after a landslip in 2001 have been bought by West Dorset District Council for an undisclosed sum. A district council spokesman said this week that the two properties - the old Polly Victoria
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WHERE IN THE WORLD...?
AFTER WEEKS of bitter legal wrangling, the last band of travellers ousted from a sports ground in Christchurch finally packed up and left. But where in the world did they go? To the frustration of local residents the convoy of 10 caravans set up camp
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Hole in road baffles engineers
WHAT caused a landslip hole to appear at the top of an unstable road in Lyme Regis remained unclear yesterday. South West Water told the News it had completed a CCTV survey of its sewers beneath Cobb Road - which is due to be stabilised with a £2m protec
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Speaks volumes
THIS week, I shall mostly be talking too loudly. It's all the rage down my way. Of course, it may be the price I pay for living in a market town, but excessive volume does seem to be the way to go. I'm sure you've all encountered men of middle age and
