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Mum's shock as car crashes into her flat
A MOTHER has spoken of her shock after a car crashed into her flat against her twin girls' bedroom. Kate Warden, of Lawrence Court in Malmesbury Park Road, Bournemouth, said it was a miracle neither her nor her two five-year-old daughters were in the
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Antisocial teenager facing public shame
A PURBECK teenager who was made the subject of a second Anti-Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) last year could face being publicly named. Purbeck District Council is going to court next week seeking permission to publicise the name of the girl and exclude
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NOW IT'S TIME TO LIVE THE REALITY
WEYMOUTH chief executive Martyn Harrison today denied that a major bust-up with Ian Ridley led to the chairman's shock resignation at the weekend. In a statement issued exclusively to Echosport, the millionaire hotel chain owner insisted Ridley's role
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STADIUM IS SOLD
POOLE Stadium has been sold after the £14.2 million management buyout of its parent group Gaming International finally completed. The buyout was led by Gaming International CEO Clarke Osborne and two fellow directors. It makes Mr Osborne the UK's biggest
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Time to increase training
A RECENT study showed that 40 per cent of graduates are in jobs that do not require degrees. Many of them must be asking themselves why they bothered to go to university. We are told that more school leavers than ever are starting university this year
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Property prices set to boom until 2009
PROPERTY prices across the South West are expected to grow by 12.4 per cent by the end of 2009, according to Your Mortgage, the independent consumer magazine. The steepest increases are expected to be in Bournemouth and South Gloucestershire where house
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All change on town traffic
AMBITIOUS plans to ease congestion on Dorchester's traffic-choked streets are today revealed by highways chiefs. Pedestrianisation of part of the high street and a series of one- way roads are being outlined as part of the proposals to take traffic out
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Row disrupts talks over festive lights
TEMPERS flared last night at a meeting to discuss Dorchester's Christmas lights. Fundraiser Margaret Morrissey stormed out of the Dorchester chamber of commerce meeting after becoming involved in a row with town councillor Tom Parsley. The argument started
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Official objection over loss of route to island
ANGRY councillors have refused to approve the county's plan for the future because it ignores improving the road on to Portland. The proposed Western Route between Ferrybridge and Chickerell was deleted from the Dorset Structure plan and no alternatives
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New plans for former chicken factory site
REVISED plans for a prestige development on the former Webbs chicken factory site at Lymington have been submitted by developers Paxton Holdings. A previous application for the multi-million pound scheme was rejected by New Forest District Council planners
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Sad lessons from Beslan's tragedy
REPORTS say they stabbed babies. They shot fleeing, terrified youngsters in the back. They laughed as they filmed themselves raping teenagers. They forced children to drink their own urine and eat plants. They bombed, butchered and slaughtered with smiles
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Old soldiers? Legion hits out at myths
MEMBERS of Christchurch Royal British Legion set out to prove they are not just a band of old soldiers shining their gongs when they staged an open day on Saturday (September 4). The packed bar downstairs was doing a roaring trade while new membership
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Travellers at town factory
ANOTHER band of travellers has descended on Christchurch - setting up camp in the car park of an electronics factory at the weekend. Police say Penny & Giles which owns the private car park, in Airfield Road, has issued eviction notices on the four
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Pat cleans up with £100,000 bingo win
IT was third time lucky for a school cleaner from Bournemouth when she won more than £100,000 on the bingo. Pat Moran scooped the massive prize after making a last-minute decision to accompany her daughter Sharon and two friends to the Gala Club in Tower
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SIGN UP TO STOP THE DOORSTEP CONMAN
A KNOCK on the door by a smartly dressed salesman turned sinister for an 82-year-old Bournemouth woman living on her own last month. The unsuspecting pensioner welcomed the caller's offer of tree surgery and paid him £60 in advance, only to have him disappear
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Jammy dodgers
MOTORISTS were in for a surprise on Monday morning as the road works on the A338 Spur Road got under way. Many were expecting a nightmare journey as the busy dual carriageway was transformed into a single road. Some had chosen to go via different routes
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Travels of a spinster wooed by wonderlust
SHE was a woman ahead of her time and travelled the world before finally settling down in Dorset. Today there is little trace of the explorations and adven tures of Miss Gertrude Benham but her staunch independence helped inspire a new book celebrating
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French town honours wartime tank driver
WAR veteran Tony King has returned from France after taking part in a ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Lisieux in Normandy. Tony trained at Bovington during World War Two and now, aged 80, has retired to Swanage. He was among
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Ben's on course to be county's top amateur
BEN Harvey is staking a claim as Dorset's amateur Player-of-the-Year after his latest burst of success. He won the Dorset county strokeplay championship at Isle of Purbeck with rounds of 70 and 69 - the same 139 total he carded when he won the title at
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PURBECK PLANS (September 2)
Spy close (14), Lytchett Matravers; 6/2004/0810, erect extension to dining room and form new lounge; Mr & Mrs Cracknell. Hoburne Park (56), Swanage; 6/2004/0811, erect porch and re-roof caravan; Mrs D Mabey. Lytchett Lane (2), Bovington; 6/2004/0812
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EAST DORSET PLANS (August)
Wimborne Worms Limited, Little Cimarron, Clayford, Wimborne; 3/04/1125/FUL, Erect Mobile Home Dwelling; Bondesign Associates, 15A West Borough, Wimborne (for Mr Fenemore). 23 Cedar Avenue, St Leonards, Ringwood; 3/04/1153/FUL, Rear conservatory; Plan
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Bendall shaping up for big fight
UNBEATEN middleweight Steve Bendall is following in the footsteps of the country's top boxers in his bid to become British champion. The 30-year-old southpaw, who has won all 21 of his professional bouts, lines up against Scott Dann in Plymouth on Friday
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SIBSON IS A KNOCK-OUT
WHEN the Weymouth Amateur Boxing Club opened its doors for the coming season - in walked a British middleweight legend. And Tony Sibson - the former undefeated three times British champion, seven times European champion and Commonwealth champion - said
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Poole present familiar voice from golden age
DAVE LANNING, speedway's television voice on ITV throughout the golden age of the sport during the Seventies and Eighties, is making a nostalgic return to his roots as meeting presenter at Poole on Thursday for Pirates' home league clash with Belle Vue
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Round the Horne Revisited, Pavillion Theatre, Bournemouth
IT WAS one of Britain's finest radio comedies. Irreverent, brilliantly un-PC, hopelessly juvenile and very, very funny. With a brilliant cast and some of the best writers around, Round The Horne perfectly caught the mood of its time. In half an hour of
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Resort call for 'kayak cop'
A POLICEMAN paddling round Britain in a kayak will head for the Channel Islands from Portland Bill. Traffic officer Sean Morley, 39, set himself the Yak Paddling Challenge 2004 to raise £10,000 for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and the Marine
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Digging deep for the survivors of Beslan
THE Dorset Echo is asking you - our readers - to dig deep and help raise money for the survivors of the bloody Beslan massacre in Russia. The shattered community is still burying its dead following the siege when terrorists took hundreds hostage at the
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Town preparing for a feast of fun at carnival
CARNIVAL fever hits Blandford this week with thousands of revellers expected to enjoy a feast of music and colour. The main action takes place on Saturday (September 11) with a children's walking parade through the town in the afternoon and the grand
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YOUNG SEEKS RED REPRIEVE
CHERRIES have confirmed they will appeal against Neil Young's red card against Brentford. Young was dismissed after taking down Brentford's Stephen Hunt and faces the prospect of sitting out the next four matches if the decision is upheld. According to
