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Owzat! The Oval to Yeovil
IT MIGHT not be the catchphrase he would have chosen for himself, but 'failing to get his leg over' is the one Jonathan Agnew will always be associated with. That was how the anchorman of BBC Test Match Special memorably described Ian Botham's dismissal
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It's a deuce of a love match
WIMBLEDON Starring: Paul Bettany, Kirsten Dunst, Sam Neill, Jon Favreau, Bernard Hill GENRE: Romantic comedy CERTIFICATE: 12A GUIDE: Swearing, sex, violence RATING PPP ROMANTIC comedies from the Working Title Films stable - Four Weddings And A Funeral
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Heroics will take your breath away
HERO (12A) TWO thousand years ago, during the height of the Warring States period, China is divided into seven feuding kingdoms, Qin, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei and Qi. The powerful King of Qin (Daoming Chen) is obsessed with conquering his neighbours,
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Doorstep conman thwarted
POLICE have praised a quick-thinking woman who refused a bogus caller access to her home. The woman alerted officers after the man claimed to be from energy company Scottish Power and asked to be allowed in to read gas and electricity meters. The woman
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We are family
WHEN her son had problems with his teeth, Jan Phillips couldn't say whether it ran in the family because she didn't know. Her adoptive parents adored her and gave her a happy childhood, but she was always coming up against such blank walls. When her father
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Standing by with Steve
IT'S always nice to see your old mates doing well. I mean, just look at Steve Wilson and The Innocent Bystanders (Bridport Arts Centre, Saturday, 8pm, £8/£6 concessions, tickets from 01308 424204 or on the door). Ten years ago, Steve was regularly at
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Never-say-die Cherries oust Premier big guns
EDDIE Howe was the Cherries hero as Sean O'Driscoll's battling side took a magnificent Carling Cup scalp with a famous penalty shoot-out win at Blackburn Rovers. (Sept 22) The on-loan Portsmouth defender blasted home the decisive spot-kick in an incredible
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Duo prove to be gold girls
NEW Milton duo Sarah Bamber and Nicola Sloan earned a golden double for Hampshire at the Division 12 regional schools championships in Southampton. Bamber, 14, finished almost four seconds clear of the field as she won the intermediate 100m breaststroke
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WILDCATS FACE ACE HARDING
HAVEN Wildcats will come face to face with a potential Skybet Elite League champion at Swindon tonight. The Dorset side take on a Sprockets outfit who include Trevor Harding within their ranks. On Monday, Harding helped Ipswich Witches reach the play-off
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MAGPIES READY FOR BIG CROWD
DORCHESTER are bringing in extra turnstiles to cope with the crowd expected at the Avenue Stadium for the big FA Cup clash with Weymouth on Saturday week. And Terras fans will be allocated more space on the segregated terraces than they were when a 4,000
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COST OF MORTGAGES RISES 12% IN YEAR
HOMEOWNERS have seen the cost of their mortgages rise by 12 per cent during the past year after hikes in the cost of borrowing, new figures show. Single homeowners spent an average of 42 per cent of take-home pay on their mortgage during the second quarter
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Residents unite in bid to tackle estate yobs
FED-UP residents on a troubled East Dorset estate who have been terrorised by gangs of youths are launching an innovative fight-back against crime. People living on the Heatherlands Estate at Ferndown say they have had enough of anti-social behaviour,
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Lore of the Rings
FOR the first time ever archaeologists can confirm there was neolithic occupation on the summit of Badbury Rings. The first ever excavations within the Iron Age hill fort on the Kingston Lacy estate have unearthed neolithic flints, which would have been
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Gardens rave for Freedom festival
CHART toppers Shapeshifters and top-name DJs including Erick Morillo, Danny Rampling and Brandon Block headline the all-night Freedom festival at the Larmer Tree Gardens on October 16. Designed to tap into nostalgia for the grand semi-legal raves of the
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Not 'inn' our car park
VILLAGERS are getting bitter after new owners of a popular Bransgore pub announced plans to build houses on the car park. Development company Inntown Properties, which acquired the Carpenters Arms in Burley Road earlier this year, has now applied to New
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Energy firm bids for wind turbine support
AN ALTERNATIVE energy company has launched a campaign to gain support for wind power just weeks before its application to erect turbines in the Winterborne valley comes before planners. Your Energy, which wants to put up nine turbines near Winterborne
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Boy or girl? You can tell with thread
IN an earlier column I told of how, one day in the office, a pregnant member of Daily Echo staff was lying on the floor, somewhere between the fax machine and the photographic department. As her male colleagues typed away as normal, the females had left
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HOWE ABOUT THAT!
EDDIE Howe dedicated his Carling Cup heroics to his family after he finally laid to rest the injury nightmare of the past two seasons. Cherries won an incredible penalty shoot-out 7-6 over Blackburn after an unbelievable 3-3 draw at the home of the 1995
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Residents divided after kids banned from park
CHILDREN have been locked out of a private park in an exclusive residential area in Christchurch after dozens of complaints about their behaviour - but the move has divided neighbours. Some residents, many with children of their own, welcomed the closure
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Peepolykus for people like you
YOU will have a chance to see a West End show before it makes it to London later this autumn as part of the new season of events drawn up by Artsreach. The theatre troupe Peepolykus - pronounced 'people like us' - will be performing their new show All
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Dial up Kim - but leave John hanging
ALSO RELEASED: CELLULAR (15) and THE PUNISHER (18) HIGH school science teacher Jessica Martin (Kim Basinger) sees her husband Craig (Richard Burgi) off to work, then walks her son Ricky (Adam Taylor Gordon) to the school bus at the start of Cellular (
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Cinema listings for week of Thursday, September 23
THE PUNISHER (18): See review. WIMBLEDON (12A): See review. CELLULAR (15): See review. HERO (12A): See review. COLLATERAL (15): Tom Cruise is a contract killer who hijacks Jamie Foxx's cab, while racing to kill five trial witnesses, as rival cops compete
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Shop workers under attack by customers
SHOP staff are being subjected to an increasing number of attacks, abuse and threats from stressed-out customers, new research has revealed. Trade union Usdaw is so shocked by the figures it has launched a new campaign, Freedom From Fear, calling for
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Groups unite to put an end to illegal off-road biking
EFFORTS are being made to put a stop to the growing problem of illegal off-road motorcycling. Dorset Local Access Forum will meet later this month to discuss the possibility of implementing a national action plan to provide legal sites and stronger police
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We asked Daily Echo readers: Do you see Charles Kennedy as Prime Minister?
HOUSEWIFE Frances Rhodes of Bournemouth said: "I can imagine Charles Kennedy as Prime Minister but that does not mean it is likely. As a personality I think he is just as good as anyone else but his party has a problem because the numbers do not add up
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Last survivor from Battle of Britain to visit Purbeck skies
THE sole surviving Spitfire to have fought in the Battle of Britain will be making a memorial flight across the skies of Purbeck this weekend. The fly-past is part of the South West Model Expo at Bovington Tank Museum - an annual event attracting thousands
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Gig listings for the week starting Thursday, September 23
Unless otherwise stated, expect gigs to start at around 8.30pm to 9pm. TONIGHT Speed Handbag (Tickled Hippy, The Esplanade, Weymouth): Speed Handbag return from their international commitments to entertain the good punters at the Hippy with a veritable
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Skullduggery's Withering win!
I LIKE the Lilliput Regatta, it's a slightly more casual, friendly and social affair. It's still competitive though, with a fair amount of argy-bargy on the line and at the marks. This year's event took place after a week of strong winds but the weather
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Turner carries the can
THE OLD poem says that Wednesday's child is full of woe. On the evidence of this richly-deserved Cherries win at Hillsborough, that comes as no surprise. (Sept 18) A defeat that saw Owls boss Chris Turner sacked immediately after the match never reached
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Preston takes over-45s national title in Essex
BOURNEMOUTH'S Steve Preston has collected his first ever national racketball title after he won the over 45s section of the English Championship at Basildon. The Dorset man travelled to the event with his training partner Peter Pietruszka and on arrival
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IT'S GREEN FOR GO ON ORANGE ROUTE
THE Weymouth relief road was today granted final approval by the Government. South Dorset MP Jim Knight said new Roads Minister Charlotte Atkins had given the green light for Dorset County Council's funding plans for the £54.6 million road. Now he has
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Anglers to get a say on future of fishing at lake
ANGLERS have won new talks on a proposed shake-up of fishing rules at Radipole Lake after they packed a meeting in Weymouth. More than 30 anglers attended a session of Weymouth and Portland Borough Council's community regeneration and culture committee
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You've been brilliant!
THANK you Dorchester. That was the message last night from campaigners who raised more than £23,000 to help make the county town sparkle for Christmas 2004. Members of the Decorate Dorchester Campaign have taken less than nine months to raise the cash
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Soldiers honoured for service in Afghanistan
TWO Weymouth men are among five Territorial Army soldiers from Dorset who have been awarded a campaign medal for service in Afghanistan last winter. Former mortgage consultant Lance Corporal Del Alexander, 34, is now administrative clerk at Dorchester
