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Fishy tale lacks jaws and bite
SHARK TALE Starring: Will Smith, Robert de Niro, Angelina Jolie, Renee Zellweger, Jack Black, Martin Scorsese GENRE: Family comedy CERTIFICATE: U GUIDE: No swearing, no sex, no violence RATING PP 'SLEEPING with the fishes' is given a whole new meaning
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Reel life comes to Purbeck
THE eighth Purbeck Film festival starts tomorrow with some fabulous films at the Rex cinema, Wareham, and the Lighthouse, Poole. The Opening Gala film at the Rex is Barbarian Invasions, a new Canadian film that celebrates life, love, regrets and redemption
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Cinema listings for week starting Friday, October 15
SHARK TALE (U): See review. WHITE CHICKS (12): See review. BOO, ZINO AND THE SNURKS (U): A fairy-tale adventure set in the mystical world of Gaya, where a small community battles against the encroaching forces of evil. Patrick Stewart, Emily Watson, Glenn
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Hunt for student's attacker
A STUDENT was rushed to hospital after being attacked by one of a gang of youths who had been following him, said police. The 21-year-old suffered cuts and bruises when he was punched in the face as he walked along a Bournemouth street on Monday night
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GIVE US JUSTICE
THE grieving parents of Hadyn Matthews, who died after being punched outside a pub, collapsed in tears of relief as a jury decided he was killed unlawfully. Gwen Stace and Geoff Matthews, who have fought for seven months to defend their son's reputation
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Dozens fall for trading standards' fake scam
DOZENS of people risked being sucked into a 'scam' that could have left them out of pocket, said local councils who set up a bogus scheme to snare them. Bournemouth, Poole and Dorset councils placed a fake get-rich-quick advert in newspapers for two weeks
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Notes on a small traffic island
WORLD-famous author and former Daily Echo sub-editor Bill Bryson is backing a scheme to protect the appearance of historic English streets. He has lent his weight to a joint initiative between English Heritage and the WI to tackle a rising tide of signs
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Idea to revive water mills as energy source
REVIVING Purbeck's water-mills in order to produce environmentally-friendly electricity has been raised as a suggestion in the face of fears over global warming. Purbeck District Council was asked to give its views and contribute funds towards the development
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Dissolution
SANSOM sets out his stall as an impressive new voice in historical crime writing with this tale set in the harsh times of Henry VIII. With the hush-hush aim of doing away with the powerful monasteries, Lord Cromwell sends an unsavoury commissioner to
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Dying wish to be fulfilled
A CANCER patient who demanded a second opinion after seeing an episode of hospital drama Holby City was found to have an aggressive tumour. Saida Love, from Bridport, died in June aged 33 after a two-and-a-half year fight against the disease. Now her
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Firm scoops £1m order
A BRIDPORT company has won a £1million contract to help US marines fight terrorists in Iraq and other world troublespots. The order for a pioneering vehicle arrest system known as XNet has been awarded to Bridport Engineered Textiles, a division of Bridport
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INVESTORS CLASH OVER ABBEY SALE
DIRECTORS of banking giant Abbey have faced a barrage of criticism from shareholders angry at the decision to sell out to Spain's largest bank. Investors jeered and heckled Abbey chairman Lord Burns as they questioned the £9 billion acquisition by Santander
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Mugger gang steals paralympian's gold
A PARALYMPIC champion was back home in Verwood on Thursday struggling to come to terms with having one of his gold medals stolen. Darren Kenny, 34, was mugged in London in the early hours of Wednesday as he returned to his hotel after celebrating his
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All hail to the prince of plays
THE jewel in the Lighthouse's autumn crown arrives next week when world-renowned theatrical director Yukio Ninagawa brings his adaptation of Hamlet to the Dorset venue. Its scheduling is something of a coup for the venue, the largest arts centre outside
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Ticket offer ends
PLEASE note that the 'two for one' ticket offer for Weymouth Pavilion's In The Mood show on Thursday, November 4 expires on Thursday, October 21. The coupons were printed in the Dorset Echo Entertainer page on Wednesday, October 6.
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Arts events for the week starting Friday, october 15
FRIDAY (15) Poetry Surgery and Cafe with Greta Stoddart, Dorchester Arts Centre Dorset Camera Club Annual Exhibition, Dorchester Arts Centre Richard Derrington's Hovering, Hinton Martell village hall Old Rope String Band, Winterborne Stickland village
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STAGE & MUSIC (Sept 15)
EVE Ensler's sometimes hilarious , sometimes poignant study of female sexuality The Vagina Monologues arrives at Bournemouth's Pavilion Theatre Monday (Oct 18). Based on interviews with a hugely diverse group of women - from a Long Island antiques dealer
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Language lab is the talk of the town
STUDENTS at a Dorchester school will be speaking in new tongues after a new language lab was opened. Internationally-acclaimed author Minette Walters was on hand for the official unveiling of the new building at Thomas Hardye School. The £2m building
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Stonemason carves a path across Britain
A STONEMASON pedalled from one end of Britain to the other - raising £10-a-mile as he went. Andrew Grassby, 48, biked his way from Land's End to John O'Groats and raised £10,000 for the British Heart Foundation on the way. Mr Grassby, co-director of Grassby
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Friends dedicate bench to popular Tom's memory
A LASTING memorial to a popular teenager will give youngsters a place to hang out. Friends of Tom Dowdney, who died in a car crash, dedicated a bench in Southill, Weymouth, to his mem-ory a year after his death. They had spent months fundraising and raised
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New scaled-down plan for chamber's revamp
A scheme to make a council chamber more disabled-friendly will be discussed. A report will be presented to members of West Dorset District Council's executive committee on Tuesday, outlining details of the plan for the chamber and the Old Crown Court.
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Public loos could be closed at night
PUBLIC toilets in North Dorset could be closed at night in a bid to stop them being spoilt by vandals and drug users. Council chiefs have agreed to investigate the feasibility of closing loos at night after a report branded some of them "a disgrace".
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Bats moved out of town gardens
BATS and reptiles living in the Langmoor Gardens in Lyme Regis are being moved out by the district council in preparation for next year's coastal protection works. Specially-qualified experts have been employed by the council to move the creatures, which
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Disdain greets flats plan
PLANS to convert the Bay Hotel in Lyme Regis into lux ury flats have been re-submit ted, six months after the orig inal application was with drawn. Owner Larry Gibbons wants to turn the 1920s seafront land mark into nine apartments and build a health
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Lifesavers here to stay
THE LIFESAVING Co-responders scheme is here to stay in Lyme Regis, but fire chiefs say they can't fund similar schemes throughout Dorset because they cost too much. Dorset's chief fire officer, Martin Chapman, said this week that the Co- responders in
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Kickboxer rises from canvas to take title
KICKBOXER Kai Blondel-Larsen did his stepfather - 1970s heavyweight bruiser Paul Cassidy - proud when he won the English middleweight title: despite going down in the first round. It was Kai Blondel-Larsen's first shot at the big time, but nobody expected
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Below stairs
I DON'T go in the cupboard under the stairs unless I really have to. One good reason is that the door is only about three feet high and there's no electric light inside. So, getting in and out invariably means a severe bang on the back of the head from
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Vow to fight mast - again
RESIDENTS of Charmouth Road in Lyme Regis have vowed to oppose a renewed application for a telephone mast in a nearby car park, which they say is exactly the same as one that was turned down only a few months ago. The application, from Orange, seeks to
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Sex-change comedy is crass but hilarious
WHITE CHICKS (12A) CRASS contrived and achingly familiar it may be, but Keenen Ivory Wayans' culture-clash comedy possesses a certain charm and packs more laughs into one washroom sequence than Shark Tale manages in its entirety. Marcus and Kevin Copeland
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Murdered Heather's ex-partner speaks out
THE former partner of murder victim Heather Barnett has made a public appeal over her killing. As the second anniversary of Heather's death approaches, David Marsh told the Daily Echo: "I am asking for anyone who has any information to help put the murderer
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Politicians back Bourne Free day
THE leader of the Liberal Democrats and the Tory shadow chancellor have lent their support to an event which is being held in Bournemouth on Saturday for the gay and lesbian community. Charles Kennedy says he is delighted to support the Bourne Free day
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Going back...
PAST life regression; a load of nonsense or a serious subject? There was only one way to find out - and that was for me to give it a go. I like to think I am open-minded when it comes to things out-of-the-ordinary, but there is something about past life
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Barry has scooped jackpot... yet again
WHEN grandfather Barry Hill was greeted on his doorstep with a bottle of bubbly by the Daily Echo he had a strange sense of deja vu. The 64-year-old retired fire-fighter of Bishop Close, Talbot Village, Poole, scooped the £42,000 jackpot prize in this
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Drowned Boomtown Rat
THINK of the women who keep cropping up on TV - the newsreaders, the sports presenters, the weathergirls - and your mind will almost certainly be filled with a veritable vision of loveliness. For starters, there's a bevy of Kirstys (Gallagher, Young,
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Drowned Boomtown Rat
THINK of the women who keep cropping up on TV - the newsreaders, the sports presenters, the weathergirls - and your mind will almost certainly be filled with a veritable vision of loveliness. For starters, there's a bevy of Kirstys (Gallagher, Young,
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Prescription for truth
THE onset of autumn used to signal a rash of quality programming to keep us company during the long winter nights ahead. Not any more. For the most part, the schedules are as crammed as ever with superficial, lame-brained, sneering shows that serve little
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It's pants to be so filthy
WHEN I was wee, somebody said: "Always wear clean underwear, because you never know when you'll get hit by a bus!" It worked. Fear of appearing on the emergency operating table in dirty drawers or a vile vest (being covered in blood would be the least
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Bright young things head for the heights
IN THE very earliest days of rock & roll, adopting a career as a musician used to be the last refuge of scoundrels and scapegraces. It used to be the case that if you were a delinquent with a charge sheet as long as your drape jacket, boasting an
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Gig listings for the week starting Friday, october 15
FRIDAY Balance Of Power (Mariner's, Maiden Street, Weymouth): Bon Jovi, Aerosmith to Faith No More from the Snatch/Inhalers stable from 9pm-ish. Cold Earth (Verdis, Maiden Street, Weymouth): Later, after 11pm, high energy rock and covers from this Bournemouth
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A Woman Scorned
VICTORIA Kilburn, a sickly child of a London family is sent to her uncle in the country. On her way she meets a woman called Marian Cotton, who becomes her friend. Marian helps Victoria overcome her sickliness and introduces her to Aaron Whitstable the
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Plague and Pleasure
IN 1630 50,000 Venetians, a third of the population, died of the plague. Paolo, a younger son, thinks his whole family has perished but a tiny baby survives and is given a home by the sexton and his wife who have lost their own son. His only link to his
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Severed - Black Dahlia Murder
IN 1947 a small-town beauty queen Elizabeth Short, aka The Black Dahlia, is found murdered on Los Angeles wasteland. She had been horribly mutilated. After spending 35 years investigating the case, Gilmore tells the story of Elizabeth's short, tragic
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MP joins the fight to let Andrei stay
A DORSET MP is calling on the Home Office to let a teenage asylum seeker at least finish his education at Bournemouth University before they boot him out. Annette Brooke, MP for mid-Dorset and north Poole, is due to meet 19-year-old Andrei Bazanov and
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Strive to keep the customer satisfied
GOOD customer service is the lifeblood of any business. You can offer promotions and slash prices to bring in as many new customers as you want, but unless you can get some of those customers to come back, your business won't be profitable for long. Good
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Coast bus up for top award
A JURASSIC coast bus service is in line for a top award after passengers branded it "just the ticket". CoastLinX53, which operates the length of the West Dorset and East Devon World Heritage Coast, has been recognised as one of the best bus projects in
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Advantage neighbours in tennis lights battle
RESIDENTS complaining about glare from new floodlights at Beaminster tennis courts have been served some hard hitting advice - pull the curtains and stop moaning. That was the suggestion from veteran sports enthusiast Ken Macksey who told district planners
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Cannon found under old pier
EXPERTS from the Royal Armoury will visit West Bay today (Friday October 16) to examine a ship's cannon found by workmen excavating the old West Pier. The weapon, around 4ft long, was discovered about a foot beneath the surface of the breakwater which
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Walkers hopping mad over closure of paths
DOG walkers in Wimborne are fuming after a private landowner fenced off his fields to stop them accessing their favourite walk. After years of walking on fields at the back of The Vineries they have been threatened with legal action if they trespass.
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Love is all around
IF YOU found love in later life, Weymouth Drama Club is eager to hear your story. The am-dram group is staging Raymond Hopkins' farce Love Begins at 50 later this month and is looking for that perfect romantic couple to win champagne, flowers and a pair
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Family of poets
GRAB a slice of poetic bliss with mother and daughter duo Greta Stoddart and Tinker Mather at Dorchester Arts Centre on Friday 15 October at 7.30pm. Greta used to be an actress and is now poet in residence at Exeter University, while her mother Tinker
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Fool brought to book
NOBODY'S Fool spends its last nights at the Lighthouse in Poole tonight, tomorrow and Saturday 16 at 7.30pm, with an additional 2.30 matinee on Saturday. The well-reviewed comedy is the tale of an ambitious television journalist hoping to get her scoop
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Swing along to the hottest show in town
A NIGHT of swing is on in Yeovil tomorrow, Friday 15, courtesy of Jeff Hooper and the Big Band Orchestra. Billed as 'the hottest show in town', the performance will be at the Octagon Theatre at 7.30pm. The Big Band's sound, feel and energy will be performed
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WOMAN HURT IN CHASE CRASH DRAMA
A WOMAN was injured when a stolen car struck her vehicle during a high-speed police chase in Weymouth. Shocked onlookers watched the incident from a nearby polling station as they waited to cast their vote in a council election. Police were chasing the
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My wife found she had breast cancer on Holby City
A CANCER sufferer who demanded a second opinion after seeing an episode of the television hospital drama Holby City was found to have an aggressive tumour, her husband said today. Souad Love, from Bridport, later died, aged 33, after a two-and-a-half
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Minnie Driver, Bournemouth Pavilion
HOLLYWOOD superstar Minnie Driver makes an unlikely stop in Bournemouth on October 30 as she launches a new career... as a singer. Minnie, whose debut album Everything I've Got In My Pocket is out now, has been booked as support on the Finn Brothers tour
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Relief road is 'no nearer'
WEYMOUTH'S long-awaited relief road is no nearer to being built than seven years ago, a senior councillor claimed. Hillary Cox told Dorset County Council's cabinet that progress on the £54.6 million road took "two steps back for every one forward". She
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Club slams decision on free fishing
A FISHING club has called the controversial decision to open up Ringwood's Millstream to all anglers free of charge "crazy" and now fears for the river's future. The town council has leased its right to fish sections of the stream between Pocket Park
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Gut feeling leads to ban
PLANNERS have backed a 'gut feeling' to reject further devel opment of a landslip-hit hous ing estate at Lyme Regis. Dismissing advice from their own experts, district councillors decid ed that developing plot 13 at Haye Gardens could spell more bad luck
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STOCK IS TIPPED FOR THE TOP
MARCUS Browning believes "the sky's the limit" for Cherries playmaker Brian Stock - providing he keeps his feet on the ground. Ever-present Stock has been a revelation in central midfield, playing a key role in Cherries' League One and Carling Cup success
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Web of fear
ACCORDING to yet another pointless survey, people are more scared of spiders than they are of terrorist attacks. This is perfectly understandable; after all, you're more likely to find a spider in your garden shed than you are Osama bin Laden. Although
