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HOW CAN WE TRUST AGAIN?
AN INVESTIGATION has been launched by police and social services after the family of a profoundly disabled man claimed he came home from respite care with three toenails and a fingernail ripped out. Jamie McManus, 30, has Down's syndrome and is unable
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Send Chloe on a dream holiday
A FAMILY from Canford Heath want to send their five-year-old daughter Chloe Anderson on a dream holiday after a life-saving operation leaving her breathing with the help of a tube. This week the youngster returned to Poole Hospital after a two-hour tracheotomy
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ANT IN CHECK
PIRATES star Antonio Lindback has admitted he is still 'only' aiming for a top 10 finish in the World Championship Grand Prix despite labelling his first round display as "unbelievable." The Rio Rocket astonished the speedway world when he reached the
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RUSSELL'S OVER THE MOON NOW
DISABLED teenager Russell Dabbs' dream came true when he was taken to meet his Manchester United heroes. Football-mad Russell 16, from Weymouth, was overjoyed at coming face to face with his idols including Ryan Giggs, Rio Ferdinand and Wes Brown at the
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Punch and Judy man knocks show on head
PROFESSOR Guy Higgins has knocked his Punch and Judy shows on the head after 30 years of entertaining children on Weymouth beach. Following a bout of ill health last year doctors told the 71-year-old 'that's not the way to do it' and suggested retirement
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Operation for 'bionic' arm was success
THE world-beating operation to give a Poole woman a "bionic" arm implant was yesterday declared a success. Fran Read, 46, who was left partially paralysed following a stroke, had the operation at Southampton General Hospital. She will spend the next three
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ANT IN CHECK
PIRATES star Antonio Lindback has admitted he is still 'only' aiming for a top 10 finish in the World Championship Grand Prix despite labelling his first round display as "unbelievable." The Rio Rocket astonished the speedway world when he reached the
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Fresh bid to transform town centre
PLANS to transform part of Dorchester town centre are set to move a step closer. Redeveloping the Charles Street area has been discussed on and off for more than 30 years. West Dorset District Council is preparing to ask potential developers to come forward
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Centre car park will reopen fully in days
THE bosses of Castlepoint shopping centre say they are hoping to have the entire car park fully reopen by the end of next week. Health and safety inspectors are currently examining remedial work carried out on the troubled lower deck car park to see how
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Kenya job is great but it ain't half hot mum!
FORMER Bridport schoolboy Bill Harvey has landed one of the hottest jobs in the British Army - as a warrant officer stationed in Kenya. The married soldier is battling temperatures as high as 26 degrees Celsius in the shade as he serves with the Royal
