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DO SIGNS POINT TO FUEL CRISIS?
MOTORISTS are getting hit in the wallet as petrol prices hurtle towards the pychologically important £1 barrier and the threat of a national blockade looms. Would you support a fuel blockade? Click here to vote in this week's poll. According to petrol
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Spring is in the air for ambulance
NO ONE in Hampshire will be more than 19 minutes from emergency medical treatment from early next summer when Hampshire Air Ambulance service takes off. That is the promise made to New Milton Town Council by Nicola Howkins of Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance
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Residents will keep up battle against flats bid
HIGHCLIFFE residents have not given up their fight to stop a four-storey retirement complex being built beside the village recreation ground. Despite opposition from council planners who twice refused the scheme and local residents who packed a public
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Nurse told no rounds on bicycle
A DISTRICT nurse was due to meet bosses at Bournemouth Teaching Primary Care Trust on September 8 to find out if she can carry on covering her rounds by bicycle. Managers told Kathy Archer, who has been cycling between patients for a month, to get off
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It's the end of the road for Gardens
COUNCIL chiefs voted to demolish the Winter Gardens on Wednesday night after one cabinet member urged: "The sooner we make this decision, the better." Deputy leader Cllr Adrian Fudge said he believed Bournemouth residents were sick and tired of the indecision
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Man dies three days after dive
A 40-year-old Lulworth man has died in hospital three days after a dive on the wreck of the Salsette in Lyme Bay. The experienced diver surfaced unconscious following what otherwise appeared to be a normal dive on Friday, September 2. He was taken by
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This week's gig guide (September 8 - 15)
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 8 The Acoustic Strawbs + The Worrydolls - Mr Kyps; Rubber Soul - Cold Earth + Case + Henry's Phonograph - O Neills, Bournemouth; Jazz - Twenty, Bournemouth; The Chicago jazz Aces - The White Buck, Burley; Lady Winwood's Maggot - The
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Sculptor hails new spot fines
SAND sculptor Mark Anderson has praised on-the-spot fines for yobs who have been causing havoc. Police in Dorset have issued 1,350 fines in the past year in a bid to stamp out anti-social behaviour. The latest penalty ticket for £80 was given to a 21-
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Councillor wins battle over her historic home
A COUNCILLOR and her husband have won their battle to retain a new look to their Tudor period home despite carrying out building work without planning consent. Planning officers had wanted councillors to refuse permission for the rendering and masonry
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Speeding images won't go on web
DORSET Safety Camera Partnership say they have no plans to provide instant photographic evidence on the web of motorists caught speeding. Wiltshire and Swindon Safety Camera Partnership has launched the UK's first website to make speeding evidence available
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A dream holiday at hotel for Alan
AS a teenager Alan Brackstone dreamed of rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous who flocked to the Sandbanks Hotel in the 1940s. In those days Poole was the Majorca of post-war Britain and the five-star hotel attracted a host of stars like Jack Warner
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IT'S YOUR FUTURE
HUNDREDS of jobs are on offer today at day two of the Daily Echo/RIAS Future 2005 Recruitment Exhibition. Employers from across the area are recruiting vital staff at the two-day exhibition which continues on September 8 at Bournemouth's Metro Palace
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TOWN PUB WINS 3AM LICENCE
COUNCILLORS have refused permission for a new pub in Weymouth town centre - while backing a 3am licence for another just yards away. Members of Weymouth and Portland Borough Council's planning committee turned down a scheme to turn the former Courts furniture
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Bench marks the spot for town's drugtakers
A BENCH which was erected in memory of a community leader who died prematurely has been used for drug taking, it has emerged. The wooden seat attracts noisy youngsters who indulge in anti-social behaviour right outside Blandford Hospital. Things have
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DO SIGNS POINT TO FUEL CRISIS?
MOTORISTS are getting hit in the wallet as petrol prices hurtle towards the pychologically important £1 barrier and the threat of a national blockade looms. Would you support a fuel blockade? Click here to vote in this week's poll. According to petrol
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Stars of the steam
A 1920s steam locomotive which has taken volunteers 26 years and £200,000 to restore will be the star of this weekend's Swanage Railway steam gala. The annual feast of steam takes place on the relaid Purbeck Line on Saturday, September 10 and Sunday,
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The Wright way to do it!
TEAM GBR member Ed Wright of Bournemouth showed the way when Finn and Solo sailors at Christchurch Sailing Club competed against some of the country's best at the club's combined open meeting in the bay at the weekend. The Finn helms, several of them
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Mixed reception for speed humps plan
AROUND 200 people packed a meeting in Ferndown when controversial plans to install 23 speed humps in a busy road came under the spotlight. Supporters and opponents of Dorset County Council's £60,000 scheme for the mile-and-a-quarter stretch of Golf Links
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Council query siting of masts
PHONE masts will need top level approval in future before being allowed on any county council-owned building. Dorset County Council's cabinet decided that any applications for the masts to be put on their own buildings should be referred to them for decision
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She's lucky to be alive
A CAMERAMAN has told how his daughter is lucky to be alive after she was injured in an accident with a car in a Weymouth road. Caitlin Robins, 11, of Hardy Avenue, was left with a fractured scull and hip following the accident in Radipole Park Drive at
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Another month for crisis club
A CLUB threatened with closure has been granted a stay of execution following an emergency meeting. A total of 68 members of the Weymouth Royal British Legion turned up at the meeting to voice concern over plans to shut the King Street club. It was called
