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HOUSETRAP
BOURNEMOUTH is the second least affordable place in the country, with less than half of young working families able to scrape together a mortgage for the cheapest homes here, according to a new study. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation report revealed that
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Ex-drug addict gets Britain's Pride award
A FORMER drug addict who turned his life around to start up his own business in Bournemouth has received a Pride of Britain award. Just six years ago Mark Johnson was living rough on the streets of London and begging for money to fuel his drug and alcohol
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Voluntary bid to teach new country skills
THE National Trust has set up a new volunteer group in Purbeck and is appealing for members to help carry out conservation and maintenance tasks. It began last week at Ballard Down and the group will meet every other Sunday and Wednesday. Volunteers will
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Tobacc-NO!
ANTI-smoking groups and health chiefs in Poole believe Tony Blair should go all the way with a total smoking ban. The Prime Minister this week backed Health Minister Patricia Hewitt's plan for a tougher ban on smoking - a U-turn on the government's pre-election
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Trader fears for future with market in town
A LONG-ESTABLISHED Ferndown trader has expressed "deep concern" over plans for a market in the town. Members of the chamber of trade are looking into introducing some form of market in a bid to attract more shoppers. They insist it will not compete with
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Commission is flooded by stream of complaints
FORESTRY Commission ecologists have been accused of reneging on an agreement with New Forest commoners over wetland restoration work at Markway Lawn. The Forestry Commission and partnership organisations involved in the European Union-funded Life 3 project
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Town in row over homes
IF you want new housing you won't get it - but if you don't want it, you will have housing thrust upon you. That seems to be the message coming from government, it is claimed. A Dorset market town which desperately needs housing is set to lose 700 new
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YOU WILL BE GOOD TO BENEFICIARIES
MORE than 70 per cent of people risk bequeathing big tax burdens to their loved ones because their wills are out of date, warn accountants. "Our recent study revealed that only 29 per cent of those surveyed had reviewed the details of their wills during
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Planners set to block garage development
TOWN hall planners are set to throw a spanner in the works for a garage boss trying to redevelop his filling station in the centre of Christchurch. Proprietor Bob Miles is hoping it will be third time lucky when his latest plans for the Priory Motor Works
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Volunteer's terror as quake hits
A DORSET volunteer had a terrifying experience when Saturday morning's south Asia earthquake shook the area of northern India where she is staying. Former Parkstone Grammar School pupil Georgina Codd, 18, is on a six-month placement in the Tibetan enclave
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Dorset Muslims join earthquake aid push
MEMBERS of the Muslim community in Bournemouth are rallying round to send aid to friends, family and fellow worshippers in Pakistan after the weekend's devastating earthquake. Bournemouth Islamic Centre and Central Mosque in St Stephen's Road will be
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Voluntary bid to teach new country skills
THE National Trust has set up a new volunteer group in Purbeck and is appealing for members to help carry out conservation and maintenance tasks. It began last week at Ballard Down and the group will meet every other Sunday and Wednesday. Volunteers will
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Inquest opens into armed siege death
AN INQUEST opens today into the death of a man found with a gunshot wound after a four-day armed siege in a Parkstone home. Paul Green, 44, died on May 5 last year, after barricading himself inside a house in Haskells Road with a shotgun. A postmortem
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Planners set to block garage development
TOWN hall planners are set to throw a spanner in the works for a garage boss trying to redevelop his filling station in the centre of Christchurch. Proprietor Bob Miles is hoping it will be third time lucky when his latest plans for the Priory Motor Works
