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It's mobile madness!
TWENTY years ago few of us had a mobile phone. That's not such a long time, yet earlier this year it was reported that there are now more mobiles than people in Britain. And if taking and making calls is about to become acceptable in the traditionally
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Ban for death crash driver
A TEENAGE drink driver involved in an accident that killed a Good Samaritan and paralysed another, received a driving ban on Tuesday. Scott Read, 19, of Churchill Road, Parkstone, was almost twice the drink/drive limit when he lost control of his car
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Vital plea for quake children
PAKISTAN is mourning a lost generation of children in the earthquake-devastated Kashmir area. Around 33,000 people are thought to have perished and millions were left homeless by the quake which flattened parts of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan on Saturday
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Football hooligans banned
THREE Swindon Town fans arrested after an "organised fight" with Cherries supporters in Bournemouth have been banned from matches for three years. Christopher Sawford, 26, Craig Tuck, 26, and Kevin Pike, were involved in clashes with AFC Bournemouth fans
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More roadworks on the way at busy road
SPEED cameras will be out in force and the Highways Agency has announced yet more roadworks on one of Dorset's most important roads. Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the A31 as the roadworks at Corfe Millen finish, the news comes of resurfacing
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Rescuer tells of quake struggle
RESCUE worker Ian Ablett today told how he helped pull two people alive from a destroyed block of flats in Pakistan. His team worked for 15 painstaking hours to rescue a 75-year-old grandmother and her 55-year-old daughter from the ruins of 10-storey
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Injury sparks rifle alert
A DELIVERY man believes he could have been shot with an air rifle. Ian Turner, thinks he was shot at as he unloaded Christmas cards after parking his van outside the post office in Broadmayne, near Dorchester. "I had just come out to the van and was opening
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Territorials' medals honour
TERRITORIAL Army soldiers from the Royal Wessex Yeomanry in Dorset have received campaign medals for service in Iraq from their Royal Honorary Colonel, the Earl of Wessex. A number of members of A (Dorset Yeomanry) Armour Replacement Squadron were mobilised
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Barnardo's boy tells all
BILL Cotton met his mother for the first time when he was 56 years old. But he never revealed his identity to her. Bill, who is now chairman of Bransgore Residents' Association, was a Barnardo's Boy and, with his two brothers, was taken into care at the
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MY GUN SIEGE TERROR
"'I'M going to torture and terrorise you for three days, because that's how long we'll be here before the police come in. So get comfy." Natasha Green told officers she thought she was going to die as her drug-crazed estranged husband ranted and threatened
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'He's made my life a living hell'
A NEIGHBOUR from hell who harassed a young pregnant mum has been served with an injunction by a County Court judge. David King had become so intolerant of everyday noise that he would bang on the ceiling with a walking stick if his neighbours flushed
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'Woman in mask' appears at awards
THE Bournemouth University graduate who became known as "the woman in the mask" following the 7/7 bombings made her first public appearance this week. Davinia Turrell, 24, presented an award at the Mirror's Pride of Britain Awards with Prime Minister
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Ghana role for £100,000 fundraiser
CHARITY fundraiser Sally Eastcott has made it her mission to raise vital funds needed to help ease the suffering of vulnerable children in Ghana. The 22-year-old from Swanage volunteered to help raise cash for international development charity Afrikids
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Leak's drop of late misfortune
CHRIS Leak's last-ditch drop-goal attempt nearly stole a victory for Swanage and Wareham in their Powergen South West Division Two East 10-10 draw at Windsor. With memories evoked of Johnny Wilkinson's kick that secured England's World Cup glory, sadly
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WHY IT'S BEST TO PLAN FOR WORST
FLOODING... fire... IT failure - could your business survive a major upheaval? Too many in Dorset and Hampshire may be ill-prepared, warn advisers. With natural disasters and arson increasingly hitting regional headlines, Business Link Wessex is urging
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GIG GUIDE (October 13-20)
THURSDAY OCTOBER 13 John Peel Day- Pocket Shotgun + Ten to Never + Tetra Fever + Grifter - Mr Kyps; Rubber Soul - Butcher Blues Foundation + Lostaura + The Safe House + Room 101 DJ's - O Neills, Bournemouth; Si Genaro and friends - The Salisbury Arms,
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Mr Vantastic
VAN MORRISON is to play Salisbury City Hall on November 4 The legendary singer songwriter and sometime saxophonist will arrive in the city for one of his celebrated nights of jazz, blues and R&B. The 60-year-old Belfast born musician first hit the
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POLICE IN RAID ON CRACK DEN
POLICE have closed down an alleged crack den in Weymouth for the first time - bringing to an end months of hell for neighbours. Workers boarded up the flat in Jenner Way, Littlemoor, after the premises were stormed by officers in riot gear backed up by
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Anger at wheelie bins 'madness'
A GROUP of islanders are up in arms after hundreds of wheelie bins were 'dumped' outside their terraced houses on Portland. Residents of Belle Vue Terrace on Portland were even more dismayed as they believed they were exempt from the controversial new
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Beloved by millions
A WRITER of the popular Rupert Bear comic strip and annuals has died in Dorchester. James Yorke Henderson, 80, of Somerleigh Road, passed away suddenly after suffering a heart attack at home. For 10 years he brought pleasure to millions of readers by
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Call for all villages to get 30mph limit
DORSET'S traffic management has been criticised because drivers are not automatically restricted to 30mph in the county's villages. A new survey, carried out by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), found that Dorset County Council receives requests
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£14,000 DVD is good value, says council
A CASH-strapped council in hot water with the government has mounted a spirited defence of a decision to spend £14,000 on a DVD. North Dorset District Council, which has been capped for its hike in council tax, splashed out on the DVD in a bid to hold
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Row continues after deal on coveted land
A COVETED strip of open space on the edge of Christchurch Harbour is to be reclaimed for public use. Owners Christchurch council have renegotiated consent for a neighbouring home owner to use a swathe of the jealously-guarded Tutton's Well site at Mudeford
