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Woman's body found at house
POLICE launched a major investigation after a woman's body was discovered at a house in the Boscombe area of Bournemouth. They cordoned off the pavement and put up a tent on the forecourt of the Gladstone Road East property so that forensic experts could
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Housing on hotel site plans get boot
UNPOPULAR plans to tear down a hotel and replace it with housing have been thrown out. Developers wanted to build seven houses and five flats - four affordable - on the site of Hambury Hotel in West Lulworth. But planning chiefs at a Purbeck District
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CREDIT RATINGS ARE IN JEOPARDY, FEARS
AN estimated 600,000 people are potentially damaging their credit rating each year by being turned down for financial products they have applied for online, it is feared. About 52,000 online applications for loans, mortgages and credit cards are rejected
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Taxi firm is fuelled by girl power
ROSIE Plumley scoffs at Formula 1 star Jenson Button's suggestion that women can't drive. In fact this local grandmother is so sure of their competence that she's set up a taxi firm in Ferndown employing only women. It might put you in mind of the film
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OIL BOSS 'FEARED FOR HIS LIFE'
A MILLIONAIRE oil company boss feared for his life just weeks before dying in a horrific helicopter fireball, an inquest heard. Stephen Curtis, 45, of Pennsylvania Castle, Portland, had to be identified using DNA testing because his body was so badly
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Couple celebrate a double century
DORSET'S longest married couple are today celebrating a combined age of 200. Harold and Lucy Allgood, from Weymouth, received their third telegram from the Queen - this time to mark Mrs Allgood's 100th birthday today. The remarkable duo celebrated Mr
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New date set for big green festival
A NEW date has been set for a green festival close to the famous Cerne Abbas giant. The Earthwise 2005 festival was postponed in August, organisers said, because of 'circumstances beyond our control'. But they have just announced a new date for the event
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No sign of flying pigs in Blandford
FLYING pigs, the Balkans and the 38th parallel all got a mention during an at times acrimonious debate on the future of Blandford. But the result went much as expected with district councillors voting to keep Blandford St Mary separate from her bigger
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Town faces £400,000 shortfall in revenue
COUNCIL tax payers in Christchurch are being canvassed for their views as the borough heads for an estimated £400,000 shortfall on its budget for next year. Extra burdens placed by government on the council like free travel for pensioners and increased
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SABOTAGE OR LOSS OF CONTROL?
SABOTAGE? Or a tragic case of a pilot losing control? The helicopter crash which killed a millionaire businessman and his pilot had "all the ingredients of an espionage thriller", a coroner said on Monday. An inquest jury at Bournemouth Crown Court was
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Back to the future for Pier Approach?
BOSSES of Bournemouth's IMAX plan to ask architects to look at the possibility of transforming the building into an indoor swimming pool. The idea of reducing the height of the controversial Waterfront complex and turning it into a pool is being championed
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No smoking trial at new-look BIC
SMOKING is being stubbed out at the BIC and Pavilion, despite the council's uncertainty on whether to proceed with a blanket ban. Councillors and union members agreed last week to wait for the results of a staff consultation process before deciding whether
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At last - penalty may fit the crime
ROAD safety campaigners in Dorset are today claiming a victory in the battle to serve tougher penalties on drivers who kill. The Government has amended its road safety bill to create a new offence of causing death by careless or inconsiderate driving
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Backing for bid to protect war graves
UNDERWATER war graves off the Dorset coast may be given official protection in a High Court ruling. The move could affect divers and salvage operators who would be barred from entering the wrecks of military and merchant vessels sunk during war service
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'Please save our precious tracks'
CAMPAIGNERS in the Piddle Valley fear that bridleways and other rights of way could be ruined forever if they are redesignated as byways. Dorset County Council is considering several proposals to redesignate the tracks as byways open to all traffic, which
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Chemical alert after boys suffer burns
FOUR boys from New Milton suffered itchy rashes and sparked a major chemical alert when they found a drum rolling around in the surf at Barton-on-sea. Curtis Etheridge, Ashley Hellebrand, Callum Thomas and a friend went out on Friday afternoon. "We saw
