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Keen gardeners support local plant sale
THE ANNUAL plant sale at the Scutt hall attracted a large crowd of keen gardeners not only searching for additions to their gardens but for some sound advice as well. There were plenty of both on offer, as well as the chance to meet old friends over
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Ritz crackers!
VILLAGERS dusted off their dancing shoes for a great fun Tea at the Ritz event in Maiden Newton Village Hall. The Maiden Newton at War fundraising team staged the event to raise money for the second extravaganza, due to be held next summer. Dance teachers
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TV advert inspires street dancing in Weymouth
STUDENTS pretending to be shoppers, tramps and builders suddenly burst into dance in the street. Six Weymouth College drama students re-enacted the ‘famous’ mobile phone advert as a dance project in Weymouth town centre. Lunchtime shoppers were surprised
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Double success for Echo reporter Miriam
Dorset Echo reporter Miriam Phillips has achieved double success as the region’s leading young journalist. For the second year running she collected the Jane Hayward Memorial Trophy for the Young Journalist of the Year in the annual Hammond / Whiteley
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Weymouth taxi driver's fancy dress effort for town charity
THERE’S a salty sea dog abroad in Weymouth demanding treasure from the locals. But there’s no need to start shivering your timbers – it’s just taxi driver Jock Brodie doing his best Jack Sparrow impression for charity. Jock has been driving his cab
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Red tape is holding up Weymouth town centre investment says businessman
A BUSINESSMAN has blasted the council for delaying much-needed investment in Wey-mouth town centre with ‘trivial’ red tape. Just weeks after the Echo turned the spotlight on the decline of the town centre, Bob Rezaei is growing frustrated at being unable
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Dorset Beach Clean students fill 10 sacks in 100 metres
STUDENTS tidying up a 100-metre stretch of Chesil Beach filled 10 sacks with 2,060 pieces of rubbish. A car bumper, 679 pieces of rope and 213 fishing nets were among the litter collected by the marine ecology and conservation students from
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Lawrence of Arabia's headdress up for auction
AN ARABIAN headdress believed to have been worn by TE Lawrence is expected to create plenty of interest at a vintage clothing auction in Dorchester. The Keffiyah has been put up for sale by a private vendor and it is claimed it once belonged to Lawrence
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Weymouth Quayside ready for two-day bank holiday music festival
A TWO-DAY free music festival aims to have them rocking along he quayside this weekend. The festival, organised by the Rendezvous bar in Weymouth, is set to feature the ‘cream of the crop of local bands’. The live music weekend will take place instead
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Let's scrap ALL of Dorset's local government for one new authority
We have all been bombarded with the gory details of outrageous expenditure by our elected representatives at the Palace of Westminster. Rightly so they are being taken to task for their felonious activities at the expense of us tax payers. This brings
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Little tern colony on Chesil Beach under threat
THE colony of little terns nesting at Chesil Beach is under ‘dire’ threat from being lost forever. The familiar sea birds have returned to their summer home alongside the car park at Ferrybridge to prepare for the nesting season. Numbers
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New curtains for village hall
The OLD School Village Hall has some beautiful new curtains! Floor length, or almost, they’re a soft green which enhances the creamy walls and beige floor, and most certainly they will make a much-needed difference to the acoustics. We’re very pleased
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Time to vote for Dorchester Carnival Queen
VYING for the title of Dorchester Carnival Queen are three very different women. They are all hoping to win your vote and serve as an ambassador for the town over the next year. Judges picked three finalists in the first round of the
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Weymouth serial burglar jailed after raid on day centre
A SERIAL burglar who stole from a centre for adults with learning difficulties has been jailed for three and a half years. Jason Colin Thorpe, 38, begged a judge not to jail him and said that his upbringing led him into a long-term heroin addiction.
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Weymouth musician donates body to scioence after dying from rare disease
A MUSICIAN who died of an extremely rare condition has given his body to help unearth a cure for the disease. Rick Hammond, guitarist and singer with acoustic band Eye, was just 41 when he died from a nasopharyngeal cancer earlier this month. He had
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Anger as 11 jobs are lost at Portland Spa Hotel
A BUSINESS owner who has been left with unpaid bills of more than £100,000 after Portland Spa Hotel went into administration said his situation is ‘sickening’. It comes as 11 staff were made redundant yesterday, just three days after Portland
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Groves released by Spitfires
FORMER Dorchester Town striker Matt Groves has been released by Blue Square South rivals Eastleigh. The 27-year-old has been linked with a return to the Magpies as player-boss Roy O’Brien and his assistant Ashley Vickers look to shape their squad for
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Matty's back
WEYMOUTH will unveil former player Matty Hale and ex-Queens Park Rangers defender Andy Tillson as their new management team at a Press conference at the Wessex Stadium at midday today. Hale will take over as first-team boss with Tillson acting as his
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Chickens out to stop red-hot Wincanton
CHICKERELL will have to be on top form to overcome free-scoring Wincanton Town at Moor Lane this evening according to Chickens’ boss Maurice Welch. United need to win their last two games to claim runners-up spot in the Dorset Premier League but with
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Adam is top of the Hox
ADAM Hoxey was the big winner at Weymouth Rugby Club’s end of season celebration. Hoxey’s work-rate, dedication and overall effort helped him scoop the Player of the Year award, which was presented by outgoing first-team skipper Tony Worle. Worle
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Ryan's heroes
WEYMOUTH SECONDS 205-6 (18pts) beat HAMWORTHY RECREATION 185-7 (11pts) by 20 runs WEYMOUTH Seconds’ skipper John Ryan hailed his side’s victory over Hamworthy Recreation at Redlands as a magnificent team performance after a dogged display in the
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Gas explosion fears bring Weymouth town centre to standstill
WEYMOUTH town centre was brought to a standstill amid fears of a gas explosion. Emergency crews were called to Kwik-Fit on the Jubilee Retail Park after two cylinders, one containing oxygen and the other a ‘highly-explosive’ acetylene gas, toppled and
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Ian's Euro-vision
WEYMOUTH duathlete Ian Cardy is gearing up to represent Great Britain on Sunday in the European Championships. The 37-year-old, who works for Dorset County Council as a senior architect, will be lining up among a high-quality international field in Budapest
