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Charity fun day at Dorchester's Antelope Walk
FAMILIES packed Antelope Walk to bursting point in Dorchester town centre for a charity fun day. They soaked up the sounds of music, made donations, watched demonstrations and enjoyed entertainment in the busy arcade between South Street and Trinity
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Dorchester Tennis Club's planned move hits the net
REVISED plans for a new tennis club in Dorchester have received a fresh volley of objections. Plans to relocate the Dorchester Tennis and Squash Club across Weymouth Avenue to a new building behind Kingdom Hall were rejected earlier in the year following
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Overflow emergency at Osmington Mills' beach
FAMILIES were faced with a sewage overflow emergency at a beach after a blockage at a pumping station. Waste flowed from an emergency overflow pipe into a stream above the beach at Osmington Mills, near Weymouth, on Saturday. The sewage
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'Positive' reaction to New Look's plans to expand Weymouth site
FASHION chain bosses have welcomed the ‘positive’ reaction to plans to redevelop their site – despite just 125 replies to a consultation exercise. New Look sent out 18,000 letters to residents and businesses about its proposals for its Mercery Road
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Toddler and pre-school children enjoy music in Bere Regis
Bere Regis LIZ Teather has been telling me all about the toddler music group she established in the village four years ago. Liz says: Music is a great pleasure to me, and I’ve never been stuck for something to sing to my children
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Cards and coffee morning raise over £100 for charity
PAT Lea, Violet Morrissey and Eamon Smyth sold cards at the Stella Maris One World Group coffee morning at St Augustine's church hall and raised over £100. These events are held on the first Saturday of each month from 10:30am until midday
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Great-gran still at wheel of combine harvester at Bere Regis farm
A GREAT grandmother is still putting her farming skills to good use behind the wheel of a combine harvester at the age of 82. Win Foot set this year’s harvest rolling at Haywards Farm in Bere Regis after 70 years of working on the land.
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Abbotsbury Ward is well run
I REFER to recent articles about the state of the NHS I have recently spent six days post operative in hospital. It was in a clean, bright, well run ward and patients were given help quickly when needed. The food was good and those who needed
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DCH issues must be addressed now
THE Dorset Echo report on the state of Dorset County Hospital raises a number of questions which urgently need to be addressed. Firstly, as a NHS Foundation Trust, the board of directors includes half a dozen or so ‘independent board members’ who are
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Watch the Olympic sailing on TV
ROLL on the Olympics. One thing though, sailing is not a spectator sport. The sight of the regular procession of sails bobbing along like a line of ducks circling unseen buoys out in the bay attracts little interest. One can see they
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Dorchester pair caught selling cocaine and heroin
A MOTHER and son from Dorchester were jailed for a total of seven and half years for dealing drugs. Zena Elizabeth Loader, 49, and Wayne Douglas Loader, 30, were found guilty of conspiracy to supply drugs following a trial at Dorchester Crown Court last
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Police sending a message to dealers
INSPECTOR Les Fry, of Dorchester Police, said after the case: “This is a really good result for the community and will send a message to all those people concerned in the supply of controlled drugs. “Dorset Police takes the supply of drugs very seriously
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Comeback for Cameron?
CAMERON Mawer could be set to embark on a third spell with the Terras. The versatile defender, who can also play in midfield, first joined Weymouth two years ago. But after an unsuccessful trial at Blue Square Bet Premier outfit Wrexham this summer,
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Derby win gives Vickers food for thought
ASHLEY Vickers admitted that Saturday’s 3-1 win over rivals Weymouth has given him food for thought ahead of the opening game of the season. The Magpies’ boss labelled his side’s first-half display as “poor” but a half-time rollicking and a handful of
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Haynes keeps his cool as Dorchester win
WIMBORNE & COLEHILL 189 (7pts) lost to Dorchester 184-7 (20pts) by three wickets (rain affected, Dorchester on revised target) LEE Haynes and Steve Gerety both scored half centuries as Dorchester put the disappointment of back-to-back defeats behind
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Payne pulls no punches after Seasiders' defeat
BLANDFORD 171-9 (18pts) beat WEYMOUTH 154 (10pts) by 17 runs EXASPERATED skipper Paul Payne cut straight to the chase following Weymouth’s latest defeat in the Dorset Premier League by admitting the Seasiders have no one to blame but themselves
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Senior: Bees are the real deal
BRIDPORT 2 BRADFORD TOWN 0 BULLISH Trevor Senior watched Bridport launch the new season in winning style and then announced: “We will be genuine promotion contenders.” A goal apiece from Chris Clarke and Ryan Dovell either side of half-time
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Weymouth couple's worries over police contact delay
A WEYMOUTH couple have been left frustrated by Dorset Police’s slow response times to their calls. The couple claim they spent 45 minutes on the phone, calling every 20 seconds before they were able to get through to report a set of missing
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GB team all set for Olympic ‘dress rehearsals’
ACTION begins today at the Skandia Sail for Gold regatta after months of anticipation by the world’s top sailors and windsurfers. Weymouth and Portland’s sailing stars are among the Team GB members looking to ‘stamp their authority’ on the Olympic waters
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Poor gating lets Bekker down
BYRON Bekker held his hands up and admitted that his slow gating was the reason for the Weymouth Weyline Wildcats’ downfall at the National League Best Pairs meeting at Newport. Bekker, who was teaming with James Cockle, kept giving himself too much
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'Weed invasion' facing Dorset Roads
WEEDS could sprout up through roads and pavements because county council bosses have axed preventative measures, claim Dorchester councillors and business leaders. They are calling for Dorset County Council to rethink its decision to cease highway weed