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Could you be Dorset Echo Child of the Year 2011?
WHO will be the Dorset Echo Child Of The Year for 2011? The Dorset Echo is launches its appeal to readers to put forward their children into our annual photographic competition. The competition is split into four different age categories
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New mediation service for Dorchester
A NEW free drop-in service for people who need help to resolve their disagreements is being offered in Dorchester from Wednesday. Mediation Dorset is a county-wide charity which was established in 1994 to support individuals, families, neighbours,
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Test House to let for the Games
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Dorset nurseries are in bloom at RHS Chelsea Flower Show
WORLD class growers from Dorset have been celebrating wins at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. More than 50 exhibitors were awarded prestigious gold medals, among them a nursery from Wimborne. Specialist nursery Knoll Gardens, at Hampreston, scooped
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Walkers at Radipole Lake see a bird suprise
NATURE lovers roused themselves at 5.30am to join staff and volunteers at RSPB Weymouth Wetlands for a dawn chorus walk around Radipole Lake. The walkers were witnesses to the sounds of warbles and other songbirds in full voice as well as being
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Charity cooking: Mark Hix issues Lyme Regis lifeboat challenge
CELEBRITY chef Mark Hix is giving his full backing to this year’s Lifeboat Week in Lyme Regis – by issuing a challenge to aspiring cooks. Mr Hix, whose restaurant Hix Oyster and Fish House overlooks the town’s harbour, is organising a competition to
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Charity cooking: Chef Lesley Waters rustles up dishes at Hive Cafe
CELEBRITY chef Lesley Waters rustled up three dishes in less than an hour to prove how easy raising money for Macmillan’s new fundraising venture can be. The cancer charity launched its Dine For Macmillan initiative and asked Lesley to be the
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Tess takes up chains of office in Dorchester
DORCHESTER’S new mayor has officially taken up her role. Tess James was presented with her mayoral robe and chain at a mayor making ceremony at Dorchester’s Corn Exchange. It was an emotional night for her predecessor Les Phillips, who stepped down
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Weymouth police bidding to return seized bikes
THE owners of three bikes that were seized in Weymouth are being sought by Dorset Police. The bikes were recovered from an address in St Mary Street in the town centre and it is hoped members of the public will be able to reunite them with their owners
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Volunteers get 2012 Olympic Games training
FUTURE ambassadors for the borough have been trained up to assist with the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic sailing events. The final part of a two-day ‘Introduction to Event Stewarding’ took place at Weyline Lounge at Weymouth Football Club, Bob
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Dibley star's open date in Dorchester
VICAR of Dibley star Trevor Peacock will officially declare the garden at Dorchester’s Greenwood Centre open on June 9. The actor, who played Jim Trott in the BBC television series, will be at the centre for independent living in Maiden Castle Road for
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£6k up for grabs in Echo competition
APPLICATIONS have started to come in for the School Build Challenge, with schools competing to win part of a £6,000 makeover. The Dorset Echo has teamed up with construction company Leadbitter to offer schools the chance to win an outdoor project to
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Owner of dog mauled in Dorchester now in hospital
A DOG owner who saw her pet mauled to death said the trauma led to her collapsing and being hospitalised. Pauline Burgess was trying to recover from seeing her beloved Jack Russell Toby killed by another dog when she collapsed and is now on
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We need a song
Every year the National Pensioners Convention hosts a Pensioners Parliment at Blackpool Winter Gardens. Most groups use their county song to identify their region. Yorkshire sing On Ilkley Moor Bah Tat or My Girl’s A Yorkshire Girl. Lancashire sing
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Olympics 2012: Portland paralympic star tipped to represent GB
SURVIVING meningitis and a life-saving operation to amputate his lower legs was a blessing in disguise for 2012 hopeful Steve Thomas. The Paralympic sailing star, who is tipped to represent Great Britain in the Sonar keelboat class, was a promising rugby
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Subsidies to stay
I would like to correct a few points made in Susann Palmer’s letter (‘Cuts to disability service a disgrace’, Echo, May 17). First, despite the massive cuts in Government funding, Dorset County Council will not be withdrawing subsidies for transport
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Pension poser
PEOPLE aged 56 or 57 (or indeed younger) are going to be hit hard by the Government’s plan to speed up increases to the State pension Age (SPA). SPA was scheduled to increase to 65 for women by 2020 and to 66 for both men and women by 2026.
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A strange law
So, now we have it, a dog on a lead can savage another dog to death and yet it is not within the dog warden’s remit to take any action against the owners of this dog. Presumably it follows that as long as your dog is on a lead it matters not a jot how
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Rulings on dogs in need of change
I REFER to the story ‘Mauled to death’ (Echo, May 23) about a Jack Russell dog killed by a bigger dog in Dorchester’s Borough Gar-dens last weekend. Pauline Burgess, I am sorry for your loss and for the fact that the perpetrator, and its owners, are
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Prince's Poundbury visit is a coup for Magna
POUNDBURY workers will be getting a special visit from Prince Charles. His Royal Highness will be visiting the urban development that he helped to design tomorrow. He will be going to a reception at Brownsword Hall to meet visitors who have been on
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Weymouth road rage: Campaigner's call to bring back roundabouts
A CAMPAIGNER is calling on people to join him in the fight to bring back roundabouts on Weymouth’s roads. Ian Brooke wants to drum up support for a campaign to reinstate the roundabouts in town that were removed and replaced with traffic lights
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Weymouth road rage: Keep up to date with the work online
ROUNDABOUTS are being replaced by traffic lights as part of the £16m Weymouth Transport Package, a series of improvements in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics. The programme of works has been running since last summer. Boot Hill, the Harbour
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Weymouth road rage: Council are investigating long delays
A Dorset County Council spokeswoman said there were ‘unusually long delays’ on Buxton Road and Rodwell Road on one particular day and traffic control engineers are investigating why this happened. She added: “Since the SCOOT system (the
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Weymouth road rage: Motorists claim traffic queues are 'worse than ever'
MOTORISTS and business owners say they are being driven crazy by Weymouth’s new traffic system which they claim are making queues ‘worse than ever.’ They say that the new traffic lights, which replaced roundabouts, have resulted in gridlock
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Con artists target cash machines in Weymouth town centre
HUNDREDS of people may have become victims of a hi-tech ‘skimming’ fraud after cash machines in Weymouth were tampered with. Evidence has emerged of a gang cloning bank cards and making unauthorised transactions. More than 50 customers have contacted
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Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir returns to Dorchester
BOURNEMOUTH Sinfonietta Choir is returning to Dorchester to sing J S Bach’s Mass in B minor in St Mary’s Church. The Mass in B minor is widely regarded as one of the supreme creations of classical music. It was composed over a number of years and was
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Artwey is the right way
WITH the bank holiday weekend approaching, artists and other craftspeople from all over west Dorset are preparing to hold their annual spring Open Studios event. Across Weymouth and Portland, members of the Artwey co-operative are holding their third
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Computer scammers are still operating in Dorset
FRAUDSTERS who trick computer owners out of hundreds of pounds are operating in Dorset again. Police have received recent reports of a scam in which members of the public receive calls or emails warning them they have a problem with their computer.
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Woman carrying paint tin is barred from boarding bus at Weymouth station
A PASSENGER got the brush off when she tried to board a bus with a can of paint. Annie Elliott was astounded to be told she couldn’t get on the vehicle because the paint was a fire risk – even though it was water-based emulsion. She was told by one
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Dickenson raring to go for Magpies
FOR new recruit Ben Dickenson, the 2011/12 campaign cannot come quick enough. The teenager has been kicking his heels for the last month after ending the Wessex Premier League campaign on April 26 with the winning goal in Christchurch’s 1-0 victory over
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New Terras' boss to arrive in ‘few days’
WEYMOUTH hope to have a new manager in place in “the next few days”. Martyn Rogers departed last Friday by mutual consent and his assistant Brendon King, formerly in charge of the Terras’ reserve side, is believed to be the frontrunner for the vacant
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Triangle Proffitts
PORTLAND RED TRIANGLE 235-7 (20pts) beat CATTISTOCK 199 (8pts) by 36 runs A SUPERB all-round performance from Simon Proffitt enabled Portland Red Triangle to secure maximum points for the second Dorset League Division Three game in a row. Batting
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Ex-Saint will add extra power and aggression
MARK Wolstenholme will make his debut for Dorset tomorrow when they take on the Gloucester-shire Gladiators in a Twenty20 match at Sherborne School (5pm). The experienced all-rounder has joined the Dean Park outfit from Northampton Saints and is expected
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Joslin's healthy dilemma
DORCHESTER SECONDS 151-5 (20pts) beat FERNDOWN WAYFARERS SECONDS 150 (6pts) by five wickets. SECOND team co-captain Simon Joslin is encouraged by this victory but is refusing to get carried away with his side’s promotion hopes. Dorchester’s win sets
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Fishing Around: Fergie’s date with destiny
PARAPHRASING the President of the United States, Mr Barack Obama, my message to Manchester United fans is loud and clear: “YES, YOU CAN!” And it won’t be a pint of Guinness but a crate of vintage champagne Sir Alex Ferguson and his team will be popping
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Senior has no desire for a Terras return
TREVOR Senior has ruled himself out of the running for the vacant hot-seat at Weymouth. The Bob Lucas Stadium outfit are on the hunt for a new manager following last week’s departure of Martyn Rogers. Forty-eight-year-old Senior was appointed joint-caretaker
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Magpies boosted by Trust support
DORCHESTER Town Supporters Trust has increased its shareholding in Dorchester Town FC to 6,700 shares following an additional end of season investment of £1,000 in the county town club. The Trust, which was officially launched in July 2009, has also
