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Free blood pressure checks in Dorset
FREE blood pressure checks and demonstrations of self-checking monitors are being carried out at pressure stations around Dorset. A study in Dorset last year showed that of 146 people that were tested 26 per cent had high blood pressure and never even
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Portland couple celebrate their golden anniversary
A BLIND date at the cinema resulted in a lasting love for a Portland couple who celebrate a golden milestone today. Ian and Betty Stone were set up by friends as teenagers and their relationship has gone from strength to strength with ‘laughter and equality
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Mass dive attempt at Swanage has been sunk
A WORLD record mass dive attempt, set for the Dorset Coast this month has been cancelled at the eleventh hour. Organiser Jason Haiselden had worked tirelessly in a bid to smash the existing record but he was forced to pull the plug because of a lack
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MP Drax to pack shopping for charity
A FUNDRAISER has found herself an influential bag-packing assistant to encourage donations from supermarket shoppers today on Portland. South Dorset MP Richard Drax will be helping Pauline Lewington to pack shopping bags at Tesco superstore in Easton
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Scene from Thomas Hardy novel recreated in his Dorset home
A CLASSIC scene from a Thomas Hardy novel has been recreated in the home where the Dorset writer was born. National Trust curator James Grasby set out to re-enact a Christmas party mentioned in Hardy’s Under the Greenwood Tree at his birthplace at Higher
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North Dorset talk on developing a super-bee
RENOWNED beekeeper and researcher Ron Hoskins will tell how he has been helping to develop a strain of ‘super-bee’ that can protect itself from a deadly parasite that is wiping out colonies. Mr Hoskins will deliver a lecture as a guest of a
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Open 4 Business finalists announced
The finalists of the South & West Dorset Open 4 Business Awards have been selected. THE OPEN 4 BUSINESS FINALISTS 1.Small Business sponsored by Hive Beach Café Jalopy Pizza, Bridport Wessex Echoheat Ltd, Bridport 2.Learning in
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Win a dream wedding for just £1 and raise funds for Dorset County Hospital
LOVED-UP couples can still win their dream wedding for just £1. A fundraising venture for Dorset County Hospital’s Digital Mammography Appeal has seen local businesses club together to offer the complete wedding package as a raffle prize
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Abandoned cats found on Dorset roadside
ANIMAL workers are appealing for information after 12 cats and kittens were found dumped by the side of a road in Dorset. The RSPCA said the animals were found by a resident in a lay-by on the A3030 at North Wooten, near Sherborne. They had been left
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Weymouth residents suffer unheralded rash of mosquito attacks
WEYMOUTH pharmacies claim they are seeing an overwhelming number of customers coming in with large, inflamed mosquito bites. It comes as the national level of mosquitoes has risen considerably in the last few months – uncharacteristic for this
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Council calls for your views on development and growth in West Dorset
Residents and people working in West Dorset have until today to register to give their views on how the need for growth and development within the district should be met. West Dorset District Council is hosting a number of public consultation events
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£50m Weymouth village: Residents have mixed reactions
REACTIONS to the plans have been mixed. Some residents expressed concerns about the access from the old Qinetiq site through to Brewers Quay while others welcomed the chance of regeneration for the ex-MOD site. The old MOD site was used
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£50m Weymouth village: Complex planned for over-55s
A £50million village for the over-55s is being planned for the heart of Weymouth. The major development at the former MoD site at Bincleaves, could bring in up to 200 new jobs, according to the company behind the scheme. The complex
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£50m Weymouth village: Company behind scheme
NEW Care Horizons Ltd’s website states that it has been established to “take a leading role” at the forefront of the care revolution which is necessary for the 21st century. It adds: “We are living in a society which is living longer, and demographically
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£50m Weymouth village: Scheme would create 200 jobs
The company behind the scheme said that the village will provide around 200 new permanent jobs in a variety of roles and professions. It envisages around 190 high specification care capable apartments in the development. In addition there will
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Dorset County Council vows to solve school bus run crisis
Dorset County Council has vowed to put an end to school bus chaos. Students at schools across the county had been faced a battle to get to schools and colleges as buses have been turning up late or in some cases not at all. Pupils have
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A celebration of Spencer Bates
IT is a truth universally acknowledged, to paraphrase Steve Austin, that musicians down this way are a generous bunch, always keen to help people out by using their undoubted talents to aid a worthy cause. Why, just the other day I was standing
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Housing shortfall
The Shelter Local Housing Watch website says of Weymouth and Portland at 2010: “You would have to earn £41,177 per year to afford to buy an average-priced house in your area. “There are 3,874 households on the waiting list for affordable housing in
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A bird in the hand
My wife feeds the garden birds, but of late, to add to her ever growing list of “guess what I’ve seen” comments, she now claims (and I’ve seen for myself), up to 12 collared doves arrive and feed throughout the day. One can only presume this could go
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Paying my respects
I was interested to read the article in the Echo about Portland House which was donated to the National Trust. The beautiful house and grounds were donated by Miss Dorothy Bushby. She was an active member of Wyke Regis WI and generously
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Office move was not public debate
The leader of WDDC, Coun Robert Gould, sent a message to John Grantham’s meeting (held in the Corn Exchange on Friday, September 2, 2011) which included a very questionable assertion. He stated: “These issues have been the subject of extensive public
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Blaze probe: Four rural fires in Dorchester and Sherborne area
POLICE are looking into four rural fires in the Dorchester and Sherborne area. A trailer of straw was burnt sometime after 9am on Wednesday in Wanchard Lane in Charminster before the barn fire happened at Lower Burton at 7.30pm. Then
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Blaze probe: CSI team at probe Lower Burton barn
CRIME scene investigators are probing a barn fire that caused hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of damage with police also checking three other blazes. Farmer Brian Lock told how his new £150,000 combine harvester, a tractor, trailer, plough
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Dumped dog Ginger returns to Bridport one year on
A YEAR after Ginger the dog was dumped in Weymouth she returned to thank her rescue heroes. The loveable hound was reunited with people who helped her when she visited Woodlands Farm Strays near Bridport with new owner John Steele. CCTV footage captured
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Terras seal deal for Duff
CRAIG Duff has become the latest new addition to the Terras’ squad and will be available for tomorrow’s FA Cup first qualifying round clash at home to Taunton Town (3pm). The midfielder has joined the Evo-Stik Southern Premier outfit on non-contract
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Magpies swoop for full-back
SWIFTLY following Nick Jordan through the Avenue Stadium entrance is Portsmouth teenager Lewis Tallack. The 18-year-old full-back has joined the Magpies on a month’s loan – just 24 hours after Jordan made a similar switch from rivals Weymouth – and goes
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Watts to leave Bridport due to work commitments
TREVOR Senior has been hit by another setback with the news that Darren Watts is preparing to leave the club due to work commitments. As a consequence, the Bridport manager left the creative midfielder out of his starting line-up in last Saturday’s
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DPL PREVIEWS: Unsatisfactory start for Portland
DESPITE sitting two points adrift of leaders Westland Sports, Portland United boss Stuart Heath declared his side’s start to the season as less than satisfactory. The Blues, beaten at home by fellow high-fliers Wincan-ton Town last weekend
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DSL PREVIEWS: Alcock expects response from Sports
STEVE Alcock is anticipating a hard-fought battle tomorrow at Gillingham Town Reserves in the Dorset Senior League (3pm). The Weymouth Sports’ boss should have almost a full complement of players to choose from with Simon Austin the only absentee. He
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Taylor: Magpies will only get better
DORCHESTER TOWN RESERVES 1 EASTLEIGH RESERVES 4 ROBBIE Taylor believes Dorchester Town Reserves will only improve as the Wyvern Premier League season goes on. The Magpies’ latest outing ended in 4-1 defeat at home to Eastleigh, with Jamie Symes grabbing
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Weymouth’s championship aims under microscope
WEYMOUTH head coach Paul Harding is anticipating a stern examination of his side’s title credentials this weekend. The Monmouth Avenue outfit visit newly-promoted Salisbury Seconds tomorrow (3pm). And after seeing the Wiltshire side pick up an 18-10
