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Darcy Ward helped Poole Pirates to this year’s Elite League title A speedway rider has been charged with sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl at a hotel in Dorset. Poole Pirates’s Darcy Ward, 19, is accused of assaulting the Coventry teenager at a Premier Inn in Poole in the early hours of 18 August. A...
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Dempsey underwent three-hour life-saving surgery A pet dog was stabbed 21 times then thrown over a garden fence by intruders who broke into a house in Bournemouth. The attack on Dempsey, a Staffordshire bull terrier, was described by a vet as the worst case he has ever seen. Dempsey underwent three-hour...
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Experts say the Ming-style vase was created for the Imperial Qing Dynasty A Chinese vase valued at £500,000 after being taken to a Women’s Institute village antiques fair in Dorset has failed to sell at auction. The porcelain piece had been displayed in the owner’s living room after it was acquired by her father...
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Officers in Weymouth are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward after a woman was robbed in the town. The incident, in which two men demanded money from a 44-year-old woman before stealing £70, happened in an alleyway running along the Rum Shack on Maiden Street at around 3.15pm on Monday...
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Christchurch will once again be welcoming Father Christmas and his reindeer when they fly in for the Christchurch Christmas Festival on Saturday 26 November. The High Street will be closed to traffic for the Christmas Market which will be selling a variety of food, drink and gifts from 10am to 7pm. Heart FM Angels...
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An experienced event manager is being looked for to run the 2012 Live Site at Weymouth beach by Weymouth and Portland Borough Council. Weymouth and Portland is the venue for the Olympic and Paralympic sailing competitions and, as one of the major venues outside of London, there will be strong national and international interest...
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Young people in Bournemouth will soon benefit from further developments to the Council’s Integrated Youth Service, which will now provide impartial careers information, advice and guidance. Councillors at today’s Cabinet meeting agreed for this additional service to be delivered in-house by the Council from April 2012. It will replace the current Connexions career service...
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Durlston Castle, the centrepiece of Durlston Country Park, will be re-opening to the public on 18 November. The multi-million pound refurbishment project is now complete following 18 months of work, giving the Dorset County Council-run park world class visitor facilities. And Robert Gould, the council’s Cabinet member for environment, will be cutting the ribbon...
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Bournemouthto focus on reducing the waste mountain Reducing how much waste residents produce in the first place is to be the key goal in Bournemouth’s waste strategy for the next 15 years. In 20010/11 Bournemouth Council collected and disposed of 88,802 tonnes of waste. Of this 63.9 per cent was sent for recycling and...
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“Stop, think – words can hurt” This is the message being called loud and clear by organisations across Dorset. The recently formed Anti-bullying Strategic group is running a conference for young people, and those who work with young people, in Dorset this week. Made up of representatives from Dorset Police, Dorset County Council and...
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