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Wind farm plans to go on display

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22/02/2012
Wind farm plans to go on display

The wind farm would be located 8.2 miles (13.2km) off Peveril Point   Residents in Hampshire, Dorset and the Isle of Wight are being given the chance to see plans for a major offshore wind farm.   The company behind the 76 sq-mile (200-sq-km) project is holding public exhibitions over the next 18 months....
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CCTV APPEAL AFTER ASSAULT IN POOLE

22/02/2012
CCTV APPEAL AFTER ASSAULT IN POOLE

The incident, in which a 39-year-old man was assaulted by a group on a bus near Waitrose along Ashley Road, happened at around 6pm on Christmas Eve, Saturday 24 December 2011.   The offence took place when the group attempted to disembark from the bus.   The bus had been travelling from Bournemouth to Poole.  ...
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PUBLIC WARNED NOT TO FALL VICTIM TO CREDIT CARD SCAMS

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21/02/2012
PUBLIC WARNED NOT TO FALL VICTIM TO CREDIT CARD SCAMS

Police are encouraging the public to be on their guard against credit card scams, after two recent offences targeted older members of the community in Bournemouth.   The two offences, which both took place over the past month, start with the victims receiving a telephone call from someone claiming to be from their bank.   In...
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DON’T BECOME A VICTIM OF CAR CRIME THIS SPRING

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21/02/2012
DON’T BECOME A VICTIM OF CAR CRIME THIS SPRING

Dorset Police is offering the public crime prevention advice to reduce car crime this spring.   Last spring, during the months of March, April and May, thefts from vehicles rose by 14.28% (105 offences) inDorset.   To help ensure there is not another increase this year, Dorset Police is offering practical crime prevention advice.  ...
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APPEAL AFTER VEHICLES DAMAGED IN POLICE PURSUIT

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21/02/2012
Dorset Police

Officers in Bournemouth are appealing for victims to come forward after a number of vehicles were damaged by a car being pursued by police along a main road leading out of the town – with one man being arrested in connection with the incident.   Officers were first alerted to a report of a...
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Police officer stabbed at shops

20/02/2012
Police officer stabbed at shops

A police officer has been stabbed in the leg while attending an incident at a shopping centre in Dorset.   The officer was attacked at the Dolphin Centre in Poole on Saturday afternoon. He remains in hospital where his injury is described as “not life threatening”.   A 22-year-old woman, of no fixed abode,...
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Care home ‘expected death notice’

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18/02/2012
Care home ‘expected death notice’

Kenneth Cann was 79 when he died in January   A woman has called for more rules on what care homes can demand after she was asked to pay £3,000 because she failed to give it four weeks’ “notice” before her father died.   Sue Cann from Christchurch, Dorset, was charged the day after...
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Refurbished Christchurch ‘village’ sign back in place

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17/02/2012
Refurbished Christchurch ‘village’ sign back in place

A sign which was erected in Christchurch as a result of a newspaper competition in 1920 has now been completely refurbished and put back in place.   The sign originally came about following a speech made by the Duke of York (later King George VI) in 1920 at the Royal Academy in favour of...
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Can’t take the heat – get out of the kitchen – and call 999 (16/02/12)

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17/02/2012
Can’t take the heat – get out of the kitchen – and call 999 (16/02/12)

At approximately 11.20am yesterday Thursday 16th February, fire crews from Ferndown and Springbourne were called a kitchen fire in a flat Horsham Avenue, Kinson, Bournemouth. Fire crews extinguished a fire in a chip pan using two sets of breathing apparatus and one hose reel jet. One male was checked over at the scene by...
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Eight and a half Years Imprisonment for Commercial Importation of Class A and Class C controlled drugs

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17/02/2012
Eight and a half Years Imprisonment for Commercial Importation of Class A and Class C controlled drugs

David Iain SHIELDS aged 31 years old of Kirkilton Avenue, Weymouth and Emma Louise PRING aged 24 years old of Canberra Crescent, Littlemore, Weymouth, appeared before the Guernsey Royal Court on Wednesday 15th February 2012 where they both pleaded guilty to importing the class A controlled drug diamorphine (commonly known as Heroin) into Guernsey....
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