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Charmouth: Quacking good time had on bank holiday weekend
THE bank holiday weekend went off with a bang – and a quack – in Charmouth. Charmouth Primary School PTA hosted its annual barbecue and duck race on Sunday afternoon, and the Charmouth Fayre committee kept people entertained into the night with the Party
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West Dorset: Napoleonic watchtower unearthed on Golden Cap
ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearth-ed a Napoleonic era watchtower at the start of a dig into threatened Bronze Age burial mounds on the Jurassic Coast. The National Trust (NT) team is digging into 4,000 year old earthworks at Golden Cap to record their history
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West Dorset: Lorry hits a bridge too far
A LORRY driver ended up in a sticky situation when his long load became wedged in Bradpole. He was driving the truck with Belgian number plates and a trailer carrying farm machinery down Lee Lane when he became wedged on the bridge. The road was blocked
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Bridport: Rallying call to become carnival royalty
CARNIVAL princess Lucy Paull has urged youths to come forward and compete to become this year’s Bridport carnival royalty. The 15-year-old said she had a great time after being crowned as the princess for last year’s extravaganza. Now
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Lyme Regis: Three Cups talks are 'constructive'
THREE Cups campaigners have held ‘constructive’ meetings with senior district council officers over the future of the Lyme Regis building. The Save the Three Cups as a Heritage Hotel group chairman John Dover and deputy chairman David Parker met West
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West Dorset: Fury at ex-opera singer's bid to silence 'noisy' school playground activity
PARENTS are furious that a former opera singer is trying to stop children starting the day with a Wake and Shake session. They say complaints about the five-minute musical exercise activity at Loders Primary School are ‘unbelievable and petty’. Pupils
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Lyme Regis: Tourism at risk after beach cleanliness slammed
LYME’S tourist industry is at risk of being ruined as one of the resort’s polluted beaches is named among the dirtiest once again. The warning has come from a local travel expert after the Marine Conservation Society’s (MCS) Good Beach Guide 2011 was
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Bridport mauled in 10-wicket defeat
MARK Smith summed up Bridport’s 10-wicket mauling at the hands of Blandford Seconds in one word: “Disaster”. The West Dorset outfit were skittled for a meagre 55, with not a single batsman able to hit double figures. A Lawrence (7-16) was the chief
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Beaminster improve but still search for maiden win
BEAMINSTER 149 (6pts) lost to WITCHAMPTON 118-6 (19pts) by four wickets on a reduced target ROSS Baker hailed his side’s display in the field as their best of the season thus far – but the search for a maiden victory in Dorset League Division Two continues
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West Dorset: Golfing pair on brink of dream trip
A TRIP-OF-A-LIFETIME to a top Las Vegas golf resort awaits amateur Gavin Gay and his Bridport & West Dorset PGA professional David Parsons if they can come through the regional final of Europe’s biggest pro-am competition, the Virgin Atlantic PGA National
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Bees: We're up for premier division challenge
MIKE Savage is backing the Bees to rise to the challenge next season when they make their long awaited return to the Toolstation Western Premier Division. The Bridport assistant-manager is forecasting a tough campaign for his troops but is adamant they
