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JADE CLARK DEATH – REWARD INCREASED TO £15000

Businesses in the South are now offering a further £10,000 reward as police continue to investigate a fatal road traffic collision on the A31. Officers are still trying to trace the driver of a Volvo XC90 and urge anyone with information to come forward. The total reward being offered now stands at £15,000. Jade Clark,…

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Dorset firm helps 50 animals

Along-standing Dorset charity has received a donation that will support 50 of the abandoned and cruelly treated animals that it looks after. Margaret Green Animal Rescue was given the money by the Wessex Group, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Every month in 2013 the Shaftesbury-based company is donating ’50 somethings’ to a charity or good…

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Child’s play at Verwood Town Council

Pupils from Verwood CofE First School visited Verwood Town Council this week to see how the council operates, ask the Mayor Cllr Simon Gibson questions and try on the mayoral robes. Simon has invited all the schools in the parish to visit the chambers as he feels it is very important to engage with young…

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MUGA a go-go

Work has finally begun for the long awaited multi use games area  (MUGA) on Verwood Memorial  Recreation Ground. The project which has been the vision of the AGFA group has been over five years in the planning and will see a free facility in a wet and underused part of the ground. Mayor of Verwood,…

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There’s no business like…

A Poole teenager looks set to see his name in lights after being signed up by the South’s first public stage school and a top talent agency from London. William Hurst will be one of the first intakes at the South’s first ever publically funded stage school, which opens at the LeAF Studio in Bournemouth…

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Oarsome Lewis is national champion

A Bournemouth student has been crowned the national indoor rowing champion for his age group. Lewis Bradbury, from Harewood College, has become the first student from Dorset to win a coveted national champion award at the National Junior Indoor Rowing Championships. Lewis rowed an incredible 541m in just two minutes to make him the Year…

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Beaminster tunnel update

Further work to stabilise the slopes around the stricken Beaminster Tunnel will take place this week with soil nailing starting on 2 April. Since works began in December, contractors have cleared the area above the north end of the tunnel, improved the drainage at the site, tested the soil nails, and worked to make access…

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