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Stories for 20 July 2004

Bournemouth Columnist

Tony takes on the yobs

PEOPLE want a return to the rules, to order and to proper behaviour. So says President - sorry, Prime Minister - Tony Blair.  more...

Bournemouth Leisure

Health scare made me take stock of life, says `the voice'

OPERA star Russell Watson has revealed how a health scare threatened his voice and led him to reassess his entire life and career. (July 30)  more...

Bournemouth News

Search is on for leading women

NEW and potential female entrepreneurs are being invited to a business meeting in the New Forest on Thursday evening in a bid to find women prepared to take a leading role in businesses of the future.  more...

Dorset Business chief steps down

DORSET Business is hunting for a new chief executive following Tony Bridger's decision to resign.  more...

The lost post

A PENSIONER is appealing for help in solving the mystery of a letter that was delivered to his home 68 years late.  more...

Plan to demolish hotel thrown out

A DECISION to refuse planning permission for the demolition of a Bournemouth hotel to make way for a block of flats was endorsed by the borough's planning board on Monday (July 19).  more...

Warning over fake Spanish traffic `fines'

POLICE are warning householders across Dorset to be on their guard after a Spanish scam letter demanding payment for a fictitious traffic offence was sent to an elderly Sturminster Newton widow.  more...

TOO LITTLE TOO LATE?

PROPOSALS announced this week to cut crime will bring little comfort to the families of war veterans whose memorials have been trashed by heartless vandals.  more...

Education chiefs in vote to close special school

EDUCATION bosses in Dorset have voted in favour of closing Penwithen School.  more...

Fears over therapy centre plan

RESIDENTS are fearful that a new counselling service opening in Boscombe could bring a wave of drug addicts to the area.  more...

Bournemouth Pirates

Great Danes give Middlo team a test

HOLD on to your hats, World Cup week on the South Coast could be an explosive one if last night's warm-up international is anything to go by. (July 19)  more...

Bournemouth Sport

Eye problem leads to Walbridge retirement

DORSET skipper Sean Walbridge has announced his retirement from cricket.  more...

Eye problem leads to Walbridge retirement

DORSET skipper Sean Walbridge has announced his retirement from cricket.  more...

Emo back to business

GARY Emerson returns to bread-and-butter golf this week after the heady heights of playing at Royal Troon.  more...

Christchurch News

Attack left man, 21, bleeding in gutter

POLICE are hunting two men who attacked a 21-year-old Christchurch man with a bottle and left him bleeding in the gutter.  more...

East Dorset News

Anger at meeting over `rat-run' roads traffic

ANGRY protesters in Wimborne who are campaigning against a "rat run" route in the town centre say it's a miracle no one has been killed there.  more...

New Forest News

Change of heart over graffiti art

GRAFFITI artists could get a licence to spray Ringwood skatepark even though vandals sparked outrage when they daubed it with messages and symbols.  more...

North Dorset News

Going for golds?

OUR Olympic team for this summer in Athens is finalised, but if the games come to Britain in 2012 some of these Dorset youngsters could very well be representing their country.  more...

Poole News

The cheque's in the post (really)

A CANFORD Heath couple also had a surprise when they received a cheque through the post two years late.  more...

Stick to the limit, not our bumpers!

BUMPER stickers could be a new tool to discourage bullying drivers from harassing others into speeding, two Poole councillors are hoping.  more...

Lifesaver misses out on Euro award

A SWIMMING school owner who saved a three-year-old's life has beaten thousands to be in the top three for a European award.  more...

Purbeck News

MP under threat over war stance

ANTI-war activists are threatening to unseat Dorset's only Labour MP by fielding a candidate in his knife-edge marginal seat.  more...

Wellmeetagain Snapshot

Replacing the station

THESE photographs illustrate just what a massive task it was to build Poole Power Station at Hamworthy during the late 1940s.  more...

Anguish of a hero

UNRAVELLING the Enigma, the book that suggests Lawrence of Arabia suffered from male rape trauma, has been published in a new edition.  more...

The way we were

ONE just goes on in life and accepts changes for good or bad. All my life, until recently, I have never lived in a house with an inside toilet.  more...

A house for all seasons

FROM Tudor manor to half-way house, to rental property and grammar school for gels, Sherborne House has lived many lives.  more...

Weymouth News

Scooter riders roll up for tribute to teenager

SCOOTER riders from all over the country converged on Dorchester to remember a Dorset teenager.  more...

Artful students canvas opinion

BUDDING designers had their work on show in an end-of-term exhibition.  more...

Close shave raises £300 for charity

A SPONSORED head shaved raised nearly £300 for charity.  more...

Sporting end of term for island pupils

ENERGETIC children have taken part in their end of term sports day.  more...

Battle to save school goes on

CAMPAIGNERS today vowed to fight on to keep a Dorset special school open.  more...

Susanna's designs take root

A FLORAL display by a 10-year-old Weymouth schoolgirl is welcoming thousands of visitors to the resort.  more...

WINNING THE WAR ON THUGS

VIOLENT crime in Dorset is soaring but in Weymouth it is falling, figures due out this week will show.   more...

  
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