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Stories for 29 July 2004

Bournemouth Cherries

SECOND BITE FOR ANDRADE

CHERRIES fans are expected to get a second glimpse of trialist Deogo Andrade in Thursday's pre-season friendly against Dorchester Town at the Avenue Stadium (7.45pm kick-off).  more...

Bournemouth Leisure

Watson is pitch perfect

RAGS to riches opera star Russell Watson launches three days of entertainment at Bournemouth's Dean Court tomorrow night (July 30 )as the town gets ready to Party on the Pitch.  more...

Bournemouth News

PORTMAN SEES ITS ASSETS RISE

BOURNEMOUTH-BASED Portman Building Society has seen its total assets rise by 34 per cent to £15.1 billion.  more...

Donor plea to save life of Adam, 5

A DESPERATE appeal has gone out to Bournemouth's Muslim community in a bid to save the life of a five-year-old boy.  more...

A trip to the shops cost Pam her life

A DECISION to pop out and buy a small bag of quick-drying cement to fix a rotary clothes line in her garden cost Pamela Hinchliffe her life.  more...

Pubs in plea for voluntary code over smoking

PUBLICANS and restaurateurs in Dorset have given the thumbs-down to a government-led ban on smoking and would prefer to continue imposing restrictions voluntarily.  more...

Bournemouth Pirates

Marvellous Matej denied maximum

MATEJ Ferjan was left to lament Andreas Jonsson's brilliant last-ditch effort to beat him in heat five as he missed out on his maiden Pirates maximum by an agonising hair's breadth.  more...

Pepe's a Pirate

PIRATES have snapped up Polish star Piotr Protasiewicz - but he probably won't ride for the club this season.  more...

Bournemouth Sport

Bendall's British title bid is back on track

STEVE Bendall's on-off British title fight with Scott Dann is back on again and will go ahead in Plymouth in September 17.  more...

It's all OK in the bay this week

THE OK Class World Championships, hosted by Parkstone Yacht Club, got underway in Poole Bay on Sunday (July 25) in brilliant sunshine and 11 knots of westerly breeze.  more...

Butler's Bash taking shape

NEW Bashley boss Geoff Butler believes he is only "two or three players" away from a side capable of holding their own in Isthmian Division One next season.   more...

Bridport Bridlyme

Cricket - NSA Dorset Saturday League Division One

Dynamic duo win it for Beaminster  more...

Bowls

Hewett flying flag for Dorset  more...

Cricket - Francis Clark Devon league D Division East

Tilley and Norris hit form for Uplyme  more...

Cricket - NSA Dorset Saturday League Division Two

Moxom back to haunt Bridport  more...

Golf

Fog lifts for Jennifer's day  more...

Football News

United front for Bridport soccer  more...

Football

Bees rumble islanders   more...

East Dorset News

Dog walkers' fury over grazing plan

DOG walkers in Verwood are up in arms over proposals to fence off a popular common for animal grazing.  more...

New Forest News

Smiles all round for second day of show

SUNNY skies and soaring attendances put beaming smiles of the faces of New Forest Show organisers on the second day of the annual extravaganza.  more...

North Dorset News

Beccy wants to be Britney

BECCY May Cooper is only 14 but she can belt out a Whitney Houston or Celine Dion number in a way that attracts the talent scouts.  more...

Mayor joins big clean-up

WILLING troops were out in force to help in the fight to clean up Blandford.  more...

Festival hopes dashed in licence confusion

A FESTIVAL flagged up as Dorset's answer to Glastonbury has fallen at the first hurdle after organisers began advertising before they'd even sought planning and licensing consent.   more...

`Sexual predator' gets life for rape

A "SEXUAL predator" who brutally raped a young woman has been given a life sentence after it emerged he had raped before.  more...

Poole News

Putting the royal in the RNLI

PROUD lifesavers gathered from across the British Isles to welcome their monarch to the RNLI's state-of-of the art new training college.  more...

A trip to the shops cost Pam her life

A DECISION to pop out and buy a small bag of quick-drying cement to fix a rotary clothes line in her garden cost Pamela Hinchliffe her life.  more...

Rowers surf giant waves in Atlantic

WAVES between 40 and 50 feet high were crashing over four rowers battling their way across the Atlantic last night.  more...

Purbeck News

TV archaeologist in town for book launch

ARCHAEOLOGIST Julian Richards made a return visit to Wareham to launch a book and touring exhibition about Bestwall Quarry - Britain's biggest archaeological site.  more...

Weymouth News

Clair is a cut above the rest

A BLINDFOLDED hairdresser completed a hair cut without damaging herself, her customer or her reputation.  more...

Veterans mark end of battle

VETERANS marked the anniversary of the end of the first battle of the Cold War at the Nothe Fort in Weymouth.  more...

NEW LOOK IN MOVE SHOCK

WEYMOUTH'S biggest firm today told staff that it was moving away from the town.  more...

Weymouth Sport

BUST-UP ON BONDING TRIP

DORCHESTER team-mates Michael Walker and Jamie Brown have been carpeted by the club after coming to blows on what was supposed to be a team bonding weekend in Cornwall.  more...

MORRIS NOT WORRIED BY DEFEATS

DORCHESTER boss Mark Morris insists he is not worried by his side's failure to win any of their four friendlies so far and plans to continue experimenting at home to AFC Bournemouth tonight (ko 7.45).  more...

WORLD'S TOP PLAYERS IN ACTION ON THE BEACH

SOME of world's top beach volleyball stars will be descending on Weymouth tomorrow.  more...

SENIOR SERVICE

DORCHESTER will have a Senior back in their service again this season.  more...

  
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