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Dorset Echo @Dorsetecho

Daily newspaper serving Dorset

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Crash blocks road ift.tt/gpzwKoZ

Crash blocks road

A ROAD is blocked following a crash in Crossways

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'Faultless' venue in 'picturesque' spot among UK's top 10 for a ploughman's lunch ift.tt/95Cv48R

'Faultless' venue in 'picturesque' spot among UK's top 10 for a ploughman's lunch

Clavells Restaurant in Kimmeridge has been ranked among the top 10 places for a ploughman's lunch in the UK

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LIVE: Coast road closed due to serious crash ift.tt/CfetuNT

LIVE: Coast road closed due to serious crash

Crash on the coast road Police, firefighters and paramedics are at the scene in Chickerell A section on the road has been closed

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Crash forces coast road to close - motorists urged to avoid area ift.tt/b9ETeK3

Crash forces coast road to close - motorists urged to avoid area

THE Coast road between Weymouth and Bridport is closed following a crash

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Video footage shows Royal Marines boarding Russian shadow fleet vessel ift.tt/atI5p2F

Video footage shows Royal Marines boarding Russian shadow fleet vessel

A VIDEO released by the Ministry of Defence shows Royal Marine commandos boarding a Russian shadow fleet vessel in the Channel

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Russian shadow fleet vessel anchored near Weymouth after Royal Marine operation ift.tt/iuVcj7r

Russian shadow fleet vessel anchored near Weymouth after Royal Marine operation

A Russian shadow fleet vessel intercepted by Royal Marine commandos is now moored off the coast at Weymouth.=

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Large crowd gathers at 'protestival' headlined by Billy Bragg ift.tt/9Juk4zw

Large crowd gathers at 'protestival' headlined by Billy Bragg

Campaigners opposing plans for a waste incinerator on Portland drew large crowds on Saturday as they hosted a “Protestival” featuring…

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Tennis courts receive facelift as Wimbledon approaches ift.tt/U2TsWAP

Tennis courts receive facelift as Wimbledon approaches

Portland Town Council reported that rennovation work on the two tennis courts at Victoria Gardens was now complete.

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Special school could welcome extra pupil numbers ift.tt/INV3KZq

Special school could welcome extra pupil numbers

A review of the Dorset Council contract with Coombe House School will be discussed – the authority pays for the majority of pupils attending the…

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The summer an elephant herd came to town and stayed in our hearts ift.tt/O2xNMFE

The summer an elephant herd came to town and stayed in our hearts

Here's a nostalgic look back at Dorset’s Stampede by the Sea trail - when elephants came to town and lingered in our hearts

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Child prodigy violinist slipped into obscurity in Weymouth ift.tt/tJ8drCl

Child prodigy violinist slipped into obscurity in Weymouth

This is the story of child prodigy Fred Coleman, a gifted Weymouth violinist who ended up cleaning buses

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Puncknowle - how to pronounce this Dorset village name ift.tt/vB6LIzP

Puncknowle - how to pronounce this Dorset village name

Here's how to pronounce the name of the west Dorset village of Puncknowle

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Mystery of Dorset’s lost tourist attraction deepens with intriguing theory ift.tt/LFarA1n

Mystery of Dorset’s lost tourist attraction deepens with intriguing theory

A Dorset reader has put forward a new theory about the origins of the Rhododendron Mile, linking it to historic estates and similar blooms near…

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20 old photos show Dorset reception classes as they were in 2002 ift.tt/4RToxfH

20 old photos show Dorset reception classes as they were in 2002

These 20 old photos show Dorset reception classes in 2002

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Explore a beautiful spot that let you walk through 1,000 years of history ift.tt/zI2jhm4
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A glimpse of a Dorset prom night from 2004 ift.tt/yowUFkv

A glimpse of a Dorset prom night from 2004

Step back to 2004 with 19 photos from All Saints school prom in Weymouth, a night of dresses, suits and memories in a very different time

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Soldier awarded the Victoria Cross to open TANKFEST at The Tank Museum in Dorset ift.tt/2acPYhm

Soldier awarded the Victoria Cross to open TANKFEST at The Tank Museum in Dorset

Warrant Officer Class 1 Johnson Beharry VC will open TANKFEST at the Tank Museum in Bovington by driving a Warrior Infantry Fighting Vehicle tank.

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Famous forged medieval manuscripts to go under the hammer in Dorset this month ift.tt/Cz5YyiB

Famous forged medieval manuscripts to go under the hammer in Dorset this month

Two medieval illuminated manuscripts, late 19th century-20th century fakes from The Spanish Forger, will be auctioned by Charterhouse in Sherborne…

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Concerns over £70k of taxpayer money being spent on community farm ift.tt/4SpFnB9

Concerns over £70k of taxpayer money being spent on community farm

A town council has spent nearly £70,000 on a community farm

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