Win chance to become Daily Echo newshound for the day
30/07/2010
AN opportunity to go behind the scenes at the Daily Echo is among the prizes up for grabs in a radio station’s charity auction.
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Swanage railway reconnection scheme set to go ahead
30/07/2010
AFTER decades in the sidings it looks like full steam ahead for the £3m Swanage Railway reconnection project.
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Thousands descend on Lulworth for Camp Bestival
30/07/2010
THOUSANDS of people are descending on Dorset for this weekend's Camp Bestival.
Traffic is already extremely slow as festival-goers make their way to Lulworth Castle.
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Battle to save Southbourne beach cafe lost
30/07/2010
DEVELOPERS have won a long battle to transform the site of an historic cliff-top cafe into a two-and-a-half-storey block of flats.
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Updated: Eleven arrested after raid on New Forest nursing home
30/07/2010
ELEVEN people have been arrested in an immigration raid on a New Forest nursing home.
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Nurses' anger as hospital boss gets paid £2,557 a day
30/07/2010
ANGRY nurses, who are braced for sweeping frontline cuts, have hit out at the “ludicrous” salary paid to Dorset County Hospital’s temporary boss.
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Poole hospital warned over its financial woes
30/07/2010
A NATIONAL regulator has warned Poole Hospital that it will step in unless the trust can sort out its troubled finances.
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Road rage as travellers move into nursery field
30/07/2010
TRAVELLERS have gained entry to a field near Cherry Tree Nursery in Bournemouth.
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Brutal sex attack in Bournemouth gardens
30/07/2010
DETECTIVES are hunting sex attackers following a terrifying late-night assault on a teenager in Bournemouth town centre.
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Asbos ‘not working’ residents tell Echo
30/07/2010
Home secretary Theresa May announced this week that it was time to adopt a fresh approach in the fight against the blight of anti-social behaviour. “It’s time to move beyond the Asbo,” she said.
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