From Bart's Bash making a new world record to a new building in Poundbury being named after Prince George, and the tallest family in the UK, from Dorset, emigrating to the US and movie star Liz Hurley taking delivery of two Dorset pigs.
Here are your top 10 stories from the past week you will not want to have missed.
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