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  • TRAFFIC CHAOS

    A WOMAN threatening to jump off a busy flyover brought traffic chaos to Bournemouth's roads yesterday afternoon at the start of the Bank Holiday weekend. Even ambulances trying to access the Royal Bournemouth Hospital's accident and emergency department

  • Chris gets his big break as lead in West End musical

    A TALENTED Wey-mouth actor has taken to the West End stage as the leading man in the musical Chicago. Chris Stanton, 23, stepped in for Clarke Peters to play sleazy lawyer Billy Flynn for the first time this week. Mr Stanton, a former pupil of Budmouth

  • Travellers' park stop on their way to fair

    COUNCIL officers received numerous complaints from residents and businesses yesterday after travellers pitched up in King's Park. The group of 25 travellers gained entrance into the park via the the Holdenhurst Road entrance and have parked their six

  • Walkers warned to keep off cliff edge

    WALKERS have been warned to stay away from the edges of cliff tops after a 54-year-old woman is thought to have spent a night injured after falling halfway down a 90ft cliff. A dramatic dawn rescue was carried out at cliffs near Swanage after a local

  • A GIFT OF LIFE FOR HUSBAND

    A WIFE has given her husband the gift of life by donating a kidney for transplant. Mike Fry, 60, is celebrating a new lease of life after his wife Mary went under the knife in a life-saving operation. The couple, of Preston in Weymouth, beat all the odds

  • Warning issued over boy racers

    BOY RACERS who terrorise residents with loud music and high speeds could have their vehicles confiscated - Dorchester's police chief warned today. Inspector Les Fry, Dorchester section commander, said that there was a growing number of complaints from

  • Ex-major receives his MBE in hospital

    A FORMER Army major who was awarded an MBE took the salute from his hospital bed. David Tovell, 87, was given the prestigious honour for his services to the Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen's Families Association while receiving hospital treatment. The organisation

  • Lost child scheme launched on beach

    LIFEGUARDS in Weymouth are the first in the country to use a new beach safety scheme for lost children. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is trialing its Child Safe scheme on the town's beach with the possibility of it being rolled out to

  • Calls for law change after tattoo warning

    A WARNING about the dangers of street traders' henna tattoos has led to calls for a change in the law. A councillor is arguing that the 125-year-old peddler's licensing act needs to be changed after a street trader in Weymouth was found to be using the