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Venus voting opens

The public vote for the Dorset Venus Awards 2015 opened today (13 of July). Dubbed by Channel 4 as the “Working Women’s Oscars”, the Dorset Venus Awards are calling members of the public to vote for their favourite working women in the Business Mother of the Year, Employee of the Year and Customer Service categories.…

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Cottees flog it for the BBC

“The auction of the items entered by vendors from the BBC Flog It! valuation day at Highcliffe Castle was extremely successful,” said auctioneer John Condie from Cottees. Stars of the show were a small selection of ten film posters which included a rare ‘Dracula’ poster that sold for £5,500 and a Star Wars poster that…

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Former police officer jailed for harassment

A former Dorset Police officer has been jailed for nine months for harassment and data protection offences.
Former Police Constable Allan Christopher Smith, of Bovington, was sentenced at Dorchester Crown Court today, 10 July, for multiple harassment with fear of violence offences and obtaining and disclosing confidential police information.

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School team makes a splash in Round the Island race

A crew from Ballard School, an independent co-educational school in New Milton, Hampshire, proved their sea legs in this year’s ‘Round the Island’ boat race around the Isle Of Wight, when they came second in their class. In the annual 50 nautical mile one-day yacht race, where 1,584 boats set sail from Cowes, the team…

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Tribute to Tereasa Cutler

The children of a woman who tragically died in a collision near Wimborne have paid tribute to her. Whilst driving home after her sister’s funeral on 10 June, 49-year-old Tereasa Cutler from Ringwood was involved in a head-on collision with a black BMW 3 Series on the A31 between the Lake Gates and Merley Bird…

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