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Does body found in Italy have a link to Heather Barnett murder?

Teenager Elisa Claps, who disappeared 16 years ago in southern Italy

8:49am Friday 19th March 2010

MORE than seven years after the brutal murder of Bournemouth mother Heather Barnett, Dorset detectives are studying a potentially significant new lead.

Bournemouth Air Festival 2010 launched

Huge crowds thrilled by Bournemouth Air Festival action (Aug 21)

12:06pm Friday 19th March 2010

STAY longer… see more! That’s what the predicted 1.5 million visitors to this summer’s 2010 Bournemouth Air Festival are being encouraged to do.

Asda delivers sex lubricant instead of children’s bubble bath

AHOY MATEY: What Mike actually ordered

9:20am Friday 19th March 2010

A FATHER of two was shocked when a supermarket delivered sexual lubricant to his house instead of the children’s bubble bath he had ordered.

Firefighters launch bike patrols to slash heathland arson attacks

PEDAL POWER : Dorset Fire and Rescue Service launch their new mountain bike patrols to combat heath arson attacks. Picture: Corin Messer.

12:00pm Friday 19th March 2010

FIREFIGHTERS have launched an innovative scheme in a bid to slash the numbers of heathland arson attacks.

Father in collision with people carrier as he tends child.

11:21am Friday 19th March 2010

A FATHER was slightly injured in a collision with a vehicle as he leaned into a car to tend his young child.

Local residents enjoy half-price entry at Oceanarium during March

Bournemouth residents enjoy half-price entry at Oceanarium during March

10:50am Friday 19th March 2010

RESIDENTS with a BH postcode have been enjoying a half-price entry offer at the Oceanarium this month.

MP calls for mine sweep of Dorset coast - with video

Swanage Beach

10:30am Friday 19th March 2010

AN MP, who narrowly escaped death in an explosion that killed five friends, has called for minehunters to search Swanage beach for wartime munitions, just days after a Second World War mine was exploded in Weymouth Bay

Will bodyboarders get to take part in Sorted Surf Festival at Boscombe reef?

Will bodyboarders get to take part in Sorted Surf Festival at Boscombe reef?

9:30am Friday 19th March 2010

Organisers will decide on day whether Boscombe surf reef will be used at event celebrating its completion

Bournemouth and Poole councillors criticise government waste fine plans

WASTE STRATEGY Cllr Don Collier (right) with Steve Chapple, the council’s waste services manager

9:00am Friday 19th March 2010

COUNCILLORS in Bournemouth and Poole have criticised government plans to ban certain waste from landfill which could see householders fined for throwing the wrong things away.

£2.8m leisure scheme moves ahead

SET FOR A REVAMP: Outside the tired old Shaftesbury Bowling Club building are Neil Sutherland, Leo Williams, David Taylor, John Parker, John Willis and Roger Alford

8:30am Friday 19th March 2010

A £2.8 million project to regenerate a central district of Shaftesbury is moving forward.


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