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Brandy lover Ella still going strong at 109!

6:30am Saturday 20th March 2010

ONE of the oldest ladies in Dorset is celebrating her 109th birthday today in her Bournemouth care home.

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Rapist Dennis Fitzgerald jailed for eight years

4:24pm Friday 19th March 2010

A RAPE victim’s long wait for justice finally ended on Friday when she saw her tormentor jailed for eight years.

Nightly patrols saving toads in a hole

7:00pm Friday 19th March 2010

DRIVERS are being urged to avoid a road where volunteers rescued around 500 toads on one night.

Poor fencing ‘puts Forest lives at risk’

7:00pm Friday 19th March 2010

MOTORISTS and livestock are at risk if landowners fail to maintain forest-edge stock-proof fencing says the New Forest Commoners’ Defence Association.

Swanage's out-of-hours medical service set to run for a year

6:30pm Friday 19th March 2010

Swanage's new out-of-hours medical service will initially run for a year, it has been confirmed.

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Helping Haiti’s hurt, one person at a time

6:00pm Friday 19th March 2010

WITH an estimated 230,000 dead, 300,000 injured, and countless buildings and lives destroyed, the magnitude of the work needed to repair Haiti must seem insurmountable.

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Highlighting the effects of climate change

5:30pm Friday 19th March 2010

REBEL hitchhikers in Cote d’Ivoire, shipwrecks in Guinea Bissau and Atlantic crossings by container ship – former Daily Echo reporter Lynn Morris has experienced all this and more.