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Rifles granted freedom of Poole

FREEDOM OF THE BOROUGH OF POOLE: The soldiers of the 4th Battalion The Rifles

7:30pm Wednesday 10th March 2010

THE Rifles will be granted the Freedom of Poole next Friday with an exchange of gifts at the Civic Centre.

Try turning it off and on again!

7:10pm Wednesday 10th March 2010

THE £4.4 billion machine that could help us understand the Big Bang is to be switched off for up to a year after the latest in a series of technical problems.

Dorset clampdown on foreign HGVs

7:00pm Wednesday 10th March 2010

CALLS for more checks on high-risk foreign lorries coincided with checks on heavy good vehicles at Ashley Heath near Ringwood yesterday.

‘Too many motorists are playing Russian Roulette with a 200-tonne train’

7:00pm Wednesday 10th March 2010

THE HEAD of Network Rail wants the driving test to carry compulsory questions on level crossings in a bid to reduce the UK’s shocking death and serious injury rate.

‘I wish I could have taken his place in heaven because his life had just begun’

7:00pm Wednesday 10th March 2010

These are the heartrending words of a mother whose soldier son died aged 19.

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It’s cramping our stile, say angry Verwood residents

4:30pm Wednesday 10th March 2010

DOG walkers say a stile on a popular footpath is effectively barring them from a network of rights-of-way.

Funeral of heart op blow OAP

4:00pm Wednesday 10th March 2010

THE funeral has taken place of a Bournemouth great-grandmother who made the front page of the Daily Echo when she was turned down for a new type of heart operation last summer.