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  • Campaigners call for litter blitz on Dorchester grot spots

    By Blackmore Vale Magazine at 11:00 on 04/02/12
    Lot of litter - Bob Kerr and Alison Kaye with eight bags of Dorchester litter
    LITTER black spots are a blight on Dorchester, claim campaigners calling for action to clean up the town. Bob Kerr of Dorchester Stop the Drop anti-litter group, appealed to Dorchester Town Council and the police to help in their efforts to clean up the county town. He said he was disappointed that only one councillor, David Barrett, spoke in support of the campaign by Stop the Drop when he addressed the council at its meeting last...
  • Charity knitter needs more wool to help clothe premature babies at Dorset County Hospital

    By Blackmore Vale Magazine at 11:00 on 04/02/12
    Jean Wilson
    KEEN charity knitter Jean Wilson is on the hunt for more yarn so that she can help clothe vulnerable children. After years of various needlecrafts, the former seamstress is busy knitting clothes for children in Africa and for premature babies at Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester. Now Magna Housing Association is helping to gather in the yarn to enable its Dorchester resident Jean to carry on knitting her blankets, toys, hats and...
  • Building work to start on park and ride sites

    By Western Daily Press at 09:00 on 04/02/12
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    Work on temporary park and ride sites to cope with visitors to the Olympic and Paralympic sailing events will start in Dorset on Monday. There will be three temporary and two permanent sites. All will be the responsibility of the Olympic Delivery Authority for the duration of the Games. Temporary sites will be at Kingston Maurward, Monkey's Jump near Dorchester, and Littlemoor in Weymouth. Permanent sites being used by the ODA are at...
  • Village and Vale

    By Blackmore Vale Magazine at 11:00 on 03/02/12
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    This Weekend Saturday: Join Gillingham Walkers who leave the Barn Surgery 2pm for a four mile tramp. Blackmore Vale and Yeovil NT Association members meet 2.30pm in the Digby Hall, Sherborne. Sturminster Original Market and Car Boot, 8am-noon at the British Legion Club. Next Week Monday 6th February: Deer expert John Maiden talks to the Cerne Sheep Group, 7.30 for 8pm, The Poachers' Inn, Piddletrenthide. More information from Sue on...
  • Dee for Dorchester

    By Blackmore Vale Magazine at 11:00 on 03/02/12
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    PILE 'EM HIGH ONCE upon a time the tallest construction around Dorchester was Maiden Castle. The magnificent Iron Age hill fort was mighty long before our county town was even a twinkle in a Roman eye and it is still big. But Dorchester seems determined to out-do it in terms of height and mass. Height and mass - qualities that would set councillors tutting as they rejected schemes that would be too tall and too bulky in relation to...

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