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'Freak weather' brings down tree

A silver birch tree is blown down and left balancing on power lines in a "freak" weather storm in Dorset.

CCTV clue in fancy dress attack

A 26-year-old woman is seriously sexually assaulted while walking home from a night out in Bournemouth.

MPs want house strategy scrapped

MPs from south west England call for local authorities to be given the freedom to solve housing problems.

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Nearly naked riders' midge fears

Two Dorset men cycling only in their underwear for charity brace themselves for encounters with the Scottish midge.

Dead fisherman's inquest opened

An inquest is opened and adjourned into the death of a fisherman whose body was recovered at the bottom of cliffs.

Tweenies helped girl save mother

A two-year-old who had seen characters on TV show Tweenies dial 999 calls an ambulance after her mother collapses.

School plan agreed 'in principle'

A controversial plan to change the education system in Dorset is given an 'in principle' go-ahead by councillors.

Three deaths prompt heroin alert

Drug users are being warned about a suspected dangerous batch of heroin after three deaths in Dorset.

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