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  • Messing with the skid

    AS WE signed our lives away before being let loose on Subaru's model range, Piers Clitherow, one of the chief instructors, reassured us with a smile: "If you feel nervous, how do you think we feel?" he said. We'd been on the receiving end of a short

  • Olympic brand to be guarded

    ORGANISERS claim businesses have flooded them with enquiries about becoming involved in the 2012 games. The London 2012 Organising Committee has pledged to work with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to provide the best returns for partner companies

  • Child death GP wins reprieve

    A DORCHESTER doctor who failed to diagnose shock in a four-year-old girl who died later from an obstructed intestine has been cleared to continue practising. Dr Susan Wakeford was told her fitness to practise was impaired in June after a medical tribunal

  • Naturalist unveils flying dino gallery

    NATURALIST Sir David Attenborough had the crowd in stitches as he opened the new wing of a Dorset museum. The television presenter and author was in good spirits at the opening of Dorset County Museum's new Jurassic Coast gallery. The new wing features

  • Going underground

    CONTROVERSIAL plans to build gas storage tanks on Portland have moved a step closer. Portland Gas Limited has confirmed the success of a technical feasibility study to store gas in underground caverns. Up to 1,000 million cubic metres (35 million cubic

  • New bar throws open its doors

    CUSTOMERS have been trying out Weymouth's newest bar in the town centre. Staff held an opening night party and have since been welcoming people into the Barracuda bar in St Thomas Street. The South African-themed pub re-opened after a £1.25 million

  • Olympic brand to be guarded

    ORGANISERS claim businesses have flooded them with enquiries about becoming involved in the 2012 games. The London 2012 Organising Committee has pledged to work with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to provide the best returns for partner companies

  • African visitor draws crowds

    A rare African bird has been spotted at Weymouth's Radipole Lake for the first time in 18 years. RSPB manager Nick Tomlinson said it was likely that the glossy ibis was the only bird of its type in the country and predicted it could draw visitors from

  • Mum who moved nation dies after cancer battle

    TRIBUTES have been paid to Maxine Edgington - the cancer-stricken Portland mum whose song nearly topped the UK charts. Maxine, 47, died at Dorset County Hospital after a long battle with breast cancer. The mother captured the hearts of thousands after