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  • Town hoteliers hit out at selfish car parking

    ILLEGAL parking is making life a misery for Weymouth hoteliers and their guests. They claim their cars are getting trapped inside hotel parks by everything from delivery lorries and vans to takeaway vehicles and cars driven by customers hopping out

  • Queen’s horse honour for Dorset’s Jennifer

    A DELIGHTED Tolpuddle horse masseuse has been bestowed the honour of riding one of the Queen's horses. Jennifer Slocock, 24, will ride the gelding Promotion in the Pelvic Cancer Charity Race at Newbury Racecourse on Tuesday. Miss Slocock, a trainee

  • DRINK-DRIVING BLITZ NETS 70

    SHOCK new figures show that many boozy motorists are ignoring a police summer drink-driving campaign. Statistics show the number of drink-drivers caught in the first two weeks of the campaign in June was almost the same as for the whole of May. PC

  • Shoppers rally to back rent-hit Deli

    SHOPPERS are rallying around a Dorchester delicatessen facing an 80 per cent rise in rent. Shop owner Wayne Garnett, who owns The Fridge in Tudor Arcade fears soaring rents will force out small businesses that give Dorchester its character. His Tudor