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Home Watch events this weekend

Fraud and cyber crime are the key themes in this year’s Neighbourhood and Home Watch Week – a national event which encourages communities to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour by working together and increasing community spirit. Community-led events have been happening all over Dorset this week and at the weekend there will be a cyber…

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Chance to win a skydive!

Dorset Blind Association is offering a free skydive, donated by GoSkydive, to join a group jumping for the charity on 1 August in Salisbury. On average, each person jumping will raise enough to support one blind person for a year, so the charity hopes the promotion will recruit more skydiving fundraisers. Twenty people, including five…

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Past chairman cheques out

Fundraising during his year in office as Chairman of East Dorset District Council, Cllr Robin Cook raised a total of £5847.
£5200 of this has gone to his chosen charities, the Alzheimer’s Society and Friends of Victoria Hospital, Wimborne.

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102-year-old reveals the secrets of long life

Great grandmother Audrey Dormon was the toast of a Mudeford care home when she celebrated her 102nd birthday.
Audrey was the first resident at Colten Care’s Avon Reach home 22 years ago and was joined for her birthday tea by daughter Ann, great grandson Henry Comyn and a host of staff and residents.

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New queen gives royal approval

New Swanage Carnival Queen Drew Hamilton has performed the first official duty of her ‘royal’ year.
The 18-year-old began a busy few months by visiting the offices of her sponsor, Ellis Jones Solicitors, in Swanage High Street.

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Charles with his 'nurses'

‘Life in a Hospital’ not as bad as you think!

Charles Michael Duke is a born entertainer who is refusing to let the fact that he has cystic fibrosis prevent him from performing.
Having been forced to spend much of the last year in hospital, Charles, from Hordle, in Dorset, decided to turn the experience into a positive and has just released a comedy video performing his self-penned song ‘Life in a hospital’.

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Joan is a high-flyer

High-flying Joan Dampney is taking to the skies strapped to the wing of an aeroplane – at the age of 85.
The death-defying stunt is to raise money for Autism Wessex, a charity that the plucky grandmother has worked for over many years.

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