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A scarecrow competition with the theme ‘20 is Plenty’ resulted in 27 new residents appearing in West Moors in August and September.

Numerous offences were identified when the Dorset Roads Policing Team used an unmarked heavy goods vehicle.

A Speed Watch scheme could in the future be introduced in the Christchurch Road and Kingston areas of Ringwood.

Incidents included a driver travelling on Dorset Way eating their breakfast, a drink driver, and 77 motorists not wearing a seatbelt.

A campaign group is calling for Dorset Council to reduce the county’s default speed limit to 20 miles per hour.

The campaign in which people are urged to report drink drivers runs from Monday 2 December until Wednesday 1 January.

Community speed watch volunteers took part in Speed Watch Week, monitoring over 15,700 vehicles in more than 100 locations.

A Verwood resident organised a ‘Pass Wide and Slow’ horse-riding event, reminding motorists of safe driving practices around horses.

The four-day Operation Tramline enabled officers to identify 120 offences including 46 for not wearing a seatbelt.

Officers seized three vehicles and arrested four people in an operation targeting drivers ignoring road traffic laws.