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BBC presenter appears in elephant art trail in Dorset

BBC News 20 Mar 2025
A BBC radio presenter has been immortalised in a charity sculpture trail in Dorset ... Lyme Regis and West Bay ... The elephant - named Cartoons - was created in partnership with West Dorset Magazine.
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It's the warmest day of the year! Temperatures hit 20.6C in London as spring officially ...

The Daily Mail 20 Mar 2025
The mercury got up to 20.6C (69.1F) at Northolt in West London today, beating the previous 2025 high of 19.7C (67.4F) recorded on March 9 in Crosby, Merseyside ... People play volleyball on Bournemouth Beach in Dorset in the warm and sunny weather today.
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Proportion of workforce economically inactive because of sickness, by local area

AOL 19 Mar 2025
West Dunbartonshire (Scotland) 13.25% ... Sandwell (West Midlands) 12.24% ... Calderdale (West Yorkshire) 11.77%. Wolverhampton (West Midlands) 11.76% ... West Lothian (Scotland) 10.56% ... Wakefield (West Yorkshire) 9.24% ... Dudley (West Midlands) 8.49% ... Dorset 5.30%.
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News in pictures: Saturday March 15, 2025

The Times/The Sunday Times 15 Mar 2025
Pop art comes to Wakefield ... Nicholas Breakspeare tends to more than 100 varieties of heather in the heather garden at Compton Acres in Poole, Dorset ... BOURNEMOUTH NEWS/BNPS ... AFP. The sun sets over the cliffs at West Bay on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset ... UK.
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This luxe farmhouse stay is Dorset’s answer to Soho Farmhouse

The Times/The Sunday Times 14 Mar 2025
Bit obvious? Hey, let’s not get competitive about portmanteaus.) They have spent four years coaxing their pocket of West Dorset into a regenerative farm and stylish bolt hole at a cost of £28.5 million ... • More great hotels in Dorset.
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Bomb squad scrambled to ‘ordnance’ on beach that turned out to be a saucepan

AOL 13 Mar 2025
West Bay Coastguard Rescue Team and Dorset Police attended, a cordon was put in place and the Royal Navy bomb disposal team was dispatched from Plymouth ...Along with West Bay Coastguard Rescue ...
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Bomb experts rush to beach to deal with suspected unexploded weapon... only to find it ...

The Daily Mail 12 Mar 2025
'Along with West Bay Coastguard Rescue Team and Dorset Police, we responded to a report of an unidentified object part-submerged in the sand near the Heritage Coast Centre.
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Suspected ordnance on Charmouth beach turns out to be saucepan

BBC News 12 Mar 2025
Bomb experts called after the discovery of a potential ordnance on the beach have determined the object was not what it seemed. West Bay Coastguard Rescue Team and Dorset Police were called after 10.00 GMT on Monday to reports of an unidentified item.
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Chessum claims hostility from fans will ‘rev up’ England for Wales showdown

Yahoo Daily News 11 Mar 2025
Related. The Breakdown ... I enjoy it ... “It is incredibly important that the government step in and start looking at the governance of the game otherwise there will not be a game to govern,” said Edward Morello, MP for West Dorset. .
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Reform must shape up if it is to challenge Labour at the next election

The Daily Telegraph 10 Mar 2025
Reform must be bold to beat Labour at the next election ... Anders Seyersted ... Michael West. Poole, Dorset ... Swansea ... The Battle of the Atlantic might not have been won without the Royal Canadian Navy’s convoy protection in the west and central Atlantic Ocean.
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Wicked and Willy Wonka inspire 2025 World Book Day costumes

AOL 06 Mar 2025
Siblings Belle Glaze, aged seven, and Eddie Glaze, aged three, from Dorset, in south-west England, dressed as Glinda, the good witch from the musical Wicked, and Blippi, ...
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My very literary holiday — with a ‘book club on tour’ in Dorset

The Times/The Sunday Times 05 Mar 2025
Ralph Jones was a guest of Visit Dorset (visit-dorset.com) and Books in Places, which has forthcoming trips to Haworth in West Yorkshire, Olhao in Portugal, and Barcelona from £175 (booksinplaces.co.uk)Three more literary stays.
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Dorset: Meeting hears inheritance tax

BBC News 03 Mar 2025
"If we make money, we will reinvest in our business, the rural economy will grow and everyone will be better off, with a thriving rural economy, particularly where we live in West Dorset.".
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Dorset pony rescued from marshland by specialist crews

BBC News 03 Mar 2025
Last month, a horse was rescued after it fell through a wooden bridge in rural west Dorset. .
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