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Rifleman Philip Allen
A soldier killed in Afghanistan is named by the MoD as Rifleman Philip Allen who was born and went to school in Dorset.

Dozens of angry mothers protest at a council's offices over a closed Dorset nursery building, which was deemed unsafe.

Ecologists begin moving rare lizards and snakes away from a major road before it is dug up and re-laid.

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A record is set at the Base Camp of Mount Everest

Deaf cinema goers urge action
Deaf residents say two Dorset cinemas are neglecting their community because they don't provide subtitled screenings.

Prospective adoptive parents plea
An appeal is made for more adoptive families and permanent foster carers to come forward in Dorset.

Two escape garden wall car crash
Two people escape with minor injuries when their car crashes into a front garden wall in Dorset causing structural damage.

Girl attacked by man in alleyway
A 17-year-old girl suffers cuts to hands when she is pushed to the ground by a man in a Bournemouth alleyway.

Dorset towns top low waste list
The amount of rubbish sent to landfill sites in the South West has decreased by 127,000 tonnes, according to new figures.

Remembrance services held
Young and old stand side-by-side to pay their respects for those who have lost their lives in war at Remembrance Sunday events.

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