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Olympic athletes' homecoming in Weymouth, Bournemouth Air Festival, Ironman Triathlon, Great Dorset Steam Fair
Review of the decade in Dorset
A look back over the years 2000 - 2009, and some of the stories making the news in and around the county.

A Sherman Firefly tank at the museum in Bovington Bovington teaches troops on tanks
Soldiers at the Bovington army camp are using its tank museum to learn about the role of tanks in combat, as they prepare for overseas duty.

The pastel coloured seafront beach huts are a recognisable landmark of the town The sheds of life in Lyme Regis
Places to change, learn and date: An exhibition celebrates the humble shed, in all its forms, throughout Lyme's history.


NATURE
A young dormouse found on a housing estate in West Bay Dorset dormice
The rodents are 'elusive not rare' in the county
HISTORY
The Rest and Welcome Inn, Melbury Osmond Thomas Hardy
The author's ode to an inn at Melbury Osmond
ARTS & CULTURE
A common garden snail Edible snails
On menu for the first time in West Dorset

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Defence Medal for war firefighter
Charity trek in Peru for Yvonne
Win for fiddler James is 'shock'
Super fast broadband 'by 2017'
Christmas trees: To rent or buy?
End of the line for pay phones?

Dorset surfer heads to Australia
Family's plight to move to Dorset
Life saving dog is a world first
'Hardy' film shoots in Yetminster
Volunteers give beds to homeless
Live Dorset webcams

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A BBC campaign to help with life's ups and downs
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NEWS
Up to 40 vehicles collide on A35
Man, 66, dies in flat lounge fire
New lead after TV robbery appeal
SPORT
Cheltenham v Bournemouth
Bournemouth P-P Notts County
Dorset face Jersey in Systems Cup

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