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Page last updated at 12:00 GMT, Wednesday, 6 January 2010

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Dorset snow information
Information and useful contacts as severe winter conditions hit Dorset.

Old Harry Rocks, part of the Jurassic Coastline 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 'weedy' sea dragon Sea dragons 'respond to mistletoe'
Sea dragons at a Dorset sea life centre have increased interaction with each other after mistletoe was added to their aquarium.


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
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On menu for the first time in West Dorset

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MORE PEOPLE & PLACES
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Wildlife photo exhibition at park
Troops learn about tanks
Surf reef warning for 'beginners'
The sheds of life in Lyme Regis
Defence Medal for war firefighter
Charity trek in Peru for Yvonne
Win for fiddler James is 'shock'

End of the line for pay phones?
Super fast broadband 'by 2017'
Dorset surfer heads to Australia
Family's plight to move to Dorset
Life saving dog is a world first
'Hardy' film shoots in Yetminster
Live Dorset webcams

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NEWS
Snow brings north Dorset to halt
Five rescued from farmhouse fire
Firm wins £50m water contract
SPORT
Daggers sign Dorchester's Walsh
Cherries must bounce back - Garry
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A30 Dorset - Speed restriction of 40 mph on Salisbury Road , restrictions and roadworks at B3081 Higher Blandford Road , in Shaftesbury

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