Fewer Dorset families receive child benefits
Fewer Dorset families received child benefits last year, new figures show.
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Edits the Dorset Echo's New Arrivals; Trader of the Week; Pub of the Week ; Looking Back and Obituaries section.
Fewer Dorset families received child benefits last year, new figures show.
Steve Evans, 60, who lives near Eype, is visually impaired but doesn't let it hold him back as lead singer of East Street Band
Weymouth singer Sheryl Lee courageously spoke out about the dangers of alcohol addiction just months before her death aged 62.
Part of the B3146 near Glanvilles Wootton and to the north of Buckland Newton will be shut from Friday, April 26 for resurfacing work to be done.
PROBATE and trustee notices are among the recent public notices published in the Dorset Echo area
The land Dorset Council has a compulsory purchase order plan for is at 12 Princess Road in Bridport
A probate and trustee notice has been issued for Margaret Jane Blunden, late of Fairfield House, Charmouth Road, Lyme Regis, Dorset.
This month, pigs have again been put out onto part of the Purbeck Heaths National Nature Reserve (NNR). Grazing with cattle, ponies and pigs is crucial in ensuring that the diversity of wildlife across the heaths can thrive. The woolly pigs will roam the central section of the NNR across the expanse of Hartland Moor, Stoborough Heath and the Arne peninsula. The pigs root and dig in the soil which helps to create patches of bare ground, improving the habitat for many of the species which make a home on the heathlands.
An unnamed road at Loders, Dorset, will be closed for 18 months because a landslide has made it unsafe.
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