Dorset County, England News

DORSET Police have been accused of failing to properly investigate almost half of all crimes reported to them.

Bournemouth teenager - should be allowed to have his sex change' 8:31am Tuesday 24th November 2009 Comments Have your say By Diana Henderson A 14-year-old schoolboy demanding a sex change should be allowed to go ahead with it.

HUNDREDS of generous funsters celebrated raising A 548,302 for Children in Need at the South West's live telethon in Weymouth.

A RADICAL A 800,000 campaign has been unveiled by road, fire, police and council chiefs today to cut the level of carnage on Dorset's roads by 30 per cent in a year.

Firefighters sent out a warning after a toddler switched on a hob and set fire to some laundry in Ferndown, Dorset.

THOUSANDS of schoolchildren stood up to be counted as they marched through Poole Park yesterday.

PARENTS, teachers and community workers united today to declare: - Ban the bands'. There is mounting concern about the controversial multi-coloured bracelets worn by children which are linked to sex acts.

LIFEBOAT crews from Dorset have been deployed to Cumbria to help with rescues during the devastating flooding.

AN investigation has been launched following the death of an elderly woman who is believed to have been locked in a council-run day centre.

SIGNIFICANT amount' of cannabis was seized during drug raids in Wey-mouth, police said.

Dorset County Hospital is haemorrhaging an average of half-a-million pounds a month.

RECEIVING the prestigious freedom of the borough or freedom of the town is an honorary status conferred on a select few.

DORSET veterans will greet the funeral cortege of Rifleman Philip Allen from Verwood when it arrives at RAF Lyneham on Monday, November 16.

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TEN people have been arrested after more than 40 police swooped on a series of addresses in Swanage and one in Poole to remove suspected drug dealers.

CARNIVAL floats will continue to travel at night under police escort in Dorset "for the foreseeable future". The news has been given a cautious welcome by carnival clubs and organisers in North Dorset - " home to some of the country's oldest carnivals.

DORSET was battered by hurricane force winds in a weekend of weather chaos. In some of the worst storm conditions experienced for a decade, power was cut off to thousands of homes, traffic was brought to a standstill by flooded roads and monster 30ft waves lashed the coastline.

MATT Snook and his best friend John Thornton dreamed of climbing mountains together.

AN eye-witness in Christchurch says the harbour flooding is the worst he has ever seen.

Homes have been damaged and parts of the south coast flooded as the biggest storm of the year so far batters Britain.