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• Win chance to become Daily Echo newshound for the day

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 15:00)

  AN opportunity to go behind the scenes at the Daily Echo is among the prizes up for grabs in a radio station’s charity auction.

• Swanage railway reconnection scheme set to go ahead

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 14:00)

  AFTER decades in the sidings it looks like full steam ahead for the £3m Swanage Railway reconnection project.

• Thousands descend on Lulworth for Camp Bestival

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 13:58)

  THOUSANDS of people are descending on Dorset for this weekend's Camp Bestival. Traffic is already extremely slow as festival-goers make their way to Lulworth Castle.

• Battle to save Southbourne beach cafe lost

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 12:00)

  DEVELOPERS have won a long battle to transform the site of an historic cliff-top cafe into a two-and-a-half-storey block of flats.

• Updated: Eleven arrested after raid on New Forest nursing home

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 10:40)

  ELEVEN people have been arrested in an immigration raid on a New Forest nursing home.

• Nurses' anger as hospital boss gets paid £2,557 a day

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 08:30)

  ANGRY nurses, who are braced for sweeping frontline cuts, have hit out at the “ludicrous” salary paid to Dorset County Hospital’s temporary boss.

• Poole hospital warned over its financial woes

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 07:46)

  A NATIONAL regulator has warned Poole Hospital that it will step in unless the trust can sort out its troubled finances.

• Brutal sex attack in Bournemouth gardens

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 07:00)

  DETECTIVES are hunting sex attackers following a terrifying late-night assault on a teenager in Bournemouth town centre.

• Road rage as travellers move into nursery field

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 07:00)

  TRAVELLERS have gained entry to a field near Cherry Tree Nursery in Bournemouth.

• Asbos ‘not working’ residents tell Echo

     (Friday, 30 July 2010 06:30)

  Home secretary Theresa May announced this week that it was time to adopt a fresh approach in the fight against the blight of anti-social behaviour. “It’s time to move beyond the Asbo,” she said.