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‘Nostalgic and calming’: lava lamps are groovy again as sales glow

The Guardian 25 Dec 2025
The British-made lamps have surged in popularity as younger audiences seek to recapture magic of the 1960s ... ....
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Hole closes road towards Dorset

BBC News 24 Dec 2025
In a Facebook post, external, Dorset Council announced the emergency closure of the C112 near Martinstown, near ...
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University Hospital Dorset buys remainder of Wessex Fields

BBC News 22 Dec 2025
An NHS trust has bought the land next to a hospital from a council to temporarily use as additional parking. University Hospitals Dorset (UHD) has bought the land adjoining the Royal Bournemouth Hospital site, called Wessex Fields ... Mr Cox said ... .
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Dorset reptile charity runs free children

BBC News 21 Dec 2025
The Reptile Academy, in Wimborne, Dorset, offers a holiday activity and food (HAF) programme which is supported by local councils and the Department for Education ... The team have 116 places for Dorset and 40 for Hampshire.
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Road closure could be disruptive for Dorset, says councillor

BBC News 18 Dec 2025
Motorists face a year-long diversion at Dinah's Hollow as Dorset Council carries out stabilisation works following a number of landslips ... Dorset Council previously said there was a risk of a ...
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Arrest over suspected theft of cocker spaniel Gerry in Dorset

BBC News 17 Dec 2025
A man has been arrested in connection with the theft of a red cocker spaniel that disappeared from a kennel outside a village home in Dorset.
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Whitbread wraps up 2025 with planning consent at Dorset House, SE1 (Whitbread plc)

Public Technologies 17 Dec 2025
) Whitbread wraps up 2025 with planning consent at Dorset House, SE1 ... Dorset House, Southwark - acquired freehold from a private vendor in May 2025 for an undisclosed sum, with planning conversations with Southwark commencing shortly after.
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Afghan jailed for violent assault on family at Dorset migrant camp in row over a football

AOL 16 Dec 2025
Nasratullah Wahidi, 20, made a “savage” assault on three teenage brothers and their parents at Chickerell Camp near Weymouth, Dorset, in April after kicking a ball at another migrant ... “Wahidi grabbed hold of his neck and started to squeeze ... .
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Building contractor in millionaires' row in Sandbanks fined �100,000 after steel worker was left disabled ...

The Daily Mail 16 Dec 2025
Steel-fix worker Patrick Grant, 69, from Poole, was left disabled after becoming trapped under the pile of breeze blocks during the horrific accident at Sandbanks in Dorset ....
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Bate the difference as Salisbury edge North Dorset in top-of-the-table clash

Yahoo Daily News 15 Dec 2025
Salisbury United (the Second XV) maintained their unbeaten league record with a hard-fought 9–0 victory over unbeaten league-leaders North Dorset II ... possession, but North Dorset’s defence stood firm.
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Crown Estate backs feasibility study into �500m Dorset offshore wind hub

Energy Voice 12 Dec 2025
Morwind to study proposals for Channel Gateway deep-water offshore wind port at Portland ....
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'Like a childhood fantasy come to life': Three RIBA award-winning Dorset treehouses for sale for ...

London Evening Standard 12 Dec 2025
Carpenter Guy Mallinson indulged a long-held dream in building the Woodsman’s Treehouse in 2016, plus Dazzle and Pinwheel during the pandemic. Now, all three are for sale ... .
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Wildfires push Dorset and Wiltshire Fire Service over budget

BBC News 12 Dec 2025
A meeting of Dorset and Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service's (DWFRS) Finance ... The costs racked up as a result of two major blazes – at Holt Heath and another in Newton Heath – both in Dorset.
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Dorset to unveil statue of feminist writer and LGBTQ+ pioneer – and a cat

The Observer 12 Dec 2025
She was also a communist who volunteered for the Red Cross during the Spanish civil war and an LGBTQ+ pioneer, living with the poet Valentine Ackland for decades in a quiet Dorset village, in a partnership they described as a marriage ... Photograph ... .
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