Steve Harris Episodes Episode guide
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The village near Blandford where residents want the speed limit cut before lives are lost
The speed limit in Winterborne Houghton is 60mph; some villagers want that reduced.
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We look ahead to the royal unveiling of a new statue of the Queen Mother in Poundbury
Our reporter's on the scene as the Queen visits Dorchester.
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The Dorset council looking at ways to restrict second home ownership.
Purbeck has the 9th highest rate of people with second addresses in the country.
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The Dorset respite provider that's could close if it can't find a new home
Wimborne Respite Club has been told it can no longer meet at the Hanham Centre
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The "exceptionally high amputation" rate for people in Dorset with diabetes
We hear from a Weymouth diabetic who says more needs to be done to prevent amputations.
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Dorset's new £5m museum, and the two sites in the county added to the Heritage At Risk register
We take a tour around Kimmeridge's new Etches Collection
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20/10/2016
Live from Dorset, Steve Harris starts the day with local, national and international news.
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Unions have called for changes to a Portland Academy to be delayed
In January IPACA will become part of a multi academy trust.
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The campaign to save a café in Studland will address The National Trust's AGM this weekend
1800 people have signed a petition to save Middle Beach Café.
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We hear from the lawyer of a Dorset mum with leukaemia whose sister has been refused entry to the UK
May Brown's sister wants to donate stem cells to her.
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Portland's IPACA has been issued with a government warning over the state of its finances
We've learnt there are still concerns about the financial health of the academy.
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The number of reported rapes in Dorset has more than doubled in the past five years. We try to find out why
Linda Lewis from Dorset Rape Crisis Support Centre joins us on the show.
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We report on unhappiness on Portland as IPACA moves towards becoming part of a national multi-academy trust
Our reporter Laurence Herdman covers the changes at the Portland academy.
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Our political reporter's live in Brussels to give us the Brexit picture from the heart of the EU
We hear from reporter Tristan Pascoe live in Belgium.
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On World Mental Health Day, a Dorset woman talks about the "big dark place" that depression takes her to
Jackie Lawson, an occupational therapist, tells us how depression affects her.
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Former Brexit Minister and Dorset MP on whether our departure from the EU will be "hard" or "soft"
We hear from West Dorset MP Oliver Letwin on the day he's knighted.
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06/10/2016
Laurence Herdman sits in. Live from Dorset with local, national and international news.
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We cover a dramatic rise in the number of ambulance staff in Dorset being bullied, threatened and attacked
Nearly 700 South Western ambulance staff have been threatened on duty.
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Could the Conservative party conference be returning to Dorset?
Bournemouth East MP Tobias Ellwood's hopes of bringing the conference back to Dorset.
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The Bournemouth principal "disgusted and angry" at a local bus company
Peta Moffitt hasn't had £800 back since a coach she'd booked failed to arrive in April.
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30/09/2016
Laurence Herdman sits in. Live from Dorset with local, national and international news.
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29/09/2016
Laurence Herdman sits in. Live from Dorset with local, national and international news.
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28/09/2016
Laurence Herdman sits in. Live from Dorset with local, national and international news.
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27/09/2016
Laurence Herdman sits in. Live from Dorset with local, national and international news.
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26/09/2016
Laurence Herdman sits in. Live from Dorset with local, national and international news.
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Is postponing council elections because of changes to local government "unconstitutional"?
A petition has been started to protect next year's local elections.
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We talk about the thousands of operations cancelled every year in Dorset
A ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Freedom of Information request has revealed these figures.
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What does the future hold for the Weymouth peninsula site?
Our reporter is live in Weymouth to talk about the options for the future.
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Dorset police needs more people to volunteer to visit its cells
The force wants almost double the number of Independent Custody Visitors in the county.
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Cosmetics entrepreneur Liz Earle joins us as she takes part in a beach clean in Bournemouth
Also, we speak to the former Bishop of Bath and Wells who now calls Dorset home.