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The last remaining Beales department store is set to close.

The store, at the Dolphin Centre shopping mall in Poole, will shut its doors at the end of May.

Beales chief executive, Tony Brown, said the minimum wage increase, together with a rise in employers' National Insurance Contributions (NICs) had added "exponential cost" to the business.

The NHS Outpatient assessment clinic on the top floor of the department store is not affected by the closure.