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Good morning! Here are our top stories this morning ⬇️🧵 #Dorset #LocalNews
1⃣ 'Frustrated' residents were rudely awoken by a 'mini firework display' in the early hours of the morning. Police were called after the startling early alarm call. Story by @EvieCoffeyEcho here #Poole bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23057535.…
2⃣ @MattSimpsonEcho brings us some shocking footage of a burglary on a convenience store in Ferndown recently. The incident has left the owner scared. Full report here #Dorset bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23051910.…
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Hello 👋 What's happening in Dorset we hear you cry? Well, here are our top stories today 👇🧵#Dorset #LocalNews
1⃣ 'Squatters' play 'awful drum and bass techno' music until 3.30am in Poole. @MattSimpsonEcho spoke to the residents who live near to this boarded up council building #Poole bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23055560.…
2⃣ Construction begins on a new Lidl as part of a major development in Dorset. @GRevellEcho has the latest on what's happening at this key housing site - and when the store could open⬇️ #Lidl bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23055238.…
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And so it begins.
Pub in Shaftesbury ceases trading. “Supplier prices have increased to such a point that we are no longer able to pass that cost onto our guests. Our utilities alone have increased by an extra £58,000 alone.”
#CostOfLiving #Dorset
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Dorset disabilities charity, @diverseability Diverse Abilities, worried how they will pay the energy bills on School, Respite Home & Adult Activity Centre. They have seen their energy bills increase 200%.
#CostOfLivingCrisis #Dorset
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Fish & Chip shop Chez Fred has announced reduced opening hours, closing Sunday & Monday. “In view of the harsh economic climate that we’re all facing, together with huge increases in energy costs, it’s a move that makes sense for us as a business.”
#CostOfLivingCrisis #Dorset
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1) “Hundreds of people disclosing their experiences of having been harassed by him was devastating for Gaia because she felt it was proof that what happened to her wasn’t an isolated incident, said @MariennaPW

#JusticeForGaia

theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/j…
2) @MariennaPW described how she and the rest of the family tried to get mental health support for #GaiaPope. She was admitted to hospital several times but was repeatedly discharged with “no real care plan”.

#JusticeForGaia
3) She that after being raped, Pope, who had #epilepsy, became “very anxious and very afraid”, but added: “She wanted to live. She was a survivor in every sense of the word.”
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🚨 Breaking News - Thread 🚨

1) #Dorset Police detective has admitted that delays in reviewing the investigation into the disappearance of #GaiaPope may have caused opportunities to find her to be lost. @Independent

#JusticeForGaia

independent.co.uk/news/uk/gaia-p…
2) The high risk #missingperson case should have been reviewed by an experienced detective as soon as possible but no review had been carried out when he came on call more than 16 hours later.

#JusticeForGaia
3) Not all the information needed in a #missingperson inquiry had been gathered. Mr. Swanton also said he was concerned about a lack of structure to the investigation & that no-one appeared in charge.

Nor could he see from the logs what actions had or had not been undertaken.
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It’s #HillfortsWednesday (huzzah!)

Today we’re looking down on the mighty Maiden Castle #Dorset @EnglishHeritage

It's impressive today, but how did it look in prehistory?

A thread on our favourite recreations / reconstructions from books, guides and on-site signage 👇👇 ImageImageImage
Arguably the most famous hillfort in Britain, the multivallate Maiden Castle #Dorset encloses over 17ha and comprises many phases of construction and modification the appearance of which can be difficult to convey

📷 looking south © Jo and Sue Crane 2016

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The earliest built phase at Maiden Castle #Dorset was an Early Neolithic causewayed enclosure (c. 3550 BC)

Recreations of this period are comparatively rare, so this wonderful image © Miranda Schofield / English Heritage is particularly welcome 😊👍

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Voters of #Cornwall #Devon #Dorset and #Somerset:

Did your MP vote to make pensioners poorer by breaking the #ToryManifesto pledge to maintain the #TripleLock on pensions?

Check this handy guide: (1/5)

#ToriesOnTheTake #PovertyInTheUK
These are the #Cornwall MPs who voted to make pensioners poorer by breaking the #ToryManifesto pledge to maintain the #TripleLock on pensions.

George Eustice
Cherilyn Mackrory
Steve Double
Sheryll Murray
Scott Mann

#ToriesOnTheTake #PovertyInTheUK 2/5
These #Devon MPs voted to make pensioners poorer by breaking the #ToryManifesto pledge to maintain pension #TripleLock.

Selaine Saxby
Geoff Cox
Mel Stride
Simon Jupp
Neil Parish
Anthony Mangnall
Anne Marie Morris
Gary Streeter
Kevin Foster

#ToriesOnTheTake #PovertyInTheUK 3/5
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THREAD For #IWD21 please take 5 mins to read & share Gaia's story. Gaia loved #InternationalWomensDay & she should be here celebrating it with us. Instead our bright, brave and beautiful star 🌠 has become part of it. 🌹 #JusticeForGaia #InternationalWomensDay #RapeJusticeNow Image
We are a family fighting for answers about what happened to our girl who went missing on 7 November 2017 when she was 19 yrs old. 🌹 Eleven days later, her body was found. The coroner found she’d died of hypothermia. We call it a death by indifference...
🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️
Gaia was bright, brave, kind, creative and fiercely loyal to those she loved. The challenges she faced as a young woman living with #epilepsy & as a #survivor of sexual violence inspired her to pursue a career in health and social care. 💞 She wanted to dedicate her life to...
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Positive cases reported in #Bournemouth #Christchurch #Poole Council on Fri 19 Feb are:-

BCP Council 56

Average 7 Day Case Rate in BCP Council area is🔼to 84 cases per day, equivalent to level of 18 Dec.

For comparison, the Case Rate on 1 Sep 2020 was 5.1 cases per day.
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Positive cases reported #Dorset Council on Fri 19 Feb are:-

Dorset 84

Average 7 Day Case Rate in Dorset Council area is🔼to 46 cases per day, equivalent to level of 19 Dec.

For comparison, the Case Rate on 1 Sep 2020 was 1.5 cases per day.
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Positive cases reported in #NewForest Council on Fri 19 Feb are:-

New Forest 15

Average 7 Day Case Rate in New Forest Council area is ▶️◀️at 23 cases per day, equivalent to level of 16 Dec.

For comparison, the Case Rate on 1 Sep 2020 was cases 1.6 per day.
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The #Dorset Ooser was a wooden mask with a bull’s hair and horns apparently used to scare people during #midwinter mummers plays in the village of Melbury Osmond. Its whereabouts are now sadly unknown but a replica made in 1975 is on display in the @DorsetMuseum #GothicAdvent
First two photos taken by taken between 1883 and 1891 by J.W. Chaffins and Sons of Yeovil, 3rd photo from Wikipedia commons

And thanks to @CeeChampion for inspiring this post
No doubt very familiar to many from the front cover of @readersdigest seminal book '#Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain' (1973)
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For Tory MPs in *Rural 75* & *Rural 50* seats how you vote on #AgricultureBill Lords' Amdts will prove decisive in GE2024. Don't kid yourself we'll forget. 95% of the public back #SaveOurStandards.

(List of MPs in *R75* & *R50* seats in .@WCountryBylines catchment area follows)
#Dorset R75
.@Simon4NDorset
.@chrisloder
#Dorset R50
Sir Christopher Chope
Richard Drax
.@Michael4MDNP

#Somerset R75
.@LiamFox
.@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
.@DJWarburton
.@JSHeappey
#Somerset R50
Ian Liddell-Grainger
.@MarcusFysh

THX to Neil Parish+Simon Hoare for leadership on farming🚜
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THREAD. 🌹 Exhausted after today 😩 but relieved to have won recognition two HUGE victories in court today:

1. Recognition of the centrality of trauma & mental health support for Gaia's inquest (/all survivors). 🙌

2. Something we never thought we'd ask for...
...another delay to the inquest (now due May 2021) which given the current mess is essential to ensure the full & fearless investigation we need.

We are determined to do all in our power to make sure your family never has to stand where we stand today, fighting...
... justice for someone who’s been taken from you and who can never be replaced.

Huge thanks to our amazing legal team incl. @caoilfhionnanna & @HWistrich Sarah and Soohy for all their hard work, also @INQUEST_ORG, @RapeCrisisEandW England & Wales and @centreWJ as well as...
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Here’s the glorious multivallate Iron Age hillfort (and Roman fort) atop #HodHill #Dorset @nationaltrust 😍looking east in this aerial photo from 2016 © Jo and Sue Crane

A thread to celebrate #HillfortsWednesday
Double ramparts define the 22ha hillfort of Hod Hill #Dorset except on the W with a single bank. Quarry pits form a line behind the ramparts. A Roman fort occupies the NW

Digital terrain model planlauf/TERRAIN from @HenryRothwell digitaldigging.net/hod-hill-dorse…
#HillfortsWednesday
The 2.6ha Roman fort at Hod Hill dates to c AD 44-52. It reused the N and W ramparts of the hillfort and was defended on its S and E sides by a rampart and 3 ditches

Excavations in 1951-8 revealed much of the internal structure

#HillfortsWednesday
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A thread about Establishment wealth, reparations, & why the Tories will *always* defend the statues of slavers & Empire racists… 🤨✊🌹🇪🇺 #Colston #reparations #ColonialViolence #resist #slavery #BlackLivesMatter
This chap is Richard Drax, Tory MP for South Dorset since 2010. His full name is Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, and he comes from a long line of Tory MPs and other assorted Establishment figures over the centuries. 😋✊🌹🇪🇺 #Drax #ScroogeMcDuck
He owns c14,000 acres of Dorset, making him the largest private landowner in the county. Pic shows his country seat, Charborough House. 🧐 #NiceGaff #Dorset #CountryLife
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And we’re off! Digital Unite running workshop on supporting successful digital transformation and the Digital Champions Network - loads of great minds in the room! #OneDigital
Digital Unite have been in the digital inclusion world for 22 years - if you want digital transformation you need to encourage learning within your organisation - employee led learning is at the heart
The Digital Champions Network is a learning ecosystem for digital champions. CPD and Mozilla Badge accreditation is built in as are specialist designed courses and support resources #OneDigital @digitalunite
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