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Dorchester from The Keep
Queen Mother Square
Poundbury Fountain
Dorchester Borough Gardens
Custom House Quay, Weymouth, England
Chesil Beach from Portland
The area north of Dorchester
Heritage Open Days - Maumbury Rings event 180921
Thomas Hardy statue
Keep Military Museum
Dorset Museum front exterior
Shire Hall front
The Nothe Fort Artillery Re-enactment Display Team at Summerfest
In the damp conditions the beacon is finally alight after a couple of attempts
The Decadettes entertaining the crowd
Hardy Half 2023
Hardy Half 2023
Jurassic Coast challenge runners
Rob Mott, Steve Bulley and Dave Goulden
Dorchester from The Keep
Queen Mother Square
Poundbury Fountain
Dorchester Borough Gardens
Custom House Quay, Weymouth, England
Chesil Beach from Portland
The area north of Dorchester
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Thomas Hardy statue
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Shire Hall front
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Jurassic Coast challenge runners
Rob Mott, Steve Bulley and Dave Goulden
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A newspaper reporter’s memory of the night two trains collided

Our reporter and former journalist John Shepherd, called in to the studio and described the time when, on a bitterly cold winter’s night, he had to attend and report on an horrific train crash near Horsham, West Sussex. Although John remained on site all day updating the readers of three editions of the newspaper he worked for, the British Transport Police were none too pleased about him being there, as he recalls…

John Shepherd