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Ridgeway Magazine 21st June 2017

  • You can go on a Hard Hat Tour of the Shire Hall in Dorchester which will reopen as a heritage centre next year. We report on progress.
  • The Decadettes give us a tune or two resplendent in their Poppy Dresses while they collect money for the Royal British Legion.
  • We talk to Poppy Butcher, organiser of Weymouth’s Military Vehicle Parade, now in her eighties and just as well organised as the young secretary she once was on D Day.
  • Do pets look like their owners? Ridgeway Magazine’s vet Malcolm Welshman tells us.
  • Railway trivia – some stories from life on the lines.
  • Lisa Bond from Poundbury Garden Centre takes us to her allotment for the third time.
  • Dorset Police with a serious warning about fraud – don’t let it happen to you.

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Ridgeway Magazine 21st June 2017