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Did you witness early-morning assault on men dressed in women's clothing?

TWO men dressed in women’s clothing were set upon by a group outside the Old Fire Station nightclub in the early hours of Sunday morning.

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Police still hunting knife raiders who threatened Poole Co-op staff

POLICE are investigating a robbery from a Co-op store in Poole last night.

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Man arrested on suspicion of burglary in Boscombe

ARMED police and officers with dogs were dispatched at lunchtime after reports of a burglary in progress on Aylesbury Road in Boscombe.

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Three years for burglar who committed "despicable crime"

A BURGLAR returned to raid a home in the Charminster area of Bournemouth, despite being disturbed in the porch just hours earlier.

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Moped fire spreads to building

A MOPED was set alight outside flats in West Howe on Thursday leaving residents suffering from smoke inhalation.

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Police appeal after woman is robbed at knifepoint

A woman was robbed at knifepoint in Westcliff. 

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Fraudster who 'preyed on a victim’s vulnerability' is jailed for two years

A Poole man who conned a woman he was in a relationship with out of hundreds of thousands of pounds has been jailed for two years after pleading guilty to fraud.

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CCTV: Two men sought over attack on Good Samaritan in Bournemouth

A GOOD Samaritan was left with multiple fractures when he tried to help two women that were being attacked in Bournemouth town centre.

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'Cowardly and vicious attack' on elderly woman in her own home

A WOMAN in her 80s was attacked after two men broke into her home last night.

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Trail goes cold over armed raid at Barclays bank in Wallisdown

THE final man linked with a bank robbery in Wallisdown at the end of last year has been released without charge.

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'Carer' stole £35,000 from sick OAP to fund £200 a day heroin habit

A CALLOUS ‘carer’ who plundered a bedridden pensioner’s savings to fund her £200 a day heroin habit has been jailed for 18 months.

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UPDATED: Man in hospital after stabbing by gang in Kinson

A 30-year-old man was taken to hospital this afternoon following a reported stabbing in the Kinson area of Bournemouth.

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Did you witness attack on man in Canford Heath?

A 22-YEAR-old man was attacked by two strangers near Tower Park in Poole.

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Cars and sheds broken into during overnight crime spree in Swanage

THIEVES targeted cars, garages and sheds in a one-night spree in Swanage this week.

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Cash stolen from elderly woman's home in Stapehill

JEWELLERY and cash was stolen from a pensioner’s home in Stapehill.

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Kinson stabbing: can you help find teenage boys who attacked have-a-go-hero?

POLICE are renewing their appeal for witnesses after a have-a-go hero was knifed in the stomach this week in Kinson.

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Jailed: gang of criminals who stole £160,000 in goods from 16 Co-Op stores

A GANG of criminals ransacked convenience stores and shops in Dorset and across the south.

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Alert over batch of contaminated heroin

DRUG users have been alerted after contaminated heroin killed two people and hospitalised three more in the Hampshire and Portsmouth areas.

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Bungling burglar jailed for 42 months

A BUNGLING burglar who was caught on camera stealing the till from a Bournemouth beauty salon has been jailed for three-and-a-half years.

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Townsend residents "still feel safe” despite drug raids

POLICE say a series of raids on homes at Townsend show they are taking residents’ worries seriously.

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