Skating on thin ice with the best
	8:00am Tue 19 Aug 08
	AS Olympic fever grips the nation, Bournemouth is playing host to a whole troupe of Olympic standard skaters who are appearing in Beauty and the Beast on Ice at the Bournemouth International Centre.

	Naturally beautiful?
	7:00am Thu 14 Aug 08
	Picture the scene. You’ve indulged your inner Bear Grylls and spent the night in the wilderness. But – oh no – you’ve got an important meeting first thing. All you’ve got is your wits and a twig. Could you scrub up?
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	Sweet charity
	7:54pm Thu 31 Jul 08
	Right Said Fred singles, oversized Hard Rock Café T-shirts and autobiographies from footballers who aren't old enough to grow facial hair - it's safe to say there are some pretty questionable items gracing the shelves of some of our charity shops.

	Man out of Africa
	3:23pm Fri 25 Jul 08
	THE spear in my hand killed a man. Like much of the African paraphernalia decorating Brian Dawtrey's New Forest home, it has quite a story behind it.

Fields of Conflict

7:15pm Wednesday 23rd July 2008

DIG for Victory was one of the clarion calls of WWII. But who were the people who actually had to do that digging? And harvesting, pig-castrating and cow-milking, while the men were all at war? The Women's Land Army, that's who.

	Army dreamers
	7:00pm Fri 11 Jul 08
	Almost half MOD soliders want to quit - and things aren't much better in the Navy or RAF. But is it a sign of the times, or are the armed forces just as dissatisfied as the rest of us?

	Bank on us
	5:01pm Fri 4 Jul 08
	When it comes to changing the lives of the world’s poorest, a little really does go a long way, as Faith Eckersall discovered

	Go on - live a little...
	7:13pm Thu 3 Jul 08
	Aside from flying stones and clouds of dust I couldn't see anything out of the windscreen. Not that it mattered because as we careered sideways on the gravel surface, the passenger window was the only place to look if I wanted to see where we were going.

	Rock of ages
	7:00pm Tue 17 Jun 08
	IN 1977 the Sex Pistols' God Save The Queen hit number two in the British singles charts. It was doused in controversy thanks to the lyrics, the CD cover and its timely release - which coincided with the Queen's silver jubilee.

	Hair Apparent
	7:00pm Wed 11 Jun 08
	What's up top can determine whether you're the mane man...

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