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Olympic Games
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Handball! BU backs rising Olympic sport
Every Olympic games, an unexpected sport with a lesser profile captures the imagination of the watching masses. Mark Wilson takes a look at handball, a growing sport with great potential to capture the British imagination, and how BU is getting involved.
Dorset kids to compete in “mini-Olympics”
Local schoolchildren will get to participate in their own "mini-Olympics" later this year.
A pest-free Weymouth for Olympics
An unusual preparation is sneaking up in Weymouth – on the council’s agenda is to make accommodation pest-free for Olympic visitors.
Weymouth sculpture criticised
A £330,000 Olympic sculpture in Weymouth has been called a 'waste of money' and even a traffic hazard by residents.
The unusual-looking artwork, which is due to be completed later this month, greets drivers as they approach the town on the relief road. But some of the locals have criticised it as being a “waste of tax payers’ money”.
Poole hotels hike rates for Olympics
Andria Archontides examines the rising cost of following the Olympic Games in Dorset.
Olympic trade not plain sailing for Poole
Poole restauranteurs have reservations about the impact of the Olympic Games, Ilker Kocas discovers.
