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Referring to the victim s statement, Mr Newman said: “He was on a bench rolling a cigarette and I could see he was high and his eyes were bloodshot. “Through at the time he seemed quite calm, but one second later he was called me a slag then apologised to me. “Suddenly out of nowhere, he said ‘f this s ’ and pulled out a knife from his trousers. “I stood still and I was in shock and my daughter screamed and ran away. “My partner pushed me away and asked him (Minty) to drop the knife. He put a jumper on it to ensure he didn’t get his prints on it.”
More than a quarter of people aged 45 and over in Dorset have received two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine, figures reveal. NHS data shows 93,774 people had received both jabs by April 25 – 29% of those aged 16 and over, based on the latest population estimates from the Office for National Statistics. Of those to have received both jabs, 84,292 were aged 45 and over – 39% of the age group. It means 9,482 people aged between 16 and 44 have received both doses. The figures also show 241,530 people in Dorset have received at least one jab – 76% of those aged 16 and over. It comes as the Government announced an extra 60 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus jab have been secured for a booster vaccination programme in the autumn.
Bridport town centre. Picture: Michael Taylor THE 10 areas in Dorset with the fewest number of Covid cases reported during the entire pandemic have been revealed. Public Health England figures looking back to March 2020 show the number of infections recorded on a weekly basis in a particular area since the pandemic began. The data covers every weekly period from March 17, 2020 to April 23, 2021. Public Health England breaks down the numbers of coronavirus cases into neighbourhoods called Middle Super Output Areas (MSOAs), which are smaller than council wards and based on population rather than geographical area. They also have an average population of 7,200.