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NEW town councillors have been elected across Dorset, while residents voted overwhelmingly to support proposed Neighbourhood Plans which will shape the future of their communities. An election also took place to appoint a new Police and Crime Commissioner for the county, which is still to be announced.
Follow the live updates here Voters turned out to polling stations on Thursday before the votes were counted at Redlands Community Sports Hub today. Conservative Peter Dickenson celebrated a ‘resounding victory’ in Weymouth Town Council’s Preston Ward. The seat was formerly occupied by Liberal Democrat David Mannings who stood down from the council earlier this year.
A GASLIGHTING and spiteful wife from Dorset, who attacked her husband with his own walking stick after spending years bullying him, has avoided jail. Dennis Dowding, a retired university head of law, put up with continuous mental abuse while living with his wife Valerie Dowding. The treatment he suffered led to Mr Dowding having to live in his own room at the couple s marital home and said he felt gaslighted by his wife.
Victim of years of abuse Dennis Dowding In one particularly cruel act, 76-year-old Dowding tormented her academic husband by deliberately destroying many of his beloved books. Matters came to a head when she slapped him and hit him on the head with the walking stick in a row over their dog.