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Olympic
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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.
Weymouth Olympic tower on schedule
A new tower offering views of the Jurassic coast will double up as a viewing platform for the Olympic sailing event at Weymouth.
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”.
