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TV reporter covering Dorset for @BBCSpotlight. You can email me anna.varle@bbc.co.uk Views are my own.
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Woman's social housing wait 'beyond desperation'

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By Anna Varle Verified
| MSN Verified
"I feel like I am banging my head against a brick wall." Susan Musselwhite, from Paignton, Devon, said she had been searching for social housing after being given notice to leave her rental property in 2023, as her landlord plans to demolish it. Figures obtained under a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to councils in Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset showed that as of February 2026 more than 60,000 households were on the social housing register.
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School obesity concerns over new PE funding plan

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By Anna Varle Verified
| Yahoo Verified
Plans to end a scheme providing sports funding for primary schools could result in an increase in obesity and mental health issues, teachers have said. The Department for Education (DfE) is cutting the 2012 Olympic legacy sports grant which is paid directly to primary schools each year. It plans to replace it with a Sports Partnership Network which the government said aims to put an "end to the one-size fits all model that has failed too many children for too long".
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Flat owner gets community order amid fire concerns

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By Anna Varle Verified, Cameron Weldon
| Yahoo Verified
The director of a company which ran a high-rise residential block of flats has been given an 18-month community order for fire safety failures which experts said placed residents at risk of death or serious injury. Stephen David Phillips, 56, who owns Latitude 52 in Albert Road, Plymouth, was also ordered to pay about £35,000 in costs at Plymouth Crown Court.
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