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A TEAM of keen Weymouth rowers are hoping to give a crumbling boat shed an extension and much-needed facelift. Members of Weymouth Rowing Club are hoping to raise around £100,000 as part of a project to pay for urgently needed repairs to the club's Gig Shed next to Weymouth Stone Pier. The gig shed by Weymouth Stone Pier Running alongside this weekend's MelWey Games, the club is hosting the Intraclub Race to start raising cash for the shed renovation - and hope to reach the mammoth target by hosting various upcoming events. Inside: Weymouth Rowing Club are bidding to raise around £100...

A CENTURIES-old feud between two warring sides of Weymouth harbour is to be re-ignited - but this time it is all in the name of good fun as a sporting event is to commemorate an important historical milestone for the town. This year marks the 450th anniversary of Melcombe Regis and Weymouth being united as one town. Previously, they were separate harbourside communities that competed over which would unload cargoes and claim landing duties. But in 1571 Queen Elizabeth put an end to all that - by Act of Parliament she combined the two sides to form what we now call Weymouth.