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But on August 9, 1856, Dorchester was particularly packed. But this was not a time for trading or haggling or errands. It was time for morbid entertainment – the execution of a woman scorned, Elizabeth Martha Brown. Some 3,000 to 4,000 people packed into North Square to witness her death; the last public hanging of a woman in Dorset. Not only has Martha Brown gone down in history, she is also immortalised in fiction. For one of the faces making up the crowd would become a famous writer and get the inspiration for his novel, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, from this event. Author ...

'Peaky Blinders,' 'Harry Potter' icon Helen McCrory dead at 52 "A genuine firecracker with an aching vulnerability" is how actor and writer Mark Gatiss described her. By (0) Helen McCrory died of cancer Friday at the age of 52. File Photo by Rune Hellestad/ UPI | License Photo Damian Lewis (L) and Helen McCrory arrive at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles in 2015. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI. | License Photo Damian Lewis (L) and Helen McCrory arrive for the 19th Annual SAG Awards in Los Angeles in 2013. File Photo by Phil McCarten/UPI | License Photo Helen McCrory attends the wo...

The actress had dozens of screen credits on her resume, but will perhaps be best remembered for playing Polly, the Shelby crime family matriarch on Peaky Blinders; Clair Dowar in the 2012 James Bond caper, Skyfall; Cherie Blair in the 2006 film, The Queen; and Narcissa Malfoy in the Harry Potter film franchise. Actor Helen McCrory with husband Damian Lewis pose after she was awarded an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II at an Investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace, on November 7, 2017 in London, England. (Steve Parsons – WPA Pool/Getty Images) She also worked in Hugo, Penny Dreadful, Doctor Who, ...

The town council offices Picture: Trevor Bevins NEW town council offices being planned for Dorchester town council at the rear of the Municipal Buildings will not have disabled access to the first floor. Town policy chair Cllr Susie Hosford says there is no need because both the public and any staff with mobility difficulties will be able to fully access the ground floor. In response to a public question from Conservative Peter Stein she said the position for visitors would be much improved compared to the existing North Square offices where disabled visitors had to ring a bell and wa...

Sky's Your Honor is a gripping reinterpretation of law and order Though I felt physically ill after the first episode, Peter Moffat’s new legal drama is a mesmerising, albeit gory, watch. North Square and The Village, which was Downton Abbey as re-imagined by George Gissing, has made the move to the US. Not only that, but his series for Showtime (on Sky Atlantic in the UK) has Bryan Cranston of Breaking Bad fame as its star. Yes, I know I should be pleased for him; I should probably make like Liz Truss and say something toe-curling about British exports. (Him and Wensleydale, eh?) In t...