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What's in this week's Dover Mercury

15:01, 17 July 2013

This week's Dover Mercury front page
This week's Dover Mercury front page

This week’s Mercury has a 16-page special supplement on Sunday’s concert by the Band of HM Royal Marines on the Walmer Green memorial bandstand. The supplement is packed with wonderful pictures and makes a super souvenir to remember a great afternoon.

This week’s Mercury also has a four-page preview of Deal Regatta, which starts on Saturday. It is full of news about the events taking place in Regatta Week and also has two cash-saving reader offers - 50p off fun fair rides and free chips with your fish.

Other top stories in this week’s Mercury:

Tens of thousands of pounds have been donated in memory of Susan Taylor, 34, who died while attempting to swim the Channel to raise money for two charities. She collapsed in the water just one mile from the French coast on Sunday evening.

A former customs officer and Dover Grammar School boy died from a head injury after being tackled at the end of a rugby memorial match, an inquest heard.

Campaigners have described the Secretary of State’s decision not to hold a public inquiry into major development plans for Dover’s Western Heights and Farthingloe as “outrageous”.

These are some of the top stories in this week's Dover Mercury - out now.

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