However, it said it remained committed to a countywide plan to find suitable Gypsy and traveller sites.

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In Dorset, a new countywide memory assessment service has also been introduced.

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Dorset councils received about 10, 000 responses, 32 petitions and 6, 000 signatures during a three-month consultation period about the countywide proposals, from last November to February this year.

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Landowners will be given free nest boxes and will be asked to monitor the birds and send back information so a countywide picture can be drawn up of where numbers are doing well and where they are struggling.

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The third set of vote returns come from the vote tallies done by county officials in every state. (In the six New England states, cities and townships instead of counties do vote tallies.) The countywide figures become more complete as more precincts report vote returns.

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