Now it is trying to clean up the electoral roll: it recently found 52, 000 duplicated entries in a sample of 1.2m registered voters.

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The partnership worked with Bournemouth Borough Council to clear the A338 and it is now working with neighbouring councils and the Highways Agency to clean up other routes, including the A31 and A35.

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Now it has about 800 articles about the work that has been done to clean up the area and often acts as a rallying point for local campaigns.

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None of the resting workers yet know when they'll be going back to work, and some are now beginning to worry that their livelihoods may be sacrificed in China's bid to clean up its environment before it is too late.

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