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Work to stabilise and clear a café and three neighbouring buildings following a fire is making progress. The fire tore through the Grade II listed Gorge Café in South Street, Dorchester where novelist Thomas Hardy trained as an architect on 9 December 2024 shortly after 03:30 GMT. A section of the street has been sealed off since, this was extended after the building collapsed further several weeks after the fire. Head of building control at Dorset Council David Kitcatt takes Â鶹Éç Radio Solent's Steve Harris inside the cordon to discuss the clean up.