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The Shire Hall, in Dorchester, has been undergoing a major re-development.

It's due to open this Spring where families will be able to go into the atmospheric court rooms and underground cells for the first time which functioned between 1797 and 1955 - and get a feel for what it was actually like to be a convict or magistrate at the turn of the 18th century.

It's due to open to the public in the Spring.

We've been keeping track on its progress and Hayley Redmond has been for another a look around, to see how the works are going.

And she also found out about some ghostly goings-on, during the work...