A TRAINEE police officer whose dream of a career in the force was shattered six-and-a-half years ago by a police car crash has been awarded £2m damages.

Nicholas Fletcher was 26 at the time and a probationary constable on March 27, 2003, when the officer driving the unmarked car he was travelling in lost control on a bend on the A287 at Millbridge.

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