TEENAGE pregnancy rates in Weymouth and Portland have remained the highest in the county for the past 10 years ? and higher than the national average.
The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show the teenage pregnancy rate in the borough was 44 per 1,000 girls aged 15 to 17-years-old between 2005-2007.
This is almost double the rate in Dorset as a whole, which was 26.7 per 1,000 girls, and higher than the national rate of 41.2 per 1,000 girls in the same period.
