RONNIE O'Sullivan was all square at 4-4 after the first session of his Liverpool Victoria UK Championship quarter-final against Quinten Hann in Bournemouth yesterday. For the first time in a season that has already yielded the Champions Cup and Regal
TWO new sponsors are waiting to bail out the Dorset Cricket League. The League's annual meeting was told they had received two offers to take over from the Bournemouth-based chartered accountants Princecroft Redman who announced last summer that they
DORCHESTER police are smashing their targets in the fight against crime. Over the period from July 1 to September 30 this year, the county town's policemen have reduced crime figures across the board. And alcohol and drug-related incidents have been successfully
DORCHESTER businesses are being asked to back the town's bid for CCTV, but a councillor has urged caution. The CCTV Action Group is sending letters to firms across the town asking for cash pledges, from £50 to £250, in support of the scheme. But at last
WHEN Sue Townsend's brilliant book The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged Thirteen and Three Quarters was first published, I bought it as a Christmas present for my husband, stole it from him as soon as he opened it and spent the whole of Christmas Day
A CAMPAIGN against a planned waste transfer station at Bridport is hotting up. People living in Burton Road are fuming after the latest public exhibition of SITA's proposals for the intended site. They are calling on people to voice their concern about
PIRATES co-promoter Matt Ford believes Scott Nicholls may wear the club's skull and crossbones race-jacket again, despite the rider leaving Wimborne Road. The 22-year-old Ipswich-owned rider is due to put pen to paper today on a deal which takes him back
CONSERVATIVE spokesman for education in Poole, councillor Tony Woodcock, has called for action to eradicate the vast differences in GCSE exam results between grammar and independent schools, and those run by the LEA. Poole local education authority was
All the films on general release across Dorset this week, listed and rated... BEDAZZLED (12)**: Comedy starring Elizabeth Hurley - Odeon, Southampton. BILLY ELLIOT (15): **** A young boy discovers he has a talent for ballet - Odeon, Southampton. CHARLIES
CHERRIES boss Sean O'Driscoll has been overlooked for the Nationwide League Division Two manager of the month award for November despite guiding Cherries to three straight wins. O'Driscoll had been in the running for the accolade due to the recent upturn
A VILLAGE could lose out on more than half a million pounds of funding because of government intervention it was claimed today. Community groups across Crossways had hoped to share more than £500,000 of cash put together as part of a planning deal between
TRADERS on Portland claim two weeks of cable laying work has hit their businesses. They claim work by Southern Electric to connect flats at Fortuneswell to an electricity sub-station has put people off coming to their shops and caused widespread disruption
A CAMPAIGN against a planned waste transfer station at Bridport is hotting up. People living in Burton Road are fuming after the latest public exhibition of SITA's proposals for the intended site. They are calling on people to voice their concern about
TO celebrate the fact that they have survived for ten years without public subsidy, Dorset Chamber Opera has commissioned a new opera. It's based on Thomas Hardy's short story Absent Mindedness in a Parish Choir, with music by Brian Parkhurst, a member
BOURNEMOUTH Little Theatre Club's production of Alan Ayckbourn's comedy How The Other Half Loves opens on Monday at their Jameson Road premises. It revolves around three very different married couples, played by Jacqui Keyse, Don Gent, Tess Hutton, Tom
BUSINESSWOMAN Elke Burden amazed VIP guests at a Jacksons Mercedes-Benz fly-drive day by piloting a Boeing 727 under Sydney Harbour Bridge with only 40ft to spare. The 'flight' in a simulator at European Aviation Air Charter at Bournemouth International
HAMPSHIRE'S three East Dorset skips did the county proud as Peter Line's team strode past Devon 122-107 at Ilminster to earn a quarter-final place in the Liberty Trophy. Nicky Jones, Julian Haines and Kevin Cousins gave Hampshire three of their four rink
CHERRIES boss Sean O'Driscoll has been overlooked for the Nationwide League Division Two manager of the month award for November despite guiding Cherries to three straight wins. O'Driscoll had been in the running for the accolade due to the recent upturn
WORLD champion Mark Loram will give Poole Pirates first refusal on who he rides for in the British Elite League next season. The 29-year-old speedway sensation's manager, Norrie Allan, confirmed today he would be contacting Poole chiefs early next week
Can The Levellers really have been around for 12 years now? Armed with revolutionary communal politics and a clutch of rousing anthems, the band have been praised and vilified in equal measure for their spirited defence of alternative lifestyles and the
HOLLYWOOD director Steven Spielberg is not an easy man to impress - but Weymouth student Cate Franklin, 15, has succeeded in capturing the film legend's imagination. The director of movie classics such as ET and Jaws was on a panel that judged Cate's
DORCHESTER businesses are being asked to back the town's bid for CCTV, but a councillor has urged caution. The CCTV Action Group is sending letters to firms across the town asking for cash pledges, from £50 to £250, in support of the scheme. But at last
SUNSEEKER International, the world's largest privately owned motoryacht manufacturer, has scooped a hattrick in the Export Times awards at London's Dorchester Hotel. The award for Exporter of the Year Overall Winner was received by brothers and co-owners
PERHAPS they thought some poor soul camped out on the beach, or sheltering between the beach huts, was the winner of a sizeable unclaimed National Lottery prize. With megaphone in hand Camelot's Glen King battled against the winter winds along Bournemouth
A DRAMATIC collision in Poole Harbour led to one J24 losing her mast and another her masthead instruments during close quarter racing in strong winds last Sunday. Parkstone YC's fiercely competitive J24s were kept inside the harbour because of force six
SPORTS students from Weymouth College are through to a prestigious national competition after sweeping the board at the regional finals. Local youngsters were on top form for the British Colleges Sport South West Championships with team wins in the volleyball
BOURNEMOUTH stay in the hunt for promotion to the Southern Premier League after coming from behind twice to earn a 3-3 draw with London Wander-ers in the Hants-Surrey League. Following a victory over Bas-ingstoke, Bournemouth were in confident mood and
ARMOURED cars at Bovington army camp were stopped in their tracks today when military chiefs banned them from the roads. Top brass ordered its 780-strong fleet off public highways nationwide amid fears that faulty drive shafts caused two accidents earlier
FASHION giant New Look axed its "sick" Cat in a Bag toy from sale today - and then donated £500 to a Weymouth and Portland animal charity. Animal campaigners branded the gruesome gift appalling and tasteless when it appeared in the Weymouth based firm's
A WEYMOUTH pensioner was surprised to get his latest bill from British Telecom - for nothing. Raymond Thompson, 69, who lives in the town centre, says he is now thinking about having the demand for payment of £0.00 framed. Retired landscape gardener Mr
A VILLAGE could lose out on more than half a million pounds of funding because of government intervention it was claimed today. Community groups across Crossways had hoped to share more than £500,000 of cash put together as part of a planning deal between
A CAMPAIGN against a planned waste transfer station at Bridport is hotting up. People living in Burton Road are fuming after the latest public exhibition of SITA's proposals for the intended site. They are calling on people to voice their concern about
