A GAY celebration which was expected to bring thousands of people to Bournemouth is in jeopardy because of council reluctance to close a road. Organisers of a week-long Mardi Gras festival look unlikely to win permission to close the Triangle for a party
HUNDREDS of pupils were kept off school yesterday after an electrical fire broke out in the boiler room of Swanage Middle School. Dorset County Council was forced to put its emergency plan into action after the fire started at around 7.30am. Announcements
A shop assistant caught on camera stealing from her employers has been warned she could face a prison sentence. Margaret Dawson, 61, of Cogdeane Road, Poole, admitted stealing cash from N & J Lines newsagents at Lower Blandford Road, Broadstone, on
THIS is a story of unique, almost incredible, heroism and sacrifice. A tale of two men, the only brothers in British military history to have been awarded the Victoria and George Crosses. Both were born in Hampshire, one in Bournemouth (in Dorset since
STROKE victim Anton Harler's brave recovery battle has won him a national award. Anton, 55, of Avocet Close, Chickerell, collapsed at his Granby Joinery business on his wife's birthday in 1985. An ambulance rushed him to hospital, but Anton couldn't speak
AN 80-YEAR-OLD man was punched several times in the face as he used a public toilet in Weymouth town centre. A robber searched the Portland pensioner's pockets in the St Edmund Street toilets yesterday afternoon before launching the attack. The victim
A RARE military tunic worn by a member of a tiny militia force was sold for £6,900 in Dorchester. The tunic, which was made for one of the community militias ordered by the Government to ward off expected invasions by the French in the 18th century, was
WEYMOUTH and Portland's tax collectors are officially the best in the region. The borough council's Revenues Service is the first tax department in the South West to have received the Charter Mark for a second time. The prestigious award was granted in
DORCHESTER'S Thomas Hardye School has scooped the top science accolade in the county after impressing Government officials with its commitment to quality. The comprehensive has become the only school in the county to be awarded hundreds of thousands of
THOMAS Hardye School pupils were rewarded for their outstanding efforts at their annual presentation evening. Students nominated each other for a crop of select awards designed to recognise not only academic achievement, but also effort and determination
THE invasion of Kings Park has started for the second time this year with the arrival yesterday of 30 traveller caravans and their occupants onto the public space. The Bournemouth park was the scene of an encampment of some 800 travellers over Christmas
DORSET - tranquil countryside, stunning scenery and home to one of the world's greatest kissers. It's an unlikely claim to fame but one earned by Portesham's own Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, whose tender embrace with Admiral Nelson is included in the
A SUMMERHOUSE has been built at a special school in memory of a teenage sailor who died in a tragic accident. David Taylor, from Weymouth, was killed when he fell off a wall during a night out in Gibraltar last January. Fellow Royal Navy officers and
THE new controversial route for the Weymouth Carnival procession still stands, organisers said today. A whole section of the route from the King's Statue round Alexandra Gardens is being scrapped because of safety fears sparked by coin-throwing hooligans
HM Bark Endeavour will need people to act as guides when the ship docks in Weymouth Harbour in September. The 18th century replica vessel arrives on September 27 for 10 days and anyone who has a nautical background or interest is being urged to take on
A CONTROVERSIAL plan to build 10 houses on the site of a disused petrol station in Dorchester is being recommended for approval. Two proposals to build on the former Shell garage site in Kings Road have been rejected in the past 18 months - after planners
BRIAN Stock is a man on a mission - to establish himself as the first choice replacement for departed midfielder Richard Hughes. Stock, a product of Cherries' youth system, looks odds on to secure the second central midfield berth alongside Carl Fletcher
