A MAN died in the early hours this morning after being found with stab wounds on a Bournemouth estate last night. The victim, named locally as David Scoats, who is in his 20s and believed to be from the Townsend estate, suffered multiple wounds outside
FERNDOWN junior Matt Suggett, 18, won the South West boys championship at Stover and hopes his success will help his bid to win a golf scholarship in the United States. The former Canford School pupil from Wimborne wants to further his education in America
DORSET captain Stuart Rintoul believes his side are playing better cricket than their results this season would suggest. The south coast county lie a lowly ninth out of 10 teams in the Minor Counties Championship Western Division following defeats against
BOURNEMOUTH AC star Louise Damen returned home yesterday after running to glory in the European Under-23 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, where she picked up a bronze medal in the gruelling 10,000m. Damen clocked up an impressive 33mins 29.82secs while
Ollie Webb made it a hat-trick of Came Down Golf titles when he won the Dorchester club's 36-hole championship by two shots. Webb, who has recently returned from an extended coaching break in Australia, put in rounds of 76 and 72 on the sun-drenched course
ONE of the Dorset League's oldest clubs have issued a desperate appeal for players to prevent them going out of existence. Dorchester YMCA have fielded teams in the Dorset League for over 50 years and spent many years in the first division. But club stalwart
THE see-saw struggle for supremacy between Tom Legg and Tim Mason took another turn in the Weymouth Town Tennis Tournament at Greenhill. Legg, seeded two behind Mason, who beat him in the Dorchester club's junior final a few weeks ago, reversed the result
THE see-saw struggle for supremacy between Tom Legg and Tim Mason took another turn in the Weymouth Town Tennis Tournament at Greenhill. Legg, seeded two behind Mason, who beat him in the Dorchester club's junior final a few weeks ago, reversed the result
SUTTONERS 269-7 (20pts) beat PORTLAND RED TRIANGLE 192 (8) by 77 runs TRIANGLE'S chances of an immediate return to the Premier Division took a knock when they were comprehensively beaten by an impressive Suttoners side in their NSA Dorset League Division
FORMER Dorchester skipper Matt Lonnon has suffered a setback in his bid to make a full recovery from major knee surgery. The 26-year-old midfielder, who led the Magpies to their first-ever Dr Martens League Cup success last year, spent most of last season
CONTROVERSIAL is too simple a way of putting it. Complex and unfathomable, Jim Davidson has long accepted his role as the bad boy of British comedy and no wonder! For the fact is that for everyone who hates him there are 20 others who howl with laughter
LOCALS today hit back at a renowned designer's scathing criticism of Prince Charles's Poundbury. Stephen Bayley, the man behind the Design Museum, has slated the estate as "an annoying, lifeless and sinister 400-acre site". He says the Brownsword Hall
BRAVE pensioner Lavinia Culver today told how she fought off a mugger who threatened her with a knife outside her Dorchester home. She said the attacker tried to rob her and friend Lily Legge as they returned to their flats after a bingo trip to Weymouth
PENSIONER Margery Trask was chosen to declare Tesco's £3 million refit open in Dorchester after visiting the store every week since it began trading. Mrs Trask, 70, of Meadow View, Charminster, was one of the special guests at the Weymouth Avenue superstore
PETER Targett's 50th birthday will be a birthday to remember - instead of receiving a cake crammed full of fruit the boat skipper was treated to one made of concrete. Mr Targett, who operates the boat Freedom, from Weymouth harbour, was forced to swap
A WORRIED mother has issued a warning to other parents after unlocking a tidal wave of revolting pornography while searching the internet for her daughter's favourite pop group. Shocked Taryna Widdicombe was bombarded with web links for obscene sex sites
POLICE in Ringwood are appealing for public help to trace two men who conned their way into the home of an elderly disabled woman and stole her purse. The men entered the pensioner's home on the A338 Salisbury Road at Blashford through an unlocked kitchen
A FORMER nurse came to the aid of an elderly man who suffered a heart attack while driving through Highcliffe. Agency carer Mo Edwards, 50, from Christchurch, had just gone into the Napoleon's bistro in Lymington Road when a lady came in saying her husband
A SCHEME to curb trouble among drunken clubbers by closing roads in the town centre at night has been branded a "catastrophe" by taxi drivers. As thousands of pub and club goers poured out of the town's venues on Friday night they were all left queuing
THE popular aviary in Bournemouth's Lower Gardens looks set to close as part of a cuts package which will also hit beach cleaning, public toilets and tourist information. The town's leisure and tourism department is running £630,000 over budget this year
THE HEADTEACHER of the school attended by the little boy who died in a tragic swimming pool accident has paid tribute to the five-year-old. Young Callum Grant drowned after he took off his inflatable arm-bands as he splashed about in a friend's parents
A SHOPKEEPER has heaped praise on a group of youths in Swanage who came to his aid as he pursued a suspected shoplifter through the streets. It was "like something out of a Roy Rogers' Saturday morning cowboy movie" according to Ken Leonard, who is particularly
IT could be transformed into a caf, exhibition space, dance studio or even a police sub-station. But while councillors are still considering a host of options for Poole's historic Guildhall building, they're adamant about what they don't want - another
IT could be transformed into a caf, exhibition space, dance studio or even a police sub-station. But while councillors are still considering a host of options for Poole's historic Guildhall building, they're adamant about what they don't want - another
BEES fans have their first chance to see the club's new signings when they take on Dorchester United in a friendly at St Mary's Field tonight (kick off 7.45pm). Jason Thoday and Gary McAuley are included in the squad. Mick Greeno and home debutant Marc
WEYMOUTH teenager James Coutts has signed for AFC Bournemouth after being released by Southampton. The former Wey Valley student spent over three years with Saints after joining the Academy there when he was just 12. He has already started pre-season
WATER polo players from Weymouth/Portland club will be looking to bring the Hampshire League title to Dorset tonight. The club, who play and train at HMS Boscawen, travel to Southampton tonight to face the City club in a title play-off after they each
STEVE Claridge is expected to make his first appearance of the season for his new club tonight when the Terras continue their pre-season campaign at Aldershot. So far the 37-year-old former Shots legend - affectionately known as Wurzel by fans of the
LUKAS Dryml's life was saved by "incredible luck" and "the best quality helmet money can buy", according to his father, Ales Dryml, the former rider. The Pirates star fell heavily in the Slovenian Grand Prix at Krsko two weeks ago and sustained a broken
A Dorchester teacher has died after being attacked outside a nightclub. Philip Mesney, 31, lost his battle for life after suffering serious head injuries in an assault in London last week. Metropolitan Police officers are quizzing two men in connection
A 74-YEAR-OLD woman was dragged to the ground by a robber who stole her handbag containing £500. The holidaymaker was making her way back to her accommodation when the thug struck in Astrid Way, off Weymouth Esplanade, just after 11pm last night. She
WEYMOUTH Beach could be washed away as a result of climate change, it was warned today. The golden sands could disappear within 100 years, bringing disaster to the town's tourism business and local wildlife. That is the stark warning from experts due
STEVE Purches will be looking to defend his title when Sean O'Driscoll's squad tee-off at the second AFC Bournemouth Golf Day at Canford Magna on Wednesday, August 6. Dark horse Purches led his team to victory in last year's inaugural event at Ferndown
LOCAL authorities and landowners are taking action against travellers who are parked at two beauty spots in Christchurch and Bournemouth. On Sunday evening a small group which had been camped at the nearby Two Riversmeet leisure centre moved on to riverside
MY boy's got a magic shirt, and it cost less than a tenner. Bargain or what?! To be accurate it cost 12 euros, (painstakingly haggled all the way down from a whopping 13), which, according to the current exchange rate, is £8.47, give or take a bob or
