PLANS to build a new GP surgery at Wool have won planning approval, despite concerns raised by council planning officers. Wool Parish Council supported proposals for a new two-storey purpose-built medical centre on land it owns off Meadow Lane. The surgery
OI! THAT'S our £3 million! Millions of pounds that should have gone to Poole have turned up instead in the cash pile of Bournemouth. A £3.1m package meant for Poole has instead been handed to Bournemouth in error. It was only when finance chiefs scoured
SUNDAY evening's presentation of prizes at Parkstone Yacht Club marked the end of The Poole Winter Series 2004. Earlier in the day the last of the 10-race series took place, with a few of the remaining top spots still to be accredited. It was a cold and
STEVE Johnson reckons some of his Weymouth players won't know what has hit them on Boxing Day. The head coach looks set to give at least six players their first taste of Dorset derby action when the Terras travel over the Ridgeway to visit Dorchester
SCROOGE bosses have tried to cheat nearly 400 low paid workers across the South by refusing to pay them the national minimum wage. Low paid workers across the South are among the worst hit in the UK as rogue employers try to duck the law. Inland Revenue
TALENTED artist Alison Board's biggest commission to date is so far proving one of great delicacy. Alison, aged 30, is midway through creating a picture to celebrate Wimborne Minster's 1,300 years as a seat of Christianity. She began researching the project
YOUNG pop sensation Dani-Marie Gill made an army of fans while launching an album in Germany. The All Saints' School pupil was in Berlin with six other artists from around the world to promote the release of a compilation CD on which she sings two tracks
GRANDMOTHER Lindy Ball will be partnered by her stepson Jason and chasing her own son William when they take part in a mad-cap car rally across the North African deserts after Christmas. But it is the spirit of her late niece Alice Martineau that is driving
AN ARTHRITIS patient was overjoyed to be given a disabled parking bay outside his home - only to be plunged into dismay when it was removed two weeks later. Widower Reuben Poole, 78, who lives in Churchill Road, Blandford, finds it tough to walk any distance
DREAMS of a white Christmas have every chance of coming true this festive season, according to a Bournemouth weather expert. The country has the best chance of seeing snow on Christmas Day for three years and Dorset and Hampshire are no exception, it
A WOMAN who woke in terror to find a drunken intruder in her cottage claims police officers called to help her gave the man a lift home. Suzanne Miller realised she wasn't alone at her home in Ashley near Ringwood when her dog began barking in the early
A TRIP of a lifetime to see Father Christmas turned into a nightmare for a family after the coach they were travelling in crashed. Hollie Bladen, 10, her five-year-old brother Jacob, and their dad Jon were almost at the end of the day trip to Lapland,
A TEENAGE girl who rammed a motorboat into a terrified family of swans on the River Stour in September, killing a cygnet, has received a caution. No action was taken against another teenage girl and boy who were on board the craft during the sickening
DORSET GPs and local health services are urging members of the public to help themselves this festive season by making sure they choose the right treatment if they become ill. National surveys have shown that many people keep no over-the-counter remedies
OI! THAT'S our £3 million! Millions of pounds that should have gone to Poole have turned up instead in the cash pile of Bournemouth. A £3.1m package meant for Poole has instead been handed to Bournemouth in error. It was only when finance chiefs scoured
DORSET'S brave effort just failed to overcome the might of Devon in the Atherley Trophy. In a second-round match on a knife-edge until the closing stages Dorset bowed out 116-106 after sharing the six rinks equally at Donyatt, Ilminster. Dorset trailed
CHRIS Campbell was named both top man and top boy after a personal medal bonanza at the Guildford open meet. The Bournemouth Dolphins 13-year-old swam 11 events involving 1,700m in the course of two days - and won medals in most of them. With warm-ups
DORCHESTER'S Matt Groves says he'd love to make Terras boss Steve Johnson eat his words on Sunday. Johnson quipped none of Dorchester's players were worth signing when asked at the Terras weekend fans' forum if he might be interested in taking the Magpies
DOUBLE-WINNING Poole Speedway promoter Matt Ford unwrapped the perfect pre-Christmas present for fans last night by re-signing two of their most popular riders from the 2004 campaign. Slovenian Matty Ferjan and Poland's Krzysztof Kasprzak both clinched
THURSDAY DECEMBER 23 The Jamm + Paul Weller Connection - Mr Kyps; Rubber Soul Xmas Hysteria - Cold Earth + Rolling Dog + The View + Room 101- Destiny, Bournemouth; QED - The Plough Inn, Tiptoe; Soul Train - The Studland Dene Hotel; Slice of Lemon - Twenty
WHEN Shane Richie appears in this year's inevitable EastEnders Christmas showdown - a clash with Dirty Den over the much-coveted Queen Vic, no less - millions of viewers will simply see him as good old loveable rogue Alfie Moon, the character he has made
WHEN Shane Richie appears in this year's inevitable EastEnders Christmas showdown - a clash with Dirty Den over the much-coveted Queen Vic, no less - millions of viewers will simply see him as good old loveable rogue Alfie Moon, the character he has made
WORKERS are facing Christmas on the dole after Easton Masonry ceased trading during a day of major shake-ups in the Portland stone industry. Owners ordered that the company be placed into voluntary liquidation yesterday afternoon when the long-established
A MAN was rushed to hospital with facial injuries after a vicious attack on Weymouth seafront. Police were called at about 8.30pm last night by a member of the public after a fight broke out between a group of men in a promenade shelter. Det Insp Mick
FURIOUS students were told their Weymouth College course was being cancelled on the last day of term before Christmas. Teenagers on the education to employment course claimed they were told of the cancellation as they turned up to take mince pies to residential
THE brightest houses in Weymouth and Portland are celebrating after winning a Christmas lights competition. Judging for the council's Christmas competition took place over several evenings with houses, gardens and boats all considered. Winners Joyce and
A YOUNG Christchurch driver may have been speeding at 140mph when the car his grandmother gave him span out of control, an inquest heard on December 22. Matthew Cook from Friars Cliff was driving home along the Christchurch bypass at 11pm on October 29
A FURIOUS residents' group has vowed to take tougher action after losing the latest battle in its campaign to stop Highcliffe's leafy suburbs turning into a concrete jungle. In three months, planning inspectors have overturned two decisions made by Christchurch
YOUTH team duo John Sutton and Jamie Whisken have been drafted in to Sean O'Driscoll's first-team squad ahead of Cherries' hectic festive campaign. Portsmouth-born Sutton and Whisken, who hails from Moordown, have been called up to provide cover as defensive
