THE distraught family of a missing Bournemouth teenager has appealed for him to return home. Mark Adam Foreman, 18, who lives with his family in Muscliff, went missing at 8.15am on Wednesday, August 17. The former warehouse assistant has not been seen
ALMOST three-quarters of GPs are so fed up with patients missing appointments they would consider striking off persistent offenders, a survey has revealed. A massive 10 million GP appointments, each one costing around £18, are missed every year as well
A GRAPHIC designer who downloaded and exchanged indecent images of young boys was dressed as a clergyman when arrested by police. Peter Moore, 35, of Palmerston Road, Boscombe, was jailed for four years by Judge Samuel Wiggs on Wednesday after being convicted
A TREASURE trove of unwanted jewellery is coming up for auction at Cottees in Wareham to help a Dorset cancer charity. Over 100 lots of jewellery are going under the hammer on Tuesday, August 30, with all the funds raised going to the Joseph Weld and
THE biggest-ever festival of music, leisure and sport to be seen in Poole Park, rolls out over the Bank Holiday weekend. The two-day Fest '05 features heaps of attractions to listen to, watch, take part in, relax with and eat from 11am to 7pm on Sunday
FERNDOWN Otters' distance specialist Rory Smith has won the annual Brownsea Island swim for the third year running. Smith, who is also a member of RLSS Poole Lifeguard, which organises the swim, completed the 4.6-mile journey around the island in 1hr
SHE may only be two years old, but little Sophie Pritchett's life is busier than that of many adults. The youngster has cerebral palsy and spends her days visiting a raft of professionals who help her cope with the condition which has left her unable
A PARROT found perched on a Portland sign has been given a temporary home by a bird-loving police officer. The island's community beat manager PC Mike Holman is caring for the parrot after it was discovered sitting on the Masonic Hall sign in Victoria
ELDERLY residents have been left coughing and spluttering because of smoke emanating from charcoal production near their homes. Dorset Charcoal, which set up kilns on land owned by Dorset Wildlife Trust at Tarrant Keyneston, agreed to scale down production
THURSDAY is bin day in my road. And so every Wednesday evening it's the same ritual in my flat. Tip all the bins into one sack; attack the fridge with another. I do plan my meals, but all sorts of things can crop up to ambush a perfectly choreographed
WOMEN are risking retirement poverty by relying on their partner's pension to see them through their old age, research warned today. Around 45 per cent of women aged over 50 say their main income once they stop work will come from their partner's pension
THURSDAY AUGUST 25 Alex Hall - The Salisbury Arms, Purewell; Renegade - The Rising Sun, Wimborne; Rubber Soul - Black Bart + The Rev Hotfoot Jackson + Rodeo 7 + Room 101 DJs - O Neills; Paul Hammond - The Cottonwood Hotel, Bournemouth; Bad Cops + support
POLICE have slammed motorists who sped through road diversions set up after two Weymouth pensioners died in a horror car smash. Traffic chaos yesterday hit Weymouth and Dorchester when the elderly couple lost their lives in a head-on collision at the
A ROADS manager will spend time in a wheelchair to experience the problems of getting around Dorchester first hand. Dorset County Council highways manager Richard Bastow agreed to negotiate his way around the town in a wheelchair at a meeting hosted by
A SEA of umbrellas welcomed the New Trafalgar Dispatch as it rolled into Dorchester on the latest leg of its journey to London. The replica post chaise - a horse-drawn carriage - travelled down High West Street from the Top o' Town where hundreds of spectators
A SCHOOL is marking the one-year anniversary of a fire which destroyed classrooms. The junior block of Bincombe Valley School in Weymouth was gutted in a blaze during this week last August, which caused £500,000-worth of damage. About 160 pupils moved
MUSCLE-BOUND thieves lumbered off with more than £1,683 in loose change when they ripped two cash boxes from parking meters from a waterside car park in a New Forest marina. The thieves attacked two parking meters in the car park near the Royal Lymington
AS he cruises with practised aplomb into his 80th year, jazz singer, writer, broadcaster, raconteur, art connoisseur and one-time anarchist George Melly still seems an extraordinarily busy man. Despite failing health, the irrepressible Melly says he has
RESCUED sailor Phil Kirby today thanked Weymouth Lifeboat crew after they came to his aid off the Dorset coast. Mr Kirby, who has more than 40 years' experience at sea, raised the alarm when his yacht suffered engine failure and became caught in shipping
SPEED bumps in Mudeford Lane have slowed more than just traffic. Councillors have now put the brakes on a similar scheme to reduce vehicle speeds in Stanpit. The delay until mid-September will give Christchurch Borough Council highways experts time to
A BRAVE teenager facing years of painful dialysis after his body rejected a kidney transplant is urging people to give life to others like him by donating their organs. Aiden Smith, 19, from Wallisdown, is in Dorset County Hospital recovering from an
ORGANISERS of a junior powerboat race in which a 13-year-old Poole boy was seriously injured have defended his safety equipment following criticism in an official report. A safety bulletin issued by the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) of the
POOLE Yacht Club very nearly had a run of three firsts in the Gold, Silver and Bronze fleets of the GP14 National Championships last week. Local boys Matt Burge and Simon Wheeler were left crying in their beer when a miscounting of the number of laps
WEST Dorset is a safe place to live and visit, according to a report released today by the Audit Commission. Inspectors who visited West Dorset District Council to examine the impact the authority has in helping to reduce crime said it provides a good
A TREASURE trove of unwanted jewellery is coming up for auction at Cottees in Wareham to help a Dorset cancer charity. Over 100 lots of jewellery are going under the hammer on Tuesday, August 30, with all the funds raised going to the Joseph Weld and
