ADDRESSES, personal telephone numbers, passport information - these are all personal details we are warned by the authorities to keep safe and hidden to protect ourselves against identity fraud, one of the UK's fastest-growing crimes. So when the Daily
DOCUMENTS containing personal information about dozens of people have been found dumped outside an old council building in Bournemouth town centre. Bournemouth council has been accused of negligence after the papers - which relate to more than 70 people
THE heartbroken family of a Swiss student who died after overdosing on the powerful date rape drug GHB is calling for the case to be reopened and the prosecution of those responsible. Three foreign language students were arrested after Andreas Stehli
DORSET County Council is facing a funding shortfall of £8 million. Council chiefs fear that jobs will go and services will be cut as they struggle to make ends meet and keep council tax increases down. Departments are looking at a string of measures to
A Portland primary school has been taken out of special measures. Staff, pupils and governors at Tophill Junior School have cause for extra celebrations with the outcome of their latest Ofsted report. This has given the school a clean bill of health and
A WEYMOUTH college student has launched an Internet radio station from his bedroom. Sean O' Sullivan beams out Slimz Recordings from his house in Harbour View Road on Portland. The shows, which run from 9am to 5pm and 11pm to 8am daily, are a mixture
POLICE are warning farmers and stable owners to be vigilant after a spate of arson attacks. Now Brockenhurst bobby and Portmore beat officer PC Ian Hunt has sent out a warning to people in the farming and equestrian industries. "It would appear that there
FREEZING winter temperatures have delayed the completion of desperately needed repair work to Wareham's South Bridge. Work narrowing the carriageway and waterproofing the ailing structure began in September, when the bridge was completely closed, causing
INTEREST rates could fall after latest data reveals that inflation has fallen back to the Bank of England's two per cent target for the first time since June. Cheaper pump prices last month drove inflation back, said the Office for National Statistics
THIS image represents hope of a lifeline for residents in a rural East Dorset village. For more than a year householders in Witchampton have relied on friends, relatives and car-sharing with neighbours to access shops and a Post Office because theirs
A MANHUNT is under way today after two prisoners escaped from a Portland prison. The wanted men - Paul Stewart, 32, serving nine years for robbery, and Kristian Dolinski, 26, serving five years for burglary - broke out of HMP The Verne. An officer spotted
A VIOLENT drinker has been barred for life from pubs in Dorchester. The 26-year-old man was given the first life-long ban in the county town after using threatening and abusive behaviour in a string of pubs. Until now, landlords have been able to ban
OFFICERS at Dorset's prisons are divided over a Government watchdog's conclusions that prisoners should not be called 'cons'. Her Majesty's Inspector of Prisons, Anne Owers, claimed inmates were upset because the phrase showed a 'lack of respect'. She
STONE from a Portland quarry is to be used in a New York memorial to the victims of the September 11 World Trade Center attacks. Twelve cubic metres of stone from Bowers Quarry will be carved into benches for the British Memorial Garden in Hanover Square
A YOUNG woman escaped from a hooded attacker who tried to push her to the ground by kicking him in the groin. The 19-year-old woman was shocked and suffered a bruise to her left cheek after the incident on the route between the recreation ground and Station
WHEN schoolgirl Alexandra Smart travelled to a deprived part of Eastern Europe to photograph children in heartbreaking conditions, she came away thinking "It could have been me". The 18-year-old was born in Romania and raised until the age of two in an
CROSSED wires have hampered completion of a long-awaited improvement to one of Christchurch's biggest traffic bottlenecks. Work began in October to install a pedestrian crossing with traffic lights and widen the road at the approach to the roundabout
