I MUST respond to Mrs A Buckle about over who sells what on the Island (‘Store wars’, Echo, October 6). You are forgetting about the anti-Tesco brigade who would complain even if Tesco wanted to give money away. Like them or not they are a very successful
TEACHERS across Weymouth and Portland are urging other schools to build links with other countries. Five schools are hosting visitors from their partner schools in Kenya this week and teachers are using the opportunity to encourage other schools to make
Puddletown Imagine all the people Sharing all the world You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will live as one Never were John Lennon's words in his song Imagine more appropriate than
A MODEL helicopter club is calling on local farmers and landowners to offer its group a new home. Weymouth Model Helicopter Club left their field of 14 years after public complaints over the noise created by the petrol-fuelled helicopters. West Dorset
INSIGHTS into life at the extreme ends of the Earth entertained around 150 people at a polar-themed fundraising evening in Dorchester. The night was hosted by Thomas Hardye School teacher Lyndsay Hilton, who is heading off on a scientific expedition
WEARING a poppy and supporting troops young and old is a sign of respect that means the most to serving soldiers. That is the message from Territorial Army soldiers based at Dorchester who will be turning out to parade on Remembrance Day to
THE Dorset Echo’s Christmas Toy Appeal is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Hundreds of needy local children have received gifts donated by generous readers over the past decade. Now we hope to make the 10th anniversary appeal one of the most
RESIDENTS are unconvinced by some aspects of Olympic travel plans which will see a major shake-up of traffic movements around Weymouth. A Dorset County Council exhibition giving residents the chance to see designs and ask questions had a more than rough
THE sky over Weymouth exploded with colour as the town came alive for Bonfire Night. Thousands of people lined the seafront and gathered on the beach to watch the spectacular display over the bay, while the bonfire crackled on the sand. On top of the
BAR staff kicked down the doors of a flat as its windows exploded in a fire in Weymouth town centre. The blaze broke out in the bathroom of a first floor flat in Bond Street after the owner Brian Thomson went out and left a candle burning. His pet dog
THIS is the man who wants to rescue Weymouth Football Club from oblivion, Echosport can exclusively reveal today. Chris Ryan, who has a financial planning business in the town, has teamed up with current director Shaun Hennessy to lead a bid
DORCHESTER Town must win the war of Havant & Waterlooville if they are to come away from West Leigh Park with three points tomorrow (3pm). That is according to manager Roy O’Brien, who was given a few nice selections headaches ahead of
MANAGER Trevor Senior is hoping to see Bridport continue their recent up-turn in form with success against Oldland Abbotonians at St Mary’s Field tomorrow (3pm). Last Saturday’s stunning 3-0 Tool-station Western League Division One win over second-placed
WEYMOUTH travel to Bridport in a derby match that could decide who ends the weekend at the summit of Dorset & Wilts League Division One South. Fifth-placed Weymouth have the worst points difference of the five sides locked at the top on
FRINGE players can stake a claim when Chickerell United welcome higher-league Gillingham Town to Weymouth College tomorrow (1.45pm). Boss Brendon King is set to make wholesale changes to the side that beat Portland United on Saturday for their Dorset
PORTLAND United boss Stuart Heath is plotting a Dorset Senior Cup second round upset when Wessex League strugglers Hamworthy United visit Grove Corner tomorrow (1.45pm). The islanders play with Hamworthy’s reserve side in the Dorset Premier League –
PATIENTS, staff and supporters told of their fears after the axe fell on the Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester. Following a shock announcement yesterday that 200 jobs are to be cut over the next year, staff and patients branded it a ‘devastating blow
