THE RACE for Life is with us again! – at Kingston Maurward on Sunday, 22nd May. This year, my daughter & granddaughters are part of the Beechcroft St Paul’s Primary School Team, but are still competing in their sister & auntie Rheta’s, memory. Anyone
At Sutton Poyntz over 270 people, including over 60 children, sat down for a festive afternoon of ‘posh nosh’, music, competitions, conversation and music to celebrate the Royal wedding. Principal guest Paul Kimber. Mayor of W&PBC, said that he was
Over the next few months you will be seeing a lot of Big 4 Littlemoor posters going up and no doubt there will be a lot of discussion about the £1m coming from the Big Lottery Fund. Residents are urged to get involved in deciding where the money should
ALLOTMENT holders who leave their plots unkempt and neglected should be removed to let people on the waiting list take them on. Beaminster resident Carol Lindsay made the suggestion at last week’s annual parish meeting. She said she had been on the
DORSET’S leading first aid organisation is offering every county school the opportunity to improve their knowledge of life saving first aid. The training arm of St John Ambulance has launched a new campaign offering 20 per cent off the price of a schools
THANKS to the Parish Council a public meeting had been arranged in the village hall where display boards showed detailed plans for the proposed Park and Ride to be located at the Monkeys Jump site. It seems that there would be 953 car parking spaces
TEENAGERS from Portland and London joined forces to experience life on board a tall ship as part of a two-week adventure. Year 10 students were selected from the Royal Manor Arts College on Portland and Kidbrooke School in Greenwich to sail the 62-foot
Local weatherman John Oliver said Dorchester enjoyed its sunniest Easter ever. The mean maximum temperature for the four-day Easter weekend was 23.0C, beating the previous record of 20.5C set in 1984. Daytime temperatures peaked at 25.5 Degrees Celsius
FUNDRAISERS are putting on a fashion show like no other – and they need help. Models wearing vintage and designer clothes will be strutting their stuff on the catwalk at a family fun day in Weymouth. The clothes, which have been donated from around
AN old sign that once hung outside a Bridport pub is now back in its rightful place – 40 years later. The hand-painted sign for the Tiger Inn is now displayed on the wall of the Barrack Street pub after a last-minute auction bid. Landlords
WHAT a lovely, happy atmosphere there was, with fun and games for the youngsters and refreshments for all. The Roman Road Royal Wedding Street party was organised by a team of young mums, including Elaine, Lorraine, Sally Alison and Jo with activities
DIETICIANS at Dorset County Hospital will be going gluten-free in a bid to raise awareness about coeliac disease. The team at the Dorchester hospital will be sticking to a gluten-free diet as part of Coeliac Awareness Week from May 16 to May 22. Coeliac
A BOOK has been published to help poetry lovers understand the native tongue of North Dorset’s most famous son. Australian academic Tom Burton, a professor of English at the University of Adelaide, has published a guide to pronouncing the dialect poems
OSCAR-WINNER Julian Fellowes will be opening Powerstock’s new cinema when it shows his film Time to Time. The grand opening of the cinema – made possible by a £3,500 Big Lottery Fund grant – will be on Thursday, May 12. Adrian Semmence of the Powerstock
REVIVE Portland is an Olympic-inspired community project aimed at making positive changes to the local area on the back of the 2012 games. In 2009, islanders were asked to suggest things that would make Portland a better place, more than 500 ideas were
DOWNPOURS cut short the inaugural Revive Portland Community Show but failed to dampen the organisers’ spirits. Hundreds of people turned out to enjoy entertainment from the Second Edition Majorettes, games, food stalls and story telling but
FIREFIGHTERS warned arsonists could ‘threaten homes and lives’ after two fires were started at a Weymouth beauty spot within two hours. A crew from Weymouth was called to the Rodwell Trail twice on the same evening after the fires were started deliberately
Abbotsbury LAST week I reported how disappointed I was that there were no village celebrations for the Royal wedding. However, I have since heard that the Ilchester Arms put on a bit of a do of which we were unaware. Unfortunately
Deborah Vercoe from the Salon Services store in Weymouth has been named as the company’s Junior Manager of the Year for the Southern region. She received the accolade at its annual Winners Weekend held at Whittlebury Hall in Northampton. Deborah collected
THE seagull bags which have been circulated in the area have been very well received and the council have reported a 50 per cent decrease in the rubbish left after the refuse collection has taken place in the first week. Just a few pointers on their
CORNISH actor Bec Applebee is bringing her one-woman show Oh Mary to Dorchester Arts Centre on Friday, May 20. The show is based on the incredible life story of Mary Bryant; Cornish highway woman, convict, mother and maritime adventurer. Mary was born
Business boss Warren Munson is the new chairman of the Institute of Directors’ (IoD) Dorset branch. The 37-year-old heads Poole-based Inspire chartered tax advisers and chartered certified accountants, one of the south coast’s fastest growing professional
WEST DORSET District Council’s decision to spend £9.7million on new offices is likely to be a hot topic on voters’ minds when they head to the polls for the local elections tomorrow. Campaigners against the move to the proposed Charles Street development
A Portland-based company played a key role in transmitting the TV video and sound to the world at the royal wedding. Canford manufactured and supplied crucial interconnection equipment, which allows signals to be routed and transmitted to satellites
DESCRIBED by some as ‘a young Billy Connolly’, Canadian comedian Craig Campbell brings his own brand of humour to Bridport tomorrow night. After receiving much press attention for his year-long tour with Frankie Boyle, playing to more than 250,000 people
SECURITY guards from Weymouth told of their “once-in-a-lifetime experience” working in London for the Royal Wedding. A coach of 49 of them left Weymouth at midnight before the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton and despite most of
The AV referendum was foisted upon us as the price for Lib Dem support in forming a coalition government. As the last, desperate gasp from Gordon Brown’s bunker as he hung on to power after the last election, it was always a bad idea.
Voters will get to decide tomorrow whether they want to change the system for electing MPs. The referendum will pose the question: “At present, the UK uses the ‘first past the post system’ to elect MPs to the House of Commons. Should the ‘alternative
AROUND 1,000 jobs were confirmed for Weymouth after councillors backed plans for a supermarket, hotel, pub, restaurant and head office building. They unanimously green-lighted the redevelopment of the New Look Weymouth Gateway site at Mercery Road and
The No to AV campaign leaflet dropped through my letter box last week, full of attacks on the Alternative Vote that simply do not stand up to scrutiny. The first claim was that AV would cost £250million. How so? They imagine that £130million
John Figg in his rant (April 15) against Derek Julian's letter supporting AV claims that Richard Drax won with a massive majority that would have elected him even under AV. He should check his facts. Drax had 22,667 votes and the total Labour and Liberal
The issue of the West Dorset District Council offices has remained at the top of the election agenda – and there are still questions that have not been answered in the Conservative administration’s latest leaflet. If the current offices are as awful
QUESTION: How much money does the DCH Digital Mammography Appeal need to raise in total? TO ENTER: By phone: Call 0904 0490 adding the three digits under your chosen prize. For example if it was the Downton Abbey prize you would call 0904
I should like to congratulate all the volunteers at RSPB Radipole last Easter Saturday who gave so much pleasure to us and the many visitors to Radipole Bird Reserve. We had cycled there along the Rodwell Trail which was looking really beautiful with
To find out what prizes you can win click here THE Dorset Echo is launching a fantastic competition today which aims to raise thousands of pounds for the Dorset County Hospital’s digital mammography appeal. Since its launch in the
A COUNCIL has blamed ‘technical problems’ for a delay in people receiving housing benefit payments. Weymouth and Portland Borough Council moved to apologise to residents caught up in the computer mix-up. The payments, which were due to be made yesterday
A FAMILY travelling on the coach want to say thank you to their fellow passengers for helping them following the crash. Tammy Homer and Karl Williams of Portmore Gardens, Weymouth, were on the back seat of the coach with their children Holly
GEORGE Rolls held out the olive branch at an encouraging fans’ forum at Weymouth FC last night, calling for all factions “to pull together to help take the club forward”. The outspoken ex-chairman also admitted to his shortcomings at the meeting and
HERO coach driver Graham Hares had an emotional reunion with two of the people who helped him in the aftermath of a crash on the A37. Mr Hares said thank you to passengers Danny Richards and Stewart Holmes – while the pair praised him for his
PORTESHAM United will come up against blasts from the past tomorrow night (7.45pm) when they take on a Legends team at the Avenue Stadium in a charity match in aid of the Dorset Air Ambulance. The villagers won a sack load of silverware throughout the
ASHLEY Vickers is wasting no time in his search for a proven goalscorer. Profligate finishing proved a constant theme in the Magpies’ topsy-turvy season and boss Vickers is desperate to bolster his attacking options for the 2011/12 campaign. His desire
WEYMOUTH RESERVES 3 HOLT UNITED 1 THE Terras remain on course to claim runners-up spot in the Magna Dorset Premier League after going toe-to-toe with a physical Holt United side at the Bob Lucas Stadium. The Bulls snuffed Weymouth out
PORTLAND UNITED 5 MERLEY COBHAM SPORTS 0 PORTLAND United can “look back on the season with great satisfaction” according to boss Stuart Heath. The Blues brought the curtain down on their Magna Dorset Premier League campaign with a
A SATURDAY sports club in Weymouth has launched its 24th year with a full programme of games coaching for youngsters between the ages of five and 13. Athletics, mini-cricket, football, hockey, tag rugby, rounders, skipping and mini-tennis are all among
BRIDPORT 185 (19pts) beat COMPTON HOUSE 139-9 (8pts) by 34 runs on a revised target MARCEL Grunschloss excelled with both bat and ball to propel Bridport to an opening-day victory over Compton House. All-rounder Grunschloss scored 71 to
DORCHESTER Town Under-18s star Will Gould capped off a fine season with the Dorset Under-16 Players’ Player of the Year gong. The Royal Manor Arts pupil previously had trials with AFC Bournemouth before being released after a year at the Dean Court outfit
WEYMOUTH Youth captured the Dorset Under-9 League Cup with a 3-1 victory over rivals Dorchester Raiders. The triumph at Milborne St Andrew Sports Club marks an impressive start to competitive football for the young seasiders. Weymouth won all their
ISLE of Purbeck duo Mike Perry and Samantha Hill have qualified for the Matchplay Championship Grand Final in Dubai next month. The duo scored 38 stableford points in the hotly-contested mixed pairs event at the south regional final, which was hosted
WEYMOUTH Under-9s enjoyed three tough encounters with South Wales outfit St Joseph’s. The Newport tourists were unfortunately somewhat short of numbers, which led to Weymouth loaning three players in each of the three games played. The two teams also
WEYMOUTH St Paul’s Harriers got the new track and field season off to a flying start at the Bournemouth Open. Seventeen of the club’s finest athletes, aged eight to 15, made the trip east and they returned home with three golds, one silver
TORNADOES of South Dorset swimmers edged closer to bagging England National Qualifying Times as 15 members competed at the two-day SB Open Meet. Jay Lelliott continues to push his boundaries even further with improvements to his qualification times
GRANT Neven was delighted to see a batch of new faces at Portland Red Triangle’s latest youth cricket day. The event, which was staged at Reforne as part of the Cricket Foundation’s Chance to Shine scheme, saw the youngsters develop their skills and
AIR Asia Renault Clio Cup UK driver Luke Wright saw his hopes of a first podium finish dashed after a 100mph collision wrote off his car during race one at the Thruxton circuit near Andover. Racing in the third round of the high profile series, which
