A CHARITABLE golfer will be cycling more than 10 thousand miles in aid of the Dorset-based charity Julia’s House. Steve Walton, 49, from West Stafford, will be cycling to all of the golf venues in mainland Britain that have hosted the Ryder Cup. He
THE INVENTION of a West Dorset woman who snared a Dragon is now helping patients at Dorset County Hospital. Kay Russell, from Corscombe, bagged £100,000 investment for her Physicool bandage after appearing on the BBC television show Dragons
A WOMAN had her foot broken in a hit and run collision in Weymouth. The 25-year-old Weymouth woman was crossing King Street when the wheels of a car went over her foot. The driver of the Citroen Xantia failed to stop, police said. Officers have just
BEACH traders are finally able to open after a long running saga. A decision to call-in an earlier ruling to allow businesses to open on Weymouth beach was unanimously rejected by councillors. Vendors are operating once again after Councillor
SUMMER sunshine saw visitors flock to enjoy a day of celebration at Dor-chester’s Borough Gardens. A host of fun games and entertainment was laid on at the gardens as part of the national Love Parks Week, which celebrates green spaces. The event also
IT MAY be the height of summer but homeowners are being reminded of the importance of chimney fire safety. Dorset Fire and Rescue Service were pushing for a clean sweep when they held an event in Dorchester as part of national Chimney Fire Safety Week
PLANS to redevelop the former mill in Maiden Newton have been given the green light by councillors. West Dorset District councillors voted in favour of the proposals which will see the redundant mill in the centre of the village be converted
A PART-TIME soldier from Weymouth was on hand when a top Dorset attraction welcomed royalty. Marcus Cribb, 21, is an Officer Cadet in the Royal Wessex Yeomanry and also works at The Tank Museum at Bovington as a warden. When HRH The Earl of Wessex,
ALL sixteen new business units at a former naval site on Portland have been snapped up six months after being built. The accepted offer on the final unit at the £2million Maritime Business Centre has been hailed by site owners and council bosses as an
A DORSET farm business has been fined for polluting a river with thousands of gallons of slurry. A court heard how hundreds of fish in the River Wriggle including trout and eels died after about 34,000 gallons of slurry accidentally spilled from a storage
AMERICAN humour does not always travel very well but Ivan Menchell’s touching comedy brings out all the best of transatlantic Jewish wit in which three widows of a certain age meet monthly at the cemetery in which their husbands are interred. Weymouth
ONE of the delights of the summer in Weymouth is the arrival in the town of one of the country’s most popular comedians. Joe Pasquale has been playing to sell-out audiences at the Pavilion Theatre since the start of his career back in the 1980s and
A COUNCIL is coming down heavy on Weymouth’s Town Bridge dodgers. Reckless and impatient drivers who ignore warning signals on the lifting bridge in a bid to avoid sitting in queues will be prosecuted, says Weymouth and Portland Borough Council. The
TRAVEL advice is being offered to borough businesses ahead of the transport challenges hosting the 2012 sailing events will bring. Weymouth and Portland is one of only two locations outside of London receiving an additional level of support
MORE than 3,100 have signed up to the Echo’s Save Our Lifesavers campaign. The Echo offices have been inundated with petitions, campaign tokens and messages of support for the coastguards since the campaign was launched less than two weeks
DORSET County Council has given its backing to a campaign to alert motorists to the dangers of overfilling their diesel tank, which can result in potentially lethal spills. Diesel spills are a danger to all road users, particularly motorcyclists. Diesel
UNION representatives in Dorset have condemned the planned changes to public sector pensions slamming them as ‘unnecessary’ and an ‘additional tax on public sector workers’. This comes as a report published yesterday outlined the proposals
Dorchester’S iconic avenue of trees on South Walks may all be lost because of disease. A tree expert told West Dorset District councillors there is a 'bleak concern' that the chestnut avenue could be lost completely. Councillors at an
AFTER a year of pain, the roadworks blitz that crippled Weymouth and Portland is over and the £110million of works completed. The unprecedented overhaul of the borough highways since April 2009 has seen several projects fast-tracked and others
Further to my recent letter, I received a telephone call telling me that Mrs. Edna Woskett who is 98 years old, remembers her mother telling her about Buffalo Bill’s Circus coming to the town. It used to be held at Goldcroft, now of course built on
Every week I drive the coast road and each week I’m overtaken by cars and more often motorcycles going considerably faster than the 50 mph speed limit. The worst offenders are motorbikes in pairs when the second one must get by to keep up – what ever
With regard to the library debate, as far as I can see, democracy seems to have worked quite well. At the meeting a number of Conservatives voted to retain the libraries and two Liberal councillors did not attend the meeting. If the Liberals cannot
I wonder which of these people would prefer. An expensive new traffic light system of dubious benefit at best, or keeping (and even improving) the libraries? You never know – there might be some books on good traffic management for some? Answers on
I AM one of the older generations who endured the war years knowing Great Britain was a country one could be proud of. Standards in public life were high, one could leave the door unlocked and in the dark years the nation and the public pulled
GENEROUS Dorset Echo readers have donated more than £5,000 to our East Africa famine appeal. Cheques large and small have been pouring into our office since we launched the appeal in conjunction with the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC),
A BLIND man who was attacked in broad daylight claims passers-by ignore his calls for help. Jeremy Lawlor said people walked on past as he waved his white cane and begged for help. He branded their behaviour as “utterly disgraceful”
THE hardest figure to forecast is visitor numbers to the borough during the Games. Authorities are predicting an extra 30,000 people daily, in addition to the usual 30,000-strong summer population, but other factors such as the weather and athletes’
TERRAS’ star Jamie Beasley will miss seven games after picking up a 35-day suspension from the Dorset FA for getting sent off in a five-a-side match in Dorchester. The winger’s ban will start on August 29 and will encompass five league encounters
FORMER chairman George Rolls is set to officially return to the board of Weymouth FC as a director. The Cambridge-based businessman stepped down as chief of the Terras back in March but due to his family’s majority shareholding he has been working in
ASHLEY Vickers believes Mark Jermyn has all the makings of a successful manager – but is not prepared to lose his captain anytime soon. Jermyn, entering his 12th season at the Avenue Stadium, revealed in yesterday’s Echosport that he one day dreams of
MARTYN Richards is set to miss his first outing in more than six years tomorrow. The Dorchester skipper will be attending a wedding tomorrow afternoon and is therefore unavailable for the trip to third-placed Broadstone (1.30pm). Dan Belt will take
RELEGATION threatened Bridport will be looking to erase the memory of their last meeting with tomorrow’s visitors to Brewery Field (2pm). Two months ago, the West Dorset outfit were skittled for a paltry 55 before opponents Blandford Seconds reached
BEAMINSTER have been forced into making a host of changes for tomorrow’s relegation dogfight at Witchampton in Dorset League Division Two (2pm). Fred Etherington, Colin Lloyd and brothers, Fred and Will Everitt, are all unavailable for the second-bottom
PORTLAND RED TRIANGLE 140-6 (20pts) beat CATTISTOCK 139 (6pts) by 4 wkts PORTLAND Red Triangle completed the double over Cattistock with a fine four-wicket success at Reforne in Dorset League Division Three. The visitors batted first and lost three
LAURIE ‘Cube’ Whyte could miss the rest of the season due to a hamstring injury, according to Weymouth’s stand-in skipper Tom England. The news comes as another huge blow for the Seasiders, who are already without captain Paul Payne, who is scheduled
A PORTLAND sailor is setting off on a race around the world after securing a once-in-a-lifetime internship opportunity. Former Royal Manor student Tom Way is among four lucky people to be selected to be a media and race management intern with Clipper
A decision to stop Weymouth beach vendors trading was found to be unviable due to a mix-up over when the tender negotiations were permitted. Beach traders are once again free to trade after Councillor Amanda Munro's call-in request was unanimously
