BRITAIN’S top sailors and windsurfers will be swapping choppy waters for the smooth track of a velodrome for the start of their teambuilding event tomorrow. The Skandia Team GBR contingent will be heading to the north of the Olympic Park, London, to
KEEP warm tomorrow night with a welcome return to Dorset by Moishe’s Bagel. Formed in Edinburgh in 2003, the band combines the energy and passion of Eastern European folk music with the excitement and soul of improvisation. Moishe’s Bagel produce rip-roaring
TV CHEF Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has vowed his River Cottage HQ cookery school will rise from the ashes after a devastating fire. He pledge to rebuild the school – built in a seventeenth-century barn – which burned to the ground at his Park
THE inaugural puppet festival at Lighthouse in Poole rounds off on Saturday with an adult cabaret by Marc Parrett of Bridport-based Stuff and Nonsense Theatre Company. Sit back, enjoy a drink and an eccentric evening of micro-performances that prove
VERSATILE actor Pip Utton returns to two Dorset venues this weekend with his show charting the last 12 years of Charles Dickens’ life. Pip, who has toured Dorset with one-man shows about Hitler and Charlie Chaplin, looks at the last, happy years of the
MEMBERS of Dorchester Drama are leaving their comfort zone for their latest production, Dying for a Drink. Instead of a ‘straight play’ the team is staging a murder-mystery evening. The evening will begin with the cast performing act one and then, at
THE Dorset Echo’s last book celebrating our stunning local scenery was a major hit...and now you have a chance to have your photo of Dorset published in our next superb volume. And you can also win £100 of vouchers for photographic equipment from Castle
Weymouth firefighters and community safety staff are asking people to get a pancake for a pound whilst learning about cooking safely. Next week is National Chip Week, and incorporates Shrove Tuesday. This year fire crews want to use this opportunity
GET ready to put your best foot forward towards a healthy heart. Organisers are gearing up for the Great Parks Charity Walks which sees families taking a stroll through some of Weymouth’s finest beauty spots. The annual fundraiser supports the British
A unique Centre of Excellence will soon launch in Weymouth. Budmouth College is opening its new Centre of Excellence on March 1 in response to criticism that students are ill prepared to succeed in the work place. The launch will celebrate
A BRASS ships bell which was stolen from a Weymouth shop has a unique engraving on it. The theft of the 30cm-tall bell, engraved with the words Sapporo Olympics 1972, was discovered at a shop in Park Street last Thursday. Weymouth police are urging
A PENSIONER who was left with a split lip, bruising and missing a tooth after falling in Dorchester is urging Dorset County Council to do something about the problem. Corinne Newman, 80, had been visiting the county town from Yeovil for the
DORSET County Hospital is to be officially recognised as a baby-friendly hospital. Dorset director of public health Dr Adrian Dawson will be at the Dorchester hospital on Wednesday, February 29, to present a Baby Friendly Award from UNICEF. The Baby
THE firefighters’ union has slammed Dorset Fire Authority saying it is ‘angry and disappointed’ at their decision not to adopt a council tax rise claiming it could cost lives. The Fire Brigades Union, which represents 95 per cent of whole-time fire crews
A VANDALISED charity van will soon be back on the road after a business stepped forward to pay the insurance excess. Investment firm JP Morgan has donated £1,000 to cover the excess. The van, a Volkswagen Caddy Maxi Life is used by disabled charity
A MOTHER has told how administering roadside first aid to an injured schoolboy led to the discovery of her own medical problem The boy, an 11-year-old Wey Valley School and Sports College pupil, was knocked over by a white van shortly after getting
PATIENTS at Dorset County Hospital will be able to take a trip down memory lane when a new facility opens next week. The hospital is holding a tea party for staff and patients to mark the opening of the Memory Lane room on Tuesday February 21. The room
SAFETY concerns have forced ferry crossings to be moved from Weymouth. Condor Ferries has transferred its Channel crossings to Poole because of structural changes in the wall of Weymouth Harbour, where the ferry is berthed. The ferry
Are we about to see some of the fastest public works on record? No, I’m not being sarcastic. Well maybe a tad. I’m referring to the laser pylons that are going to be erected in time for the big switch-on this month. I have this feeling that the
I WOULD just like to second Roy Child’s call for a ‘Dorset Barnes Night’ to celebrate our beautiful county’s most talented poet, William Barnes. As Roy points out, the similarities between our William and the Scottish dialect poet Robert Burns are many
I REFER to Coun Howard Legg’s letter ‘Patience please it’s not complete’ (Have Your Say, January 25). We don’t want to wait until it’s completed to form an opinion, we want some input now. We certainly don’t want to all write in individually to find
THE Echo is to be congratulated on the headline article Legacy Fears (February 2), spelling out the desperate prospects for sport in Dor-set, despite the Olympics. County Councillor David Harris talks a good game, but it is clear that the county sees
WORK is yet to start on installing Weymouth’s seafront lasers which were due to be finished this month. This is the third time the Veils of Light scheme, a central part of the seafront regeneration project, has been delayed since it was unveiled in 2010
THREE public drop-in sessions will be taking place next month to enable Dorset residents to ask questions about this summer’s Olympic sailing events. The latest free events, hosted by the Weymouth and Portland 2012 Operations team, follow previous public
A TALENTED Weymouth girl and her band have made it to the final of an international music competition. Former Budmouth College pupil Elisha Bayliff will perform with her band Eden Canvas at the UK final of the School Jam competition at The Garage in
GEORGE Rolls is hopeful that management duo Brendon King and Matt Groves will pen new long-term contracts this weekend. The former, whose wife Amanda is the majority shareholder at Weymouth, believes King and Groves have done more than enough
WHEN – and not if – ’Arry Hotspur becomes the 16th England football manager he will not have a lot to emulate. Take out England’s greatest-ever manager Sir Alf Ramsey (1966 and all that) and Terry Venables who came so close to glory in Euro 96 and what
SPRINGFIELD’S Jon Bissett clinched his first ever top-flight singles triumph while Clive Stow celebrated success in the open handicap singles as players from the Weymouth & District Table Tennis League flocked to Westfield Arts College for the first closed
Dorchester Town kept themselves ticking over with a 5-0 friendly win over Portland United. Given the five-tier difference between the two sides, it was no surprise to see the Magpies prosper in a behind-closed-doors encounter at the Avenue
DORSET rally driver Tony Williams was forced to withdraw from his first event of 2012 after treacherous ice conditions hit the Team GMF Wyedean Forest Rally. The 46-year-old completed two of the seven stages held in the picturesque Forest of Dean before
South & West Dorset Netball League Division One WATERSIDE 70 GW ELECTRICAL 12 CHAMPIONS Waterside secured a perfect season as they hammered GW Electrical to maintain their 100 per cent record. Waterside were in fine form from the first
CUE Card is set to miss tomorrow’s Betfair Super Saturday Chase at Newbury. The six-year-old was due to have his final prep run for the Arkle in the rescheduled Grade Two heat, which is better known as the Game Spirit Chase. However, jockey Joe Tizzard
