WEYMOUTH 2 CHESHAM UNITED 2 LADY Luck finally smiled on the Terras as they claimed a precious point against promotion-chasing Chesham United tonight. With five minutes remaining, it appeared Weymouth were heading for a fifth straight league
PALMA Bay dished up improved conditions for the second day of World Cup series sailing, with British boats occupying the top spots in the Finn, 470 Women and 49er events at the end of racing today. Triple Olympic gold medallist Ben Ainslie won the day
RESIDENTS are delighted after a £19.5million project to stop homes slipping into the sea at Lyme Regis was given the green light. The Environment Agency has confirmed it is supporting phase four of West Dorset District Council’s coastal protection scheme
IT’S THAT time of year when shops and businesses around the UK are counting their stock and the RSPB will be doing the same, but with a twist. For the second year running, they’ll be carrying out a wildlife stocktake over the Easter weekend at reserves
CHILDREN in Puddletown will have to wait a little longer for their new school to be given the go-ahead after councillors agreed to defer a decision on a planning application. Members of Dorset County Council’s planning committee called for
The Woodland Trust has completed a £6,770 project to improve the quality of two ponds within Chickerell Downs Wood near Weymouth. The work on the ponds, which are important habitat for a local colony of great crested newts, was funded by a grant from
A FAMILY is seeking relatives of their ancestors in Bridport who emigrated to New Zealand 170 years ago. Anne and Rodney Ward, who live in New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand, want to track down any long lost family. Mr Ward said that his great great
BE PART of Dorchester’s future by helping collect memories of its past. On June 5 Dorchester Town Council is hosting a free day of music as part of this year’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Between 1.30pm and 9pm, bands will be playing hit tunes from
AN EFFORT to combat vandalism by installing an electronically-operated roller shutter door at a Weymouth shop looks set to be blocked. The owner of Weird Fish in St Mary Street has applied for planning permission for the security measure as six incidents
A BOOK numbering just five pages by great Dorset author Thomas Hardy is expected to fetch up to £2,000 at auction. The first edition of When I Weekly Knew will be among a number of lots connected with the writer at Duke’s of Dorchester’s fine arts auction
People in Dorset are being reminded to protect their valuables from opportunistic thieves. Dorset Community Safety Partnership says that there has been an increase in what is known as acquisitive crime – in particular burglary and theft from vehicles
RESCUE donkeys are looking for a new home after being subjected to several vicious assaults. Babs and JJ have lived in a field in Fleet Lane, Weymouth for more than a year but have been targeted in a series of incidents, their owner claims.
Portesham village hall will be hosting yet another fascinating event on Wednesday, 25 April, when Roland Tarr will be giving a travel talk on Southern India in aid of local Portesham charity, Dors to India. In it he will speak and show photographs of
A WOMAN feared to have gone overboard from a ferry off the Dorset coast has been named as 39-year-old Sarah Fenton. Mrs Fenton, from Bristol, was last seen by her husband on a Condor Ferries’ vessel heading from Guernsey to Poole on Sunday
COUNCIL chiefs are to press on with work to urgently repair the crumbling harbour walls. They backed recommendations at a Weymouth and Portland Borough Council meeting today to help ensure the long-term future of the ferry port and tempt Condor Ferries
A ROW is brewing over a council backtracking on plans to reopen the Town Bridge in Weymouth during Easter. Dorset County Council is giving the bridge an overhaul and originally said it would open it to traffic for a week during the holidays to help traders
Arsonists torched a garden hedge in a housing estate. Quick-thinking neighbours reported a blaze coming from a garden in Bayard Road in Littlemoor, Weymouth at around 9.30pm on Sunday. It is believed the fire was started deliberately after piles of
A RESIDENT of a block of flats in Weymouth was taken to hospital after an arsonist set fire to the building. Dorset Police are investigating the cause of the fire, which they believe to be deliberate. Tenants fled the building in East
CONTRACTORS have begun fitting the new laser lighting on Weymouth seafront. Work began at 8pm last night on the new ‘Veils of Light’ columns and will continue tonight. Parking spaces at Marks and Spencer and Alexandra Gardens will be coned off while
THOUSANDS of silver studded blue butterflies unique to Portland will be playing a key role in a dramatic performance to herald the Olympic sailing events. A total of 2,692 butterflies – the number representing each child on the island – will
A MAN who drove an oil tanker into a house while his wife was inside faces jail after admitting a string of offences. Hugh Robertson Billington, 51, pleaded guilty to a charge of arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered when he appeared
JAZZ singer Zoe Schwarz beings her Blue Commotion to Bridport Arts Centre this week. Her band, which features established jazz musicians stamping their personality on blues flavoured tunes that delve as far back as Willie Dixon, Billie Holiday and Muddy
A WOMAN is believed to have suffered spinal injuries in a multi-car crash on the Weymouth Relief Road. A spokesman for Dorset Police said the driver of a grey Vauxhall Corsa lost control of the vehicle and collided into a silver Daewoo Matiz. The spokesman
VILLAGERS in Abbotsbury are proving that Olympic Torch Relay celebration plans can be plain sailing. They are already in the final stages of preparations to line the rural community with 60 decorated sails ready to greet the procession at 5.13pm on Thursday
Well done Weymouth. If there was no fuel shortage before, there may well be one now. What is the matter with you all! Even if there is a strike the vast majority of you will have refilled at least once before it happens. All you’re doing is giving
I do like good entrepreneurship and I spotted this outside a seafront café this morning. Peter Tarrant Weymouth
I would like to thank the customers of Dorchester Tesco for their generosity supporting Marie Curie on March 14 and 15. We collected £1,082, a wonderful result and well up on last year. Also thank you to our team of helpers standing with their collecting
ON MARCH 28 I went down the local garage to get petrol for my car so I could go to work for the next three days. When I got there I found that unleaded had increased by two pence a litre since the same afternoon. It made me so mad I had to challenge
Richard Drax, MP for South Dorset paid a visit to our community hall on 29th March to meet up with members of the Littlemoor Community Action Group. His visit came only days after South West Englands’ MEP Julie Girling met the group. The MEP became
A MUSICAL legend and a poetic genius were the inspiration behind the name of one new arrival. Little Dylan Frazer was born on Saturday March 3 weighing 7lbs 10oz at Dorset County Hospital. He arrived four days early and his parents took three hours
THE Canary Islands was the perfect honeymoon destination for one Dorset couple. Bride Kylie Selina Membury and groom William John Good jetted off to Fuerteventura after tying the knot at St Mary’s Church, in South Street, Bridport, followed by a reception
FRIENDS gathered to celebrate the birthday of a much-loved Weymouth man. Denis Williams, of Grosvenor Road, turned 75 on Saturday and a party was held at his home. Mr Williams, a member of the Friends of Radipole Park and Gardens, was featured in the
A LOCAL charity is encouraging people to speak out about their experiences with autism to mark World Autism Awareness Day today. The Wessex Autistic Society, which has an office in Dorchester, is using the United Nations-backed awareness day to call
We are extremely sad to hear Dorchester Town councillors’ decision to abolish prayers and to scrap mayors’ chaplains. We think this is a regressive step. Councillors appear to have voted for atheism at the exclusion of Christianity and other faiths.
RESIDENTS of Weymouth and Portland are being invited to slip off their shoes and experience the fun of felt making this Easter. For those who do not fancy wading into tubs of wet fleece, there will be opportunities to make sculptures out of driftwood
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after two pairs of women's underwear were stolen in Dorchester. The garments were taken from a washing line in a garden on Alexandra Terrace at around 7.55am on Monday, March 26. The offender is described as white,
LIGHT wind conditions gave rise to a delayed start on day one of the Palma World Cup regatta, but up and coming 470 women’s duo Sophie Weguelin and Sophie Ainsworth, 2.4mR sailor Helena Lucas and Nick Thompson in the Laser class took an early lead in
WEYMOUTH 48 WARMINSTER 12 SEVEN tries from seven different scorers saw champions Weymouth run out comfortable winners in their top-of-the-table clash with Warminster. Having already clinched the Dorset & Wilts One South title, the Monmouth
POOLE BOROUGH 2 BRIDPORT RESERVES 3 BRIDPORT Reserves made hard work of their victory at Poole Borough, according to Steve Crabb. The Bees’ joint-boss felt his side should have put the game to bed before half-time and in the end it took an 88th-minute
BRENDON King has issued three commands to his wounded troops ahead of tonight’s huge clash against play-off contenders Chesham United at the Bob Lucas Stadium (7.45pm). The Terras’ boss, who is still smarting from Saturday’s 2-0 defeat against 10-man
MERLEY COBHAM SPORTS 0 PORTLAND UNITED 1 TEN-MAN Portland United returned to the top of the Magna Dorset Premier League thanks to a predatory finish from Adam Linaker. The islanders were dealt a huge blow with just 15 minutes gone when defender Sam
Dorchester 9 NORTH DORSET 15 FOR 70 minutes it looked as though Dorchester were going to rain on North Dorset’s promotion parade but in the end the visitors had just enough to snatch victory and become worthy champions. The opening exchanges
CHICKERELL UNITED 0 WEYMOUTH RESERVES 0 NOTHING could separate Chickerell United and Weymouth Reserves in a low-key local derby at Cranford Avenue. Both teams worked hard but cancelled each other out for much of the contest with very few chances
OAKMEADIANS SECONDS 33 Puddletown 15 THREE tries in a 10-minute spell at the start of the second half effectively decided the outcome of this Dorset & Wilts Two South encounter. And, despite a typically battling performance from the Villagers
