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  • Soprano Ailish Tynan to perform at Cerne Abbas Music Festival

    LEADING Irish soprano Ailish Tynan has been invited to be a guest performer at the Cerne Abbas Music Festival this summer. The festival sees renowned group The Gaudier Ensemble perform a series of concerts in St Mary’s Church in the village from June

  • Proposed waste transfer site in Bridport faces problems

    BRIDPORT’S proposed waste transfer site at Broomhills could be facing major delays and thousands more in costs. After a site meeting planning officers want to add the Broomhills nursery site into the equation – saying it is derelict and the brownfield

  • Portland youngsters step out in ballroom style

    STRICTLY come dancing came to Portland as schoolchildren waltzed the afternoon away. Pupils at Grove Infant School put their best feet forward to show parents and grandparents the skills they had learned throughout the year. Deputy headteacher Jackie

  • New cycle route is linking open space in Bridport

    AN OPEN space in Bridport is to have a new cycle route linking it all the way to the South Street car park via a new bridge. Dorset County Council has funding for the path at Asker Meadows and a planning application will be put in by the end of the week

  • New displays unveiled at revamped Portland castle

    HANDS-ON visitor attractions, a new audio tour and interactive displays have been unveiled at the re-vamped Portland Castle. English Heritage, the custodian of the historic coastal fort, has invested a ‘significant amount’ to make the Castletown attraction

  • Stern message goes out after big Dorchester clean-up

    RESIDENTS have been doing their bit to clean up their communities. A woman who led a clean-up campaign on a popular Dorchester footpath is hoping to leave a lasting message for litterbugs. Wendy Webb, from Castle Park, headed up a team of residents

  • Portesham WI celebrate the Jubilee Weekend

    PORTESHAM WI are promoting all things Jubilee with their village cafe and Jubilee exhibition, which will include the unveiling of the Jubilee banner, on Saturday, 2 June at the usual time of 10am in the village hall. Tea, coffee and bacon rolls will be

  • Race for equality along Weymouth seafront

    SHOW your support and race for equality along Weymouth seafront. People will be walking, running and wheeling down Weymouth Esplanade in the borough’s first Race for Equality on Saturday, May 19. The event will be raising money for a centre for disabled

  • Party planned to mark opening of Weymouth's new bridge

    A FAMILY fun day is being held to mark the official opening of a new bridge in Wey-mouth. Residents and community groups are invited to celebrate the opening of the new Newstead Road walking and cycling bridge this Sunday. The bridge

  • Dorchester's May Day rally is hotting up

    THE second annual May Day rally at Dorchester’s Borough Gardens will be packed with bands, speakers and entertainment. Hundreds of people gathered at the gardens for the bank holiday weekend last year and this year’s picnic on Sunday, May 6

  • Portland hair salon is polling booth

    A PORTLAND hairdressing salon will be doubling as a polling station today as voting opens for local elections. Seats are up for grabs for a third of the seats on Weymouth and Portland Borough Council. Candidates will also be standing for election for

  • Dorset work death boss must pay £12,000

    A JUDGE has criticised the ‘lamentable’ working conditions which resulted in a father dying before his son’s eyes. Alaister Copland, of Queens Drive, Moreton, was ordered to pay £12,420 in fines and compensation after admitting responsibility for illegal

  • Five held after drugs and guns found in Weymouth police raids

    DRUGS and guns were seized as armed police carried out raids in Weymouth. Around 30 officers took part in an operation at UK Transport, Lovells Yard off Lynch Lane, yesterday and other units raided an address in Marshallsay Road, Chickerell. Armed police

  • Olympics 2012 updates: Online, music and security

    Online A CANINE pal of Portland’s Paralympic contenders now has his own profile on a social media site. Bertie, the therapy dog for the British Sonar Sailing Team, has joined Facebook and can be found by searching for Bertie2012.

  • Composers commissioned to create music for Coastal Voices

    COMPOSER and musician John Surman is delighted that his childhood memories of Dorset’s spectacular countryside have touched local residents preparing to celebrate the home Games. Mr Surman is among four composers commissioned to create 20-minutes-worth

  • 2,000 youngsters at Art of Sport Festival in Weymouth

    TWO thousand young people will join Olympic and Paralympic mascots Wenlock and Mandeville and an Olympic athletics star for a momentous art and sporting event. Dorset’s biggest ever schools sporting and art event will be taking place in Weymouth tomorrow

  • Scheme to lay £2.5m water main in Dorchester begins

    A £2.5MILLION scheme to lay a new water main is underway near Dorchester. Wessex Water says the pipe will run from Lambert’s Hill reservoir to its treatment works in Winterbourne Abbas. The work involves constructing a water main through fields in

  • A theatrical journey on Brownsea Island

    A UNIQUE outdoor performance, inspired by the long history and unique wildlife on Brownsea Island, is being staged on the island this weekend. Part of the celebrations to mark the island’s 50 years with the National Trust, the promenade play South Deep

  • TV will just give false impression

    The streamlining of our seafront and other areas in Weymouth and Portland that will feature in the TV cameras and be shown on our screens during the Olympics, is so deceiving to those living outside of this area. It will give a false impression of our

  • When is legacy lunacy to stop?

    I fell in love with Wey-mouth and Portland in the 1970s when I came to live here after visiting it every year since 1960. I have done a lot of voluntary work here to try to help save the outstanding heritage of this wonderful part of Dorset. When,

  • Little Mix star Perrie Edwards visits farm in Charminster

    A POP star has been taking time out from performing to visit a community farm that helps people with learning difficulties. Perrie Edwards, who used to live in Weymouth and shot to fame after winning X Factor last year with girl group Little Mix, visited

  • Our Olympic team: Portland sailor Stuart Bithell

    SKANDIA Team GBR is the British Sailing Team in the Olympic and Paralympic classes. The team consists of the Performance Squad and Development and Transitional squads, which jointly total around 70 sailors. The sailors train and compete

  • Switch-off should not help criminals

    Many of your readers are concerned re the restriction of street lighting during night hours. When private security lighting systems became popular several years ago, many farmers installed them to try and combat the theft of their equipment. However

  • Walker hails Dorchester management duo

    NATHAN Walker has attributed Dorchester Town’s best finish in seven years to the management duo of Phil Simkin and Mark Jermyn. The Magpies ended the Blue Square Bet South campaign in 11th spot with 56 points – their best return since 2004/05. And the

  • Grand Slam remains on for Fox-Pitt

    WILLIAM Fox-Pitt can still win eventing’s coveted Rolex Grand Slam despite the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials being cancelled. The Sturminster Newton star had set himself up for a Grand Slam assault at Badminton later this week after winning

  • Fishing Around: It won’t be a Roy of the Rovers tale

    HONESTLY, I am lost for words over Harry Redknapp. Don’t all cheer at once! Because never in the field of sporting conflict have so many been so disappointed by so few. So stand up David Bernstein, Adrian Bevington (who?), Alex Horne (who?) and Sir Trevor

  • Taylor aiming for winning swansong at Magpies

    ROBBIE Taylor is hoping to sign off in style tonight as his Magpies entertain Gosport Borough at the Avenue Stadium (7.45pm). The reserve-team manager is stepping down from his role after this evening’s final match of the season and he is keen to see

  • Blues celebrate Senior success

    WEYMOUTH SPORTS 2 PORTLAND UNITED RESERVES 2 PORTLAND United Reserves lifted the Dorset Senior League trophy after a 2-2 draw with rivals Weymouth Sports. The Blues only needed to avoid a 14-goal reverse in order to seal the title and although the

  • Last-gasp Sports deny the Chickens

    CHICKERELL UNITED 1 WESTLAND SPORTS 1 CHICKERELL United were just three minutes away from becoming the first team to defeat Westland Sports in almost seven months. Leading at Weymouth College thanks to Oscar Preece’s opening goal, the Chickens looked

  • Grand National winner set to parade at Littlewindsor

    SOUTHWESTERN can land his sixth course win at this Bank Holiday Monday’s Cattistock fixture at Littlewindsor. Racegoers will also have the added attraction of seeing Grand National winner Neptune Collonges, together with Champion Hurdle winner

  • Leaders Waterside beaten as Falcons swoop

    Division One WESSEX FALCONS A 34 WATERSIDE 32 FALCONS caused an upset after beating leaders Waterside in this top-of-the-table clash. Both teams started strongly with Waterside slowly creeping ahead with superb shooting from league stalwart Susan