FROME TOWN 2 (Perrott 40, Evans 47) WEYMOUTH 0 THE Robins struck either side of the interval as Weymouth’s frustrating start to the season continued at the Alder Smith Stadium tonight. Mike Perrott and Dean Evans did the damage for Frome and
The Sea Front Stall on the Esplanade took place on Saturday September 15 . The Forum Treasurer, Dave Burchill, announced that the combination of volunteers and good weather made the stall a success with £283.87 being raised for the Forum coffers
The Dance Mat Sessions at The Park Community Centre, Chelmsford Street, Weymouth are restarting on Friday September 21 and continue for the following five Fridays, so that’s September 28, October 5th, October 12th and October 19th . However
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a burger van was stolen from a car park. CCTV footage has been released of the theft, which took place at 7.16pm on Sunday, September 2 at the Butts Pond Industrial Estate in Sturminster Newton. Thieves
FIREFIGHTERS are battling a blaze at a thatched house in Moreton. Five crews have been on the scene for almost an hour after the roof of the property caught fire. See tomorrow’s Echo for the full story.
SANDI Toksvig – comedian, novelist, actor, broadcaster, show-off and international treasure – is embarking on her first major UK solo tour in years, visiting Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts on October 5. The long-standing host of Radio
THIS year’s Rotary Night of the Proms in Dorchester promises to be a real hoot. The show is being organised by the town’s Rotary Club and is being held to help raise funds for young carers in the area. With music from the Durnovaria Silver band
BUSINESSES have less than a week to enter the Open 4 Business 2012 awards. Entries are coming in fast for the Dorset Echo-backed awards, which will be given out at a glitzy awards ceremony at Weymouth College on October 25. The Echo is profiling
A CABINET maker who turned to making environmentally friendly wooden surfboards is riding a wave of success. Just six months after Peter Claydon set up Red Leaf Surfboards at the Grove Trading Estate in Dorchester , he has already won his first
A WEST Dorset firm is investing £1 million to help it cope with the ‘extraordinary’ growth of its business. And West Dorset District Council is pouring in £100,000 to make sure Clipper Teas stays in West Dorset. The company, which started in
MATTY LEWIS GRIFFIN , aged 34, of Shroton. Admitted dishonestly receiving stolen goods, namely approximately 500 litres of heating oil to the value of £300, knowing or believing the same to be stolen goods. Fined £75 and ordered to pay £75 costs.
ASHLEY JAMES VICKERS , aged 41, of Ayton Drive, Portland . Proved in absence driving a motor vehicle on a road, namely Town Bridge, Weymouth, when using a hand-held telephone. Fined £135 and ordered to pay £85 costs. Disqualified from holding or
HAZEL GILLIAN PENFOLD , aged 63, of Burton Close, Wool . Admitted using a motor vehicle on a road, namely B3068 Ringwood Road, Poole, without third party insurance. Fined £180 and ordered to pay £35 costs. Licence endorsed with six points. VANESSA
SALLY CAKE , aged 48, of Broken Cross, Charminster. Admitted driving a vehicle on a road, namely Fleets Lane, Poole, at a speed exceeding 30mph. Fined £50 and ordered to pay £35 costs. Licence endorsed with three penalty points. DAMIAN LOCASCIO
VICTORIA CAROL MACLAINE , aged 24, of Dorchester Road, Weymouth. Admitted being a person who was in a public place, namely Bridlebank Way, Weymouth, and failed to comply with a direction given by a police constable to leave that locality and not
• Recently I was walking along the beach wall and chanced upon a plaque on one of the seats which was new to me. It read “In loving memory of Lennie Burt ACC 11.2.1932 – 24.11.2010 The man who caught the Portland spies” When I came to work
QUESTIONS are being asked about who takes on what responsibilities following the cliff fall tragedy at Burton beach in July. After 22-year-old Charlotte Blackman, pictured, was killed there was an emergency shut down of beaches and the coast path
A WEST Dorset teenager has been catapulted into a high-flying modelling career working with the top names in British fashion. At just 19, Lottie Richman, has been unveiled as the ‘Face Of’ the educational campaign for Clothes Show Live 2012, the
TASTE buds were tingled at a food fair in Weymouth. The first Wessex Food Festival at Weymouth Pavilion Ocean Room was declared a success as hundreds of people poured through the doors to sample the finest food and drink from the South West.
BUSINESS will be carried out at a frenetic pace at a networking breakfast with a difference. The Weymouth and Portland Chamber of Commerce is hosting Business At Break Net Speed on Tuesday, September 25 at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing
Bridport will have a Christmas Festival this year and hopes are high that it will be bigger and better than ever. Councillors on the finance and general purposes committee heard that a new organising committee has been formed after a number of
TIME is running out for Dorset charities wanting to a get a cash boost for projects. The Gannett Foundation grant awards are now open for this year’s applications. The awards are part of the charitable arm of the US company Gannett that owns
RESIDENTS in Purbeck have until November 5 to have their say on a shake-up of council tax benefits. From April 2013, the Government will be ending national council tax benefit and councils will be replacing it with their own local schemes, called
A CAMPAIGN group has slammed plans to axe Portland coastguard rescue co-ordination centre and said they are ‘not based upon operational reasoning’. Coastguard campaign group National Coastguard SOS has just submitted a report to the Transport Select
A MAN who assaulted a mechanic in his own home has been warned he faces jail. Joe Harvey Porter, also known as Joe Berryman, was convicted of inflicting grievous bodily harm on James Smith following a trial at Dorchester Crown Court. Garage
SCHOOLCHILDREN will be down on the farm on Friday. The annual Charborough Estate Open Day will be attended by 110 school pupils from five local schools. The open day, which was postponed from the summer term because of rain, is part of South
A TEENAGER has been told to ‘take stock’ of her life after being handed a community order. Hannah Robson, 19, of Dorchester Road, Weymouth, appeared at Dorchester Crown Court to be sentenced for assault occasioning actual bodily harm and criminal
AN APPEAL has been launched to round up all the Giant Wall portraits before next month’s new deadline. The Cultural Olympiad project, run by the borough’s Artwey group over the past year, will culminate in two giant wall hangings made from the
Sisters assaulted and abused by their father TWO sisters who were sexually and physically abused by their father say they wish he was dead. Heather West and Christina Western were assaulted and abused as children. They’ve waived their anonymity
A TEACHER has been suspended following his arrest on suspicion of possessing indecent images. The 34-year-old teacher at Sir John Colfox School in Bridport has been released on police bail while further investigations take place. A Dorset County
THREE men have been jailed for a ‘shocking, shameful and disgraceful’ attack in Weymouth town centre. John Darch, Yiannis Afentakis and Liam Budd had admitted a charge of affray relating to an altercation on the Esplanade in the early hours of
THE race is on for Weymouth to reclaim its cross-Channel ferry link which it lost this summer due to crumbling harbour walls. Council chiefs will soon appoint a contractor to fix the ferry berth ready for Condor Ferries’ 2013 summer sailing season
I am sure Peter Boyce-Tompkins is a fine artist and sculptor. However, is the carving he is proposing going to be a relevant tribute to the 2012 Olympics and Paralympic Games? Expensive and egotistical comes to mind. Weymouth station and
While some commercial ventures will flourish and others fail, with regard to the Bayside Festival, the borough council has completely missed the point in their attempt to deny any responsibility. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the
FIVE men have been arrested by police investigating the alleged rape of two teenage girls in Weymouth. The Echo reported last week how two young women said they were raped after a night out in the town ended in horrific attacks. The victims
ALTHOUGH I was quoted in your paper saying that I do not want a holiday village on Portland , I am not opposed to other ideas. This is not nimbyism. I can’t agree this is the best way forward for Portland. Building another village between South-well
Weymouth and Portland’s Olympic stone rings are to go on display on Portland as a lasting reminder of the Games legacy. The rings will overlook the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy when they are placed at the top of the island&
SCOTT Walker is a major doubt for the Terras ahead of tonight’s revenge mission at Frome Town (7.45pm). The Weymouth skipper was forced to go to hospital after last Saturday’s defeat against Hemel Hempstead Town due to a glandular infection and
UPWEY & BROADWEY 2 STOURPAINE 0 NEW boys James Baker and Nathan Aston both found the net as Upwey & Broadwey recorded their first victory of the season in the Dorset Senior League. Stourpaine made the brighter start at Redlands
WEYMOUTH SPORTS 0 BLANDFORD UTD RES 0 WEYMOUTH Sports were unable to break Blandford United Reserves down on a frustrating afternoon at Cranford Avenue. Still smarting from their 8-2 defeat at Piddletrenthide United on the opening day, the
WELLS CITY 1 BRIDPORT 1 SAM Buckler’s first goal in Bridport colours salvaged a point at Wells City last night. Returning to league duty on the back of a disappointing exit in the FA Vase – at the hands of lower-league rivals Sherborne Town
A KAYAKER was rescued by the Lyme Regis Lifeboat after he was seen holding on to a pot marker buoy off Charmouth Beach. The man had tried to swim ashore. The lifeboat crew picked him up and took him to shore yesterday afternoon.
THE BustinSkin Middle Distance Triathlon is taking place on Sunday at the Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy. And there are still spaces left for those individuals who want to push themselves to the limit. The race consists
NO less than four teams are flying the flag for Dorset in the forthcoming Blackthorn British Championships. Weymouth-based Motley Crew’s men’s and mixed teams are safely through to the finals but their women’s team lost their place by just five
Under-15 WEYMOUTH 10 BRIDPORT 1 WEYMOUTH opened their season with a perfect 10. The home side hit the ground running when Ben Sanders split the defence to send his new strike partner, Josh Innes, through on goal and he made no mistake with
Under-13 Division Two SWANAGE T&H 0 CHICKERELL UTD 5 CHICKERELL United delivered a five-star show in their opening match of the new season. The Chickens came out of the blocks firing on all cylinders and took the lead within minutes
LUKE Cook, the brother of world taekwondo ace Aaron Cook, has presented Liam Legg with a batch of free sparring gear. Legg’s mother Valerie said: “Luke came down from Manchester especially to donate the gear to Liam after winning it in a Kicksport
DESPITE being only eight-years-old, Weymouth’s Chloe James is a seasoned campaigner and has won the Minimus Open at the Toomer Farm Hunter Trials. Her mother Kirsty said: “Chloe is a pupil at Chickerell Primary School and has been riding since
HARRY Hawkins led the way as Gillingham School completed a remarkable spate of giantkillings by beating Shrewsbury to win the School Sports Magazine National Under-17 Schools Cup at the first time of asking. Hawkins hit a match-winning 87 before
CHRIS Perham is celebrating after finishing second in his first year of the South West Championships and South West Triathlon Series. Competing against 18 and 19-year-olds in the youth section, the series comprises of five races. The last event
The Waterside Singers are back and singing on Mondays but at the new time of 1.30pm . If you like to sing, but always thought that perhaps your voice was not quite good enough. or maybe you are a bit shy, or couldn’t read music or even wouldn’t know
The Park Community Quiz Night at Chelmsford Street had an interesting climax. For the first time the quiz ended in a tie with two teams on the same number of points after 100 questions! 30 quizzers took part, (a drop in numbers from previous
