WILLIAM Fox-Pitt made no attempt to mask the disappointment of Great Britain’s worst team result for 20 years at the FEI European Eventing Championships. Although world number two Fox-Pitt, from Sturminster Newton, won individual bronze, the team
THREE experienced rugby coaches from the southern hemisphere put youngsters through their paces during a successful summer camp at Coburg Road. Thirty-two children took part in the sessions which ran for a week and concluded with a performance
HOLT UNITED 0 BRIDPORT RESERVES 4 LIFE is looking a little rosier at St Mary’s Field, according to Robin Townsend. The Bridport reserve-team boss appears to have a lot more options available to him this season and is hoping the competition
BRIDPORT 125 (4pts) lost to HAMWORTHY REC SECONDS 127-5 (19pts) by 5 wickets WITH second place and promotion already secured the pressure was off Bridport in their final Division Four outing of the summer. And it’s a good job there wasn’t anything
SHAFTESBURY 3 WEYMOUTH RESERVES 2 THE Terras saw their unbeaten start to the season come to an end in disappointing fashion at Cockrams. High on confidence following their recent win over reigning champions Portland United, Weymouth started
PORTLAND UNITED 3 TINTINHULL 0 JOE Toghill netted twice as Portland United got back to winning ways at Grove Corner. The reigning Bespoke Team-wear Dorset Premier League champions have been stuttering of late, but in this latest outing they
LEWIS Knox and George Hawkins were the big winners in the Junior Club Championships at Weymouth Golf Club. A dozen of the club’s top youngsters took part in the event and despite the blustery conditions there was some excellent scoring. Luke
EDDIE Mitchell has stepped down as chairman of AFC Bournemouth – and sold the family shareholding in the club to Maxim Demin. The former Dorchester Town chief acquired a controlling interest in the Cherries when he joined a consortium headed by
DORSET'S local authorities have sold the details of tens of thousands of voters to private companies. Councils across the country have received thousands of pounds after registers of voters' names and addresses were sold to direct marketing firms
A FIRE broke out in a straw field near Tolpuddle. Firefighters were alerted at 3.30pm this afternoon and a crew from Bere Regis and a landrover from Wareham attended. A spokeswoman for Dorset Fire and Rescue Service said the cause of the small
A QUIZ night will be held at Weymouth Bay Methodist Church on Friday, October 4 at 7pm.Tickets cost £5 in advance from Jackie on 01305 750175 or Esme on 01305 812637.The entry fee includes a supper and money raised will go towards Christian Aid.
A GROUP of students from Beaminster School have won a powerboat competition for the second year running. Taking part in the QinetiQ schools powerboat challenge, the task involved a team of pupils designing, building and testing a radio controlled
A MEDIEVAL church in Puddletown has been restored thanks to a £105,000 project. Churchgoer Jim Wilson applied for the funding for the restoration of St Mary’s Church. It included a £15,000 grant from the Dorset Historical Churches Trust (DHCT
YOUNG drivers with sight problems put their foot down at a special driving day. Dorset Blind Association recently teamed up with Somerset Sight and 2nd2none Driving School to offer members a chance to get behind the wheel at Henstridge Airfield
PORTLAND apprentices are hoping to engineer themselves a successful career. Precision engineers PGT-Ceewrite on Portland were so impressed by the three IPACA students on work experience that the company have now taken them on as apprentices.
PORTLAND apprentices are hoping to engineer themselves a successful career. Precision engineers PGT-Ceewrite on Portland were so impressed by the three IPACA students on work experience that the company have now taken them on as apprentices.
WEYMOUTH ABC has reopened for business and has high hopes of another successful season for the club. The doors were opened last night for ladies’ boxercise and tonight the boxers are welcomed back to training. Officials are inviting new members
THREE experienced rugby coaches from the southern hemisphere put youngsters through their paces during a successful summer camp at Coburg Road. Thirty-two children took part in the sessions which ran for a week and concluded with a performance
JESSICA Berry has been nominated for the BMW Player of the Season award for the most promising talent in Weymouth’s junior section. The youngster was selected by the club’s coaches and received a framed, personalised BMW certificate signed by England
POLICE are hunting burglars who stole an antique clock, medals, jewellery and a computer from a village home. Offenders forced entry to a house in Batcombe, a village between Dorchester and Yeovil, on Friday, August 30 between 12.45pm and 5.45pm
I KNOW school is the last thing any of us want to be thinking about. The holidays have reached that quiet period where no-one has plans and everyone is quite content to float aimlessly, perhaps wandering down to the park wearing whatever you want
A DEDICATED couple are calling for people to sign up for their annual fundraiser. Roger and Nina Hanger, from Weymouth, have raised more than £200,000 for charity over the last 21 years through their charity Hangers Heroes. The couple will
AUTHORS Jackie Burgoyne and Sandy Hashimi read excerpts from their latest anthology at the Weymouth Memory Café. They recited poems and stories from Still Me, which has a forward written by actor and writer Julian Fellowes. The cafe is run
NATURE lovers in Weymouth are running a special weekend to see one of Weymouth’s most spectacular residents. The weekend from September 21-22 at the RSPB Radipole Lake reserve will be devoted to the kingfisher. It includes bird spotting and children
A PLAN to turn the basement level of a historic three-storey Portland terrace into flats has been approved. The existing basements of Grade II listed Alma Terrace at the Grove are in a poor state. A proposal to convert them into habitable use
WEST Bay could have a new shopping opportunity in one of the harbour’s most historic buildings after planners rejected English Heritage objections. Councillors on the West Dorset District Council development control committee gave the go-ahead
PEOPLE in desperate times can now no longer just phone for help – they can send a text message too. Samaritans in Dorset now have the ability to receive text messages from those in despair who have nowhere else to turn too. The move comes as
DORSET residents are being urged to ‘ride or stride’ to raise money for the maintenance and repair of the county’s historic churches. Simon Pomeroy, chairman of the Dorset Historic Churches Trust, said the annual fundraising day, is vital for the
TROOPS from Dorset will be embarking on a top level training exercise from tomorrow with counterparts from the elite US Marine Corps. But the three-week Exercise Burmese Chase, is a far cry from Salisbury Plain or Weymouth Bay. It takes place
OVERCROWDING in Dorset prisons is still an issue but not as serious as jails in other parts of the country. Figures obtained by the Howard League for Penal Reform reveal the scale of prison overcrowding in England and Wales. The number of prisoners
NEW demands have been made to clamp down on an ‘escape route’ for troublemakers at Littlemoor in Weymouth. Pensioner Clifford Cripps warned of problems in the Finches since a new footpath was created as part of the £89million relief road scheme
WEYMOUTH LESLEY JANE MAY WEST, aged 22, of Wedgwood Road, Weymouth. Admitted assault by beating. Discharged conditionally for two years. Ordered to pay compensation of £100. FREDERICK MATTHEWS, aged 62, of Stanley Street, Weymouth. Admitted two
CALLS were made today to give struggling Weymouth a much-needed boost. Campaigners have called for a taskforce to set out a vision for the future of the borough’s tourism in the wake of council cuts. Borough councillors are to discuss further cutbacks
VISITORS got to look behind the scenes as the curtain goes up of a new beginning for Weymouth Pavilion. An open weekend was a success as people toured the facilities and saw what was on offer. Performances from local drama and dance organisations
PASSENGERS headed into Dorset this morning when a giant cruise ship docked at Portland Port. Royal Caribbean’s Brilliance of the Seas remains moored at the port . Ted Toop, who skippers the Portland Port tug Maiden Castle on a part-time basis
TWO overdue divers were reported missing during a busy day for coastguards. The Portland Coastguard Rescue Helicopter and Weymouth RNLI all weather and Inshore lifeboats were scrambled to Lulworth Banks and located the divers, following the call
I REFER to your front page headlines re cutbacks to fireworks etc to save money. Keep the Pavilion, bring back the fairy lights, keep the fireworks and kite festival and save money by getting rid of the dead wood in the council. They have made
A BIKER was killed and another was seriously injured in two horror crashes in Dorset at the weekend. A 52-year-old man died after a smash on the A350 in North Dorset yesterday, increasing the grim total of the amount of people killed on Dorset’
PHIL Simkin says he can see light at the end of the tunnel after the winless Magpies suffered another home defeat on Saturday. Dorchester were sunk 3-1 by Ebbsfleet and had keeper Alan Walker-Harris and defender Charlie Clough sent off at the Avenue
BRENDON King reckons the Terras may need to adopt a slightly different approach at the Bob Lucas Stadium this season. His comments came following Saturday’s 1-1 draw with Cambridge City who managed to frustrate the home side for much of the afternoon
I read of another half-baked plan cobbled together by the increasingly more desperate remaining officers left besieged in their ivory towers This time their advice to the completely out of their depth bunch of councillors is to release the kites and
Instead of axing the four firework evenings and the kite festival, which many people enjoy, bringing much needed revenue to the town, why do not Weymouth and Portland councillors look at reducing their own numbers? Reducing the councillors by two
I urge the citizens of Weymouth not to be despondent about the proposed axing of summer fun events. Instead regard it as an opportunity to remarket the resort. Weymouth could become the: “Premier Puritan Holiday Destination of Choice” Think
