Vivienne Trophy DORCHESTER 100 YEOVIL 45 DORCHESTER’S new generation of women bowlers displayed their skills, thanks to the support of a sprinkling of more experienced colleagues. They enabled the county town team to secure their place
Sunninghill Prep School in Dorchester has won an Independent Schools Awards 2013 for its work with state schools and Dorset Area Schools Partnership (DASP). The category was the Best Independent-Maintained Schools Collaboration, in which Sunninghill
He might be playing history’s most charismatic president but, as James Marsden tells Susan Griffin, thanks to a little help from his dad there was no reason to sweat it Being tasked with playing President John F Kennedy on the big screen was always
PLAZA, CINEWORLD THE BUTLER (12A) When Barack Obama became the first black President of the United States in 2008, a story was published in The Washington Post. It detailed the life of Eugene Allen, who had been butler to eight White House presidents
A DORSET charity has begun a major fundraising drive to revamp a residential home. Autism Wessex hopes to raise £10,000 to improve facilities at the Barnes Lane home in Beaminster. The charity is inviting families, friends and local businesses
PLAZA, CINEWORLD THE COUNSELLOR (18) Audiences may require counselling sessions after two hours of twisted desire and treachery in the company of Ridley Scott’s erotically charged thriller. In the film’s most memorable scene – not necessarily
A DORSET charity has begun a major fundraising drive to revamp a residential home. Autism Wessex hopes to raise £10,000 to improve facilities at the Barnes Lane home in Beaminster. The charity is inviting families, friends and local businesses
A WEST DORSET-based calligrapher whose work has appeared in Hollywood films will showcase her work at a European-wide exhibition. Ros Pritchard has been a freelance calligrapher for 25 years. Her work has been recognised by film producers worldwide
MUSIC and dance teachers across Dorset are being urged to get their students involved in a cancer fundraising campaign. The campaign, called a Practice-a-thon, is a UK-wide fundraising campaign run by CLIC Sargent, a cancer charity for children
Firefighters helped to release a person from a lift in Weymouth this morning. At approximately midday, the service was alerted to an individual shut in a lift within a residential premises on St Alban Street. One fire crew from Weymouth was
DORCHESTER Town’s ‘Magpies in the Community’ scheme has secured significant funding to expand the initiative across the county. The Football Conference Trust charity has awarded the club funding for a two-year project, which will see community
IT’S all going on this weekend, with some great theatre, comedy, music and dance to keep you on your toes. Living Spit theatre company make their joyous return to the county with their slightly ‘different’ look at the lives of Henry VIII and his
GET the festive spirit early on with the latest production by Dorchester Drama. The successful acting company, which celebrated its 50th anniversary this summer, is staging a wonderful adaptation of Alan Ayckbourne’s Life And Beth next week.
SIXTY-four tiny trotters, 16 little piglets and feeding time every two hours – it can only equal the newest arrivals at Farmer Palmer’s. Daisy the kune kune pig has given birth to her latest litter of piglets, just nine months after the last group
WEYMOUTH College is celebrating being granted a licence to run the Duke of Edinburgh’s (DofE) Award. The DofE is the world’s leading achievement award aimed at 14 to 25-year-olds looking to learn new skills, challenge themselves and meet new people
LOCAL youngsters are being asked to get their Christmas thinking caps on to bring extra glitter to the festive season in Bridport. The town’s Christmas Cheer committee has launched a competition for children to design a special Christmas tree decoration
PORTLAND shoppers are being thanked for their generosity in already donating to the Echo Christmas Toy Appeal. The Portland Tesco store is backing the appeal once again this year and customers are being urged to spare what they can and drop any
A dog owner is offering a reward for the safe return of his border terrier, which went missing in Purbeck. Eight-year-old Barnaby is brown with a blue collar and is microchipped. He disappeared on Whiteway Hill near East Lulworth on the afternoon
POLICE are hunting a thief who stole a handbag from a supermarket trolley. The offender stole a handbag which was hanging on a trolley in Morrisons in Weymouth between 10.30am and 11.15am on Thursday, November 14. The handbag contained cash, phone
Have you seen this man? Do you know where he is currently living? Phillip Neville, aged 64, is a registered sex offender and has failed to comply with requirements to notify police if he changes his address. He was last known to be living in
BUSINESSES are showing their support for Weymouth’s revived Victorian Shownight. The Shownight event organisers have secured Portland’s Pennsylvania Castle as gold sponsor for the town centre festive extravaganza, which is on Friday, December 6
TODAY we are launching the Little Waitrose Big Christmas lunch that will offer people in the community a special Christmas lunch. The Poundbury store, in association with the Dorset Echo, is putting on a special lunch for 80 people in Dorset who
HUNDREDS of Dorset schoolchildren are set to get life-saving lessons in road safety. Battens Solicitors Charitable Trust has teamed up with the SafeWise safety education partnership to provide training packs and free interactive resources for pupils
MILITARY chiefs have warned visitors about removing objects from MoD land after two men who carried a tank shell off a beach within the Lulworth Ranges were prosecuted. Alan Barlow and his daughter’s fiancé, Jason Kelly were photographed carrying
I would like, through the letters page, to say a big thank you to the members of The Royal British Legion Portland Golf Society and in particular to Mike Fox who organises everything. Throughout each year the society runs events including a charity
Once again the green people, in this case the chairman of the South Dorset Green Party, peddles dubious statistics to support their view that ‘renewable energy’ is the way to nirvana. They speak of having a ‘moral duty’ but ignore the practical effect
BEFORE the world goes Christmas mad, there are a couple of lovely family events coming up that have nothing to do with tinsel and Santa. On November 23, Theater Alibi return to Dorset with their gorgeous adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s I Believe
THE award-winning slice of chemical carnage that is Horrible Science is at Lighthouse in Poole today and tomorrow. Using actors and amazing 3D Bogglevision special effects, the show attempts to find the awful answers to important questions such
A POPULAR Dorchester attraction will be on television screens across the country this afternoon. For today’s the day the teddy bears have…a visit from antique experts. Viewers will see Antiques Road Trip’s Anita Manning and James Lewis at the
DORSET County Council is putting on four buses a day to take pupils 800 metres to and from a school after ruling the road is too dangerous to walk. The authority confirmed the service is costing £250 a day – close to £50k a school year. Campaigners
Businesses in and around St Alban Street have united to swap flags for Christmas lights. Staff at Elegance Hair Salon are arranging for the much-loved flags to temporarily be taken down for the festive season, with the support of other local businesses
BUSINESSES and charitable organisations around Weymouth and Dorchester have thrown their weight behind the campaign supporting victims of the Philippines typhoon. It comes after the Dorset Echo launched an appeal to help those in the stricken island
MULLET-Face Malcolm, Stickleback Simon, Cod-chops Colin, Tin of Tuna Trevor? Sorry, but no. Us Brits just can’t cut it when it comes to blues names. But how about Catfish Keith? He’s very much the real deal, a supreme bottleneck guitarist
ONE thousand baby lobsters have been released onto an artificial reef in Weymouth Bay. The cute crustaceans are only a few centimetres long and were released onto their specially created new home by divers this afternoon. The reef, close to
DORCHESTER Town boss Phil Simkin has received a triple boost in time for tomorrow’s FA Trophy tie at Gosport Borough (3pm). Not only are Jamie Gleeson and Josh Wakefield back from illness and injury respectively, but Neil Martin is in line to feature
MATT Groves has admitted the Terras should be doing better but insists there is no need to panic with three-quarters of the season still left. Weymouth hold games in hand on nearly all the sides above them in the Calor Southern Premier Divis-ion
A PLACE in the last four of the Dorset & Wilts Seconds XV Shield is up for grabs tomorrow when Weymouth host local rivals Dorchester at Monmouth Avenue (2.30pm). Dorchester had the upper hand on Weymouth when the two met in Dorset & Wilts
PEOPLE are putting the fun into fundraising today to raise money for Children in Need. Here's the gallery of reader photos today It’s a case of the wackier the better as cash is collected for the good cause, which culminates with a BBC appeal
MORE than 50 new homes, shops and a 60-bed hotel look set to be created in a major economic regeneration project at Osprey Quay on Portland. The first phase of the project, a public space called Liberty Square, was unveiled yesterday. It has
FOURTEEN staff members at Weymouth College face being made redundant in a cost-cutting move. A two-and-a-half-week consultation is being carried out at the college to explore the option of axing 14 staff members, including a team of full and part
GOALKEEPER Ryan Park is set to make his debut for Weymouth Reserves tomorrow when Jake Richmond’s men take on Hamworthy United Reserves at the Bob Lucas Stadium (2pm). Park has been brought in from Hamworthy Recreation to provide competition for
DORSET County Museum is urging local people to rise to the challenge and support a new fundraising appeal. The Dorchester museum is starting a fundraising drive for a new Collections Discovery Centre that will house its three million artefacts
A TEACHER who worked at a West Dorset school has been jailed for six years for blackmailing teenage girls and demanding sexual images from them. Zahid Akram, 37, used false identities and targeted the victims aged between 13 and 18 he befriended
