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An open microphone night at Tom Brown’s Public House on High East Street, Dorchester on February 27. The event will begin at 9pm and all are welcome.

Beaminster and District Camera Club will meet on February 25 with a focus on competitions and prints. The club will meet at the DPI Sports Pavilion on Hogshill Street in Beaminster from 7.30pm. For more information or to join email beaminstercameraclub.co.uk

There will be a quiz night at Willowbed Hall, Chickerell, on Saturday, March 22 at 7pm to raise funds for St Mary’s Church. The event costs £5 per person to include a ploughman’s supper. Bring your own drinks and glasses. Teams of six or come

MORE than six months after announcing it wanted to charge for on-street parking Dorset County Council is gathering evidence about parking problems in its town centres. The questionnaire has been sent to town, district and borough councils – who

A LOCAL author famed for his Sherlock Holmes novels has dedicated his latest book to his home town. David Ruffle will release his latest book, A Twist of Lyme, on March 3 and it will herald a new genre for the writer, who has drawn from the Victorian

IT’S fun all the way as the Purveyors of Cool swing into Weymouth Pavilion on March 1 with a sensational show featuring the greatest music of the 20th century. Wonderful memories of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Junior in a fabulous

A fossil hunting walk will take place at Charmouth Heritage Centre on March 8. The walk will begin at 2pm and all are welcome. For more information or to book a place on the walk call 01297 560772.

A performance of blues and jazz music will take place on March 14 at Beaminster Pavilion. Musicians Julie Dunn and Blue Zoo will be performing and the event will begin at 7.30pm. For more information or to book tickets for the show call 01308

Singer-songwriter Big Al Whittle and friends will put on an evening of music to raise funds for the rebuilding of Moreton village hall in Dorchester. It will be held at the hall on March 7 and tickets cost £8 including supper. To buy tickets

SEE-Play-Do brings the best family theatre from across the country to the Marine Theatre in Lyme Regis this weekend. As if that wasn’t enough, there are plenty of opportunities to join in too, with messy sessions and workshops running before or

A DEDICATED Weymouth fundraiser will be lacing up his London Marathon running shoes for the 11th time. Des Downey, aged 77, of Park Mead Road, Weymouth, will run this year’s marathon in April to help raise funds for East Dorset and New Forest of

WHY not wrap up half-term with some top-notch puppetry? Poole Puppet Festival continues this weekend at Lighthouse with Shop of Little Horrors tomorrow and Sunday and puppet-making workshops tomorrow between 10am and 4pm. There is plenty for

THE Coal Porters, who were formed in the 1990s by ex-Long Ryder Sid Griffin, are coming to Bournemouth Folk Club on Sunday. Relocating from Los Angeles to London, the band left its electric instrumentation behind and slowly mutated into the acoustic

THE 2014 Sherborne Abbey Festival brings an internationally acclaimed jazz singer, one of classical music’s most enduring stars and a leading early music ensemble to Dorset for the early May bank holiday weekend, May 2-6. Festival director John

DORSET has been recognised as one of the top 10 regions for inward investment across Europe. The county has been marked as a ‘region of the future’ by fDi Intelligence Magazine, produced by the Financial Times and distributed globally to international

A PARAGLIDER was flying high after seeing the Jurassic Coast from a unique and different perspective. Tim Pentreath, 50, now lives in Bath but originally lived in Upwey, Weymouth as a child and knows Dorset well. He has enjoyed paragliding

The Bridport and District Stamp and Postcard club will meet on March 7 at St John’s Ambulance Hall in Bridport. The club meeting will begin at 7.30pm. For more information call 01308 423169.

A fossil hunting walk will take place at Charmouth Heritage Centre tomorrow. The walk will begin at 1.30pm and all are welcome. For more information or to book call 01297 560772.

Dorset Rural Music School in Blandford is holding an open day tomorrow from 10am to 2pm. The school, a charity, has been running since 1947 and provides instruments and lessons to people who want to learn to play. Staff will be on hand to talk

HAVE you heard the yarn about the Dorset explorers taking knitted bears into the rainforest? With the backing of actor Stephen Fry, members of the Scientific Exploration Society, based in Shaftesbury, will be venturing high up into the Andes this

PORTLAND’S Luke Patience and new crew Elliot Willis are both looking forward to addressing ‘unfinished business’ as they embark on their new 470 partnership in the wake of Joe Glanfield’s retirement. Olympic silver medallist Patience, and Willis

DECADES of history have come crashing down at a landmark site in Weymouth ahead of a new development. Only the iconic tower remains at the old fire station on North Quay – but that too will soon fall. The harbourside site at the bottom of Boot

The A35 at Winterbourne Abbas was partially blocked westbound due to a collision involving two cars yesterday afternoon. There were no reports of any serious injuries. Shortly afterwards, emergency services were alerted to a collision near the

Firefighters were called to a main power line on fire near the A35 at Chideock. Crews from Bridport and Charmouth had to wait for power company workers to turn off the supply to the very high voltage line near Quarr Lane before they could tackle

A CHARITY Christmas album made by talented youngsters and a Weymouth choir raised much-needed funds for two good causes. Some 70 pupils from seven schools in the borough raised the roof with the One Voice group to record the track at the Hope Church

An indoor dog show will be held at St Edmund’s church hall at Lanehouse on Sunday at 1pm. The event is supporting the Society for the Protection of Markham and Little Francis.

The Dorchester Market Car Boot Fund is now open for charities and community groups in and around the town. Grants ranging from £50 to £3,000 are available for projects operating within or supporting residents living within a 6.67 mile radius of

FIRST bus company has stepped in to take over the threatened No 47 bus route from Bridport to Crewkerne during the school holidays. Dorset County Council’s passenger transport development officer Deborah Fiddik confirmed to councillors the latest

Souh Dorset MP Richard Drax has welcomed a Government decision to allow fishermen access to hardship funds in the wake of the recent floods. The Business Support Scheme provides quick hardship grants to offset exceptional costs incurred by businesses

FIRST Bus drivers in Weymouth and Bridport will vote on a pay offer made following strike action. It comes after 60 drivers, who are members of Unite union and employed by the First bus company, staged a series of walk-outs in a dispute over wages

DAVID Bowie’s success at this week’s Brit awards speaks volumes, not only about his longevity and all-round brilliance and popularity, but also about the feeble X-Factory parade of has-beens, never weres and clodhopping numpties who pass for pop stars

FOR too long education has been used as a political football – left versus right and state versus private. This must stop for the sake of our children and, ultimately, the future of our nation. I do not profess to be an expert in education

On behalf of myself and the majority of people in this country who love and respect our wildlife, I would like to thank those people mentioned in your article (Badger jabs offer a cull alternative) who are prepared to go the extra mile and spend a

I keep reading in Echo Sport about local clubs, in particular Dorchester and Weymouth, which keep on signing loan players who mostly are not ready (another word often used for not good enough yet) or experienced enough to play for their senior registered

A SAILING dinghy in difficulty at Lyme Regis sparked alert for coastguards. Portland coastguard heard reports of the struggling dinghy off the cob at Lyme Regis shortly before 2pm yesterday. The Lyme Regis harbour master then confirmed that

THE pressure surrounding tomorrow’s massive six-pointer at Tonbridge Angels (3pm) should not be a problem for the Magpies, according to Phil Simkin. The Dorchester Town boss reckons the rigours of this season have created a strong mentality in

THE Dorset Echo can reveal the full extent of the floods and storm damage affecting the region. These spectacular images were captured as local authority representatives took to the skies to work out the impact of the recent wild weather in Dorset

ACTION is ‘urgently needed’ before someone is killed speeding along a ‘dangerous’ stretch of road, residents are warning. People living in Forston near Charminster are petitioning for a 30mph limit following a series of accidents on the A352.

THE top two are set to face off at the Bob Lucas Stadium tomorrow and Jake Richmond believes all the pressure is on Hamworthy Recreation (2pm). The Weymouth reserve-team boss has guided his young side to the top of the table in recent weeks but

TREVOR Senior is urging fans to turn out in force for Bridport’s home clash against Melksham tomorrow (3pm). The recent wet weather has left many Western League clubs feeling the pinch and the Bees are no different. Bridport have played just

DORCHESTER host Wimborne tomorrow hoping to end their winless run in Southern Counties South (2pm). The county town side, who have not won in the league since their 10-0 victory over Corsham on September 28, will look to get one over their fifth-placed

JASON Matthews has not given up hope of making George Rigg a major part of his future plans. The 20-year-old, is set to join Weston-super-Mare on dual registration forms but will turn out for the Terras in tomorrow’s clash at struggling Bedford

A new Co-Op store is planned for a multi-million pound Weymouth business park. If permission is granted, the 4,000 sq ft Co-operative store at Link Park would create around 20 new jobs and is expected to open by the end of the year. The proposed

A STRATEGIC director of an Oxfordshire council is to become the new chief executive of Weymouth and Portland Borough Council and West Dorset District Council. Matt Prosser, of South Oxfordshire District Council, was announced as the new council