MAGPIES 0 CHIPPENHAM TOWN 1 REFEREE Aaron Moody took centre stage at the Avenue tonight, sending off three players and booking five others as Chippenham claimed all three points courtesy of a Luke Ballinger header. Eastleigh official Moody
DORSET firefighters helped colleagues fight a factory fire at Axminster Carpets today which led to three people being taken to hospital. Five crews of firefighters, including teams from Charmouth and Lyme Regis, were needed to fight the blaze,
9:38pm Magpies 0 Chippenham 1 9:33pm 88 - Smeeton lets fly with a free kick that clips the angle of bar and post. 9:27pm 82
PORTLAND RED TRIANGLE 147 (5pts) lost to BEAMINSTER 151-6 (20pts) by 4 wickets BEAMINSTER won for only the third time this season on Saturday to boost their chances of avoiding relegation to Division Three. After winning the toss and electing
SUNDAY saw the seventh running of the Round the Rock 10k road race organised by the Royal Manor of Portland AC. The event started and finished at Portland United’s Grove Corner ground with around 100 people taking part. The vast majority were
CONTROVERSIAL plans for a new 5,000 capacity football stadium for Weymouth FC in Lodmoor have been thrown out by borough councillors. Nearly 100 local residents attended the highly-charged planning and traffic committee meeting of the borough council
PAUL Blake admits the 100m is not his favourite distance but that did not stop him running away with a bronze medal on the opening day of the IPC Athletics European Championships in Swansea this evening. The 24-year-old Dorchester athlete, pictured
A THIEF stole a lifeboat crewman’s bike while he was out on an emergency ‘shout.’ Alastair Heane, 47, is from Falmouth but is currently in Weymouth on relief for the RNLI. He raced from his house to Weymouth lifeboat station at around 12.45am
The Halstock Fete and Flower Show is taking place on Saturday from 1pm to 7pm in the village hall and adjacent field. Money raised will be donated to charities. Entrance fee £1. Free parking.
Dorset Wildlife Trust is holding a scavenger hunt along Chesil Beach on Friday. ‘Seashore Scavengers’ will be searching the beach for signs of marine wildlife. Meet at the Chesil Beach Centre at 11am. £2 each.
Purbeck District Council and the Food Standards Agency (FSA) have advised people on the dangers of undercooking raw meat on barbecues as cases of food poisoning almost double during the summer. For top tips see food.gov.uk/lovebbq
A broken-down speedboat had to be towed to shore. At 5pm on Sunday, Portland coastguard received a 999 call from a speedboat with three adults, two children and three dogs onboard which had suffered engine failure in Wareham Channel, Poole Harbour
Firefighters were called to alarms sounding on Bitter End in the county town. Residents of Signal House and Bridge House were evacuated from their homes at 11.30pm on Sunday night due to an alarm going off. The incident was a false alarms and
Queen Charlotte care home on Chickerell Road is holding its annual summer fete on Sunday from 2pm to 5pm. It will include a performance from the Majorettes, a bouncy castle, barbecue and lots of fun games. All money raised will be donated to the Alzheimer
MORE than 150,000 cubic metres of material was lost to Chesil Beach during the winter storms, according to new data. The storms’ effects on the beach were looked at between a point opposite Castletown and a point opposite Ferrybridge. The estimated
AN ALLOTMENT association in Weymouth is hoping to gain new members by offering free plots of land. Green Lane Allotment Association is offering six plots on its site in Wyke Regis for free, as part of a trial period. Interested parties will
A broken down vehicle caused some problems on the Ridgeway at yesterday lunchtime. The obstruction was reported on the A354 at Monkton Hill. Traffic was delayed as vehicles were taking it in turns to pass.
Knoll Gardens was buzzing with activity as hundreds of people spent the day with experts learning all about the 250 species of bee that live in the UK. Honey lovers enjoyed tasting a selection of local honeys at the attraction near Wimborne, whilst
Research from The Co-operative Insurance found that the South West of England is the riskiest place to be a gnome, with almost a fifth of homeowners (16 per cent) reporting the theft of a friendly garden figurine. This is twice as many as across the
A MAN evaded capture in an early hours police chase around Weymouth - escaping by jumping into the harbour. Police were today still hunting the man, who is suspected of assaulting a 66-year-old man outside Asda in Newstead Road in the early hours
BEAMINSTER woman and Broadwindsor House resident Peggy Ward celebrated her 100th birthday with a surprise party. Staff at the care home kicked off celebrations by putting one hundred ‘100 Today’ balloons down the drive of Broadwindsor House.
Dorset stud farm Yeguada Lago celebrated its recent success at the British Association for the Purebred Spanish Horse Show at Harpbury College. The farm won 12 awards at the event in Harpbury, Gloucester, including first prize for best colt and
A Sutton Poyntz family are celebrating after their son Paul Edge’s marriage to Federica Sporeni in Italy. Paul, a former Wey Valley School pupil, chose schoolfriends Rob Johnston and Richard Davies to be his best men. More than 80 guests attended
POLICE have hailed the success of an operation to clean up the streets of Weymouth. Officers concluded a two week long operation yesterday that targeted street drinkers and those seen to be acting in an anti-social manner along Weymouth seafront
THANKS to Heather Morton of Wool who recently inherited this photograph of her grandad Edward Amey, who fought in the First World War. Edward, originally from East Morden, near Bere Regis, is photographed alongside his friend George Whitfield,
FAMILIES who get bored of the normal sandy beaches over the summer can always head down to explore the 18 miles of Chesil Beach. With approximately 180 billion pebbles, it forms the largest tombolo in the UK - a narrow piece of land that connects
THE village of Briantspuddle is hosting a centenary exhibition celebrating the founding of the Bladen Estate and its legacy. It runs until Saturday, August 23 and celebrates the founding of the Bladen Estate, pictured above. The estate was created
TOMORROW is one of Weymouth’s biggest days of the year. People are invited to come and join the party at Weymouth Carnival and take in the delights of seafront stalls, the Red Arrows, aircraft displays, and of course the Grand Procession of floats
ALE fans should get their orders in as a popular beer festival is returning to Weymouth. Tickets are already selling well for the Campaign for Real Ale’s Weymouth autumn beer festival in October. More than 5,000 pints of real ale from 70 different
MORE than £500 has been donated to the Weldmar Hospicecare Trust from the sale of Jurassic Candles on West Bay Day. Hundreds of people donated money to the hospice in return for candles which were then placed on the pier at West Bay. People
DORSET 204 & 189 beat CORNWALL 147 & 153 by 93 runs DORSET ended their season on a high with a 93-run victory over Cornwall, on the final morning of their three-day clash at Dean Park today. Needing five more wickets to triumph, the
JAY Lelliott has continued his impressive form at the European Swimming Championships in Berlin by qualifying for the final of the 1500m freestyle. The former Tornadoes of South Dorset youngster finished third in his heat and qualified fifth fastest
CAMPAIGNERS are calling for train services to be renationalised. Members of the Green Party handed out leaflets and chatted to commuters outside Weymouth railway station this morning as part of a national campaign to renationalise the service.
STAFF at a Dorset supermarket will take part in a static cycle around the world. Workers at Morrisons Bridport will pedal 223 miles between them on a static bike, joining colleagues from across the South West who will together cycle the 24,902-
A MAN from Weymouth is taking on an epic trek to raise money in memory of his niece Lucy who tragically died aged just five days. Lucy died five years ago at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) after suffering from the incredibly rare respiratory
A RARE VIP – Very Important Primate- was flown 5,000 miles to his new Dorset home after being confiscated in a drug raid. The Bengal Slow Loris, who is no bigger than a bag of sugar, had been living in the Maldives Island capital Male, after he
During the early evening of Wednesday, August 13, I saw a mobile speed camera being deployed on a fairly quiet stretch of the Dorchester Road. Nothing particularly divisive or unusual about this, of course, but the thought occurred to me that this
Last Saturday I had to attend a wedding up country and set off at 11am to start the 90-minute journey which if completed in this time would have given us a hour or so to catch up with relations. Needless to say as with most well laid plans all
THE Walditch Show takes place at the Hyde Real Tennis Court on September 7 and everyone in the village, which is near Bridport, is invited to play a part. Organiser Colette Hill said: “People can contribute paintings to the art show, handicrafts
THE Great Dorset Steam Fair will pay special homage to the First World War this year with a trip back in time. The fair will feature a special display envisaged to be one of the biggest First World War commemorative displays taking place in the
A COLOURFUL event for all the family will see the clock turned back at the Nothe Fort this weekend. The fort is preparing for some big bangs to mark its traditional Victorian Fayre on Saturday and Sunday. The Fort Artillery will be firing both
LEARN more about fire safety at an open day on Portland. The fire station on Grove Road, Portland, will be open on Saturday from 10am to 4pm to provide a fun and informative event for all the family. Visitors will have the opportunity to meet
AGE UK Dorchester is urging drivers to get up to speed on car cover for the great bank holiday getaway. Di Lawrence of Age UK Dorchester said: “With many of us eager to make the most of the last bank holiday of the summer, millions of drivers will
AN HISTORIC pub in the Marshwood Vale has been put up for sale. An application submitted earlier this year to change the use of the 700-year-old Shave Cross Inn has been withdrawn, and the property put on the market for £495,000. Proprietors
A MAN spent four and a half hours swimming to safety after his kayak capsized. Portland Maritime Rescue Coordination centre in Weymouth were called at 6.30am on Monday about a sea kayak found drifting close to the Needles. It was eventually
BRIDPORT v ODD DOWN (BATH) DARREN Watts returns to the Bridport squad for tonight’s home game against Odd Down (7.45pm). Watts missed the FA Cup defeat to Highworth Town last Saturday after figuring in the Bees’ first two Toolstation Western
SCRATCH beneath the surface of Dorchester and who knows what you might find, as a trap door has unearthed another underground passage complete with a police station and cells beneath the town’s Corn Exchange. Town councillor David Taylor rediscovered
BACK-TO-BACK home wins will be Dorchester Town’s aim tonight when they take on Chippenham Town at the Avenue (7.45pm), though Phil Simkin’s men are to go into battle without Ben Joyce. The forward left the field nursing a hamstring injury after
WEYMOUTH Carnival is expected to shine – and so is the sun – in a fun-filled day for families tomorrow. Organisers fearing their parade might be rained on are delighted the forecast throughout the day is mainly for sunny spells. They have lined
WEYMOUTH and Portland has been identified as a housing repossession hotspot. New research, based on data recorded by the Ministry of Justice and released by the housing and homelessness charity Shelter, found that one in 74 homes in the borough
WEYMOUTH have been left in the dark for their scheduled trip to face Bideford tonight as a floodlight failure at the hosts’ ground has caused the game to be postponed. The Terras were looking to avenge their weekend loss to St Neots by bouncing
A MOTORCYCLIST was seriously injured in crash which caused traffic chaos. It happened on the A353 at Poxwell at around 5.40pm yesterday. The incident, which involved a motorcycle and a car, led to the closure of the A353 east of Weymouth at
