FROME TOWN 1, DORCHESTER LADIES 5 Dorchester Town Ladies stay top of the South-West League Division One after their emphatic victory over third placed Frome. Thomas Hardye student Bev Symes made a sparkling debut for the county town side, scoring one
HOLT UNITED 6, BRIDPORT RESERVES 0 BRIDPORT Reserves slumped to their third successive Dorset Combination League defeat when they were outplayed by championship-chasing Holt. The Bees sent a patched-up side to Gaunt's Common and the team-raising problems
WEYMOUTH SPORTS 1, STURMINSTER NEWTON 1 GERRY De La Planque was both villain and hero as Weymouth Sports stretched their unbeaten Dorset Combination League run to three matches against Sturminster Newton at Redlands. The former Bridport striker began
HAMWORTHY UNITED 4, DORCHESTER RESERVES 2 DORCHESTER Reserves boss Phil Simkin predicted the Magpies first team will get a difficult game at the County Ground when they meet Hamworthy in the Dorset Senior Cup in two weeks time. "Their player-manager Sean
BRIDPORT will be looking to carry their improved league form into cup action in North Dorset tonight. They go to Dorset Combination League leaders Shaftesbury for a third-round Dorset Senior Cup match. The Bees have doubts about midfield player Richard
PORTLAND renew old acquaintances with former Dorset Combination League rivals Gillingham Town in their Dorset Senior Cup tie at Grove Corner tonight, kick-off 7.45pm. Two seasons ago the sides fought out an epic Combination Cup final at Swanage with the
GAVIN Bates will be out to prove a point when Weymouth Sports take on the Terras in a Dorset Senior Cup third round tie at the Wessex Stadium tonight, kick-off 7.45pm. The giant gloveman will be doing his best to help cause a major shock against the club
ST LEONARDS 0, DORCHESTER 3 Dorchester piled on the agony for St Leonards and moved level on points with leaders Grantham at the top of the Dr Martens Eastern Division with a comprehensive win at The Firs last night. The Sussex side have now suffered
FOUR-time World champion Tony Rickardsson has stressed he feels very proud that he is a Poole Pirate. The 30-year-old Swede is all set to spend a second successive season at Wimborne Road next term after signing a new loan deal last week. But looking
WEYMOUTH has beaten rival bids from across the world to host a major international sailing regatta. Spectators will head for the resort in September, 2005, to watch more than 450 top competitors in the world championships of the popular J24 class. Tourism
CALLS to capitalise on Dorchester's rich heritage have received a boost with plans to restore historic walls on the site of ancient Roman ramparts. Dorset County Council is aiming to restore the Colliton Park landmark to its former glory after parts of
TWO more sponsors have come on board to support Trimar Hospice's Victorian Shownight on Thursday - the seasonal shopping extravaganza that kicks off the countdown to Christmas in Weymouth. McCarthy & Stone and Portwey Letting Agents join other local
BRAVERY and quick-thinking medical expertise were recognised at the Dorset Ambulance NHS Trust Awards. Members of the public, as well as ambulance staff, were rewarded for their actions which saved lives in incidents across the county. More than 130 people
UNITED tourism leaders in the New Forest have shown the UK the way forward in riding out the foot-and-mouth crisis, according to the government. While the historic landscape remained untouched by the virus, open land was still closed off to the public
ANOTHER millennium project has been successfully launched - a book about Blandford. Peter Andrews and Michael Le Bas, curators of the town museum, did much of the research. Town councillors Lynn Lindsay and deputy mayor John Tanner, who both grew up in
A GREAT fruit hunt is over, after a Daily Echo story proved hugely "profit-apple" for national horticulture experts. The re-discovery in Dorset of the long-lost Profit cooking apple, featured in the Echo last week, triggered a flood of calls from local
WEYMOUTH RESERVES 5, PORTSMOUTH RN 1 TERRAS Reserves' assistant boss Kevin Squibb will be a happy man when he hands control back to number one Dave Kitely on his return from a cricketing tour of South Africa this week. "That's three wins and a draw since
MAGPIES Danny O'Hagan took home the match ball last night after his hat-trick at St Leonards shot him to the top of the Dr Martens Eastern Division goalscoring charts. And his team's 3-0 win - their 12th victory in 19 league outings - saw them go level
THE Pirates' 2002 Elite League title challenge starts here. Yep, it's still only November but Poole have already laid the foundations for next year's squad and I'm delighted to be part of it - and captain. As I already mentioned in the Daily Echo this
PIRATES supporters must still be wondering how their side failed to win the Sky Sports Elite League title after another compelling season of racing at Wimborne Road. Poole Gas Appliance Superstore co-promoters Matt Ford and Mike Golding caused controversy
A PRIVATE finance plan to rebuild two Dorset special schools looks set to be dropped. Instead county education chiefs will be looking at a more a traditional funding route for the multi-million pound projects, the Dorset Echo has learnt. School leaders
THE wife of one of the Dorset men rowing the Atlantic got a nasty taste of what her husband is going through - when she damaged her back on a rowing machine. Jane Fooks, of Portland, was able to be treated by a chiropractor when her back seized up after
MOTHER Hazel Bartlett was honoured with an award after saving a leukaemia victim's life by donating her bone marrow. The 35-year-old petrol station supervisor was hailed as Member of the Year by the Ancient Order of Foresters after beating off hundreds
DORSET police officers took up a 24-hour sponsored rowing challenge to raise £1,000 for their colleagues in New York devasted by the terrorist attacks. Serving officers from throughout Dorset, support staff and their families plus members of 11 Royal
MANY organisations pay lip service to the idea of "teamwork". It is a concept that is much admired but also much abused. We love to make analogies between business and sport. The notion of players passing the ball unselfishly to each other to enable the
PUPILS may be offered the chance to speak their minds on the future of Dorchester after a constructive public meeting. Town Crier Alistair Chisholm hailed the success of the recent summit he called at the Corn Exchange on the path forward for the area
VILLAGERS who clubbed together to buy a meadow to save it from developers are seeing a haven for wildlife spring up there. The meadow in Charminster is being transformed into a 10-acre wood thanks to a team of volunteers, who are planting 500 trees to
THE Dorset owner of an apple tree believed extinct for over 50 years has come forward after experts appealed in the Echo for help. Retired farmer George Tozer, who brought his home-grown Profit apples to an apple day event at Kingston Maurward College
