PARENTS can try their hands at IT and science during a new interactive style open evening taking place at Purbeck School in Wareham. The event takes place on October 24, from 5.30pm to 9pm, and school leaders have lined up a series of science displays
Hampshire League Division One WEYMOUTH 6 PETERSFIELD 1 Weymouth trounced Petersfield with an elite performance to make it two league wins out of two at Redlands. And three goals from Ed Dorey was enough to send them top of Hampshire Division One on goal
WEYMOUTH Boxing Club is a contender to stage the country's top amateur international event. The Hardwick Street gym outfit is one of two clubs short-listed to host an England versus United States of America senior tournament in November. But boxing clever
Thursday 17 October: Eden - Mr Smiths; Jazz in Mind feat. Tim Eyles - Longs, Lymington; Rubber Soul: Thrive + Marlins + Audiosonic - Bartonka; Lemon Grove - Ye Olde George Inn; Beyond Belief - Gerrards; Jim Martin - Cellar Bar; Melanie - Gander; Friday
CHILDREN and teachers at a Dorchester school are urging people to support a Weymouth fireman's charity run in the Snowdonia marathon on Sunday, October 27. Paul Johnson is tackling the gruelling run to raise money for books at a school in Entebbe, Uganda
RUMOURS are rife in a tiny village that a film star or top footballer could become the owner of the largest new house to be built in Dorset for many years. But while residents say they will happily welcome any newcomer, they have battled for years to
BOURNEMOUTH Poppies produced an excellent display against Wessex League title favourites Eastleigh, but narrowly lost the contest in a spirited 1-0 defeat at Victoria Park last night. And manager Keith Williams praised his side for "an outstanding display
ENGLAND cricket hero Mike Atherton opened up to fans who braved rain to meet him at Ottakars bookshop in Dorchester. Staff at the shop let people in to shelter from the ferocious weather before the former England and Lancashire star signed copies of his
TEENAGERS are stopping young children from using a play area designed especially for them. The former run-down playground in Pound Piece, Portland, has been newly refurbished for children aged up to eight, but teenagers more than twice that age have taken
OPPONENTS of a hugely controversial church hall scheme will finally have the chance to put their case next week - as a new survey shows 94 per cent of villagers are against the idea. The ecclesiastical court hearing into proposals for a new £500,000 facility
SOME of this area's most dynamic entrepreneurs are also among its most modest, say organisers of the Echo-backed Dorset Business Awards. And that can make the hunt for Dorset's Lester Aldridge Business Person of the Year one of the most challenging of
FIVE Iraqi children have claimed asylum at Poole Port in the last fortnight, fuelling fears the area is being targeted by refugees. The children, all of whom were aged 16 and unaccompanied, arrived at the port in several groups over the last fortnight
SWANAGE AND Wareham maintained their 100 per cent start to the league season with a convincing 37-13 victory over Windsor at Bestwall. Swans made it five wins out of five in South West Division Two East after proving too strong for title rivals Windsor
WEYMOUTH Reserves kick off their Wessex Com-bination Cup campaign with a first round, first leg tie at Gosport Borough Reserves tonight, writes Paul Baker. The competition has proved a bit of a nightmare for the Terras over recent years - twice they've
PIRATES have acted quickly to sign Polish teenager Krzysztof Kasprzak for the 2003 season under fierce competition from a host of Elite League rivals. Poole Meridian Lifts have beaten off the attentions of at least four other top-flight tracks, with Ipswich
TWENTY-stone Kevin Steele is renowned among his family and friends for his crazy charity schemes. His latest idea is to climb Mount Kilimanjaro wearing a blindfold to raise money for blind children. The 51-year-old British Airways worker is aiming to
MOVIE mogul Steven Spielberg may shoot scenes for a £85 million blockbuster about King Arthur at historic sites near Dorchester - including Maiden Castle. The American film-maker is considering locations in Dorset and the West Country for a controversial
FURIOUS families are so fed up with hooligan youngsters they are threatening to set up vigilante groups to patrol their streets. They say their lives have been made hell by gangs of youths and claim police have failed to tackle the problem. The victims
A COASTER has been rescued in appalling weather conditions after dragging its anchor as a huge storm lashed the Dorset coast. Winds gusting to more than 70mph caused problems for the Salina II, owned by seadog Rob Thorne, 58, who sold his Portland home
STUDENT Charlotte Webster from Dorchester is having a ball as she aims for top national honours in dancing and bowling. The talented teenager will be stepping from the national ballroom championships in Blackpool to a bowling green in Birmingham for England
PARENTS who campaigned to have their children's walk to school deemed unsafe have won their fight for free school buses - but only because of a county council mistake. Mums and dads living in Osmington complained to Dorset County Council that youngsters
DORCHESTER Thomas Hardye students are the new British champions of school dragster racing. The teenagers' cheap and simple design, called Tried and Untested, crossed the line first to claim the Formula Fracmo sprint title at the Ford Greenpower finals
A MAN who went missing from the New Milton area last month has been found safe and well. Police raised the alarm after Edward Jelks, 56, failed to return to his Barton-on-Sea home on September 17 after a trip to Bournemouth. However, Mr Jelks has now
VICTIMS of domestic violence are to get their own refuge in North Dorset. A redundant building at an undisclosed site is currently being converted into flats. Up to ten women and their children can be catered for in the facility which will open next month
A DORSET MP has hit out at plans which could spell closure for two of the county's magistrates' courts. Bob Walter, MP for North Dorset, said the moves which could affect Wimborne and possibly also Blandford courthouses would not be in the interests of
ONE prize has led to another for video artist Lizzie Sykes. Lizzie, 33, who works from her harbourside home at Stanpit was awarded the £100 Lady Waterford prize for her video Slice in the Contours open art exhibition at Highcliffe Castle. Filmed in Northumbria
CHERRIES striker Warren Feeney is targeting a return to match action next week after completing his recovery from a broken ankle. The 21-year-old Northern Ireland international has been sidelined for almost two months with a slight fracture on the medial
