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  • Couple look forward to second set of twins

    IT'S DOUBLE, double trouble for one Bournemouth family who have conceived twins for a second time. Natalie and Nicholas Joyner of Twyford Close, Throop, are the fourth couple in Bournemouth to have conceived two sets of twins in 20 years - and according

  • Robber's voice led to arrest

    A MASKED robber whose voice was recognised when he threatened former workmates at gunpoint was yesterday jailed for nine years. Bournemouth Crown Court heard how Darren Rowlands, 29, had returned to the Boscombe double glazing company where he had been

  • £5,000 reward after raiders attack guard

    A £5,000 REWARD has been put up to catch the three men who robbed a Securicor van in Winton on Monday night. Three robbers armed with baseball bats attacked Securicor officers as they entered Abbey National Bank in Wimborne Road at around 7pm. The attackers

  • Life for shopkeeper's brutal killer

    BRUTAL murderer Steve Milne has been jailed for life for tying up and beating to death elderly shopkeeper Jimmy Riggs. Psychiatric reports on the 37-year-old, gathered since November 11 last year when he pleaded guilty to murder, revealed that Milne had

  • Sturdy Oaks' title resolve

    OAKMEADIANS kept their Southern Counties South title challenge on track - but had to come from behind for the second time this season before beating local rivals Bournemouth. The Meyrick Parkers triumphed 36-20 at Chapel Gate to follow up their 16-14

  • SENIOR CUP HIT BY WEATHER

    REFEREE Royston Mitchell and Dorchester FC chairman Eddie Belt gave the frosty Avenue Stadium pitch the once over before the official called off last night's Dorset Senior Cup quarter-final between the Magpies and Hamworthy United. Portland's Grove Corner

  • LEADERS' LOSS SETS UP A THRILLING GROUSE FINISH

    A THRILLING finish to the Famous Grouse Home Nations Top Ten Classic Group N is guaranteed after Dorchester inflicted the first defeat of the season on title favourites East Dorset. The Christchurch club went into the match as slender leaders of the section

  • BELFAST DATE FOR ENGLAND'S WHITTY

    VICKI WHITTY has retained her place in the England Under-25 team and goes to Belfast on Friday, January 17, determined to help her country retain the British Isles title in the triangular tournament against Northern Ireland and Wales. The 20-year-old

  • WESSEX MEETS POINT TO THE STARS OF THE FUTURE

    THE 2003 point-to-point season gets underway in the Wessex Area on Saturday with the Army meeting at Larkhill. Point-to-pointing is an event where town and country folk come together to enjoy a day out watching horse racing in a relaxed atmosphere. A

  • A gift of love

    MANDY Durkin couldn't have asked for a better anniversary present from husband Graham than what she calls her gift of love. Just over a year ago Mandy, 44, was told she needed a kidney transplant. After six months of waiting for a suitable donor Graham

  • Dorset hit by the big freeze

    DORSET was bracing itself for the possibility of more snow today as temperatures plummeted below freezing. Weather experts warned of more wintry showers as after overnight temperatures in Weymouth and Dorchester went down to minus 4 degrees C. A Met Office

  • Cash crisis forces cuts in services

    COUNCIL chiefs began the new year with sweeping cuts to services in Weymouth and Portland in a bid to beat the cash crisis. The borough's powerful management committee yesterday began the grim task of picking through a package of measures designed to

  • Borough bids for ships spectacular

    WEYMOUTH and Portland is on the crest of a wave after councillors decided the borough should be in the running to host the biggest tall ships race ever staged. But the cash-strapped borough council is hoping a large amount of money to fund it will come

  • Force welcomes new senior officer

    DORSET'S new assistant chief constable (operations) has been welcomed into the force by police chiefs. Adrian Whiting, who will be responsible for operational policing in the county, joins Dorset Police from Hampshire Police where he was Chief Superintendent

  • Inspectors award school top marks

    A Weymouth school has been given top marks by inspectors. Beechcroft Community Infant School was praised for being "most effective at providing a good education to enrich pupils' needs", according to its latest Ofsted report. Inspectors found that high

  • £100,000 bid to save river walks

    DORCHESTER Civic Society aims to launch a £100,000 action plan to save the town's crumbling riverside walks. The organisation is to spearhead a project to restore the footpaths, banks and undergrown bushes to their former glory. Now the group is to probe

  • Aerospace giant on £50m spend spree

    AEROSPACE and engineering group Cobham has unveiled a £50 million spending spree after seeing trading in the last year hit expectations. The largest of three deals has seen Wimborne-based Cobham buy Land Platform Communi-cations (LPC) - a supplier of

  • Blooming great paintings

    IT MAY be cold and grey outside, but bright and beautiful summer blooms have sprung up inside the Red House Museum in Christchurch where artist Angela Kernan unveiled her latest exhibition of paintings on Saturday. Angela lives in Holt near Wimborne,

  • THEY'RE SCUM

    THESE scum must be caught before they strike again. Police are hunting two young raiders who terrorised a 94-year-old woman by breaking down her front door and forcing their way into her home. One officer said the incident had shocked and shamed the whole

  • House prices rise through the roof

    HOUSE prices in this area rose by an average 35.26 per cent over 2002, latest data reveals. Estate agents Goadsby & Harding Residential sold a record £437 million worth of residential property over 2002. The agent sold 2,262 residential properties

  • Dorset woman among alleged murder victims

    ONE of the alleged victims in the grisly "Camden Ripper" case comes from Dorset, it has emerged. The parents of Sally Rose White, 38, live in Poole, very close to the Quay. Sally White, who is understood to have been working in London after leaving this

  • Damen gains more glory

    LOUISE Damen had to go head-to-head with Charlotte Moore to retain her Dorset Cross-Country Championship title at Canford School, writes Nigel Harding. Though Moore has the higher national profile following her sixth place in the Commonwealth Games 800

  • TIDBY GETS THE CALL-UP

    ADAM TIDBY'S dream of an England call-up has finally come true. The 38-year-old former Dorchester and Dorset skip has been named as a reserve for the British Isles International Indoor Series which starts at Thornaby, Teesside, on Wednesday, March 12.

  • Wykes tastes Euro success

    PAUL Wykes made a winning start to the New Year to reach the second qualifying round of the £250,000 European Open at the Norbreck Castle Hotel, Blackpool, yesterday. World number 69 Wykes required less than two hours to whitewash Irishman Colm Gilcreest

  • COLD COMFORT

    WEYMOUTH 3, CRANBORNE 0 THE Senior Cup holders teetered gingerly into the last four at a frozen Wessex Stadium last night in the only quarter-final tie to beat the weather. On a pitch that became more treacherous as the night wore on, the Terras were

  • Underfloor springs flood three cottages in village

    VILLAGERS have been left counting the cost after their homes were flooded for the first time in nearly 50 years. The last time the springs came up under houses in Martinstown was 1956, but the recent heavy rain has caused them to well-up again and come

  • Parent bus drivers bid is backed

    PARENTS could soon be seen behind the wheels of school buses as part of a new driver recruitment scheme. Dorset firm Damory Coaches has launched an initiative to encourage mums and dads to get the qualifications they need to take charge of school buses

  • Thieves steal four pre-school bikes

    YOUNGSTERS have been left bitterly disappointed after burglars stole play equipment from their pre-school. A shed at the Prince of Wales Pre-school in Dorchester, which has 40 children on its register, was broken into and thieves stole three tri-cycles

  • Young sidelined by broken ankle

    CHERRIES star Neil Young will be sidelined for a minimum of four weeks after becoming the latest addition to the crippling Dean Court injury crisis. Young has been ruled out at least until mid-February after breaking his right ankle during Cherries' FA

  • Fan pledges £125,000

    CHERRIES are in line to receive an unexpected cash windfall after an anonymous benefactor pledged £125,000 towards lifting the club's transfer embargo. The Dean Court season ticket holder approached Cherries chairman Peter Phillips to make his generous