FARMER Michael Grant Wheadon was today starting a three-and-a-half-year jail sentence for sexually abusing a Weymouth girl. Judge John Beashel told Wheadon he robbed the girl of her innocence during the attacks in Weymouth when she was aged seven to 14
SECURITY cameras, safety officers and volunteer station watchers are among the crime-cracking measures being considered for Dorset's railways. Calls have been made to stamp out crime at stations by introducing tough new measures to deter crooks, vagrants
DRIVER John Brooks today called for action over a rural road between Weymouth and Dorchester that he has labelled a death trap. He claims Portesham Hill - which is suggested by the police and council chiefs as a main diversionary route while work is carried
PLANS for a new nursing home in the centre of Dorchester are set to be revealed to the town's civic society next week. Bentleigh Cross Ltd, which is transforming the former Dorset County Hospital site in Princes Street, aims to open a 40-bed nursing home
A DISABLED woman is embarking on a sponsored walk to raise money for the vets who tried to save her beloved dog's life. Maria Hill, 32, suffers from chronic back pain but is doing the walk, from Weymouth Pavilion to Overcombe Corner and back, a distance
CONCERNED councillors are waiting to hear from the Government about the risk to Dorset's treasured coast from a wrecked oil tanker. Members of Dorset County Council's cabinet raised their fears in a letter to the Government, members of the European Parliament
DORCHESTER film-goers have been praised for saving their town's only cinema after it was nearly forced to close. Former Thomas Hardye School pupil Martin Dunn, who rose from managing the Plaza in Trinity Street to be operations director for the owners
BIRD woman Barbara Simpson is being evicted from her warden-controlled flat after breaching a court order. Elderly residents at George Thorne House, Park Street, Weymouth, have won their battle to get their neighbour evicted after their landlord Anchor
A MAN was killed and another was seriously injured after a two-car smash on the A35. Police said the man who died was driving a green Vauxhall Astra when it was in collision with a silver Ford Focus on the eastbound carriageway of the A35 at Tolpuddle
THE poor state of bus shelters in Weymouth and Portland came in for a pounding after a blistering attack by transport campaigner David Redgewell. But he was told that only £3,000 per year was available in borough council coffers to maintain shelters.
WEYMOUTH and Portland is suffering a desperate shortage of nursery places. But campaigners are to step up their action for more facilities for pre-school children in the area. The lack of available spaces was highlighted after planning committee members
