ENTREPRENEUR Richard Carr has been banned from driving for 18 months after police, working on a tip-off, caught him driving while over twice the legal limit. Multi-millionaire Carr, 46, who pleaded guilty at Bournemouth Magistrates Court on Monday to
LITTLE may be seen today of the Saxons in Dorset when Wareham was a key town on the coast but archaeology provides intriguing glimpses of life in those distant days. A chapter in author Peter Stanier's thought-provoking book called Dorset's Archaeology
SO secret were the duplex drive tanks that "floated" ashore during the D-Day landings that the deaths of six servicemen during a practice at Studland remained secret for decades. It was only two days ago that Richard Gould learned the full truth about
FIGHTER Station 454, the new official dealer for the American-built Victory custom bikes, opens at Hybris Business Park, Crossways, near Dorchester, on Sunday April 10. As well as new and used Victory bikes to see and test ride, the opening will feature
MASTERFUL French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet reunites with his Amelie leading lady Audrey Tautou for this film version of Sebastien Japrisot's novel. A Very Long Engagement is a sweeping love story, played out on a sprawling canvas of blood-soaked World
VAUXHALL will be majoring on its specialist vehicle conversions at the NEC Commercial Vehicle Show, which opens its doors on April 5. The Luton-built, award-winning Vivaro will be displayed in a number of variants both on the Vauxhall stand and elsewhere
AFTER 11 days in hospital for a major operation, a Poole man arrived home to find his front garden devastated by thieves. The carefully tended garden of Tony and Jean Barnes in Winston Gardens had been stripped of all its pots and ornaments, including
FIGHTER Station 454, the new official dealer for the American-built Victory custom bikes, opens at Hybris Business Park, Crossways, near Dorchester, on Sunday April 10. As well as new and used Victory bikes to see and test ride, the opening will feature
LAND values increased by 16 per cent last year as the number of acres for sale fell, latest data reveals. Last year the volume of land marketed publicly in Britain was down 11 per cent on the previous year - 128,500 acres advertised compared with 143,000
THE UK's largest exhibition for the nursing and care home business, showcasing the latest in innovations for the industry, opens its doors at the Bournemouth International Centre on April 5. The Care Show runs for two days and features a wide range of
A VERY special hockey tournament has been held to honour the memory of a very special teenager. Roller-hockey fanatic Alex Diplock, 19, was killed in a head-on collision on the Ferndown bypass last September, just hours before he was due to begin his
POOLE suffered a second-half collapse as they crashed to a heavy Elite League defeat in Manchester on April 4. RIAS Pirates trailed by only two points after nine races, but were unable to live with the league's early pace-setters over the final six heats
CLASSIC 1960s radio show Round the Horne pushed back the boundaries of comedy with a dazzling combination of wit and wordplay (running until April 9). It also featured the kind of innuendo that fast-tracked Auntie Beeb into the modern world with such
THE final curtain will fall on Weymouth's seafront theatre as part of revolutionary plans to transform the pavilion peninsula. The 'extremely tired' venue will be bulldozed to make way for a brand new entertainment complex seating at least 1,000 people
A CONTROVERSIAL high-density building at Poundbury has won the backing of Dorchester town councillors. Members of the planning committee last night voted by a majority of five to three to back the Duchy of Cornwall's plans for 26 flats, four offices and
SHOP workers are checking out from a Dorchester store with a total of 119 years' service between them. The five women celebrated retiring from Marks and Spencer with a champagne reception at the South Street shop. Veronica Aplin, Helen Curtis, Pauline
A NEW project is on a roll to provide every house in Weymouth and Portland with wheelie bins. The Weymouth and Portland Borough Council scheme aims to cut the amount of household waste sent to landfill sites. Every residential property in the borough
A CANCER charity has launched a £600,000 appeal in Dorset to help fund four vital posts. Macmillan Cancer Relief hopes to raise the sum to help pay for the healthcare professionals - including one in Dorchester - over the next three years. The Macmillan
REPAINTED and named electric trains will soon be rattling up and down the Lymington to Brockenhurst railway line. And there is a chance they will be stopping at a reopened Ampress Halt to get patients, visitors and staff to the new £36 million Lymington
TWO terrified women were imprisoned in an office and had to smash a window to escape after armed raiders carried out a robbery at a restaurant. The drama happened at the Little Chef at Picket Post near Ringwood when two masked men burst into the premises
THREE members of a gang who helped fleece a New Forest pensioner out of her life savings have been handed prison sentences totalling seven and a half years. Car dealer Tommy Lee and unemployed Geoffrey Howard were each handed three years for their part
EDUCATION chiefs are to ask the government for money to finance the multi-million reorganisation of schools in Blandford. The closures take place this summer but the building programme to convert the schools will continue over several years, as and when
RICHARD O'Kelly has urged Cherries' travelling supporters to make the difference once again in tonight's crucial League One clash at Bristol City (Ashton Gate, April 5, 7.45pm kick-off). The Cherries assistant manager was in positive mood as the side
SHAUN Maher looks set to make his return from suspension when Cherries host Bristol Rovers in the Pontin's Holidays Combination tomorrow (Wednesday). Maher has been forced to sit out Cherries' last three league games after being red-carded for violent
A RESPECTED and well-known language school boss has spoken of her horror at discovering she had breast cancer and then her joy at her subsequent recovery. Pat Marchiori-White, former principal at Southbourne School of English and current secretary and
"WE know who you are and we will prosecute you" - that's the message from Dorset Police as they launch a massive operation to sting class A drug dealers. A haul of drugs, with a street value of £350,000, was seized by local police in a very short period
YELLOW Buses staff are threatening strike action if reassurances over their jobs, pensions and conditions are not forthcoming. Workers claim they have pleaded with council leaders to discuss the impending sale of the company but say they have had no response
A SOLDIER who lost both his legs in a suicide bombing in Iraq has thanked the Daily Echo for launching a campaign to buy him new limbs. We launched our Let's Help Neil scheme to back a fund set up by colleagues of Corporal Neil Heritage following the
SO secret were the duplex drive tanks that "floated" ashore during the D-Day landings that the deaths of six servicemen during a practice at Studland remained secret for decades. It was only two days ago that Richard Gould learned the full truth about
MASTERFUL French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet reunites with his Amelie leading lady Audrey Tautou for this film version of Sebastien Japrisot's novel. A Very Long Engagement is a sweeping love story, played out on a sprawling canvas of blood-soaked World
BOURNEMOUTH'S Gary Emerson produced one of the 'best weekends' of his career to finish seventh in the Portuguese Open on April 3. Emerson carded the best final 36-hole total of 133 after rounds of 66 and 67 to finish on seven under par and earn a cheque
Weaver Cottage, Bockhampton Road, Bockhampton, Bransgore; 84304, retention of attached garden shed (for Mr Mrs K Candy). Acorns Nest, 82 Burley Road, Bransgore; 84328, pitch roof to existing single storey structures, ground floor rear extension; P Bristow
A MAJOR employer with a multi-million-pound global business has secured its future in its home town of Poole. Two years ago luxury yacht builder Sunseeker International's boss was talking about quitting the country after 30 years because of lack of DTI
A BABY who was born weighing just one pound is to be remembered with a special family room at Poole Hospital. George Seabright was born three months prematurely by emergency Caesarean section last April after his mum Maria was diagnosed with dangerously
AT LAST there was no hard-luck story. Late drama has plagued Cherries' recent attempts to equal a new club record of four consecutive away league victories, set in 1948 (April 3). But after goals from Steve Purches and Wade Elliott had put them in the
STAR of the Geneva Motor Show, Aston Martin's new pocket rocket Vantage V8, will be with UK customers by late summer - and for those who have put down a deposit that moment can't come soon enough. Designed to go head-to-head with the Porsche 911, the
MARK Morris says it is "too risky" to play any of his current first team squad in tonight's Sammy McGowan Cup game against Weymouth at the Avenue Stadium (7.45). "With four Conference South games to go we still have a chance of making the play-offs and
FORMER Dorchester spinner Sean Walbridge reckons his appointment as Dorset's new Minor Counties team manager is the next best thing to playing. The ex-Dorset skipper was tragically forced to call a premature end to his playing days after a detached retina
FOR an in-your-face, jargon-free course in change management, delivered in raw effing and blinding Essex English, did you watch Jamie's School Dinners? Week after week, young Jamie Oliver gave a TV masterclass in how to win the hearts, minds and stomachs
A MARINE expert had a hectic last day at work when he dived into shark-infested waters. Centre curator Chris Brown stripped down to his boxer shorts and grabbed a snorkel to make emergency repairs when a nurse shark had bitten through the bottom of its
SOUTH Dorset MP JIM Knight has launched a new probe into the former naval accommodation blocks on Portland. He is investigating why the Ministry of Defence is still paying council tax on the Hardy Block site, despite it being sold to developers Comer
WEYMOUTH dancing sensation Kristy Cullen is high-kicking onwards - in the finals of the BBC TV show Strictly Dance Fever. Having won over the judges and voting viewers, the student and part-time dance instructor now enters the marathon last leg in which
STAFF at Goulds Garden Centre teamed up with the Joseph Weld Hospice, Trimar Hospice and CancerCare Dorset to raise more than £1,000. A four-day spring garden festival at Goulds in Littlemoor Road attracted hundreds of visitors and launched the garden
TRAVELLERS are now at Christchurch station with more than a dozen caravans camped illegally on railway land beside the main Waterloo line. Network Rail, which owns the narrow strip of land beside the railway line between the station and the Barrack Road
