VILLAGES across Dorset are getting online with a 500,000 cash injection. Town and parish councils are being furnished with new laptops, email addresses and broadband connections so they will have information at their fingertips. And residents will be
ONE of Dorchester's biggest employers has revealed plans for a new headquarters in the town. Magna Housing Group has submitted a planning application to West Dorset District Council for permission for the new base for all its county town-based staff.
OLD soldiers will have to wait until the end of the month to see if streets on Prince Charles's Poundbury will be named in honour of Dorset war heroes The Duchy of Cornwall approached Dorchester Town Council with a view to naming streets in Poundbury
NETWORK Rail has come under fire for stripping a railway embankment of trees. The company, which manages the country's railway lines, has removed trees along the embankment of the Dorchester to Bristol line for health and safety reasons. A spokesman
A PENSIONER lollipop man bounced on the bonnet of a woman's car - causing more than 400-worth of damage - in a row over a parking space. Donald James Marsh, 67, of Cobham Drive, Preston, admitted criminal damage to a Fiat Punto belonging to Sylvia Rosetta
DORCHESTER TOWN - BLUE SQUARE SOUTH Sat Aug 11 St. Albans City A Tue Aug 14 Havant & Waterlooville H Sat Aug 18 Lewes H Sat Aug 25 Welling United A Mon Aug 27 Eastleigh H Sat Sep 1 Bishop's Stortford A Sat Sep 8 Sutton United A Sat Sep 15 Fisher
POLICE chiefs from three continents have been to Dorset for expert training. Commanders from Botswana, Bahrain, the Cayman Islands, Oman, the Bahamas and Bangladesh took part in a three-day visit to the county. As part of the visit the group patrolled
WEYMOUTH - BLUE SQUARE PREMIER Sat Aug 11 Halifax Town H Tue Aug 14 Forest Green Rovers A Sat Aug 18 Stevenage Borough A Sat Aug 25 Burton Albion H Mon Aug 27 Exeter City A Fri Aug 31 Cambridge United H Tue Sep 4 Woking A Sat Sep 8 Ebbsfleet United
FORMER AFC Bournemouth midfielder Marcus Browning has joined Blue Square Premier side Weymouth for pre-season training. The 36-year-old, who was released by the Cherries at the end of last term, was close to signing for Coca-Cola League Two outfit Hereford
BOSSES at a Dorchester pub hope to make the drinking experience safer than ever. The Original Thomas Hardy in Alington Avenue has asked West Dorset District Council to be accredited under Drink Safe West Dorset - an initiative to promote a sensible attitude
COMMUNITY leaders and schoolchildren joined forces to mark the start of a community research project. The Weymouth and Portland Partnership aims to canvass local people's opinions to help draw up a community plan. Among the issues the plan hopes to
CARL Morris had to battle strong winds to win the Portland 10 Road Race for the fifth consecutive year. Morris, 27, a teacher from Wareham, led the field most of the way and while he admitted that the wind had slowed him down, he crossed the finishing
TORNADOES of South Dorset were represented at the National Biathlon Championships, held this year in Norwich The event combines the skills of both swimming and running, and thus attracts athletes with all-round ability. Tornadoes' most successful individual
ALMOST two in three people in the south west region, which includes Dorset, are unaware of the symptoms of one of the world's biggest killers - malaria. One in 10 also believe that the disease is contracted by drinking infected water, a worrying statistic
WEYMOUTH Warriors finished third in round three of the British Youth Junior League. The event, held at the new Filton circuit, saw very competitive action with Exeter winning and Newport finishing second. Charlie Sam reached his second consecutive under
When Mikyla Dodd looked at herself in the mirror aged 21, what she saw disgusted her. At 24-and-a-half stone, she had become morbidly obese. The actress, who played Chloe in Hollyoaks for nearly five years and went on to lose the most weight of any female
HOW many of us struggle on with a bad back while we work? Quite a lot, is the short answer... but did you know that problems stemming from backache and muscular pain cost the country's economy - in sick days, resulting loss of business, and the NHS -
GLOOMY skies and heavy rain made June a wet month in Weymouth and Dorchester. Latest statistics for the towns show that rainfall was twice the average while the sun stayed hidden. One deluge in Weymouth on June 14 saw half the average rainfall for the
A FEW tickets are still left for Garden Opera's visit to Abbotsbury this week. The popular musicians, who are returning to the village for the ninth consecutive year, are performing La Bohème in the gardens of the Abbey House Hotel. One of Puccini's
RADIPOLE Lake Nature Reserve was closed after a birdwatcher collapsed of a suspected heart attack. The man, believed to be from the Bournemouth area, was airlifted to Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester, following attempts to resuscitate him at the reserve
BREWER and pub operator Hall & Woodhouse has taken steps to ensure its tenanted estate of more than 200 pubs meets new smoking legilsation. The company and its tenants have invested more than 1.2 million to prepare for the ban. Central to the investment
This summer sees two outdoor Jazz/Latin/Blues Concerts in Dorset set in spectacular locations. The first is at Sherborne Castle on Sunday 15 July, the second will be held at Athelhampton House on Sunday 19 August, both of which will be benefiting The
A MAJOR fire ripped through a terrace of historic thatched cottages in an ancient part of Wool. Around 60 firefighters were called to tackle the blaze after it broke out in three properties in Spring Street. A resident of one of the homes had to be
