VILLAGERS in a tiny parish in North Dorset are battling new plans for continued use of a gypsy site to house travellers visiting the Great Dorset Steam Fair. People living in Tarrant Monkton and Launceston were told last year by County Hall planning
DORCHESTER 2 Gleeson 20, Mitchell 27 BROMLEY 1 McBean 2 (pen) AS far as first goals go, Tom Mitchell’s proved crucial as he opened his account at the perfect time by firing Dorchester Town to safety. The midfielder, who has received
Affpuddle BLADEN social club members and friends gathered for a coffee morning in aid of the club’s charity for 2009, Help for Heroes. This is a new organisation formed to help those who have been wounded in Britain’s current conflicts. £230 was
PRIZE-winning artist Jane Goodson has had five paintings selected for a prestigious exhibition in London. The selection means the Poundbury artist is on course for membership of the renowned Society of Botanical Artists – as long as she can repeat the
GOLDEN girl Sarah Dempsey has joined the search to find south Dorset’s next Olympic sailing champion. The double gold medal winner is backing Weymouth and Portland Housing’s (WPH) Kids Sail Free project. WPH, which owns and manages almost 4,000 properties
FRIENDS of a Dorset charity have spent the past eight months gearing up for the biggest fundraising event in their group’s history. The Dorset Extravaganza has been solely organised by volunteers and aims to attract 1,000 people to the historic
COUNCILLORS have been accused of snubbing a youth theatre group - after most of them failed to reply to an invitation to a show. Weymouth’s WOW Youth Theatre group sent the invitations to every member of Weymouth and Portland Borough Council
THE niece of an Anzac soldier based in Weymouth during the First World War is helping to set up a website in honour of the troops. Anne McCosker-Buckley’s uncle Frederick Martin was among the thousands of troops from Australia and New Zealand who spent
NICK Poole has soared out from the depths of despair thanks to a charity that helps disabled people learn to fly. The former Outward Bound instructor from East Knighton said his life has been transformed by taking up flying. He has just
It is very laudable that there is a cycleway being constructed along part of the ring road, but this seems to be at the expense of repairing the other roads. Most of the main roads round Weymouth are becoming injury traps for cyclists, and motor bikers
A DORCHESTER pub is offering punters the chance to dine out for just a pound. The Victoria Hotel is trying to bring some cheer to recession-hit customers with cut-price deals on a range of lunchtime and evening meals. Publicans Emma Fergusson and Rick
BEDTIME will be late on Tuesday for one Chickerell schoolgirl who will be allowed to stay up to watch her television debut. Ellie Rai Cleaver-Coles, nine, of North Square, will appear on Living TV’s chilling reality show Living with the Dead. The Chickerell
A group of Army Cadets on their way to attend a first aid competition with three of their instructors were called into action at the scene of a road accident. They used their first aid skills to help the victims of the crash, one of whom was
PREMIERSHIP outfit the Duke of Albany were only formed two years ago but their exceptional progress in Sunday football reaches an all-time high tomorrow when they travel to Dorchester’s Jewson Stadium to contest the Intermediate Cup final (10.30am).
DORCHESTER hope to see action for the first time this year when they visit Poole Town in a friendly fixture this afternoon (1.30pm). The county town side, reigning Dorset Premier League champions, saw a recent friendly with Street called off and
DORSET will be without skipper Tom Hicks for tomorrow’s Minor Counties Championship Knockout Trophy group match at Buckinghamshire. Instead of taking to the field Hicks will instead be in the capital running the London Marathon while Paul Warren
THE mother of the girl raped by David Adams today hailed the seven-year jail sentence as ‘a brilliant result’. She applauded the verdict and told the Echo of her hope that her daughter would now be able to get on with her life. Speaking
BONNIE Symonds tells me that the recent Save the Children coffee morning was held a little later in the year than usual. This change of date obviously made no difference, for a great number of local people turned out to support the event, and, as ever
THERE is a small ray of hope that Weymouth could still be a Blue Square Premier outfit next season despite last night’s 2-1 loss against York City at the Wessex Stadium, according to Terras’ chairman Ian Ridley. The defeat has ensured Weymouth
