SUPERMARKET staff have formed a mass entry to a charity race. A 52-strong team of women from Tesco in Dorchester and their friends and families will tackle the Race for Life to raise money for Cancer Research. The cause means a lot to store workers
A HISTORIC Weymouth attraction will be the setting for the country’s first Victorian Military Tattoo in aid of wounded personnel fighting current battles. Re-enactment groups from across the country will descend on the Nothe Fort for the ‘living history
STUDENT Lindsey Maton is setting her sights on an exciting gap year working with underprivileged children in India. The 19-year-old has been selected to work in Tamil Nadu with the gap year company Project Trust but must first raise £4,600 in sponsorship
MASTERCHEF winner Mat Follas hopes to open his new restaurant, The Wild Garlic, in his home town in June. He has agreed terms on the lease for the former The Black Cat bistro in Beaminster Square and hopes to sign for it next week. In his search for
A MONSTER fire truck is to ride roughshod over heath fires and floods in Dorset. The £230,000 off-road Unimog will be used all over the county to tackle blazes and major incidents in rural areas. And not only will it save residents’ lives – it will
BAY CITY Rollers star Eric Faulkner is heading up a host of musical entertainment at a charity concert at Dorchester Town Football Club. The guitarist from the hit 1970s band will play a number of their popular hits such as Bye Bye Baby and
THE A35 was closed between Dorchester and Bridport after a serious accident at Winterbourne Abbas this morning, police said. The accident involved a single vehicle leaving the road outside the Little Chef at Winterbourne Abbas at around 8.30am. Ambulance
AN AGENCY and consultancy bill of £6.5 million for county hall has been slammed as ‘appalling’ by a union official. Information obtained by the Dorset Echo under the Freedom of Information Act outlines an increase of more than £2million in consultancy
Your reporting of an aggrieved pensioner who could not use his ‘free’ (more accurately, free to him but not to local government) bus pass before 9am to travel to hospital for state funded treatment is a most regrettable indication of the something-for-nothing
A SKIN cancer survivor is begging young women not to die for the sake of a tan after it was revealed that the disease is the top cancer killer among twentysomething females. As the temperature heats up and the sun becomes stronger, Eileen Bentley wants
CALLS were made today for action to tackle yobs who are ruining the image of Weymouth seafront. The latest act of vandalism at Greenhill cost a café owner hundreds of pounds in lost trade and landed the council with a repair bill. Offenders wrenched
SOME of West Dorset’s most picturesque villages could be protected with new conservation areas. Villages including Chilforme, Seatown, Chideock, Yetminster and Buckland Newton could all benefit from new or extended conservation areas to preserve and
GOOD comedians are hard to find, but impressionists that make the grade are rare as hen’s teeth. While we can all just about muster Yorkshire or American tones, give us a celebrity and we start to fluster. “I think mimicry is instinctive,” said impressionist
SOUTH Dorset Jim Knight has defended himself in a row over the ‘sexing up’ of a school tests fiasco inquiry. Schools Minister Mr Knight and Schools Secretary Ed Balls denied claims that they misled an investigation into marking delays for Standardised
GOALKEEPER Gareth Stewart is keen to stay at Dorchester and hopes to secure his future in due course. Stewart signed a one-year deal with the county town club last August and despite admitting that the Magpies made things difficult for themselves this
DORCHESTER Town’s season certainly had its fair share of ups and downs. The highlights being the calibre of player drafted in over the summer and a fine run in the FA Cup before suffering heartache at the hands of Oxford United. However
PLAYER-MANAGER Roy O’Brien is sad to see former club Weymouth suffer relegation but is excited by the prospect of facing his old employers next season. O’Brien, whose wife has just given birth to a baby boy, helped the Terras achieve promotion to the
ANGEL OF POOLE 0 DUKE OF ALBANY 6 WEYMOUTH Sunday League hotshots the Duke of Albany completed the first part of a possible cup double as they tore their Poole opponents apart in an emphatic Intermediate Cup final triumph at Dorchester’s Jewson
CHICKERELL United boss Maurice Welch will be warning his players against complacency tonight (6.30pm) as lowly Cobham Sports visit Weymouth College. The Chickens are on a 15-match unbeaten run and could mathematically still win the Dorset Premier League
BRIDPORT RES 1 STURMINSTER M 1 BRIDPORT Reserves failed to beat relegation-threatened Sturminster Marshall at St Mary’s Field. Dominic McAllister’s 25th minute opener was cancelled out by Paul Fellows’ second-half own goal, which heralded the
DORCHESTER captain Martyn Richards believes Suttoners will be the main challengers in their bid to retain the Dorset Premier League crown. The county town side captured last year’s league title just 12 months after gaining promotion from Division One
HAVING finished third in the winter netball season, Casy Comets have high expectations of conquering Division One this summer. With a new kit, courtesy of their sponsor Shelley Stevens of Casy House – a facility for people with learning difficulties
AFTER more than 25 years playing local cricket, there’s not much David Trotter has failed to achieve. The 43-year-old’s sideboard boasts all sorts of mementoes from Dorset Premier League winners medals to Minor Counties caps. But while most bowlers
A MEMORIAL match in honour of former Dorchester Town Player Dave Annear will take place at Cranford Avenue on Sunday to raise funds as well as awareness for the Anthony Nolan Trust. The game, between a Weymouth Sports Old Boys XI and a Land Registry
A MUM has paid tribute to her son who was ‘her world’ and said she will never forget what a beautiful person he was. Grieving mum Gill Furness said she will always remember her son Lee as someone that cared for others before himself.
STACEY Dickinson has returned to bowls with a vengeance. Not only has he agreed to join the Lubramine Middleton Cup squad but new Dorset manager Mike Stapleton has appointed him team captain. Dickinson was a regular skip in both the Middleton Cup and
FORMER Dorset schoolboy Iain Askham is among the first Britons to be diagnosed with swine flu. Iain, 27, who is now living in Falkirk, Scotland, attended Bovington Middle School and The Purbeck School in Wareham. He was also a member of the Dorchester
