IT is time to vote for the Weymouth Carnival Queen 2011. The competition is one of the highlights of the event and it is up to you to choose who wears the crown. Over the years dozens of girls have vied to be Queen for a day and to represent the borough
FOUR generations of the Lloyd family will be in Maiden Newton this weekend to toast a diamond couple. Randall and Margaret Lloyd will welcome their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren to the village after celebrating sixty years of wedded
A TALENTED student has sewn up all the competition and scooped double honours for her dazzling design skills. Budmouth College student Verity Finney-Green, 17, won the Textile Technology Prize in the county-wide Richard Walker Competition for her first
YOUNG footballers are running out of space to play in Dorchester. The chairman of Dorchester Town Youth Football Club Lloyd Spracklen said they may have to stop accepting youngsters after the owners of their current training base ended their lease.
AN ASPIRING young Portland athlete is throwing his support behind the campaign to site a new coastguard supercentre in the borough. Adam Greaves, 14, is a Laser sailor and student at Royal Manor School. He has collected more than 60 signatures in
IF THE Olympic sailing next year was a football match then the team hotel would be in Park Lane, the changing room in Chelsea, the pitch in Fulham and the stands at Arsenal. Dorset Police say that is the scale of the challenge they are undertaking to
MOTORISTS who ignore the warning signals on Weymouth's Town Bridge are facing prosecution. Weymouth and Portland Borough Council is issuing a warning to people who drive over the bridge as the barriers come down. CCTV footage of several
WAVE goodbye to choirs as you know them. The Spooky Men’s Chorale is coming to Bridport all the way from Australia next month. ‘The Spookies’ were formed a decade ago by Stephen Taberner and sing a mix of Georgian songs and earthy male-voice tunes.
PROMENADE strollers will be dazzled by 500 new deckchairs that paint a picture of the borough to mark the Olympics. It is hoped that they will be on Weymouth Esplanade by spring 2012 in readiness for the Games coming to town. Around 430 borough residents
TODDLER Icy Thomas-Day’s parents have been told that their only option now would be to take the dog’s owners to court as a civil matter. A Dorset Police spokesman confirmed that under the Dangerous Dogs Act they have no powers to enforce the
A TWO-YEAR-OLD girl was mauled by a dog as she bent down to hand it a treat. Toddler Icy Thomas-Day had her eyelid bitten off by her neighbour’s pet when she tried to hand it a dog chew. She was left screaming in agony in front of her
A TWO-YEAR-OLD girl was mauled by a dog as she bent down to hand it a treat. Toddler Icy Thomas-Day had her eyelid bitten off by her neighbour’s pet when she tried to hand it a dog chew. She was left screaming in agony in front of her
ONE of the resort’s Cultural Olympiad organisers plans to bring the Games to life for everyone. He expects next year’s programme of events to lure thousands of people into the resort who have no interest in sailing but who wish to soak up the atmosphere
THREE Olympic windsurfers are devastated after their kit was stolen just days before the 2012 test event on borough waters. Top Dutch windsurfer Dorian Van Rijsselberge, New Zealand’s Jon-Paul (JP) Tobin and Canada’s Zac Plavsic say their idyllic
I WOULD think Asda’s new advertising slogan will be “it’s frustrating to save money these days”. The Weymouth store is too big, shoe-horned into a very small site. Where is the planning expertise here, either from Asda or from the local council? It
Readers have donated more than £4,000 to our appeal to help starving children in Africa. But aid agencies working in the region say the situation is getting worse and that nearly 800,000 children are at risk of dying without urgent assistance. We launched
WHY, when we suddenly become awash with money, do we waste it on some elaborate design, if I may mention Newtons Cove? Now we have Newstead Road after all this time, its still at the design stage, at a cost so far of £151,000. Unbelievable. If we continue
SO at last we have the traffic lights at the bottom of King Street working, the result – queues back to Weymouth Way. This traffic chaos has done more damage to this town than the war. I suppose in an office on a distant planet there must be a disillusioned
MAY I offer a comment on this nonsensical political correctness now invading every part of our lives in this once green and pleasant land. I have just come from our splendid local chemist shop here in Preston, but my journey was useless due to the fact
I REFER to the article in the Echo on July 5 and the headline Resort Eyes A £1M Boost, regarding the erection of the proposed viewing tower, and would consider this figure as wishful thinking, plucked from someone’s hat. It is quite obvious that this
IT MAY be one year to go until the Olympic and Paralympic sailing events but Dorset athletes have their focus solely on next week’s test event. The Weymouth and Portland International Regatta is among 42 test events being held by the London 2012 Organising
WEYMOUTH harbourside will be the setting for an international food village at this year’s carnival as organisers up their game in the run-up to the Olympics. The champagne will be flowing and exotic treats sampled in a big marquee and at stalls along
BRENDON King is anticipating a stern examination of his side’s credentials in tonight’s friendly at Portland United (6.30pm). The Terras’ boss has been impressed with displays against higher-ranked opposition in the form of League Two Gillingham
MARK Jermyn dreams of one day becoming manager of Dorchester Town. The county town stalwart is entering his 12th season at the Avenue Stadium and sees no reason why the love affair should end when he eventually decides to hang up his boots. However,
OXFORDSHIRE 329-8 & 278-5dec (24pts) beat DORSET 319 & 125 (6pts) by 163 runs SHELLSHOCKED Sean Walbridge hailed Oxfordshire bowler Chad Keegan after Dorset slumped to a 163-run defeat on the final day of their Minor Counties Western Division clash
BRITAIN’S premier beach volleyball event – the RAF Careers Classic – returns to the sands of Weymouth. The 29th annual showpiece gets underway tomorrow afternoon with qualifying, before the main draw kicks off on Saturday and culminates with the finals
TALKING to Mark Jermyn after a recent training session, his love for Dorchester Town was laid bare in one fell swoop: “It would break my heart if I didn’t finish my career here.” The inspirational skipper has been a loyal servant at the Avenue Stadium
A DORCHESTER couple who met through their shared love of dance are celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary today. Maurice and Pamela Brake found love after meeting at an old-time dance in the town’s Corn Exchange and married at St Peter’s Church
