PUTTING the brakes on the anti-social antics of boy racers in the Saxon Square car park at night is the first priority issue to be taken up by the newly-formed Christchurch town centre Pact - partners and communities together - group. More than 20 town-centre
JAMIE Davidson headed home a second-half equaliser as Cherries' young guns drew 1-1 with their Southampton counterparts at Canford on Saturday. Cherries' head of youth Joe Roach said: "We did extremely well. We drafted in a couple of schoolboys and acquitted
PLANS for a site for travellers to use during the Great Dorset Steam Fair have been rubberstamped by county planners despite objections. More than 35 letters of objection were received at County Hall about the proposed site, which is 200 metres from
IT'S the letter you never expect to receive. When John Elwell picked up his post last week, among the usual bills and junk mail, he was stunned to receive a letter telling him he was dead. The administrative error by the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch
THE devastating floods crippling much of England could be repeated in Dorset unless drastic action is taken, it is feared. Large parts of the county are designated flood plains but the government has refused to rule out building houses on such land.
DORSET action man Bear Grylls has been accused of faking it in his Channel 4 adventure series Born Survivor, in which he is parachuted into some of the most inhospitable places on Earth with little more than a knife and the clothes on his back. The programmes
HOSPITAL bosses are urging residents and holidaymakers to drink responsibly after a study found that the number of A & E visits trebled following the introduction of 24-hour drinking. Researchers at St Thomas' Hospital in London discovered that alcohol-related
WITH weather lovely for ducks, a web-footed wonder was in his element on the first day of the New Forest Show which opened at Brockenhurst on July 24. Stumpy the four-legged duckling hatched at the Warrawee Farm in the New Forest was the star of the
PLANS are progressing to create a multi-million-pound care village and community recreation facilities in the grounds of a hospital. Outline permission has already been granted for the private development within the grounds of St Leonard's Community
AS compliments go, this one was just a tad backhanded. It was like the old chat-up line, "You don't sweat much for a fat lass", ie, not likely to whelm one over much. As Frankie Howerd probably said, never had my ghast been so flabbered. This compliment
FOR a nation surrounded by sea, Britons are like fish out of water when it comes to preparing and cooking seafood...and it's the key contributor to the £60 million a year we waste on chef-inspired ingrediants and recipes. In the South West, almost half
THERE may have been a storm of protest from mums when the children's Fun Factory and the Brewers Fayre closed at the Bailey Bridge in Barrack Road, Christchurch. But what Whitbread have replaced it with - at some considerable expense - is a grown-up
FEELING fishy? According to reports, our nation's favourite supper could soon be a thing of the past. A recent study, commissioned by WWF (formerly the World Wildlife Fund), claims the combination of warmer seas and overfishing could result in a collapse
BOURNEMOUTH'S Prontaprint franchise has been taken over by Paul Fazakarley. He has lived in Saudi Arabia for the past eight years and has travelled the 3,000 miles back home to take over Prontaprint in his home town. Plans are already in motion to develop
I'VE accidentally wandered into a Freemasons' room, set up for chapter'. Michael Drayton, who's giving me a guided tour of the Knole, a Grade II listed building in Boscombe used as a Masonic centre where 1,000 members from 20 local Freemason lodges meet
IT'S been described as health and safety gone mad. Bournemouth's leisure centres have been banned from lending armbands and rubber rings to swimmers because it's against professional guidelines. The industry rules are designed to protect swimmers from
Grange Choral Society, Christchurch Priory There were some surprises in store within the Grange Choral Society's concert given before the High Sheriff of Dorset and the Mayor of Christchurch. However there was no surprise about the high quality of singing
A Musical Feast, P&P Singers, Barrington Theatre, Ferndown THE five recently-won trophies adorning the front of the stage were shining proof that this choir really means business, and in this exceptional concert their talent and versatility shone as
POLICE are renewing their warning to bank customers to check their accounts for "suspicious transactions" after more card cloning victims have come forward. A fortnight after we revealed how the Murco service station in Southbourne Grove was at the centre
A DEAL to sell off a Bournemouth car park has been slammed as a financial disaster for local residents. The council is facing calls for an inquiry into why the agreed price for the borough-owned car park on the corner of Lansdowne Road and Madeira Road
PROTESTERS fighting to save a Poole graveyard may have inadvertently won a temporary reprieve. Dozens of families have been angered by the planning application made by St Mary's Church to build a new church hall on the site of the current cemetery.
IT just about survived the muddy fate of Glastonbury. And the acts on show at Wimborne's SOUND Festival could be sharing stages with the Arctic Monkeys in the future. Now in its third year, SOUND attracted its biggest crowd yet on Saturday. Around
THOUSANDS of people enjoyed the excellent weather at the Mudeford Lifeboat fun day on Sunday. One of the highlights of the day was the raft race, which was won for the second year running by a team from the Thomas Tripp pub in Christchurch. Sixteen
GREAT Britain boss Neil Middleditch admitted he was "gutted" and "shocked" by their record low 15-point performance in the World Team Cup final in Poland. But Middlo, who saw his side finish fourth behind Poland (55), Denmark (52) and Australia (29)
STEVE Bendall is back on track and targeting the top middleweights in Britain. In his first fight since losing his English middleweight title to Wayne Elcock in December, Bendall showed glimpses of his best form in is six-round clash with Davey Jones
PIRATES asset Krzysztof Kasprzak finally came of age in the white-hot cauldron of Leszno as Poland won the World Team Cup for the second time in three years. While most of the plaudits went to seasoned campaigner Tomasz Gollob for beating Denmark's Hans
RIVAL managers Kevin Bond and George Burley were united in their criticism of referee Keith Stroud after this south coast friendly had turned nasty. Stroud took centre stage when he sent off Saints defender Darren Powell and booked Cherries trialist
CHERRIES' newest recruit Marvin Bartley will quit his job today (Monday) as a window fitter to take up a full-time role in Kevin Bond's first-team squad. The combative midfielder penned his first professional contract over the weekend after impressing
AN ancient monument, which protected a Purbeck town from marauding Viking raiders for hundreds of years, has won another award. Wareham's town walls have won gold in the annual Green Apple Awards, which are run by the Green Organisation, a group dedicated
