RECRUITS said yesterday they did not feel they were being misled into a "glamorous" life in the armed forces. A report said the armed forces emphasised the exciting side of military life and that war was made to seem as "game like" as possible. The
Marie Laywine studied Italian Renaissance art. Her tutors saw potential for a traditional career. "I could have been a landscape painter or whatever." she says Instead she literally followed her dreams and discovered what she sees as a hidden world that
PASSENGERS will be left out in the cold today (Tuesday) as the Wilts & Dorset bus strike crunches up a gear. Bus chiefs remain at loggerheads with drivers, and despite crisis talks there is no real sign of a solution on the horizon. Hundreds of drivers
A LOCAL village store is set to close its doors next month when the owners shut up shop for the last time. Ibsley Post Office and shop will close in February, meaning customers in the village will have to travel further afield for their local post office
AN ELATED new mum from Wareham made it third time lucky by welcoming Dorset's first twins of 2008. After two unsuccessful attempts at IVF treatment Elaine Legg, 27, gave birth to Dillon and Maisie at Poole Hospital on January 2. It came as something
AN ONLINE tracking system for passenger planes flying in and out of Bournemouth Airport and other local air traffic has gone live to allow local residents to see for themselves just how near - or far away - that noisy aeroplane really was. The WebTrak
WORK started on January 7 to create and improve footpaths in Gillingham and make a section of pavement safer for adults, children and people with disabilities. The work on the B3081 Shaftesbury Road will be carried out in two phases and is to be completed
JIMMY' is a seemingly respectable businessman in his 50s. But away from his apparent "normal" life, he is a paedophile looking for a target. Jimmy logs into online chatrooms and pretends to be a 16-year-old in the hope he will meet someone vulnerable
THE name Ken Hardman may not mean much to you. He is, by all accounts, an average bloke living a normal life - but recently happened to be at the centre of an extraordinary event (although this occurrence, I'll wager, will pretty soon cease to be remarkable
FEW local businessmen feature on national radio and in the broadsheets. But Mark Constantine does. Having founded Poole based ethical beauty products company Lush with his wife Mo in 1994 it is now probably the largest soap manufacturer in the UK. Even
STARTING on Monday, Channel 4's titans of cuisine - Gordon, Hugh and Jamie - join forces for The Big Food Fight, a fortnight-long season of programming that challenges the British public to think before they eat, and encourages debate about food production
CHERRIES boss Kevin Bond is set to run the rule over Yeovil Town's Stephen Maher as he bids to boost his midfield options. Republic of Ireland youth international Maher, who has made just one League appearance for Yeovil, could line up for Cherries'
IF you've over indulged this Christmas and want to lose a few pounds, then according to new research from the University of Louisiana you should kick start your new diet regime with eggs. US researchers have found that eating eggs at breakfast time is
FIRST-AID skills learned through the St John Ambulance carers support programme helped a Christchurch mother save the life of her severely disabled son. Stephanie King, whose son Matthew, 28, suffers from major mental and physical disabilities, undertook
WHAT a very long time it seems since we first heard that down-at-heel Boscombe was literally going to surf into a brand new future. After years of negative headlines generally revolving around unemployment, deprivation, drugs, alcohol and crime, plans
On a day when all bar one of the Bournemouth FA teams were successful in county cup competition, Kinson Conservatives' never-say-die' spirit enabled them to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat in the third round of the Hampshire Junior A Cup. Kinson
THE top-of-the-table clash in Division Six between front-runners Dorset Knob and Hardy's Electrical was all square at 3-3 after an hour but the leaders opened up a six-point lead when they got the better of their nearest rivals 8-3 thanks to Steve Newman
MARTIN da Silva, Ben Launder and Kevin Grigg netted for Hayward Sunday Premier League leaders Wallisdown Liberal, but their unbeaten record was ruined when Roko surprised them 5-3 courtesy of Mike Carroll's hat-trick and further goals from Mark Gunter
THE future of a Bournemouth convent has come under the spotlight at a planning appeal. An appeal inspector spent two days hearing all the arguments for and against plans to build 26 one-bedroom houses and 36 flats on the site of St Boniface Convent,
Portcastrian have a commanding 14-point lead at the top of Division Four after Dan Jones (2), Fernando Valdivielso, Lewis Dear, Ben Virabi (pen), and Alex Mackenzie swept nearest rivals Walkford aside 6-2. Third-placed Old Oakmeadians Reserves just got
WITH a place in the M A Hart Poole Bay Cup final already under their belts, Southbourne have a second Hurn Bridge cup final to look forward to after Gareth Barnes struck twice to clinch a 2-1 M A Hart Pickford Cup semi-final victory over Verwood Town
BLANDFORD United boss Jamie Murray feels patience is a virtue of his charges, after they defeated Cobham Sports 3-0 at Park Road on Saturday. The Royals racked up their fourth straight victory in the Dorset Premier League but once again, they made their
THE chancellor, Alistair Darling is planning to give the Financial Services Authority (FSA) more power to deal with failing banks in the hope of avoiding another Northern Rock-type catastrophe. He has said that he wanted to let the FSA seize and protect
A HOMELESS man broke into a music shop to steal the instruments he needed to become a busker. Drifter Paul Anthony Davis, 28, took a banjo and a ukelele, as made famous by Lancashire entertainer George Formby. But the episode didn't "turn out nice again
A BIG Issue seller cannot understand why the mentally ill woman who attacked her recently has not been prosecuted. The vendor Lorraine, who does not wish her surname to be disclosed, was assaulted on her pitch outside Debenhams in Bourne-mouth. A woman
PIRATES superstar Chris Holder is firmly on course for his maiden Australian Championship, after winning a third consecutive round in Mount Gambier on Saturday. The 20-year-old faced a titanic fight from foreign entrants Joe Screen and Freddie Lindgren
THE victims included 17-year-old Parkstone Grammar pupil Jo Malcolm, Aimee Mead aged 18 and Simon Harley, who was a year older. Matthew Russell, 18 from Ferndown, Carl Symes, 20, of Mudeford and Alexander Mitchell and Paul Trattles, both 20, also numbered
AS the head of the county's road policing, Chief Inspector Rick Dowell is in a unique position to assess why so many young people die or are seriously injured on Dorset's highways - and what needs to be done to reduce that number. He says the keys
KEVIN Bond has made the addition of a "forward-running" midfielder his top priority during the January transfer window. Bond is desperate to bolster his squad after losing the services of loan sextet Jem Karacan, James Henry, Scott Golbourne, Alex Pearce
