CENTENARY club Parkstone have celebrated their 100-year anniversary by reaching the final of the Mail on Sunday National Golf Classic Knockout competition in Spain. The men’s team of five players overcame Ely of Cambridge 3-2 in the National Finals at
RENOWNED furniture-maker Simon Thomas Pirie opens his Briantspuddle workshop and gallery space to the public this weekend. With cheese as its theme, this delicious exhibition introduces a collection of new work from a group well known for their Dorset
Marine volunteer Steve Rocliffe goes that extra mile for wildlife – in fact a further 350 miles. Not only does he live in London and travel to Dorset at weekends to do volunteer work with Dorset Wildlife Trust, he also undertook a lengthy sponsored
AFTER storming the UK festival circuit this summer, The Easy Star All-Stars head indoors for an autumn tour that includes Mr Kyps, Poole, on Friday. The band’s third album, Easy Star’s Lonely Hearts Dub Band – a re-imagining of The Beatles’ classic
THE biggest and longest- running rural film festival in the UK kicks off in Dorset this month. The Purbeck Film Festival, now in its 13th year, will once again bring a selection of more than 80 films to fans across the area. And for
CHRIS Holder has shrugged off the disappointment of throwing away the Elite League Riders’ Championship title by saying: “I’m still happy that Leigh Adams won it.” Pirates’ star added: “Obviously I wanted to win it, but it just didn’t go my
DOZENS of Firefighters fought back flames as Saturday’s (Oct4) high winds threatened to sweep a fire on a Ferndown heath out of control. Dorset Fire and Rescue Service was inundated with calls from around 2.20pm reporting an area of Stapehill
PATIENTS on the wards at Poole Hospital have slammed the “disgusting” new charges for watching television in their beds. The price for just a day’s worth of TV from Hospedia, formerly Patientline, has almost doubled from £2.90 for a 24-hour
GOOD old Hank! An evening with this one-time rock ‘n’ roll doctor turned country music guru guarantees a chance to wallow in the very best sort of misery - someone else’s. With a twinkle in his eye and twang in his guitar, the inimitable Wangford
HE'S a hard man to pin down, is Paolo Nutini. He's only 20, but listen to that amazing voice as it veers from scratchy falsetto to deepest gravel and he could be 60. He's a singer/songwriter, so he's been pigeon-holed with the dreaded
GALLANT Ryan Garry came off his sick bed to answer Cherries’ defensive SOS and then admitted: “I was just happy to be on the pitch.” Garry, who had been sidelined for a fortnight with swine flu, returned to play his part as Eddie Howe’s League Two table-toppers
IF we get the heroes we deserve, we must have done something right to end up with Johnny Marr. I find the former Smiths guitarist in expansive, expressive mood as he prepares to go out on the road for the first time as a full-time member of
ISLE of Wight yachtswoman Dame Ellen MacArthur announced her retirement from competitive sailing today, to concentrate on environmental campaigning. Appearing on Desert Island Discs on Radio 4, Dame Ellen, who broke the record for the fastest
