BOURNEMOUTH Concert Brass extended celebrations of the dawning of 2011 into a second week on Sunday afternoon with their much-loved annual New Year Viennese Concert. Once again the Regent Centre in Christchurch, host of this concert for so many years
WAYNE Lockey has strenuously refuted claims from Warminster that the referee called a halt to their game early because of “excessive abuse from Ringwood Town players.” Matthew Guy had fired the Wiltshire outfit in front on the half hour and added two
NEW Milton defender Liam Winzar was sent off for the second game in a row as they slipped to a 1-0 away defeat on a saturated pitch against highflying Brading. Scott Jones bagged the islanders’ first-half winner only 10 minutes after Winzar
MAGPIES chairman Ken Stewart felt defender James Wilson was harshly sent off at Yate as his side slipped to their fifth successive league defeat. Wilson saw red for two yellow cards, the first for dissent in the first half and the second in the second
CHRIS Ferrett believes Bashley turned in one of their worst performances of the season and were deservedly punished by a well organised Bedford outfit. Five days earlier, the New Forest outfit had hit the heights by hammering Weymouth 5-1 at the Recreation
IT’S a far cry from commanding RAF helicopter forces in Iraq – but a pilot-turned-cabinet maker from Canford Magna says his new trade gives him the same thrill. Mike Laver, who left the force after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, was a recent
IN the dead of night in the Surrey countryside, bestselling children’s author Michael Morpurgo watched the horses skitter as the gunfire opened on both sides of the trenches. The scene was so realistic and so disturbing that for a moment he
HELP us give Steven J Humphrey the funeral he deserves. That’s the plea from the family and friends of the maverick environmental and political campaigner who passed away last week, at the age of 47, after suffering a sudden bleed in the brain. Steven
MORE than 30 motorists were stopped in just one day as part of the Dorset-wide No Excuse campaign. Police in Bournemouth and Westbourne carried out the road safety operation on Wednesday as part of its campaign to reduce road casualties in Dorset. Officers
Racy underwear, odd socks and mobile phones are among the most common items to be left behind by guests in hotels. But a set of gold dentures worth £6,500 was one of the more bizarre finds for staff cleaning a Travelodge in Bridgend recently
A TEENAGER who ‘ran amok’ with a knife in a busy Corfe Mullen pub has been jailed for 18 months. A customer at the Dorset Soldier pub had to force George Nethercott, of Springdale Road in Corfe Mullen out of the building with a chair.
IN their black suits and ties they look like they’re heading for a pall-bearers convention. Get evergreen sixties pop veterans The Searchers on a stage though and they instantly become the life and soul of the party. At the Tivoli on Saturday
ANOTHER Dorset performer is gearing up to wow the judges on a TV dancing show tomorrow night after a Verwood youngster grabbed the nation’s attention. This week the UK took six-year-old Theo McKenzie-Hayton to their hearts after he was dubbed
RUSSELL Kane is still buzzing after winning comedy's answer to an Oscar – the Edinburgh Comedy Award – on his third attempt. Now, the tousle-haired poster boy for ‘geek chic’ is staying at the “cutest B&B you could imagine” in a village outside
THE Arctic weather may have moved on for now – but the slippery issue of how to handle ice and snow continues with a call for more do-it-yourself grit bins. The wintry blast before Christmas saw routes across the conurbation turn into ice rinks
It's the first week of January, rain is falling steadily, and I'm ankle deep in mud, in the middle of a forest, in pitch darkness. Why then am I smiling uncontrollably? I'm riding in Wareham Forest with about 25 other people on a soaking wet
