RYANAIR will cease operations at Bournemouth Airport for three months again this winter.

But the low-cost airline will return with a schedule for spring and summer next year.

They will base one aircraft at Bournemouth and operate 12 routes from the airport between February and October 2012.

There will be seven spring and 12 summer routes including Alicante, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria and Tenerife.

The company did not run a winter schedule last year, blaming the government's air passenger duty tax for their decision.

For more see Thursday’s Daily Echo.