A FATHER-of-four who subjected his neighbours to persistent loud music from his Poole maisonette has had £2,000-worth of disco equipment confiscated. Kevin Andrew Chittock, 38, of Keysworth Road, Turlin Moor, was given a 12-month conditional discharge
A POOLE man who has pleaded not guilty to five alleged sexual offences against a girl when she was aged between 10 and 13 went on trial at Bournemouth Crown Court yesterday. John Norman Cole, 41, of Bowden Road, is alleged to have committed four offences
ABBEY Life staged a spectacular late recovery in the second round of the HAMPSHIRE INTERMEDIATE CUP before going out 7-6 after extra time against George & Dragon. Abbey Life were 4-1 down and very nearly out with only 12 minutes to go but, in a remarkable
PORTLAND UNITED 1 BLANDFORD UNITED 0 (Abandoned after 25 mins) PORTLAND'S home clash with Blandford United was abandoned midway through the opening period due to a waterlogged pitch at Grove Corner. The poor conditions meant both sets of players struggled
DORCHESTER RESERVES 1 SHAFTESBURY 2 EX-DORCHESTER duo Neil Coates and Dave Lovell both returned to the Avenue Stadium to haunt their former employers. Coates' lowly North Dorset outfit claimed only their second Dorset Combination victory this term to
WEYMOUTH SPORTS 4 BOURNEMOUTH SPORTS 1 SPORTS boss Vaughan Carter hailed his side's impressive Dorset Combination thumping of Bournemouth Sports as 'probably the best we've played this season'. The popular manager had Darren Corbridge and Pete Jarvis
ARSONISTS were today blamed for a blaze that ripped through buildings at a Weymouth hospital. Fire gutted a former ward building at Westhaven Hospital in yesterday afternoon's inferno - just yards away from a unit caring for elderly patients. Huge plumes
THIEVES broke into St Peter's Church in Dorchester and made off with money from collection boxes. The crime took place late on Saturday night when the intruders smashed a storeroom window and gained entry to the church in High West Street. Church warden
POOLE-BASED steel rolling mill manufacturer VAI UK has won a contract worth more than £16 million in the vital Chinese market. VAI UK has been tasked by the Taiyuan Iron & Steel (Group) Company Ltd (TISCO) to modernise its existing hot mill in Shanxi
Poole Pottery has started restoration work on tile panels at the company's 130-year-old Quay site prior to construction work which should commence this winter. Lesley and Michael Durbin from The Jackfield Conservation Studio in Ironbridge have been commissioned
MORE than 2,000 Christchurch residents could forfeit their vote at the next General Election. Crucial registration documents were hand-delivered to every Christchurch home in August and September, but more than ten per cent remain unanswered - leaving
A Portland school has set up a house system to reward good work by its pupils. The four houses at Southwell Primary School have been named Admiralty, Kingsbarrow, Coombefield and Perryfield after island quarries. The move follows a consultation between
IN-FORM Terras midfielder Mark Robinson has been handed a prestigious call-up to next week's Dr Martens League select side fixture. Robinson, selected for the representative outfit by long-serving Margate boss Chris Kinnear, will turn-out against an FA
CHERRIES boss Sean O'Driscoll has rewarded rising star Matty Tubbs with a deal to keep him at Dean Court until the end of the season, reports Neil Perrett. The 16-year-old striker has agreed terms to stay on the club's books and will now be invited to
CUNNING Cheetah (five) ran a cracking race after being badly baulked at the first bend last time out - running on strongly to finish second, writes Clive Evans. With one of his better starts, he can quickly get himself into a good position and prove too
FORMER Magpies goal ace Trevor Senior is aiming to shoot down Dorchester's Dr Martens Cup bid tonight. The ex-Reading marksman goes back to his hometown as assistant and commercial manager with the New Forest side for the first round clash. It is his
WEYMOUTH SPORTS 4 BOURNEMOUTH SPORTS 1 SPORTS boss Vaughan Carter hailed his side's impressive Dorset Combination thumping of Bournemouth Sports as 'probably the best we've played this season'. The popular manager had Darren Corbridge and Pete Jarvis
CROCKED Cherries star Neil Young has finally been given the green light to have an operation to cure his long-term knee problem. Young has been waiting more than four weeks to go under the surgeon's knife to remove fluid surrounding the bone in his troublesome
A NEW housing and shop development is to be created on the site of a former garage in Ferndown. The scheme involves 22 flats for East Dorset Housing Association being built on the former Allanbank Motors site in Victoria Road plus a ground floor shop
FORMER Magpies goal ace Trevor Senior is aiming to shoot down Dorchester's Dr Martens Cup bid tonight. The ex-Reading marksman goes back to his hometown as assistant and commercial manager with the New Forest side for the first round clash. It is his
IN-FORM Terras midfielder Mark Robinson has been handed a prestigious call-up to next week's Dr Martens League select side fixture. Robinson, selected for the representative outfit by long-serving Margate boss Chris Kinnear, will turn-out against an FA
PORTLAND UNITED 1 BLANDFORD UNITED 0 (Abandoned after 25 mins) PORTLAND'S home clash with Blandford United was abandoned midway through the opening period due to a waterlogged pitch at Grove Corner. The poor conditions meant both sets of players struggled
A CHRISTMAS fund has been launched to help the elderly in Weymouth and Portland during the festive season. With Christmas just six weeks away, the Mayor of Weymouth and Portland, Sandra McGown, is appealing to Echo readers to give generously to raise
COUNCIL chiefs in Dorset have been accused of making promises they can't keep. Tories in the county say that pledges by leading Liberal Democrats that much needed replacements for two special schools in the county are on the way should not have been made
THE 'homelessness crisis' affecting Weymouth and Portland has been caused by a six-month housing benefit backlog, South Dorset MP Ian Bruce is claiming. But the borough council has denied that a benefits backlog has contributed to homelessness. The Echo
A NEW Anglo-Irish Jockeys' Chal-lenge will be staged at Wincanton Racecourse on Irish race day - Thursday, November 16. The luvbet.com-sponsored Anglo-Irish Jockeys' Challenge will run through the afternoon with riders born in the Emerald Isle competing
Campaigners have been battling developer Banner Homes over its plans to build at Maen off Culliford Road for the past year. They hoped proposals for 12 houses and 12 flats would have been thrown out by West Dorset District Council in September when planning
A FUND to refurbish a Dorchester war memorial has been given a cash boost. Members of the congregation of Holy Trinity Church launched an appeal earlier this year to raise the money needed to refurbish the memorial in High West Street. They have already
A BLACK panther-like creature has been spotted roaming farmland north of Dorchester by two people. The mysterious animal was first sighted by Pauline Perks outside her kitchen window and then again by her husband Jeffrey. And the couple's description
SEVEN-a-side football team AC Montezuma is currently looking for a sponsor. The Ferndown-based team has just completed a double winning first season at the Chapel Gate Sevens taking the Division Two title unbeaten with the best record in all leagues.
HEARTBROKEN Roy Challis today told of the moment when he learned his ski instructor son had die d in the Austrian tunnel fire disaster. Mr Challis, 68, of Bridport, said he was numb with pain when he learned on Saturday that Kevin, 40, was one of the
LEX AUTOSALES at Tower Park has been sold to DaimlerChrysler as part of a deal worth £17.95 million. The Poole used car outlet, which employs 25 people, is one of seven sites included in the sale. Nationally it will affect 176 staff who will be transferring
CARFORD Catering Equipment has designed and installed a new kitchen at the recently refurbished Hourglass Restaurant at Fordingbridge - with one eye out for its ghost! Owners of the listed 14th century farm cottage, Charlotte, Daniel and Yvonne Wiggins
PLANS are taking root for a farmers' co-operative in the New Forest to help prop up the flagging rural economy. A bid by Hampshire County Council for European Community cash to support farmers' markets in 2001 has been successful, and £70,000 will be
