3: Peter Cook & Dudley Moore The LS Bumble Bee/The Bee Side (Decca, 1967) IT'S no secret that Peter Cook was a comic genius and, in a louche and almost accidental way, a bit of a visionary. However, for some inexplicable reason it is less well remembered
JAMIE T: PANIC PREVENTION (Pacemaker Recordings/Virgin) LADY SOVEREIGN: PUBLIC WARNING! (Island) HOLLY THROSBY: UNDER THE TOWN (Woo Me!) I'VE said it before, but in real terms I know next to nothing about the streets. That's the streets we walk
ELEVEN days after they were due to arrive, MSC Napoli containers finally reached Portland Port yesterday. Seventy of the 2,394 originally aboard the stricken cargo vessel were unloaded from a barge and on to dry land. Removing the rest of the containers
MORE pressure was piled on Britain's Olympic organisers today over the state of the finances for the 2012 Games. Having no final agreed budget or funding package 18 months after London won the right to host the Games is a 'major risk' to success, warns
AN EXPERT in microwave research will warn people in Dorchester of the potential horrors he claims a new telecommunications mast would bring to the town. Barrie Trower will argue at a public meeting that at least three per cent of residents living near
POLICE in West Weymouth say they have had an excellent 2006 - with arrests up and burglaries down. Section commander Inspector Alan Jenkins was delighted with his officers' performance, comparing results for 2005 with those for 2006, which he said were
BUSINESS leaders want to join forces with the council in a new initiative to boost Weymouth's economy - by using up to £30,000 in parking fee money. The money, they say, could finance new events and occasional free parking at special events. Councillors
OLD TV sets and toasters can help prisoners stay on the straight and narrow thanks to Dorchester's Footprints Project. The Footprints team needs your unwanted electrical and household items to help prisoners set up home on release from jail. Volunteer
THE debate concerning the redevelopment of the Pavilion complex and environs appears to be divided into two main areas of contention. On one side there are those who see this as an opportunity to create something new that will bring this area of town
Thursday 4 miles on my own, decided it would be safer not to think this time so concentrated on walking REALLY quickly, did 4 miles in about an hour - very proud of myself - had a large G&T when I got back!!! We've walked about 50 miles all told
HAVING just attended the Council environment and conservation committee meeting at the Pavilion, I felt it necessary to comment on the way the council, once again, tried to suppress the public. They denied them their democratic right to make their feelings
I was present at the meeting at the Guildhall on Monday evening and 'orderly and good natured' it certainly was not, it was embarrassing. The vitriol and bad temper coming from a crowd of about 200 who were mostly seniors was unbelievable. If that behaviour
Although I don't go for Jim Knight's pro EU stance and political persuasion, I still maintain he have been a good constituency MP. With this in mind, especially in a marginal, I think he needs to get involved with this proposed Pavilion site development
What a fiasco! I have just attended the reconvened environmental and conservation committee meeting in the Pavilion, together with hundreds of interested Weymouthians. The committee listened democratically to 13 residents make their points, most quite
Our councillors still have not got the message have they? The people voted 75 per cent against the so-called master plan and yet their councillors are voting for it. I went to the pavilion tonight to hear some of the arguments they might have for ignoring
ARABLE land in Dorset is in demand as land prices rise, according to new figures. National property specialists Strutt & Parker claimed that its farmland database showed that arable land prices rose by 7.5 per cent in 2006 and now stand at an average
A NOISY residents' army went to war last night in protest at redevelopment plans for the Weymouth Pavilion and ferry terminal site. Nearly 500 people turned up to leave councillors arriving for a committee meeting at the Pavilion Theatre in no doubt
IT was people power at its best, an angry community that felt betrayed by council plans for the Weymouth Pavilion complex and was determined to say so. But a crowd of nearly 500 who packed into the Pavilion Theatre last night drifted away after a long
THIS weekend promises to be the busiest of the year so far. Village pantos, world-famous choirs, ballet, comedy and drama are all jostling for space over the next three days. Among the highlights is the welcome return of Black Voices (Cranborne village
FANCY some urban grooves? Head to DNA in Bournemouth tonight to catch DJ Blend spinning his mix of downtempo, hip hop, funk and club. The night runs until 4am, and there is free entry before 11pm. IF trance and hard house is more your thing, there's
LYME Regis Pantomime Society presents Robinson Crusoe at the Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis on Tuesday, February 13 until Saturday February 17. The show promises to be an all-singing, all-dancing, joke-filled event. It will be a proper traditional pantomime
A MAJOR talent contest, The Live & Unsigned South Coast Idol, heads to Bournemouth this week in a bid to find the "next big thing". A management deal with a cash injection of £20,000, a 40-50-date concert tour and a potential record contract awaits the
THIS weekend sees the first performance of Ray Sargent's tribute to Lawrence of Arabia - The Warrior and The Poet. The years of action and adventure in the Middle East during the First World War are now over and so, with evocative original music and
IT'S not often that singers get the chance to hone their skills with an internationally-respected tutor right here in Weymouth. On Sunday, March 4, Weymouth Choral Society aim to remedy that deficiency by staging a choral workshop with operatic tenor
THE founding fathers of UK folk rock are swinging through the south again as we speak. Fairport Convention (The Brook, Southampton, tonight, £16.50, tickets from 023 8055 5366), for it is they, were formed in 1967 and were initially influenced by then-current
WEYMOUTH player-manager Jason Tindall failed with a bid to land Yeovil Town youth team captain Gary Bowles from Dorchester last night. The 18-year-old, who has been on loan at the Avenue Stadium this season, has opted to stay with the Magpies rather
DANNY Seaborne has returned to Exeter City following a highly successful three-month loan spell at Dorchester. The left-sided defender has been one of the most consistent performers for Mick Jenkins' side and will bid to extend his contract at the Nationwide
