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  • Win a Roberts Clock Radio from Weymouth HiFi!

    Win a £20 Roberts CR9971 clock Radio from Weymouth HiFi. The shop in Maiden Street, Weymouth, is offering one of these fab sets every week to a lucky reader - and it's free to enter online. Just answer the easy peasy question below for a chance to win

  • Win a family ticket to Dorchester Town FC

    Competition Ref: FC The Magpies have given us tickets to see them play at their home ground and you could be a winner. Every week we're giving you the chance to win a family ticket for two adults and two children and all you have to do is answer the

  • Rebecca wins Woolworth's vouchers!

    REBECCA ARNOLD from Crossways wins our star prize worth £100! Rebecca, 11, who goes to Puddletown St Mary's Middle School, picked up £100 in Woolworth's vouchers from Terri Edwards, assistant manager of the Dorchester store.

  • When you can eat chocolate with an easy conscience!

    In March 2006 Weymouth and Portland achieved 'Fairtrade Zone' status. This is an award recognising the work that had been done in the area by shoppers, traders, schools, churches, workplaces and councils to promote the issue of Fairtrade and the direct

  • Excellent work of drug rehabilitation team

    Change can be unsettling - as illustrated in your article on February 5 relating to the addictions rehabilitation centre that we provide at HMP The Verne (Successful jail rehab scheme faces the axe'). Your piece referred to changes, the full details

  • Backing for mast plan on museum

    PLANS to site a Tetra communication mast on top of Dorchester's landmark Keep museum are being recommended for approval despite objections. Telecommunications firm Airwave O2 Ltd has applied to West Dorset District Council for permission to site one

  • Flats plan finally set for council approval

    A CONTROVERSIAL development in Poundbury looks set to finally win approval. Developer Woodpecker Properties hopes to build three houses, 15 flats and four shops or offices at Jubilee Court on the Prince of Wales's Dorch-ester development. The firm has

  • Seven dogs are in need of kind new owners

    HOMES are desperately needed for seven dogs being looked after at The Woodland Farm Kennels just outside Bridport. Proprietor Mary Bull said animal shelters all over the area were full to bursting with animals needing new homes and her kennels were no

  • Cops at the shops to hear views on crime

    POP to the shops, pay the cheque in at the bank - and tell the local bobby what's on your mind. 'Street corner surgeries' are the latest idea from police who are keen to get people on Portland talking. Mindful that some residents find it difficult telephoning

  • Every mum’s nightmare

    A MOTHER today told of her terror as she rescued her adventurous toddler after a 10ft plunge into Weymouth Harbour. And now Charlotte Thackray, 23, of Hardwick Street, has called for safety netting to be put at the harbour. Miss Thackray said she was

  • Gymnasts aim for long jump

    ARTISTIC gymnasts are having to stop halfway through their tumble runs - because their sports hall is just not long enough. Members at Dorchester YMCA can only perform half of their athletic stunts before they have to turn around and go back the other

  • Memorial cup honours ‘Inky’

    THE daughters of a Weymouth sailor who won a prestigious trophy outright in the 1930s have donated a cadet trophy to Weymouth Sailing Club. Davidina 'Binky' Annetts and Rachel Hewitt presented WSC commodore Melita Biggs with the silver cup in memory

  • Family facing home crisis

    A HOMELESS Bridport family is experiencing first hand the reality of the area's housing crisis for young people. Alex and Jodie Goodrick, both 22, had to leave their rented accommodation when the landlord needed the property in West Street for his own

  • Flood risk sinks plan for homes

    ANGRY councillors claim their decision to refuse permission for a house to be altered into five flats was forced on them because of flood fears. Owner and developer William Gill wanted to make the changes at 12 Ranelagh Road, Weymouth but found his scheme

  • Hope of music store rescue

    JOBS could be saved at Music Zone in Weymouth after the retailer was bought by a rival chain. Fopp Music has bought 67 Music Zone stores around the country, including the one in New Bond Street. It means that five full-time and four part-time jobs could

  • Positive Magpies are looking for a Sutton double

    DORCHESTER will seek to do the double over Sutton United tomorrow (3pm). The Magpies won the November fixture at the Avenue Stadium 5-4 with a last-gasp winner from striker Matt Groves. However, manager Mick Jenkins would settle for a dull 1-0 win.

  • TREBLE CHANCE

    WEYMOUTH player-boss Jason Tindall has praised the recent contributions of three of his signings and reckons there is a lot more to come from each of them. James Coutts, Brian Dutton and Stuart Beavon all played integral roles in the 1-1 draws against

  • Jeers as Pavilion scheme voted in

    BOROUGH councillors were slow-handclapped after voting in favour of a controversial master plan for the Weymouth Pavillion redevelopment. Members of a special meeting of Weymouth and Portland Borough Council voted 20-8 last night in favour of a plan

  • Three teens arrested by police after graffiti tip-off

    THREE teenagers have been arrested in Weymouth on suspicion of daubing graffiti on walls. The boys aged 13, 14 and 15 have been questioned after members of the public reported a 20 to 30 foot stretch of graffiti in an alleyway next to the Park Laundry

  • Thursday Day Twenty-Four

    Thursday: Was supposed to meet up with the girls at the pub in Brewers Quay tonight however I have been struck down with a boys cold (they're much worse than the girls ones you know!). Clare and I were going to walk over and then reward ourselves with

  • Friady, 9 February, 2007

    Friday is the day when our beer order arrives for the week and also when we are finishing any preparation that needs to be done for the weekend. Also any final ordering that needs to be done is phoned through on Friday evenings and delivered on Saturday

  • Dressing down for children’s hospice

    DRESS-down Fridays have helped to raise money for Dorset's first children's hospice. Employees from Synergy Housing Group (SHG) each paid a pound to leave their uniforms at home. They raised £258.58 for the Julia's House children's hospice. SHG administrative

  • Chance for vision of the future

    WHAT do you want to see in Weymouth, Portland and Dorset in the future? That is the question being posed at a summit at Weymouth College on February 16. The Dorset Strategic Partnership and the Weymouth and Portland Partnership are holding the joint

  • Artful Dodger role is a snip for charity

    YOUNG Beaminster musician and actor Jamie Isaacs, 13, was told by the director of the show he is appearing in at Freshwater Caravan Park, to cut his long locks for his part as the Artful Dodger. Waste not want not, Beaminster School pupil Jamie decided

  • Council under attack over theatre

    THE familiar sound of boos and hisses filled Weymouth Pavilion theatre... but it was councillors not pantomime actors on the stage for this performance. A near-capacity crowd cheered and applauded people among them who spoke out against the planned redevelopment

  • Softly Softly

    4: SOFT MACHINE Love Makes Sweet Music/ Feelin' Reelin' Squeelin' (Polydor, 1967) THEY went on to become a British jazz-rock institution, but initially Soft Machine were a very unruly and contrary beast indeed. Coalescing out of a number of sources

  • ANGLING: Lane sets the pace

    FINE weather encouraged plenty of young anglers to Weymouth Pleasure Pier for the Weymouth Angling Society's Winter League. James Lane set the pace with his first fish of the night, a pollock of 13oz which put him into an early lead leaving the rest

  • FOOTBALL: Senior men face New College

    TREVOR Senior's Magpies' under-18s face another early start with a two-hour trip to Swindon tomorrow. New College Academy will be looking to bounce back from a 6-0 defeat to Exeter City last week and Dorchester will hope they do not feel the backlash

  • One Giant leap for mankind

    HERMAN DUNE: GIANT (Source Etc) UNFORGETTABLE LOVESONGS (EMI TV) THE SOUND OF LOVE (Warner Music TV) IT'S only February, and I've already heard the first great summer album of 2007. Giant, by Swedish/French/American global citizens Herman Dune, is