TIRELESS charity worker Helen Alford and her husband Gerry have spent more than a decade raising funds to help countless disabled children in Brazil. Born deformed after their mothers took the Thalidomide drug to combat leprosy, some needed life-changing
SCHOOL dinners used to be famous for serving up lumpy mash and stodgy "frog spawn" tapioca pudding. Then it was burgers and chips with everything. Now a report has slammed the typical primary school lunch menu of low quality processed food, often unhealthily
TRAPPED residents were hanging from their windows screaming for help when emergency services arrived at a blazing block of flats in Boscombe last night. Firemen first at the scene put ladders up to the second floor windows of Princes Court to help people
A GROUP of visiting schoolchildren from the Chernobyl area of the former Soviet Union will not find the cold Russian winter quite so hard this year. Twelve youngsters have been enjoying a special holiday, which was organised by the Purbeck Chernobyl Link
PIRATES captain Tony Rickardsson paid tribute to Ales Dryml after their superb team-riding went along way towards securing Poole the Sky Sports Elite League title on Monday night (Oct 6). Poole comfortably defeated Coventry 55-35 in front of a bumper
MORE youth workers are to be allowed to hand out condoms to youngsters following a successful pilot project in Wimborne. County education chiefs, meeting on Monday, October 13, look set to extend the scheme in a bid to help cut teenage pregnancies. During
IT WILL go down as one of the truly great nights of speedway at Poole Stadium. The fans started arriving at just after noon and the queue to get in was already forming at 1pm, six-and-a-half hours before tapes up. At 7pm, that queue was still winding
A FIRE ripped through a scrap metal yard damaging 100 cars. The blaze at GP Metals & Spares at Portesham near Weymouth yesterday was the second at the site in three years. Fire chiefs say it was ignited by sparks from a cutting tool and fortunately
COMMUNITY campaigners fear they have lost their voice at County Hall. They hit out after the county council abolished area consultative panels - groups involving voluntary representatives of social services users, such as the elderly or people with mental
SCHOOLCHILDREN are being given the chance to design the official Christmas card for Dorset Police. All arresting designs will be taken into custody where Chief Constable Jane Stichbury will pick the winning entry. The competition - a first for Dorset
COUNCIL tax should be scrapped and replaced with an income-based charge, councillors in Dorset have said. The proposal - together with a fairer method of business rate allocation - forms part of demands by the county's Liberal Democrats for a radical
CHERRIES star Warren Cummings has maintained his innocence despite losing his appeal against his sending off at Colchester. Cummings was dismissed by referee Frazer Stretton after he allegedly stamped on U's midfielder Karl Duguid during the Layer Road
A GROUP of visiting schoolchildren from the Chernobyl area of the former Soviet Union will not find the cold Russian winter quite so hard this year. Twelve youngsters have been enjoying a special holiday, which was organised by the Purbeck Chernobyl Link
FOR almost half a century Helen Alford has been severely disabled. At the age of two she lost both her legs and for 33 years she walked with artificial limbs. At the age of 51 she is now in a wheelchair. But her own disabilities have never stopped Bournemouth's
RAIL passengers in Bournemouth became the first to travel on South West Trains' new £1 billion, state-of-the-art rolling stock on Sunday. Passengers, more used to cramped conditions and stuffy carriages, were able to stretch their legs and enjoy the air
TWO young teenagers braved the political forum to ask the council to dig deep and help bring a skatepark to their area. Nick Langridge, 13, and Tim Peters, 14, of Bournemouth School, were granted special permission to present a deputation at the full
POOLE'S top tourism businesses are one step nearer to learning who will be honoured on October 15 at the borough's inaugural Sibbett Gregory Tourism Awards, The Palms. Winners will be announced at a special luncheon on Wednesday 15 October at the Harbour
DORSET-BASED Cobham has agreed to acquire Sierracin Corporation's Harrison Division for $10.5 million (£6.29 million) in cash subject to regulatory approvals. The acquisition will be managed by Cobham subsidiary Stanley Aviation Corporation, based in
ONE of the problems if you are in business is recognising when the economy changes course. When do we move from slow down or recession into recovery or vice versa? For the last two to three years the UK economy has been sluggish but there is a definite
DORSET soccer bosses have been labelled 'heartless' by a Dorchester team who say they have been booted out of a memorial cup final. Dorset Premier League newcomers Dorchester United had asked for the postponement of the Mark Frowde Cup Final against reigning
MEANS testing could be introduced to ensure people on low incomes are not priced out of Weymouth harbour. That was the pledge from borough councillor Mike Byatt last night after a packed meeting of Weymouth and Portland Borough Council's Har-bour Users
A FIRE ripped through a scrap metal yard damaging 100 cars. The blaze at GP Metals & Spares at Portesham near Weymouth yesterday was the second at the site in three years. Fire chiefs say it was ignited by sparks from a cutting tool and fortunately
HUNT members in Dorset have said they are prepared to risk prison and defy any hunting ban which they say would be imposed through 'blind prejudice'. Campaigners are also threatening several other acts of civil disobedience including the withholding of
COUNCIL tax should be scrapped and replaced with an income-based charge, councillors in Dorset have said. The proposal - together with a fairer method of business rate allocation - forms part of demands by the county's Liberal Democrats for a radical
