GROWING uncertainty surrounds Bournemouth's IMAX Cinema, which was expected to reopen this summer. Belfast owner the Sheridan Group had pledged the IMAX, which was shut for repairs and refurbishment earlier in the year, would be back in business by the
SEA, SUN and sand proved irresistible to thousands of people nationwide who voted Bournemouth beach into their top ten of favourite things to do which are free. More than 2,000 subscribers responded to the instant email messaging service MSN's survey
THIS little one certainly knew how to put mum and dad's worries to rest - by giving them a thumb's up from the womb. First-time parents Sam Baker and Paul Lambert (pictured above) had been nervous about their 20-week scan and were just asking the sonographer
GARY Emerson's roller-coaster season took another dramatic twist on Friday when he rocketed to the top of KLM Dutch Open leaderboard at the halfway stage. It was just over a week ago that the Broadstone touring professional was joint leader at the Celtic
AROUND 40 jobs are being lost as a scientific supplies company ends its 60-year association with Poole and moves out of the town. By the end of the year VWR International will have closed its offices in the landmark Merck House building on Kingland Road
TWO schemes worth more than £100 million have been short-listed in the battle to redevelop Weymouth's Pavilion and ferry terminal site. Howard Holdings and Urban Catalyst emerged as the front-runners after a consultation exercise with the public and the
PROUD war veteran John Hawthorne is looking forward to leading his colleagues in the military parade on Weymouth seafront tomorrow. But former sailor Mr Hawthorne, 76, who served in the Korean War, was nearly forced to sit out the proceedings after schoolchildren
WARM tributes have today been paid in honour of long-standing Portland councillor Harry Booth, who has died at the age of 85. The former Weymouth and Portland mayor and war veteran died in hospital on Thursday after contracting pneumonia. Friends and
A GROUP of independent traders have got together to promote their area of town. Business owners along Lower South Street in Dorchester have produced a leaflet to draw shoppers to their stores. Change of Seen, On The Table and Gifted Ideas joined forces
A SCHOOLGIRL has been pirouetting her way to success at a dance festival. Twelve-year-old Eilish Harmon-Beglan, from Marina Gardens in Weymouth, won a cup and gold medal in the ballet section of the Bournemouth Dance Festival. Not content with one victory
BIG-HEARTED Weymouth schoolgirls who organised a coffee morning by themselves raised a worthy £280 for their African friends. The plight of the deportation-threatened Kachepa family spurred the youngsters into action. Anna Goulding, 11, who is classmates
I FEEL I must stand up, wave my A to Z about and come to the defence of my home city. P45 no doubt waiting in the wings, I have to take my editor to task for comments in his column earlier this week concerning the perils and trials of travelling around
THIS little one certainly knew how to put mum and dad's worries to rest - by giving them a thumb's up from the womb. First-time parents Sam Baker and Paul Lambert had been nervous about their 20-week scan and were just asking the sonographer at Poole
A WATCHDOG organisation has called a meeting in public next week amid growing anger over controversial proposals to close a Bournemouth centre for people with mental health problems. Dorset HealthCare NHS Trust has announced that it wants to shut TORCH
THESE are the hardened souls who will be braving arctic conditions in a bid to raise money for a UK leukaemia charity. The group members have all signed up to take part an Arctic Survival Challenge in Sweden in aid of the Anthony Nolan Trust. During the
A PENSIONER who has glaucoma in both eyes has got his driving licence back after a U-turn. Retired engineer John Cook, from Nursery Road, Moordown, reported his condition to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency in February, which sent him a series
A FORMER leukaemia sufferer who stunned doctors by recovering and fathering a child has signed up to a fund-raising survival challenge. Lee Wylde will be raising cash for the charity which made a life-saving bone marrow transplant possible for him. Lee
AWARDS have been made to a number of Dorset people in the Queen's Birthday Honours List announced today. Among them is a Weymouth man whose firm converts vehicles for wheelchair users, who has been awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE). Rodney
CHERIE Blair wants to know why everyone is picking on her over her money-grubbing tour of America and has concluded it's because she is a woman. "Dennis Thatcher had a number of outside interests," she whines. "No one found anything wrong with that."
