MORE than 3,000 people have added their voices to calls for a mental health rehabilitation service to be saved from closure - and the number is growing. Campaigners and an MP have called for more transparency to show what decisions are being made and
FOOTBALL training sessions with Cherries stars are helping to fight the problem of bored youngsters getting into trouble in Christchurch this summer holiday. Weekly sessions at Somerford junior school on Wednesdays and River Way recreation ground at Jumpers
TOURISTS and locals will be treated to a wide range of events and entertainment across Dorset this weekend. There is certain to be something to suit everyone as the summer season gets into full swing. On Saturday, August 20 events on offer include Christchurch
FIRST British feature based on the heart-warming children's classic. Little orphan Heidi (Emma Bolger) is sent to the mountains to live with her grumpy grandfather (Max Von Sydow), whom she has never met before. Over time, the girl and the old man grow
I WANT a pony. "Well, you can't have one. We haven't got a stable." Job done. So, who needs Supernanny (Channel 4, Wednesday)? Well, clearly Paul and Denise Cooke judging by the first instalment of the new series this week. Poor Denise was at the end
DORCHESTER boss Mark Morris says he's still considering his team selection options as his side looks to kick-start their season at home to Bishop's Stortford tomorrow. In the aftermath of Tuesday night's 5-3 defeat by Bognor Regis at the Avenue Stadium
THINGS were on the up for Death In Vegas. Released from a major label deal after 13 years, they put out Satan's Circus, a cracking album of electro-experiments then got ensnared in abortive sessions for Oasis' Don't Believe the Truth album. It must have
COR, isn't this packaging brilliant? I could push this little demon's face in all day... Anyway, if you're going to reissue Sam Raimi's classic, which they have right here, you've got to have it back in the spongy, nicely grotesque cover. Quite a collector's
A PLUMBER with a passion for hot air ballooning has been dragged back to earth by planning regulations. Father-of-two John Harris fell in love with the pastime eight years ago and splashed out on his own balloon to further his ambition to fly more. He
POLICE have declared war on drug dealers in Bournemouth after arresting 20 people suspected of fuelling the town's heroin and crack cocaine industry. Officers from Operation Dismantle carried out raids on 14 addresses in Bournemouth and Boscome following
THE eviction of settlers from Gaza following nearly four decades of occupation is being closely watched by Bournemouth's Jewish community. Earlier this week 14,000 Israeli troops entered six Jewish settlements after the deadline for voluntary departure
DR WHO fans beware - the Master is now hiding on Earth in a place called Ringwood after recreating one of the lethal Daleks. But this version of the Time Lord's deadliest foe won't need a sonic screwdriver to be defeated. Made from non-intergalactic materials
SPELLING should be made easier. That is the view of a Wareham literacy expert who thinks the English-speaking world should follow Germany by trying to make its language easier to learn. Masha Bell was invited to join in a discussion on Newsnight recently
FEW writer-directors can handle formula romantic comedy fare like Nora Ephron - smash hits like When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless In Seattle and You've Got Mail shamelessly pushed all the right buttons, but did so with enough charm to ensure the audience
IF Mark Rosman's modern day romantic fable is correct, and there is such a rare creature as the perfect man, then clearly he didn't work on this film. If he had, the perfect man would have taken screenwriter Gina Wendkos to task for her sloppy execution
SPEEDBOATS and yachts whose skippers think they can beat the Poole Harbour chain ferry and squeeze through an ever-narrowing gap had better think again. From next month, for the first time, the ferry which plies across the harbour entrance between Sandbanks
BOURNEMOUTH'S Mark Bridges stormed to success in the final round of the Royal Motor Yacht Club Classic, despite racing with a stuck throttle during the two-day powerboat festival to mark the centenary of Poole's Royal Motor Yacht Club. Driving the V24
YOB behaviour is costing businesses more than £1.3 billion a year - impacting on their profits and their customers, a new study reveals. Clearing up sick and urine, repairing smashed shop windows, erasing graffiti and sweeping broken bottles and litter-strewn
YOUR ashes can be encrusted into a jewel and worn as a ring by a loved one or shot into the air in fireworks. And you can arrive at your funeral in a motorcycle hearse. Handmade willow and bamboo coffins are available and you can even have your mortal
The End of the Week Show - Pavillion Ballroom Francesca Martinez says she loves high heels. She'd dearly love to wear them, but when you have cerebral palsy, it's just a little bit of a no-no. This bright and bubbly performer will no doubt be exploring
A JADED executive slips through a time-warp to his childhood, a hypochondriac is granted immortality by the Devil, a street peddler strikes a deal when Death calls... This is the weird and wonderful world of Rod Serling, as reflected in one of the most
DON'T remember this one hitting the cinemas. In a future which looks a lot like the present, one in 20 people has a Zoe: a brain implant that records every second of your life. At the end of your life, a cutter will edit these memories and give the family
JOURNEY times could be doubled between Christchurch and Lyndhurst when the A35 is closed for repairs this autumn. The diversion being recommended by Hampshire County Council is five miles longer than on the A31 and could take 40 minutes or more. This
A CHRISTCHURCH teenager is facing up to a year hobbling around on crutches after an accident shattered his leg. Richard Jowett was involved in a collision with a vehicle while on his scooter and has had to have a steel pin inserted into his right leg.
A DESPERATE family are appealing for help in tracing a vulnerable young father who went missing from their Worth Matravers home nearly a week ago. Former public school boy Matthew Drew, 32, suffers schizophrenia brought on, his mother believes, after
A FLASHER apprehended after a quick-thinking schoolgirl snapped his registration plate with her mobile phone has been jailed for five months. Married Ian David Arthurs, who runs a window cleaning business with his wife, made a lurid sexual comment while
WAS he going to hit my parked car, I wondered as we hurtled backwards out of the drive. He didn't - missing it by a good six inches, then selecting a forward gear to leave the quiet Wimborne street where he lives. I made sure my will was in good order
CAMPAIGNERS from as far afield as Birmingham, Liverpool and London are joining an appeal to save a vital cardiac unit in the south. We reported on Friday, August 12 how nursing cuts were planned at the nationally-acclaimed Wessex Cardiac Unit's base in
FROM the moment John Norman started bringing home animals off the street, regardless of whether they were strays, a career in the RSPCA was mapped out for him. His passion for animals started aged 10 when he and a group of friends met regularly in a garden
LOUIS Leterrier's second feature - his follow-up to The Transporter which was also written and produced by Luc Besson - wilfully defies categorisation. An action-drama set on the mean streets of, um, Glasgow, Unleashed marries martial arts fight sequences
A Good Woman (PG) UCI (Sun, Tues only) *** Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson and Tom Wilkinson in sterling version of Oscar Wilde's play. Bewitched (PG) UCI, Odeon ** See review. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (PG) UCI, Odeon, ABC, Regent (not Sun) **
I want a pony. "Well, you can't have one. We haven't got a stable." Job done. So, who needs Supernanny (Channel 4, Wednesday)? Well, clearly Paul and Denise Cooke judging by the first instalment of the new series this week. Poor Denise was at the end
GARRY Hill has ordered long-ball Weymouth to stop taking to the skies. The Terras boss says the Wessex Stadium outfit can forget about Conference South glory if they continue pumping high passes forward like in the midweek defeat at Eastleigh. Hill wants
IT'S a bold move, but Leaves' long-awaited follow up to their 2002 debut Breathe opens with the brooding, epic, neo-symphonic Shakma which pretty much finds the band going through all its chops over the course of seven euphoric minutes. From its brooding
AS THE Mad Professor celebrates the silver jubilee of his London-based Ariwa Sounds studio and label, this timely collection rounds up some of his best known in-house productions. From the early days there's the dark and glorious Kunte Kinte Dub from
FOR a while there it looked like Alfie were destined to be forever the bridesmaid, but having wedded their distinctly northern English fondness for happy-sad whimsy to a plethora of psychedelic turns and added a confident strain of folky rock, they're
FRIDAY AUGUST 19 Gentleman's Agreement - Boscombe Conservative Club; The Foundations - Mr Kyps; Peeping Toms - The George; Jinder - The Three Horseshoes, Burton Bradstock; Stereo-Ironics - Finns, Weymouth; Adorn - Earthwise Festival, Cerne Abbas; Lewis
DURING an expedition in Africa, master explorer and treasure-seeking pirate Dirk (McConaughey) saves World Health Organisation scientist Eva Rojas (Cruz) from assassination and subsequently becomes embroiled in her crusade to reveal the cause of the deadly
