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POPPY collections have been cancelled in Bournemouth town centre on the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War because no one has volunteered to organise the fundraising. The Royal British Legion has been campaigning since the summer to find

A HARDLINE stance by the Fire Service against racists and bigots has been scrapped before it even began. Members of Dorset Fire Authority voted unanimously to withdraw a proposed statement from the chief fire officer dissuading members of the British

IF you're one of the lucky people going to the biggest show to hit Bournemouth in years this Thursday... we want to hear from you.

MULTI-MILLIONAIRE Roman Abramovich could this very moment be sifting through a property magazine looking at some of Dorset's most desirable homes. The Chelsea Football Club owner and Russian oil tycoon has been hand delivered a copy of Lloyds Property

THE views of 55,000 people on whether primates should be kept as pets are today being handed to biodiversity minister Jim Knight after being collected at a Purbeck animal sanctuary. Visitors to Monkey World, in Wool, signed documents kept at the park

BRAVE Ben Ridd is back home to celebrate his 14th birthday on Friday with his family. The youngster has been in hospital since being critically injured in a youth boat race more than four months ago. Family and friends were at his home in Herstone Close

HAMPSHIRE now employs more manufacturing workers than anywhere else in Britain, new data reveals. For sheer number of manufacturing workers, Hampshire now outstrips Britain's traditional heavy industry heartland following major job losses in the Midlands

MARTHA Britscho was born in Prussia 100 years ago and celebrated her birthday in Verwood with her Anglo-German family. She upped sticks and moved to Britain aged 80, though she hardly speaks any English. But she has taught Claudia, her little great-granddaughter

THURSDAY OCTOBER 27 Limehouse Lizzy - Mr Kyps; Paul Hammond - The Cottonwood Hotel, Bournemouth; Skint - The Rising Sun, Wimborne; Balihooma - The Green Room, The Portman Hotel, Boscombe; Champion + You've Been Lied To + Summa & Turn Down Tomorrow

A SOUTHILL shop owner fears flooding caused by blocked drains has driven customers away. Gary Dipple of Tidings Newsagents, Radipole Lane, Weymouth, said he had complained to the council five times before action was taken early today to sort the trouble

FAMILIES and friends of road crash victims are being invited to take part in a remembrance service on Portland. The service at Easton Methodist Church, at 3pm on November 20, will form part of a national day of remembrance. Minister Christopher Briggs

DORCHESTER folk are being urged to explore their hometown with the help of a new walks book. Town crier Alistair Chisholm has put pen to paper to bring the county town to life in a series of walks. And the book - Dorchester Town Walks - published by Julian

CONSERVATION workers have been accused of vandalism at a New Forest beauty spot. Engineers with an environmental agenda have created a new winding course for the Ober Water stream at Markway Lawn as part of the part EU-sponsored LIFE 3 project. The former

LITTLE Isabella Bye has got the message - she's stuck stickers on the stairs, the oven and the kettle even tells her grandma to "bee careful". Very young children are responding well to an award-winning programme, which seeks to prevent accidents. Nurses

A NORTH Dorset couple is facing an anxious wait for a phone call which could save the life of their desperately ill baby. Eight-month-old Dylan Murphy was diagnosed with a rare liver condition shortly after he was born. Although he underwent a six-hour

A RASH of blue licensing notices which have appeared on open spaces and other public sites around Christchurch is no cause for concern, say council chiefs. The town hall has been deluged with calls from anxious residents worried that the formal licensing

ORGANISERS of this year's Cancer Research UK10 event at Kingston Lacy are appealing for volunteers to help with the race. It is the first time the UK10 team have brought their popular fundraising event to Dorset and already 731 people have signed up to

THE wife of a Dorset millionaire lawyer who was killed in a helicopter crash will not be giving evidence at an inquest next week. Passenger and owner of the helicopter Stephen Curtis, 45, from Portland died in the crash, which took place in appalling

POPPY collections have been cancelled in Bournemouth town centre on the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War because no one has volunteered to organise the fundraising. The Royal British Legion has been campaigning since the summer to find

IF you're one of the lucky people going to the biggest show to hit Bournemouth in years this Thursday... we want to hear from you.

WORRIED parent Sandra Erskine has called for The Purbeck School to put adult supervisors on a school bus in a bid to stamp out rowdy behaviour. The horrified mum-of-three claims the behaviour of children on the number 13 school bus service to Swanage

THIRTY-two households on Poole's housing waiting list have been left in limbo, not knowing when they can move into their brand new flats. The housing association flats above the Asda store in West Quay Road, and those of the nearby tower block, lie empty

Little Britain: Windsor Hall, BIC The BICs refurbished Windsor Hall has reopened in style in the company of the biggest comedy show in the land with the first four of six sell out shows running until (Sunday night). The brainchild of Matt Lucas and David

PATIENTS snapped up 200 new NHS dentistry places in just a few hours at practices in Weymouth. They queued outside Weymouth Dental Practice in Portland Road in the wind and rain to secure one of 250 places available. There was a similar clamour at The

A DEVELOPER has agreed to construct a footpath linking a Dorchester road with Thomas Hardye School as long as they get permission for five new homes. Residents of James Road and Treves Road had feared that an unofficial footpath linking them with the