THE developers behind the rejected multi-million-pound office development on green belt behind Royal Bournemouth Hospital announced yesterday that they intend to appeal. Councillors turned down the publicly hated £50 million mix of offices, park-and-ride
AFTER almost two weeks stuck on the ground at Bournemouth Airport, the record-breaking Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer took to the skies again on Friday. And with the aircraft's designer and chief engineer Jon Karkow giving the thumbs-up after his 30-minute
WANT a quick way to get to the Island? Then don't ask the AA. That's one driver's advice after asking the motoring organisation for a route to Portland from his home in Weymouth. The AA's answer included a 174-mile trip involving two ferries and stopovers
AN ENVIRONMENTALLY friendly businessman says a council carrier bag scheme is immoral and hypocritical. Jonathan Whiter, director of a Dorchester business, feels Dorset County Council is going against its environmental ideals by giving out thousands of
CALLS to a Dorset charity from disabled women suffering domestic abuse have more than doubled in last two years. The Dorset Women's Outreach Project is responding to an increase in disabled clients by printing a special information pack. In 2004 the charity
MEMBERS of the public are being asked for their help in discovering what led to the death of a Poole teenager. The body of 18-year-old James Page was found floating face down in the water at Poole Quay on Saturday morning. He was spotted between two boats
STAFF at McDonald's were left stunned when the phone rang with an order for 660 burgers and chips from Portland's Verne prison. The call came from the jail after workmen putting in security fencing severed a gas pipe to the prison kitchens leaving inmates
A FAMILY who let their pet cat become so ill that its eye was hanging out of its socket for three days have been banned from keeping cats for two years. Dad Anthony, 61, mum Sylvia, 60, and son Stuart Tomlinson, 31, of Sussex Road, Weymouth, all pleaded
DISGUSTED residents are threatening legal action after a 12-metre mobile phone mast went up near their homes despite being rejected by local planners. An error by officers at Bournemouth council allowed mobile operator Vodafone to press ahead with the
STAFF sickness in just three county council departments costs around £1.4million a year. Workers in the Community Care sector, Libraries and Dorset Works Organisation who take time off sick are driving up the cost of services because a high proportion
A BRAVE paramedic dived in to a water tank and gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in the water in a bid to save a drowning man, an inquest heard. A coroner heard there was mayhem as Teeman Williams, who had been drinking, drowned in a water reservoir at
PRINCESS Anne is coming to Blandford in early March - just weeks after her last visit. The royal visitor, who is Colonel-in-Chief to the Royal Corps of Signals, will be the guest of Blandford Camp. In January it was the community hospital which welcomed
