Maison Louis Jadot, one of Burgundy's oldest and most respected wine producers, has released a brand- new Pinot Noir wine called Les Climats. Developed to offer the consumer a trade-up from generic Bourgogne Rouge, this new wine is akin to what the New
Fiona Griffiths meets Dorset's top London chef Mark Hix, and discovers there's much more to mutton than meets the eye WEATHERALL'S blackface mutton and turnip pie probably wouldn't have been my first choice for an April midweek lunch, but Mark Hix
WEYMOUTH Choral Society returns to the stage next month with a glorious recital of popular arias and choruses from the world of opera, including Eugene Onegin, Les Troyens and L'Elisir d'Amore. After an interval where wine and strawberries will be served
NEARLY 38,000 people will be eligible to vote in local elections for the borough council which are held in Weymouth and Portland tomorrow. Only 11 of the 12 wards which are holding elections this year will be going to the polls because Councillor Paul
A DORCHESTER club is spearheading a bid to beat teen boozers in the county town. Klimax, in High West Street, will re-open as the Lounge next week and the new manager is hoping an over-21s policy will help deter under-age drinking and attract more mature
DORCHESTER is to have a carnival queen for the first time in 10 years. The queen and two attendants will be chosen by the public from the final three entries following a contest on May 26. Organiser Mark Allwood said: "There's been a gap of 10 years
GARRY Hill is wasting no time preparing for Weymouth's return to non-League football's top flight. Just days after Terras clinched the Conference South championship, the boss has opened contract talks with his title-winning squad. And with only a handful
A RARE old building will be taking on a new lease of life chosen by villagers aiming to create a valuable asset for Charminster. Trustees of Wolfeton Riding House are asking for ideas for the future use of their Elizabethan building one of only three
WEYMOUTH'S reformed reserve team will play against Coca-Cola Football League opposition next season. Terras have been accepted into the Pontins Holidays Combination League where their second string face matches with AFC Bournemouth, Yeovil Town and Bristol
FRUSTRATED first-time buyers have launched a pressure group to tackle Weymouth and Portland's affordable homes crisis. The Weymouth and Portland People Forum will call on councillors to help young buyers get on the housing ladder. If successful members
A BOURNEMOUTH taxi firm has been accused of putting the public's safety a risk by allowing taxi drivers to work without the correct licence, a special meeting heard on Tuesday. Licensing officers at Bournemouth Borough Council called the meeting of the
THESE are the dramatic pictures which show two people being rescued by lifeboat after their £250,000 yacht smashed into rocks at Anvil Point. Portland Coastguard received a May Day call from skipper Paul Compton on the 47ft luxury yacht Wellworthy just
IF ASYLUM seeker Williard Chinhanhu were deported back to Zimbabwe, he would be at risk of human rights violations, a leading immigration lawyer for Zimbabwean asylum seekers has claimed. The Government, this week won an appeal to overturn a ruling by
WHEN Nol Forrest read about renewable energy being generated by old water mills on the river Stour, he immediately thought of his former school. Top public school Canford, just outside Wimborne, where he was a pupil, fronts the river at a picturesque
A THIRD of the £300,000 cost of a makeover of Christchurch council's civic offices will come direct from borough coffers, it has been revealed. Planning permission for the structural changes to the council building was granted last week, subject to conditions
ASHLEY Cole could make a shock appearance in Wimborne next week as he attempts to prove his Champions League and World Cup fitness. And former Saints prodigy Theo Walcott could also feature in the game between Wimborne Town and an Arsenal XI being staged
IT MAY be bleak and bitingly cold on a winter's day, but in the height of summer Mudeford Sandbank is a sun worshipper's paradise. And people are prepared to pay big bucks for the Robinson Crusoe existence coupled with stunning views east along the coast
BOURNEMOUTH council is preparing to relinquish control of the controversial Winter Gardens and hand its replacement over to independent volunteers. Following decades of controversy in which the concert hall has been a highly political issue, the council
VISITING the Royal Bournemouth Hospital is becoming a bit of a habit for the Princess Royal, who officially opened its Dorset Heart Centre on Tuesday. On her way into the hospital, she passed the two plaques put up to commemorate her opening of the first
POLICE have defended their decision to keep a 66-year-old grandmother in cells overnight after a disturbance outside her Bournemouth home. Brenda Robinson, a church-goer and voluntary worker, has hit national headlines since being featured in the Daily
RINGWOOD'S McKenna Townsend PR has been named as the fastest-growing public relations agency outside London by PR Week. It is also the third fastest growing PR agency in the UK, according to the industry publication. Income at the agency almost trebled
MEMBERS of the public will be asked to become traffic cops in a controversial new crackdown on speeding drivers in the New Forest. Volunteers will stand beside electronic signs that record the speed of passing cars and flash the correct speed limit at
A FORMER publican who left the licensed trade when rents went sky-high has now retired from his job as Lymington market organiser at the age of 77. Ken Drew, who lives with his wife Hazel in a seafront flat in Highcliffe, was licensee at the Crown, Bransgore
THOUSANDS of pets could burn to death if there was a fire on a Dorset farm unless the owners are allowed to build a house on the site, it was claimed at a planning meeting. Thousands of small animals and birds - many of them bred at Sparrowbush Farm,
THE head of Battens Solicitors today warned that time was running out for businesses and residents to back the Weymouth relief road. Managing director David Stephens said that there were fewer than three weeks left for people to register their views
