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THE Sandbanks to Shell Bay ferry service was suspended suddenly on Thursday because of a mechanical breakdown. The operator said the ferry stopped running at 2.30pm and it hoped to resume the service on Friday morning.

KEVIN Bond has admitted that he could be ready to listen to offers for Josh Gowling in the January transfer window. The Cherries boss revealed that the defender's agent has been in contact with him about the possibility of a move away from Dean Court

RECORDS fell like ninepins when Bournemouth Dolphins held their 200m club championships at Littledown. Coach Graham Bassi said the atmosphere was buzzing in the wake of the club's double success in the Speedo League finals last month. In the space of

PARKSTONE Yacht Club's young sailors took the honours in the 2006 Commodores Challenge competition against Poole Yacht Club, but it took the fifth and final race to determine the victors. The Commodores Challenge provides a unique opportunity for the

HAMPSHIRE skips Adam Tidby and Peter Ward are still going strong in all four major English Indoor BA Championships. The East Dorset members are in the Area 31 quarter-finals of the singles, pairs, triples and fours in their quest to reach the national

JUST what do they teach our children these days? It's a cry that echoes down the years, but you have to wonder when text books are being passed for GCSE science studies that contain skimpy theories passed off as fact and impossibilities presented as the

WORK on the long-awaited and hotly debated town centre enhancement scheme in Shaftesbury is to start on Monday (January 8). Sections of the High Street and surrounding areas will be temporarily closed to traffic for periods while the £420,000 project

WE'RE always being encouraged to drink more of it but it seems our thirst for water may not be quite as virtuous as we once believed. Around two billion litres of bottled water are sold every year, with some people spending more on a litre of water

SPIRALLING rent and overheads have put the skids on the popular Indoor Karting Centre at Hurn and its boss is blaming Bournemouth Airport's new chiefs in Manchester for its closure. The receivers have now been called in at the centre on Bournemouth Airport

WORKERS in a New Milton jewellers say they were terrified when masked raiders used a drain cover to smash the shop window to grab the jewellery on display. Staff were inside Robert Alan jewellers in Station Road when three balaclava-clad raiders carried

A SIXTH form student was showered with broken glass when yobs hurled missiles at her car from a bridge over the Wimborne bypass. Queen Elizabeth School sixth form student Anna Valentine, 17, had been driving along the A31 when the sunroof of her Citroen

LARRIKIN Love follow their recent stints supporting Dirty Pretty Things and The Pogues with a headlining trek across the UK later this month which coincides with the release of their new single Well, Love Does Furnish A Life. The band plays Southampton

FUNDRAISERS in Purbeck are celebrating collecting more than £80,000 to transform an ailing play park. Wareham and District Development Trust (WDDT) will use the cash to buy new play equipment, which will cover an expanded area at Hauses Field, in Northmoor

THE Bournemouth panto - Robin Hood and The Babes in the Wood - is being hailed one of the best in years, no doubt thanks to the team effort of a talented and dedicated cast. But for the four superb boy dancers brought in from London's prestigious Arts

GIRL GUIDES in Poole could be given education about sex and drugs under a new programme being rolled out across the country. The Get Wise initiative would train girls aged between 14 and 25 to give education sessions to their peers, tackling sensitive

UP to 600 jobs at a hi-tech Dorset research centre may be under threat. Bosses at QinetiQ in Winfrith have revealed the company is looking at ways to cut costs - including possibly moving operations elsewhere in the UK. The news comes just months after

WORKERS across the South are each putting in an average of seven hours and six minutes of unpaid overtime every week, it was revealed. That equates to £4,800 a year for every worker - or £23 billion for the whole of the UK. The new figures have

THE chairman of Dorset Police Federation has given a cautious welcome to news that police disciplinary hearings could be heard in public. Under powers held by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), officers accused of serious failings could

SELFISH drivers abusing disabled and family parking spaces have prompted a Canford Heath man to start a letter-writing campaign. David Curtis, of Marsh Wood Avenue, has written to Asda at Canford Heath, B&Q at Fleetsbridge and Tesco at Tower Park after

BOURNEMOUTH'S most notorious car thief was back in court for stealing from a taxi less than a fortnight after being released from prison. Temptation proved too much for career criminal Graham Hill after he spotted a satellite navigation system in the

JASON Crump survived a comical split in his racing leathers to sew up success in the Linddales Labour Hire Championship Series in Newcastle, Australia. The new Poole Castle Cover Pirates signing survived a "wardrobe malfunction" in his homeland, which

LEADING Dorset professional Gary Emerson has opted out of a trip to South Africa next week in order to concentrate on six of the following seven European Tour events. The 43-year-old Wimborne-based player admitted he was in two minds whether or not

THE Bournemouth International Centre has emerged as a candidate to host the PDC World Darts Championships - and it could be as soon as next year. Speculation has been rife over the past few weeks that Brighton's Regency Pavilions is leading the chase

THE Poole Pottery administrators remain hopeful of securing a quick sale for the struggling business. Both Poole Pottery and its sister company, Poole Pottery Outlets, were forced to close just before Christmas with debts of at least £1m. At least

MORE than half a million car loads of shoppers poured into Bournemouth's Castlepoint centre in December. Record numbers of visitors smashed all targets and left delighted traders counting their Christmas and New Year cash. And town centre stores

THESE are the pictures that prove how desperately the people of Poole want to keep their pottery. After two weeks of uncertainty and heartache since the pottery's factory closure, the Poole public breathed new life into the besieged business on Wednesday