FORMER British ice skating champion Robin Cousins famously won a gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Games. Now more than a quarter of a century later he's bringing his Midas touch to the world of ice-theatre. For Cousins is the hand-picked director of
HUNDREDS of people across Dorset and Hampshire are facing insolvency within three months - a third of them because of excessive Christmas spending. Up to 30,000 people across the UK will go bankrupt or enter an individual voluntary arrangement (IVA
A BEE KEEPING project being set up by a North Dorset organisation to help people in eastern Rwanda has been boosted with a £34,000 grant. Msaada director Billy Kelly said they gained the grant for the "Honey for Money" project from the Irish organisation
GAY men looking for sex in a public toilet are intimidating the customers at a popular caf in Boscombe, it is claimed. The proprietor of Caf Riva on Boscombe Overcliffe Drive, Mary Ingram, said customers regularly complain about incidents of lewd behaviour
A MAN caught on camera may hold vital clues to the identity of a sex attacker who assaulted a 50-year-old Wimborne woman in a supermarket car park. Detectives investigating the assault in Acland Road, Dorchester, have released CCTV photographs in the
A RUN-DOWN and overgrown play area in the heart of Wareham has won a £50,000 grant to help fund a total makeover. Hauses Field will be transformed with new slides, climbing frames and games in an extended play area. The site was overrun with plants
THE boss of an award-winning bakery which closed its shop without warning has blamed a downturn in trade in Milford-on-Sea. Muffins, whose shop overlooked Milford's village green, won the New Forest Brilliance in Business Award in November but shut
REGENT Centre bosses are planning a remake of the 1930s original frontage of the Christchurch High Street cinema. As part of a £250,000 revamp of the council-owned community arts complex, plans have been drawn up to reinstate the long lost canopy and
OUT with the old, in with the new... Another year, another resolution. This year it's to "de-clutter" and it's proving far more therapeutic, liberating and rewarding than the usual one to get down the gym. It seems my mission over the last 10 years
JUST when we thought Big Brother couldn't get any more shocking, along comes news that ex-convict and darts-playing thug Chris Mason could be a contestant in tonight's new show. In 2003 Chris Mason was jailed for three years for his part in a bat and
AN £8,000 funding gap could force a Poole mobility aid service to close within two months, leaving some 2,000 disabled users stranded, the manager has warned. Poole Shopmobility, run by charity Wheels for Freedom, provides scooters and wheelchairs
HOUSE burglaries have fallen by more than a quarter in the last eight months, police in Dorset said. Detectives in the county say they are using a whole host of initiatives and specialist policing to ensure they keep the burglars at bay. Between
POLICE are hunting a vicious attacker who set upon a 20-year-old Wimborne man with a hammer in a supermarket car park. The victim was inline skating with friends in the Asda car-park at St Paul's Road, Bournemouth, when he was assaulted at around 3.40pm
KEEN knitter Daphne Shave is looking for a new home - for all the animals, dolls and other toys she has made over the last couple of years. The 73-year-old, from Bournemouth, wants the items to go to a good cause, either direct to needy children or
ANTONIO Lindback is hitting the gym in a bid to overcome the troublesome knee injury that blighted his 2006 Pirates campaign. Lindback was forced to sit out Pirates' last 17 Elite League meetings after ligament problems sustained in a 2005 track spill
KEVIN Bond has put his faith in the future after confirming the departure of veteran Steve Claridge. Claridge, who signed on a one-month pay-as-you-play deal in early December, has not even made the matchday 16 since his debut and 1,000th professional
THERE are still hopes that Poole Pottery could remain in the hands of a local employer as up to 10 companies have made enquiries to the administrators. Some of the companies showing an interest are said to be local although administrators from Menzies
THE head of Bournemouth police has said education and health advice is needed to help change Britain's drinking culture. Chief Superintendent Bob Boulton was speaking after cabinet minister Hazel Blears said people in this country enjoyed getting drunk
THERE are calls to make the driving test tougher in a bid to tackle high rates of death and accidents among young drivers. Dorset's driving instructors have given their support to the government's bid to improve awareness among teenagers, especially
THREE Bournemouth hotels "twinned with Fawlty Towers" will undergo a £2 million makeover. The Cumberland, Cliffeside and Suncliff hotels now belong to the same team that owns Torbay's Gleneagles Hotel - real-life inspiration for TV's Fawlty Towers.
THAT could have been my daughter. That is the thought haunting a mother whose daughter was savaged by a dog in an attack containing chilling parallels with the New Year's Day tragedy in Merseyside. Now Belinda Hills - whose four-year-old daughter Shannon
