A COUPLE have avoided an immediate prison sentence after they admitted possessing thousands of the most serious category of child sex abuse images.

Live updates from across Dorset as Covid lockdown eases

A MAN has been charged with the murder of aristocrat Sir Richard Sutton, who died of stab wounds to his chest at his north Dorset home midweek.

THE second stage of the easing of England’s lockdown takes place tomorrow.

AS Bournemouth’s hotels start to emerge from the latest Covid lockdown, visitors should notice millions of pounds’ worth of difference.

Bournemouth town centre is getting ready to welcome back visitors in the next stage of lockdown easing.

The latest cases to be heard by magistrates:

NON-essential retail stores across the conurbation will be able to open from Monday, April 12 in the latest stage of lockdown easing.

THESE are all the roadworks taking place across Bournemouth and Dorset this coming week.

A LIFEBOAT crew was alerted after a worker on a tugboat suffered a hand injury.

POLICE and security officers targeted Sandbanks beach on Saturday night following reports that teenagers had planned a party there.

A BRAZEN burglar passed a 42-inch television out of a hotel window before he and another man drove off with it.

SUSPECTED stolen goods were recovered during a raid on a Bournemouth home.

A POLICE investigation was launched after a report of a concern for the welfare of a confused elderly man.

WE’RE now just days away from pubs and bars reopening their doors for the first time this year.

IT’S not all about pubs, hairdressers and gyms on Monday.

PLANNING permission has been granted for a new multi-million pound injury and illness rehabilitation centre in Boscombe.

THOUSANDS of people across the county have been given the opportunity to pay their respects to Prince Philip in an online book of condolences.

PERMISSION has been granted for the former Steamer Point Coastguard to be cleared by developers this summer.

AROUND 100 people gathered in Bournemouth to protest against the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown restrictions, just two days before restrictions ease.

A MAN and a woman have been arrested following an altercation which left the female with a facial injury.

NON-essential retailers will open their doors at the Dolphin Shopping Centre on Monday for the first time in three months.

CONTROVERSIAL plans to build housing on Highcliffe woodland have been refused.

A MAN who killed a cat by putting it into a sack and drowning it in a water butt because he thought it would spread Covid has avoided a jail sentence.

A TRAVEL company has announced an exclusive luxury Caribbean cruise, with flights direct from Bournemouth Airport to Barbados.

THE candidates for May’s elections have been confirmed with the publication of the statement of nominated persons by BCP Council.

A MAN who committed burglaries at a pub and a bar in Bournemouth has been handed a prison sentence.

SCHOOLS across Dorset excluded more than 100 pupils for sexual misconduct over a 10-year period, figures reveal.

The death has occurred of Miss Barbara Milner, for over thirty years a choir member at Richmond Hill St.Andrew’s United Reformed Church.

THE evocative sight of steam trains travelling through the Purbeck countryside is set to return.

ONE hundred cherry trees have been planted at Kingston Lacy, after being gifted by Japan to celebrate Japanese-British friendship.

MILLIONS of people have now spent a year working from home – so how's it going?

HE was a larger than life character who touched many lives with his generosity and passion for life.

SOME businesses are using the furlough scheme to “kick the can down the road” and keep unviable jobs going, it has been claimed.

DORSET Mind will be taking part in the Captain Tom 100 Challenge - a national campaign to honour the nation's hero that passed just after his 100th Birthday last year.

Avenue Road in Bournemouth picture here in 1977 featuring to the left Websters Book Shop with the unusual building being a Bar and an Estate Agents over the years. Pictured of the right is Bealeson which became Marks and Spencer before it closed in ...

Once again there is little or no attempt made to protect our local internationally protected heath land habitats.

I FEEL I must have my say. I have been a resident of West Howe for 20 years and it was the best decision I ever made.

A YOUTUBE video provides an insightful look at Brownsea Island in 1962.

A SECOND man has been arrested following an incident involving a knife when blood was found at the scene in Holdenhurst Road.

AN EX-HUSBAND launched a poster campaign to falsely accuse his former wife’s new partner of being a child abuser, a court heard.

NO new coronavirus cases were confirmed in Dorset over the last 24 hours, latest figures show.

POLICE and the ambulance services attended a medical incident in Swanage where a man was pronounced dead at the scene.

OFFICERS gave initial first aid to a skateboarder with a head injury in Duck Lane skatepark, before extracting him from his “precarious” position.

POLICE have confirmed the man seen at a dental practice in Bournemouth in a "confused" state has been found safe and well.