A DRINK and drug driver who caused a serious injury collision has been jailed for two years.

A BUSY section of road is set to be shut for approximately seven weeks from September 27 as essential gas works take place.

RESIDENTS in Bournemouth have expressed concern over plans for a new car park to be built along the Stour Valley corridor.

A FATHER has paid tribute to his 17-year-old 'son, best friend and hero' who died in a motocross accident.

OPPOSITION is stacking up over a shopping and apartment complex proposed for a site in Poole.

A BAKERY has introduced a new ‘pay-it-forward’ scheme to “brighten up people’s days” across the conurbation.

ONE thousand six hundred fewer people were reported missing in Dorset between 2020 and 2021 than the previous year.

MORE than 1,200 parking tickets were issued across the conurbation over the bank holiday weekend.

BOURNEMOUTH, Christchurch and Poole is home to just four of the 20,000 Syrian refugees housed across the UK, figures show, as the government sets about resettling a similar number of people from Afghanistan.

SUMMER sadly came and went and now we’re into September.

Spiders usually start to come out in early September, with their presence noticeable in homes until around mid-October.

CHERRIES' stars are off on international duty for the next week or so – including one of their deadline day signings.A number of players were called up to international duty but have since pulled out due to injury/illness, including David Brooks, P...

TWO businessmen have raised over £60,000 for charity by driving around Bournemouth and Poole in an old London taxi.

The Red Arrows have announced their display times ahead of the Bournemouth Air Festival 2021. Find out more:

A DEVELOPMENT of 65 homes with commercial premises on the ground floor in a former university building has been agreed.

In February is was announced the cost of the annual TV Licence fee would increase from £157.50 to £159 from April 1 2021.

CHERRIES’ fans were treated to a deadline day of drama with two top-drawer incomings.

A BOURNEMOUTH-based coach has won a boxing belt at the age of 52 and now he wants to inspire others by proving to people they can turn around their life from a bad past.

A MAN was found unresponsive by his parents after he had gone home to prepare for a barbecue.

TRIBUTES were paid once more to those who gave their lives and served in World War Two at the New Forest's airfields.

IT is with utter astonishment that I see travellers have once again descended on King's Park.

BANK holiday weekend saw the return of the ‘sporting Glastonbury', in Bournemouth 7s, as thousands of sports and music fans congregated at the rescheduled event.

As of September 1, E10 fuel will replace E5 as the standard petrol sold in the UK.

HUNDREDS of first-time buyers bought a home through the government's Help to Buy equity loan scheme in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole last year, figures reveal.

A THOUGHTFUL nine-year-old boy has completed his challenge of running 30km in six days, raising hundreds of pounds for Bournemouth Foodbank.

SPENDING plans totalling around £10 million are expected to be agreed by Dorset Council’s Cabinet when it meets next week.

A Swanage to Bournemouth bys service ran into problems when it reached the Sandbanks ferry on a dramatic day in 1986.

A MAN whose father received end of life care at the Christchurch ‘Mac Unit’ has walked the 192-mile Coast to Coast challenge for the hospice.

OVER £1,000 has been raised for Dorset Mind after a man completed the gruelling challenge of cycling to 50 Hall & Woodhouse pubs in Dorset.

CHRISTCHURCH Round Table has raised over £6,000 from hosting a charity beer stand at Christchurch Food Festival.

DORSET and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service (DWFRS) is reminding people across the county to ensure their chimneys are clean in a bid to prevent fire damage to properties.

A BRANKSOME man is set to paddle down the River Thames non-stop later this month in a gruelling fundraiser.

PLANS to demolish a house in Salisbury Road, Blandford and build nine 3-bed houses on the site has been refused.

A POSTBOX in Gillingham has had a very special makeover in celebration of the Paralympics.

AN UPDATE on the current situation at the conurbation's main NHS hospitals will be given at an annual meeting later this month

PARENTS have rated a nursery in Corfe Mullen as one of the top 20 nurseries in the south west.

A DORSET business is organising the biggest event dedicated to corporate sustainability outside London and Birmingham.

Motorist heading out on the road will need to be aware of a number of changes coming this month.

Cherries transfer deadline day live updates.

AUTHORITIES have been ordered to make urgent improvements over the support provided to children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.

THE boss of Beales has called for action after multiple cases of theft and shoplifting resulted in no police attendance or arrests.

THE multi-million-pound plans for the regeneration of Boscombe town centre have earned the support of Bournemouth Civic Society – although the group labelled the project a “very last chance” for the area to be improved.

CHERRIES have completed a deal to sign Celtic midfielder Ryan Christie.

JAMAL Lowe has completed a £1.5million move from Swansea City to Cherries.

PLANS for this year’s Christmas market in Bournemouth are going “full steam ahead” as the organiser said “we need some celebration”.

TRIBUTES have been paid to a 'extremely talented' motocross rider who died following a crash.

BOURNEMOUTH Christchurch and Poole Council let more than 100 employees go last year, figures show, costing millions of pounds in redundancy payments.

CELTIC’S Ryan Christie has completed a move to Cherries – but who exactly is the Scottish international?

POLICE and fire crews are carrying out searches along the River Stour in Christchurch for a missing man from Bournemouth.

POLICE are searching for a man who travelled to Bournemouth to stay in a hotel on August 7 and has not been seen since.