A WOMAN unable to hug her children at her father’s funeral as she stringently followed the Covid restrictions has described the prime minister’s flouting of the rules as a “kick in the teeth”.

A millionaire's son was caught drink-driving in his mother's Mercedes after his parents shopped him to the police, a court heard.

A MAJOR roundabout and route in Poole will be closed for five days for resurfacing works as the council warns of heavy disruption.

TOUCHING tributes have been paid to a swimmer who died in the sea off West Bay.

A CLIMATE activist from Weymouth who tied his neck to the goalpost during a football match and has more recently been involved in a protest at an Essex oil refinery said he ‘apologises’ for the disruption the group has caused people but vows not ...

FIRE crews rushed to the scene of a blaze which badly damaged the roof of a house in Bournemouth.

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THE number of beach barbecues across the seafront in Bournemouth and Poole is set to be tripled in time for Easter – but further units ordered last year will be kept back as spares.

FIFTY new jobs are set to be created across south Dorset after a mine-hunter company was awarded a £32m Ministry of Defence contract for the Royal Navy.

BOURNEMOUTH Town Centre Business Improvement District (BID) was unable to collect nearly 40 per cent of its levy from traders during the financial year in which the pandemic struck.

A MAN punched a staff member in the face knocking two teeth out after he was refused entry to a pub.

DESIGN plans for a brand-new community café at a Bournemouth foodbank centre have been unveiled.

NEARLY 20 per cent of cases reviewed by the police inspectorate in its critical report into Dorset Police lacked an investigation plan.

A CLASSIC sitcom’s Ringwood setting served as inspiration for a talented artist from Northampton to recreate the town’s leisure centre entirely out of Lego.

POLICE are urging people to come forward after watches, rings necklaces have been stolen from a property.

BOOKINGS for the returning Barfleur ferry were “encouraging” but still down on pre-Covid levels, Brittany Ferries confirmed.

People who have appeared in court at Poole Magistrates Court.

AN APPEAL has been launched by residents to keep a fence they erected around land they own in Christchurch.

A FOUR-STAR town centre hotel is on the market for nearly £9million as the owners look to enter 2023 debt-free.

A MAN was rescued after a fire broke out at a property in Bournemouth.

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‘THEY are putting wildlife and lives at risk’.

POOLE lifeboat was launched to help two people stuck on broken-down jet ski off Sandbanks.

POLICE have released images of three men they would like to speak to after £1,700 was spent fraudulently on a bank card.

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A DEVELOPER'S attempts to remove a condition requiring flats on the site of a former police station to be occupied on an affordable housing basis have been met with opposition.

ALMOST £50,000 has been raised for grass roots groups in Dorset in memory of a “passionate” Bournemouth resident.

STAFF from two McDonald’s restaurants conducted a four-mile litter pick in the New Forest last week for the fifth year in a row.

THOUSANDS of people in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole have taken the Government to tribunal over disability benefit payments – and more than three-quarters won, figures show.

IN an age when most people carry powerful computers in their pockets, writing things down with old-fashioned pen and paper has become surprisingly cool.

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Businesses operating in the south west registered sharper increases in business activity, new work and employment at the end of the first quarter as market conditions continued to revive from pandemic-related disruption.

Canford Heath are getting in the Easter mood with a selection of wonderful postbox toppers captured by Julia Rosser.

The new PS5s are released today, with a range of bundles available.

VoucherCodes are giving away another set of Just Eat vouchers for use over the Easter weekend

It comes as the number of deaths involving coronavirus registered each week in England and Wales continues to rise.

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TWO NHS patient transport vehicles were damaged and had their fuel tanks emptied by a man in a balaclava.

A RECENTLY closed Covid testing site may be left unused until the end of the year as the council has “no plans” yet for the space.

Crash on A31 causing major delays.

DORSET Police ‘requires improvement’ in how it investigates crime, but is ‘good’ in supporting and protecting its workforce, the police inspectorate has said.

A ROAD is blocked after a crash near a garden centre left a car in a ditch.

A WOMAN who stole £20,000 from her vulnerable elderly neighbour has been spared an immediate prison sentence.

A DRIVER without insurance faces court after travelling more than 20mph over the speed limit and attempting to evade police.

A THIRD man has been arrested following an alleged serious assault which left a man with serious injuries.

A group of travellers have moved onto Kings Park in Bournemouth.

A COUPLE have returned to the Dorset church they married in to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary- but two years later than planned.

A MAN has been found guilty of breaching Covid lockdown rules in Bournemouth.

BOURNEMOUTH MP and Boris Johnson ally Conor Burns has said there is a “big job to rebuild trust” after the Prime Minister was issued with a fine for breaking coronavirus restrictions.