A MAN went on foul-mouthed tirade in a cheese and wine bar before smashing a wooden blackboard in front of customers and staff.

A POOLE councillor was arrested for the second time in a month over the weekend while taking part in environmental protests in London.

Part of the A35 is shut this morning due to a crash.

BOURNEMOUTH town centre’s last remaining supermarket is to close in the new year.

CRIMINALS jailed in October include a teen who stabbed an innocent couple, a driver who took cocaine before a horror crash and a robber who targeted a store twice in three days.

PLANS to demolish a decades old hotel and build a luxury apartment block in its stead have been lodged by Harry Redknapp’s property development company.

A wealthy couple had to be rescued when their luxury yacht moored off Sandbanks capsized in gale force winds.

A sex offender from west Dorset has been sentenced after being charged with a host of offences.

AN investigation has been launched after 15 guests at a hotel in Bournemouth had their possessions stolen.

A MAN has been spared an immediate prison term for selling counterfeit cigarettes at his convenience store in Poole and being caught in possession of a further £103,000 of fake tobacco products.

PLANS for a convenience store to offer late-night alcohol sales in Bournemouth town centre have been refused due to police and business fears over anti-social behaviour.

Whitehall officials have ‘war gamed’ a plan named Programme Yarrow, a blueprint for coping with outages for up to a week.

FOUR seafront toilet blocks across the conurbation are being refurbished this winter in a £300,000 investment.

A VENUE which has been forced to close in BH2 may still be shut ‘for a couple of weeks’.

A COUNCILLOR has hit out at colleagues for having “picnics” during meetings in the Bournemouth Town Hall chamber.

MULTIPLE emergency service crews assisted in the removal of a man from a flat in Bournemouth this evening.

Details on the cases of 11 people who have been sentenced at Poole Magistrates' Court for criminal offences.

THE POST Office has proposed moving one of their branches in Poole.

A MAN who indecently exposed himself and assaulted two women in a public Bournemouth garden has been ordered to pay compensation to his victims.

A RESTAURANT in Southbourne has welcomed a Dorset Chef and his new ‘pop-up’ roast dinners.

MULTIPLE police cars were seen chasing a car in Bournemouth before stopping it at a dead end.

A POPULAR bar and restaurant in Dorset has closed its doors.

SOME home sales have fallen through and estate agents have seen enquiries drop since the economic crisis that preceded Liz Truss’s resignation.

HOLIDAYMAKERS and locals had the time of their lives when the Radio One Roadshow stopped off in Bournemouth.

A POOLE councillor has announced that he intends to call time on more than 20 years as an elected representative next year.

BOURNEMOUTH, Christchurch and Poole's rate of vaccinations against MMR in children is behind the target needed for herd immunity, figures show.

A TRAVEL business is expecting sales at the start of next year to be 440 per cent up on what they were before the pandemic.

THE only exciting thing about Rishi Sunak being the new prime minister is that we have thankfully got rid of Boris Johnson (for now) and Elizabeth Truss.

A blustery Barton on Sea and Highcliffe taken from the cliff top by Colin Lee

A MAN in Bournemouth riding a bike whilst wearing fancy dress was knocked off his bicycle and sustained a broken jaw.

CONCERN has been raised over the whereabouts of a vulnerable adult who has not been seen for several days.

MORE than £8,000 worth of suspected stolen bikes were seized last week in Bournemouth.

A ROBBER unleashed a single punch in an unprovoked and unexplained attack upon a man who he had spent the night drinking with.

FURTHER witnesses are sought after a woman suffered serious injuries when a pallet of bricks fell from a lorry and struck her in Lyndhurst.

MAINTENANCE works planned for the Sandbanks Ferry have been delayed by adverse weather conditions.

DORSET has been gripped by heavy winds and rain which saw trees fall, power lines disrupted and even caravans overturned.

A RECORD number of households have had printed bus timetables put through their doors to inform them about Morebus services following the demise of Yellow Buses.

AN application has been submitted to build Dorset’s first psychiatric intensive care unit specifically for children and young people.

Cranleigh Road in Southbourne has been closed by police.

A TEENAGE girl was taken to hospital after being victim to a racially aggravated assault in Poole.

FOOTAGE shows the shocking weather conditions that a lifeboat crew faced on Halloween.

A YACHT was found washed up in a Dorset bay after breaking from its mooring during heavy storms.

A TEENAGER that went missing from St Leonards has now been found.

THE Tornado and Storm Research Organisation has issued a Tornado Watch across the South of England.

Traffic and travel updates as Met Office warning in force for Dorset

POLICE have made no arrests after a woman was raped in Bournemouth town centre.

POLICE have issued CCTV images of two men after £300 worth of cooking oil was a chicken restaurant in Poole.

STRONG winds saw an aircraft unable to land at Bournemouth Airport on Monday evening.

A BOARDING school in Dorset has appointed a new headteacher.

FOLLOWING fears about the Council's financial stability, it has confirmed that it is still allocating £2.6 million funding to install lifts at Pokesdown train station.