Author: Dorset View

An all-terrain mobility scooter that can go off road is opening up wildlife and heritage sites on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, to people who have difficulty walking.

The RS Tera Class arrived at Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy on Saturday, 1 June for their National Championships, racing on Olympic Waters for the first time. Saturday proved a tricky day’s racing with the breeze shifting from 6-10 knots, gusting up to 15. All 91 sailors completed the five races. With five different winners and…

Seven WW2 medals including stars, an MBE and a good conduct and long service medal have been stolen from an address in Walliscott Road, Wallisdown, Bournemouth. The burglary happened between 11am and 1.45pm on Friday, 7 June. The offenders forced their entry through a window and stole watches as well as medals. Detective Constable Martin…

Police in Bournemouth are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward after a woman was robbed at bus stop in the town opposite WH Smith on Gervais Place.

There has been a change of management at Wimborne Model Town. Clive Laban is the newly appointed duty manager, sharing day-to-day running activities with colleague Keith Whittaker.

If you have been offered this gold ring, distinctive gold pendant and ruby earrings at a low price or in suspicious circumstances, it is because they have been stolen. The jewellery was taken, along with an Xbox computer console, from a home in Harbour View Road on Portland on 30 May. Weymouth and Portland police…

Police are renewing their appeal for witnesses and have released an e-fit of man wanted in connection with a distraction burglary in Winterbourne Steepleton. The incident happened on Friday, 31 May at about 8.30am when a woman in her 90s was in her garden. She was approached by a man claiming to be a gardener and…

The driver of the Mini Cooper in collision with a school bus carrying 45 children to QE School in Wimborne has died. Sophie Crew, who was in her twenties, was seriously injured at the scene and later died in hospital. Twenty-six children were injured in the frightening collision and nine were taken to hospital for…

Plans for the new Jigsaw Building at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital (RBH) have been submitted to Bournemouth Council. Detailed feedback from hospital staff, patients and the public has been incorporated into the designs for the proposed new Women’s Health Unit and Cancer and Blood Disorders Unit. Richard Renaut, Director of Service Development at the hospital…

Martyn Underhill, the Dorset Police and Crime Commissioner will address the meeting of West Moors Home Watch at the organisation’s AGM in the Memorial Hall, Station Road, West Moors at 7pm on Wednesday, 12 June 2013. Refreshments will be available and the police will attend if operational requirements permit.