A CYCLIST is fighting for life and a driver has been arrested following a serious crash.

DORSET could see 48,000 new jobs and 8,600 new homes in the next decade under a plan to attract business and government money.

FILMING is underway on the new Netflix series being shot in Poole.

A MAN who played a “significant role” in the production of cannabis at the largest factory ever discovered in Dorset has been jailed.

POLICE seized five cars and issued 19 tickets for traffic offences in Sandbanks.

A GROUP of people were dispersed from a Poole road during police patrols.

A THIRD man has been jailed for his role in the production of cannabis at the largest factory ever discovered in Dorset.

A HOMELESS woman has been banned from a laundrette after outraging public decency and being drunk and disorderly.

PLANS are being drawn up by BCP Council to buy the Bournemouth Indoor Bowls Centre in King's Park.

IT is a document that offers the promise of 48,000 jobs and 8,600 homes in Dorset over the next decade.

Bournemouth has been named among one of the most sleep deprived places in the UK, according to latest research.

NEARLY 60 complaints about Covid-compliance have been made to BCP Council since the beginning of March.

A VEHICLE components manufacturer in Poole has been hit with a court bill of more than £17,000 after an employee suffered burns to his foot.

FUNDING has been secured by Dorset Council and BCP Council to create a list of local heritage assets across the county.

A WOMAN was struck on the head with a baseball bat before an attacker stamped on her arm as she lay on the ground.

THE use of closure orders to tackle anti-social behaviour and nuisance residents in BCP has increased year-on-year since 2017.

Students are 'flooding' Bournemouth's rental market, a study has found.

Poole is getting ready for business again.

THOUSANDS more people across Dorset were claiming unemployment benefits last month than a year previously, figures reveal.

BOURNEMOUTH

KATE Gross knows more than most the importance of living in the moment after almost two decades of cancer wreaking havoc with her life.

The government is mulling over the introduction of a traffic light system for travel with countries labelled green, yellow, amber and red.

Despite challenges in international supplies, the Moderna vaccine is still on course to arrive in April.

Chef Simon Braz has been cooking for nearly 18 years, 10 of which have been on the Jurassic coast. Now his internet cook-a-longs are a lockdown success

[STANDFIRST] Columnist and trained counsellor Fiona Caine answers another set of reader dilemmas.

WITH less invasive treatments like key hole surgery well established, it is only natural that methods of investigating disease are developed which are less labour intensive, less painful and which disrupt the person’s daily life to a lesser degr...

Proposals being discussed by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) would also mean older drivers would have to stay in their local area.

BUSINESSES have a huge amount on their plate with the pandemic and Brexit, so climate change may not be at the top of their priority list, the chief executive of NatWest has told the Daily Echo.

AN UNTOUCHED room full of documents and receipts from the 1970's has been discovered in a building in Southbourne Grove.

The brand has now moved to update customers on stock ahead of the weekend.

TEACHERS from Poole’s Victoria Education Centre will take further strike action this week amid an ongoing dispute over conditions of employment.

As a virtual life-long local resident and building society customer that progressively has been forcibly absorbed into what we now know as Nationwide, I was particularly interested in the plans and policies outlined in the Echo by the current chief e...

Following the ‘will they-won’t they’ debacle over beach hut users getting any sort of refund for 2020, we were eventually promised a freeze on our licence fees for 2021.

SO THERE it is Boris Johnson's so called ethics laid bare, greed is good.

A SPECIAL constable "betrayed the trust placed in him" when he searched for people's personal information on a police record system.

DORSET resident flocked to the beach as the easing of lockdown restrictions sees the reintroduction of the rule of six and the end of the ‘stay at home’ rule.

POLICE descended on a Bournemouth road after a wanted man was spotted this morning.

A 13-YEAR-OLD girl was kicked in the stomach twice and threatened with a knife after a man forced her off her bike in Christchurch.

BOURNEMOUTH, Christchurch and Poole will be the focus of a ground-breaking pilot scheme this summer which will see drone-based technology used to tackle the issue of litter.

More than 700 women and girls reported being raped to Dorset Police in the space of just one year, alarming figures show - while seven women and girls were killed in the county over a three year period.

POLICE are hunting the occupants of a green Jaguar after a man was punched and hit in the face during a road rage incident in Bournemouth.

SEVENTY years ago, the model town in Wimborne opened its doors for the first time.

A ROGUE animal trader unlawfully imported puppies and falsely claimed they were rabies-free to customers.

Officers are appealing for information from the public to help locate a man who went missing from Poole.