BEACH-GOERS have been warned to take care after replenishment works have left 'soft sand' in Bournemouth and Poole.

A FORMER civil servant involved in the supply of class A drugs has avoided prison after a three-year delay in court proceedings.

We all love a good restaurant to share a plate of food and a laugh.

A THIRD planning application to demolish a West Cliff seafront hotel and replace it with a block of flats has been submitted.

Here are the Bournemouth roads with the highest reports of antisocial behaviour in 2020 - do you live on one of them?

Take a look at some of Dorset's forgotten and abandoned RAF bases where pilots left never returned.

DETECTIVES are investigating a reported assault in Bournemouth that allegedly saw a woman hit in the head with a baseball bat and stamped on.

WalkSafe app reveals the most dangerous places to walk in Bournemouth

BRACE yourselves. Warm sunshine is set to be replaced by colder conditions this week.

With construction of the Port of Southampton’s fifth cruise terminal well underway, ABP is inviting readers to get involved with naming this new iconic port building .

ACTOR Billy Murray came to Bournemouth to talk about his new gangster film Nemesis.

ACTOR Billy Murray – known for his villainous roles in EastEnders and The Bill – was in Bournemouth to talk about his new gangster movie, Nemesis.

THOUSANDS of empty houses across Dorset should be used to help solve the national housing crisis, campaigners argue.

How well do you remember old cinemas of Bournemouth?

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PLANS for Dorset’s first hydrogen fuel processing facility have been submitted to BCP Council

A long-serving former headmistress of a Bournemouth School has died at the age of 91.

A DEVELOPER has come under fire for failing to build a £1m bridge that would serve a luxury housing development in a New Forest town.

A NEW housing model has been launched across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole to help rough sleepers find permanent accommodation.

ARTS University Bournemouth (AUB) has been recognised in a government report on how English universities benefit the economy and society.

DORSET Community Foundation’s report into its response to the pandemic has praised the work of thousands of volunteers and charity organisers for the work they did to keep the county safe.

A CHRISTCHURCH man is putting his running skills to the test as he takes on the Virgin Money London Marathon in aid of Bournemouth charity Home-Start South East Dorset.

BAR MED was a Bournemouth nightlife staple for the best part of a decade and always proved popular, especially with students.

I LISTENED with interest to Sir Desmond Swayne, pontificating in parliament about the so-called tyranny of a proposed vaccination passport.

We recently featured a photo for the now closed Lanz Sports Center in Boscombe.

THERE is no escape from an atomic war since all animals and plants will become mutants so don’t even think about it as a possible solution to Russia’s domination.

THE March 22 Echo proudly proclaims “This is how life looked in Dorset 58 years ago” on pages 22 and 23, but if that is the case, why have three photos of life in Christchurch been included?

WHEN I was a young mum in the late 1950s-early 1960s, living about 30 miles from the rest of our families, my mother-in-law in her 70s without fail, however busy she was, would write me a very colourful description of what she’d been doing, the ...

WELL done to the council for issuing a Covid warning to all the expected holidaymakers this Easter weekend.

I REALLY consider more effort should have been shown for the elderly in the planning for the 2021 census. There was an assumption that everybody had a computer.

BOURNEMOUTH beaches remained quiet today despite the sunshine and clear skies.

ROAD users could face a year of traffic chaos as a busy slip road onto the A31 could close for a year.

LESS than 10 coronavirus cases were confirmed in Dorset over the last 24 hours, latest figures have revealed.

LESS than 20 people have died with coronavirus in the last 24 hours across the UK, with no deaths in Dorset hospitals, latest figures reveal.