DORSET Police’s ‘operation tattoo’ is well and truly underway, enabling extra officers to patrol areas highlighted as places where groups congregate.

PARKING operations run by BCP Council in 2019/20 were the 13th most profitable of anywhere in England, according to new figures.

FRONT line council workers who cannot work from home and are helping to keep essential services running across Dorset are now receiving weekly targeted asymptomatic testing.

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THE boss of the revived Beales has said high street businesses should no longer have to pay punishing rates bills.

THE Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole area is currently one of the few ‘hotspots’ in the country with a probability of recording more than 500 Covid cases per week.

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WHILE we look forward to the day we can visit Bournemouth Oceanarium once more, the Daily Echo looks back at pictures through the years.

A CAMPAIGN launched by a Bournemouth-based group to make it compulsory for all universities to offer reduced accommodation rents to students is close to being considered for debate in Parliament.

IT could almost be a home in the Hollywood hills owned by a movie star.

POLICE raided a Bournemouth town centre address and found suspected class A drugs.

THIS year's Holocaust Memorial Day event in Bournemouth will be held online – with members of the public being asked to light a candle in commemoration and remembrance.

These lockdown pets are keeping us amused

WE MAY be in the clutches of winter and in the midst of a third national lockdown, but there have been some positive stories to share.

I WATCHED on the news of the police officer in hospital with Covid and other life-threatening conditions.

A FOOTPATH is to be closed for five months while the council commences development work.

TEN years ago to the day, Dorset was blanketed with snow.

Sharon Wheeler of the Echo Camera Facebook group posted this stunningly colourful photo of a recent lockdown sunset from the safety of her own home enjoying the lockdown sunset from her home.

A WELL-loved restaurant has become a casualty of the coronavirus crisis after more than 40 years of trading.

TWO bodies have been found at an address in Poole.

SNOW and ice could cause disruption across Dorset over the next few days, the Met Office has warned.

THERE are now four times as many Covid patients in Dorset hospitals than during the peak of the first wave in April with admissions and deaths continuing to rise, health officials have said.

A number of Dorset Covid-19 patients are set to be treated at the Nightingale hospital in Exeter over the next few days.

DOG owners have been warned after claims a case of deadly Alabama Rot was diagnosed in Christchurch.

There is “some evidence” the UK variant of coronavirus is associated with “a higher degree of mortality”, Boris Johnson said.

A FURTHER 24 people have died after with Covid-19 in hospitals across Dorset.

A MAN who killed a motorcyclist by driving carelessly on a Dorset road has avoided a prison sentence.