Thieves who toured the country to break into cash machines to steal hundreds of thousands of pounds have been jailed. Luke McCarthy, 40, and Harry Thomas, 29, both from Bristol, played leading roles as groups took power tools to machines 16 times, mostly on petrol station forecourts and in supermarkets at night. Prosecutors said the...

Work has begun on the next stage of a two-year coastal defence project. Photos have been released showing how engineers are replacing two existing timber groynes at the beach below East Cliff in Bournemouth. This phase of work is expected to take until December. Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council warned the public to keep...

The head chef of a superyacht drowned after falling from a quayside in the south of France following a night out drinking, an inquest has heard. Flinn Sessions, of Wimborne, Dorset, was working on the Atlantico yacht, moored at La Ciotat, near Marseille, on 9 June 2023. An inquest at Bournemouth heard the 22-year-old visited...

A wall is being reinstated at a crematorium to stop people using it as a shortcut after “significant disruption” was caused to funeral services. Part of the boundary at Weymouth Crematorium was originally removed to allow maintenance access from Shirecroft Road. But Dorset Council said “significant concerns” had been raised about the “lack of privacy...

A speedway team just one race from potentially securing three major titles have been forced to put their final back due to forecast wet weather. Poole Pirates were set to host the Redcar Bears in the BSN Series final second leg at Wimborne Road, Poole, at 19:30 BST. The speedway team said due to the...

It was a prospect that felt even further away a year ago. Kelly acknowledged that his move to Newcastle did not go “the way he wanted” after he joined from Bournemouth on a free transfer in June 2024. Such was the form of Dan Burn and Lewis Hall, who played in Kelly’s preferred positions at...