School children whose work was destroyed in a fire at their Lytchett Minster Upper School will still be awarded grades, examiners have said. The pupils at the Dorset school were crestfallen that their hard work was literally going up in smoke.
Armed police were seeking a robber who struck at the branch of Barclays Bank in Walisdown, near Poole. Dorset Police were alerted to the incident at about 13:20 GMT on December 4.
An attempted robbery at Poole Convenience Store, in Dorset, failed because of the bravery of the shop assistants. One of them, 24-year-old Kili Moorthy, fought off a man in a balaclava, who was brandishing a needle.
Campaign group Action for Rail protested at the size of fare increases at Southampton Central and Brighton stations. Fares will go up across south-east England by more than the 4.2% UK average in January.
Since it needs to find savings for the financial year 2013-14 of £30 million, Southampton City Council will soon make “up to 300” job cuts when it publishes its budget, according to unions.
League Two Plymouth Argyle Football Club will make up to ten non-playing staff redundant. The personnel this week were told the move was part a planned restructuring.
The firm that built the Boscombe surf reef have gone in liquidation.
Thieves deciding to strike at a Portsmouth D-Day museum just before it opened have been described as “horrendous”. The front of the building was damaged in a break-in soon after midnight earlier this week.
Southampton Itchen MP John Denham led the local concerns that a factory, which employs about 500 people, could close in the city. The Labour MP said it would be “devastating” if the Ford plant shuts.
Customers needed to exit a Weymouth restaurant when a fire broke out in the kitchen. Fire crews were called to Bella Italia in St Mary Street, Weymouth, at roughly 8pm on Monday (October 15).