Dorset Police

“BIN a knife… to save a life” – this is the message to the public as both Hampshire and Dorset police supports a week-long national blade amnesty.

POLICE are hunting a driver who failed to stop after mounting a kerb and colliding with a pedestrian in Hurn Road.

FOUR men are due to appear in court after an alleged assault in Somerford Road, Christchurch, nine months ago which left a man hospitalised.

CRIME continued to fall in Hampshire and Dorset, according to latest official figures, although sex offences and stalking both rose.

A VULNERABLE Christchurch man who has been missing since last Friday has been found.

A FRUSTRATED Winkton pensioner's car has had its windows shot out in catapult attacks three times in as many weeks.

POLICE have launched an appeal to find a missing Christchurch man.

SOFAS, a bed and a desk were among waste dumped in a lane in Burton.

TREES and power lines were brought down across roads as strong winds and torrential rain battered the New Forest and Christchurch at the weekend.

ANTI-Semitic abuse was hurled at a man and a woman by an occupant of a car which reportedly narrowly missed them in Bank Close car park, Christchurch.

POLICE chiefs from Hampshire and Dorset have reached out to the public in the wake of Wayne Couzens being jailed for life.

POLICE are hunting vandals who ripped away railings and wrecked a CCTV camera at Portfield Community Hall in Christchurch, causing £3,000 in damage.

POLICE had to put out a fire as they tackled a group of anti-social youths in Christchurch.

A COUPLE claiming to be food bloggers are suspected of scamming Christchurch restaurants and netting hundreds of pounds worth of food and wine.

A MOTORCYCLIST was badly hurt in a collision with a car which closed a stretch of the A35 at Christchurch for nearly three hours.

DORSET police is urging people to "behave sensibly" after receiving reports of huge queues at petrol stations blocking roads.

PUPILS ran for safety as a car crashed into a kerb near Ringwood School after a high-speed cross-county police pursuit of attempted robbery suspects.

A CONVICTED sex offender from Christchurch was caught "lurking" near and "peering" into a student flat, Bournemouth Crown Court heard.

REPORTS of vandalism and anti-social and intimidating behaviour resulted in police moving two homeless men on from Saxon Square in Christchurch.

POLICE are hunting burglars who snatched a large quantity of high-value cigarettes in a raid on Waitrose in Christchurch.