Motorhome Retrofits installs luxuries such as Wi-Fi, audio-visual equipment, 360-degree parking cameras, navigation and security systems. Sales of motorhomes have rocketed during the pandemic and the company says owners spending tens of thousands of pounds often want their motorhomes improved. James Harris, who founded Advanced In-Car Technologies in 2003, said he set up the new venture after being inundated with requests to retrofit motorhomes. The company bought a new unit on Brixey Business Park in Fancy Road, Poole, opposite its existing business, and launched Motorhome Retrofits. Mr Harris said: “We have more than 20,000 YouTube followers and hundreds of five star reviews.
Seventeen people lost their jobs when Poole-based Sea View Coaches went into administration last April. The company, which started in the mid-1960s, had faced difficulties for several years before the Covid pandemic put paid to hopes of a rescue. The administrators who were appointed to handle the company’s affairs a year ago have now been made liquidators. They will arrange a “significant” payment to unsecured creditors. Administrators sold the company’s Fancy Road site for £627,000, which was “significantly” higher than original estimates. Most of the company’s coaches were leased from two finance companies, but two were sold at auction for a total of £19,000. Another £1,000 was raised from two other vehicles owned by the company.
Andrew Scholes, left, Constantin Luci Dobra, centre, and Reece Beasley, right, are three of the motorists caught drink driving in December 2020 A NUMBER of motorists caught drink driving during Dorset Police’s winter crackdown have been dealt with by the courts in recent weeks. Throughout the month of December 2020, the force ran a campaign across the county’s roads in an effort to stamp out offenders driving while under the influence of alcohol or illicit substances. Drink driving and drug driving are seen as one of the factors that make up Dorset Police’s ‘fatal five’ – the five most dangerous behaviours for those in charge of a vehicle.