The driver of a Mercedes was caught speeding at 80mph in Ringwood Road, Bear Cross in June last year. Pictures: Dorset Police No Excuse team A POOLE man caught driving a Mercedes at 80mph in a 40mph zone in Bournemouth has been handed a driving ban. John James Ryan Ward was speeding on the A348 Ringwood Road at Bear Cross on June 19 last year. Ward, 20, appeared at Poole Magistrates Court for sentencing having previously admitted the offence. The bench issued the defendant with a £300 fine and an order to pay a £60 surcharge and £85 costs. He was disqualified from holding or or obtaining a driving licence for 75 days.
A police officer was injured in an alterction in Avenue Road, Bournemouth A POLICE officer suffered a head injury when two men stopped in Bournemouth town centre allegedly resisted arrest. The officer was injured after attempting stop searches of two men in Avenue Road at 12.30pm on Tuesday March 2. One man is said to have made off from the scene with the other involved in an alleged altercation with the police officer. One man, aged 18 and of Bournemouth, was arrested and was allegedly found to be in possession of a small quantity of a suspected class B drug. He has been charged with assaulting an emergency worker and possession of a class B drug.
The meeting was arranged in the days that followed and officers arrested the defendant at the pier.
Bournemouth Pier. Picture: PA During interview, Taylor, who has autism and Asperger’s, initially made no comment but went on to say the situation had been a “fantasy he never intended to go through with”. Mitigating, Roderick Blain told the judge it was a question of “how long” his client was jailed for rather than the type of sentence issued in this case. He said first contact with the undercover officer to arrest covered just three days. The barrister described the way Taylor behaved as “very unsophisticated”.
The Duck in Poole Road, Westbourne. Picture: Google Maps/ Street View A MAN has been ordered to pay compensation after damaging a door at a Westbourne bar. Anthony James Beazant admitted causing £115.50 worth of damage to the door which belonged to The Dancing Duck. The incident took place at the Poole Road bar on September 24, 2019. Beazant, 32 and of Lindsay Road, Poole, pleaded guilty to a single charge of criminal damage when he appeared in the dock at Poole Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, February 23. The bench issued the defendant with a £40 fine, as well as an order to pay £85 costs and £115 compensation.
Book calls PM an ‘inveterate liar’
Boris Johnson is “an unrepentant and inveterate liar” who feels he is not subject to the same rules as others, according to a former French ambassador to the UK’s new book. In
Goodbye Britannia, Sylvie Bermann writes that Johnson uses “lies to embellish reality, as a game and as instrument of power”. The former ambassador to the UK from 2014 to 2017 also predicts that Johnson will seek to use Covid to conceal the true economic cost of Brexit on the UK economy.
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Clegg defends Facebook
Nick Clegg has said the Australian government and press drove Facebook to block news from the feeds of users down under. Offering what he describes as “the real story” behind the news ban in Australia, he blamed the fallout on the government and publishers rather than his employers. However, after users in Australia were denied access to news last week, the vice-president of global affairs for the social media giant admitted that Facebook “err