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A MAN stole several wheels from vehicles after breaking into two car hire sites before fleeing in a van.

CREDITORS hit by the collapse of the long-established Dorset firm Sea View Coaches have received the majority of what they were owed.

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....

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 coac...

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’ – th...