ANOTHER seven-ride spectacular from Jerran Hart helped Bournemouth hold off a relentless challenge from the Isle of Wight and triumph 49-41. Garry May’s side voyaged across the Solent this evening, determined to stage a repeat of their 57-34
PUPILS at Burton Primary School have raised £270 for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Poole Hospital. After a year collecting 20,000 one and two pence pieces, students presented Pamela Bell, fundraising co-ordinator at the hospital with the funds
A COMMUNITY group designed to increase awareness about how local people can help alleviate the problem of decreasing world oil supplies is inviting people to their next meeting. Transition Towns Christchurch is following in the footsteps of other groups
MIGRANT workers are to receive ‘welcome packs’ in a bid to make them feel more at home in Bournemouth and Poole. They will also have access to English language training, cultural orientation sessions and a buddy scheme as part of a newly announced
THEY’RE booting 81-year-old Bruce Forsyth and 65-year-old Len Goodman off Strictly Come Dancing because they’re just too wrinkly for the job and replacing them with much better-looking guys half their age. Don’t worry, I’m only joking, of
HAVING lain empty for months, the empty Woolworths store in Christchurch High Street will be opened as a discount store in the next few weeks. Contracts were exchanged on Friday for the 99p Stores Ltd to move into the premises, which have lain
PHOTOGRAPHER Richard Heeps shows his latest exhibition of limited edition prints in Present Past Future at the Photographers Lounge, Swanage until September 20. His work has been acclaimed as both art and documentary and his distinctive style
I WANT to confess something to you. I have turned to crime. After years of leading an ordinary and law-abiding life, I have discovered the pleasures of wrong-doing. It all started when I found myself popping into the supermarket late
SPECTACULAR Somerley Park near Ringwood will play host to the 60th Ellingham Show on Saturday. The traditional agricultural show, which has maintained its close links to the farming community, has a packed programme full of country pursuits
ALMOST a quarter of the south west’s stunning coastline is still not fully accessible to the public, a study has revealed. The Natural England report, which mapped England’s entire 2748 mile coastal access, found 34 per cent of the nation’s coastline
POLICE are on the trail of a burglar who used a five-year-old girl to help him steal from a house in Poole. The man, in his 20s, was accompanied by the small, fair-haired girl during the distraction burglary. Using the youngster as a
A GRIPPING criminal inquiry where police joined forces with the Daily Echo to catch a bomber and blackmailer will feature on national television on Thursday night. ITV1’s Real Crime documentary, to be shown at 10.30pm, features Robert Dyer,
A TEAM of experts is drawing up plans to revitalise Wimborne after businesses said they’ve suffered a glut of bad luck. The Canford Bridge linking Wimborne to Merley was closed completely to traffic for four months while it was repaired, last
DREADLOCKED singer songwriter type, Newton Faulkner took the helm of Condor Ferries’ catamaran en route from Poole to the Channel Islands for the Grassroots Eco Music Festival. Under the close supervision of Captain Steve Ainscow, the spectacularly dreadlocked-Newton
FROM The Jam are to follow their blistering set at Mr Kyps last weekend with a return date early next year. Original Jam rhythm section Bruce Foxton and drummer Rick Buckler, with singer/guitarist Russell Hastings, enjoyed the Kyps reception so much
DANCE music deity Calvin Harris, who has a date lined up at the Opera House (soon to be renamed Bournemouth O2 Academy) on October 16, has said there’s is a lack of really good dance music around at the moment because mainstream producers are getting
BOURNEMOUTH had opener Tom Wilkinson to thank as they leapfrogged Parley at the top of the table. The Chapel Gate outfit look favourites to claim the Dorset Sunday Division One crown following their comfortable victory over Blandford at the weekend.
EXCLUDED schoolchildren are more likely to go in to a life of crime, a Bournemouth University study has found. Researchers compared two “disadvantaged” groups of young men between 16 and 24 as they both have higher crime rates than the general
MILFORD’S Sheila Hall described her team’s D Division encounter at Alexandra Park as “exciting, nailbiting and exhausting”. After torrential rain, a player being stung and huge fir cones falling from trees, it all came down to 21-12 on two rinks
WITH their nearest rivals playing each other, Boscombe Cliff took the opportunity to increase their lead at the top of Section One by inflicting a 10-4 (91-81) defeat on lowly Wimborne. Alan Geary’s rink of Alex Findlay, Mike Proctor and Dave Halliday
August 4, 2009: Wow - I am over the £1,000 mark, I guess my 'begging' letter worked. I am so pleased that I have been able to do something positive and make a difference. I have decided to stop publishing my journal in the Echo.
DAVID Baxter picked up his second men’s singles title at the Rockley Holiday Park-sponsored Poole Open. The Alexandra Park stalwart saw off Dorset’s Middleton |Cup captain Stacey Dickinson 22-13 in a dramatic final that saw the Dorchester star
PLANNED in tribute to Big Issue vendor Ralph Millward, who was killed in Westbourne in May, Sunday’s performance of And Then They Came For Me at Bournemouth’s Pavilion Theatre has been postponed due to illness. In a statement from the BIC, the producers
WITH clearing skies we left 'Elm Creek' after a quick breakfast and headed to Winnipeg, home to 750,000 people, the main city in the province of Manitoba. A shorter, 50-mile day on the saddle meant more time to pitch our tents, make some phone-calls
AFTER Dad (kindly!) washed the car, we left Wawanesa early in the morning and made good time with the sun shining and the wind at our backs. Riding at about 20 mph on an almost perfectly flat road we had covered a fair distance by lunchtime. The scenery
WE AWOKE in our tents to heavy rain and chilly temperatures, it felt like England in March... Whilst British Columbia in the West of Canada has a huge heat-wave and forest fires, here in Manitoba in the Prairies it's cool and wet. We sat in the car
I LEFT Stoughton with a bit of of hangover (not exactly condusive to distance cycling...) but felt okay after an hour or so on the bike. The inclement weather actually was pretty kind to us and the rain mostly held off today. We passed
DUE to personal reasons, Dirty Strangers with special guest John Sinclair, have had to bump their show at Wimborne’s Tivoli Theatre on Saturday. The band hope to reschedule next year and have already pencilled in May 7. All tickets for the original
PLANNED in tribute to Big Issue vendor Ralph Millward, who was killed in Westbourne in May, Sunday’s performance of And Then They Came For Me at Bournemouth’s Pavilion Theatre has been postponed due to illness. In a statement from the BIC, the producers
Contributed by Suzi Rose on 04/08/09 I untie my shoelaces, then take a photograph of the rainbow. It’s the first one I’ve seen all year. I take off my shoes and socks and wiggle my toes in the water. There is a gentle rustling in the trees
Elephant Words are the ways in which we describe or interpret the same thing in different ways. Elephant Words is a burst-culture website, featuring daily flash-fiction. Each Sunday, an image is posted. Over the following week, each
THE launch of the new National Pandemic Flu Service is leading to a “significant” drop in the number of calls to both GPs and NHS Direct, according to the South West Strategic Health Authority. In the second issue of their Flu Update leaflet, the authority
Savills Wimborne has achieved outline planning permission for housing on a site in Shaftesbury. North Dorset District Council Planning Committee approved plans to develop the former Church of England First School in Mampitts Road, Shaftesbury, which
A CONSTRUCTION company in Poole has moved into new premises and taken on two new staff. Through Sibbett Gregory, Greendale has purchased Unit 6, Old Generator House on Bourne Valley Road in Poole, which forms part of a substantial Victorian building.
MINI is celebrating its 50th anniversary. There will be an International Mini Meet in Longbridge, Birmingham August 8-9. This will be followed by birthday celebrations at the Frankfurt Motor Show in Germany, later in the month. On Wednesday
A BUS driver was assaulted by a man he had asked to stop swearing. The Yellow Buses driver was slapped in the face and had his glasses knocked off after speaking to the man. Police have only just released details of the assault, which
A LYMINGTON-based team are behind the latest attempt on the world steam land speed record. The British Steam Car had a successful test run at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave desert this week which offers miles of flat, dry
THIS stunning picture shows work on Boscombe’s artificial surf reef making progress with another two bags of sand being filled onto the ramp. Strong winds through the latter part of July stopped work on the reef, but last weekend more sand was put onto
A PUB landlord was allegedly chased around a packed village pub by a teenager brandishing a kitchen knife after he refused to serve the boy alcohol. Father-of-two Geoff Mockland, who runs the Dorset Soldier pub in Wareham Road, Corfe Mullen, says he
BOURNEMOUTH'S National League title credentials are expected to face a stern examination when they visit the Isle of Wight tonight. The Islanders will be hoping to leapfrog the table-topping Buccaneers and become the first team to lower their colours
DANIEL Davidsson has put his Pirates demise down to his “lack of organisation” off track. The Swede, who made it clear he had no qualms with Poole Castle Cover chief Matt Ford’s decision to axe him, admitted he “had learnt a big lesson this
DORSET representatives claimed most of the plaudits on the opening day of the Bowlaway Bournemouth Open yesterday. Although Rosemary Lester and Mike Beales made an early exit in the mixed pairs event, it was fellow Dorset duo Julia Eatwell and Michael
TWENTY years after last stepping foot on Bournemouth beach budding artist Michael Campling has returned to create this colourful painting of the seafront. Michael grew up in Bournemouth as a boy in the 1960s before his family emigrated to Durban, South
POOLE residents could be crossing the long-awaited Twin Sails Bridge before the end of 2011. The £37 million is in place, the legal agreement has just been signed and now six short-listed international companies are being invited by Borough
CO-founder and editor-in-chief of The Big Issue, Dr John Bird MBE will introduce a special performance of And Then They Came For Me at the Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth on Sunday in tribute to Ralph Millward, the Big Issue vendor killed in Westbourne
The council leaders of Bournemouth and Poole breezily dismiss the substantial savings already made by Peter Davies, the elected mayor of Doncaster (Hero mayor creates nightmare for others, Daily Echo, August 1). Nevertheless, the actions taken
I write in support of the letter on Saturday asking where our gym equipment for Branksome Rec is. Time and again it’s a matter of no expense spared when it comes to Poole Park, Whitecliff and Sandbanks – new green gym equipment, lavish new and modernised
WHEN working in industry, if any suggestions, ideas or comments came from the shop floor, they was either poo poo-ed or politely shelved or forgotten until someone in authority thought about it at a later date, when it became a brilliant idea. After
AS her boyfriend lay in a coma, devastated Jo Ventham didn’t know if he would live or die. Mounting a bedside vigil at Southampton General Hospital, she was desperate for the smallest of signs that he would pull through. After preparing
THE Echo’s End the Embargo campaign has really captured the hearts of the supporters – judging by the mountain of mail on the paper’s sports desk yesterday morning. We have received hundreds of signed petitions from fans supporting our quest to have
STAR striker Brett Pitman has reiterated his desire to remain at Dean Court after admitting that the rumour mill had come to his attention during the close-season. Pitman was Cherries’ top scorer last term with 17 goals and that impressive form inevitably
A STRESSED mum who couldn’t cope with “the terrible twos” left her young son home alone for five hours while she went out drinking. The 30-year-old Poole woman downed four pints and four whiskeys, remaining at the pub until closing time before
THE death of long-serving Dean Park head groundsman Fred Kingston has evoked memories of an iconic Echo photograph taken on the final day of the last County Championship match Hampshire hosted at the Bournemouth ground in 1992. The photo
PLANS for Milford to rival Eastbourne as a smart seaside watering hole drawn up by the Cornwallis-West family in the 19th century are on display in an exhibition in the village. The Grand Centenary Exhibition is being staged by Milford-on-Sea
YOU don’t need to pick up the Echo on a Thursday or Saturday to find the best jobs. After several stories about consultants working within local councils, we’ve now got an absolute cracker for the princely sum of around £250,000. And do you know what
In response to Elaine Newton’s letter (Saturday, August 1) I have to say that I was dismayed to have to make the decision. However, should the authority decide that Branksome Rec was not a town green it could easily be argued by the applicants, or an
I refer to the recent article Errors not spotted despite 34 visits to Charminster flats (Daily Echo, July 29) and would like to clarify and correct a number of issues. My planning officers did not make 34 visits as a large number were by building
Regarding the Penn Hill sculpture, I cannot see what all the fuss is about. The sculpture is obviously unfinished. It is clearly intended to be the fourth plinth and is awaiting something more interesting to go on top. Paul Yeandle, Kings Avenue, Lower
MOTORISTS driving into Bournemouth from the east will, for the next couple of weeks, see an aeroplane at the side of the Wessex Way. It’s there to promote the upcoming air show, and a jolly good idea it is too. But once the final fly-past
Who played here in history 5 years ago: The Budmisers – Mr Smiths, Bournemouth (3.8.04). Jinder – Central, Ashley Cross (4.8.04). The Bewley Brothers – The Gander, Bournemouth (7.8.04). Olmec Diagram + This Blood Burns – Mr Smiths, Bournemouth
