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  • OLYMPIC HOPEFUL: Millpond for final day of Euros

    A millpond was the look of the racing area for most of the final day of racing for us in Middelfart today. With another postponement we finally started racing about 1.30 to continue with the quarter-final round robin however the decision was made

  • Good folk like Joan

    HAVING played the 50th Newport Folk Festival last weekend, duetting with Judy Collins and joining Pete Seeger on stage, folk legend Joan Baez has announced a full UK tour later this year including a date at Salisbury City Hall on November 11. The Newport

  • Seventies feeling as carnival hits town

    SEVENTIES-style hippies helped spread love and peace throughout Bournemouth as carnival fever hit the town on Sunday. Also parading through the town centre were colourful butterflies, cute caterpillars and an array of dancers and majorettes

  • Crowds gather to see annual country show

    HEAVY horses, sheep and cows, working dog displays and birds of prey all formed part of the fun at the annual Ellingham Show on Saturday. The Daily Echo-backed traditional country show held in the grounds of Somerley Park near Ringwood, estimated

  • Katie Price signs in to delight her fans

    SAY what you like about Katie Price, but she certainly knows how to make an entrance. After a dental emergency forced the model to pull out of last week’s Bournemouth book signing, all the talk amongst queuing fans was whether she would actually

  • Woman falls through skylight

    A WOMAN is lucky to be alive after plunging 15ft through a skylight. The woman, believed to be in her 40s, lives in flats above Barclays Bank in Highcliffe. The maisonettes, above the bank in Lymington Road, open onto a flat roof, and it was on this

  • Taffy wants more goals

    INFLUENTIAL midfielder Taffy Richardson got Poole Town’s title defence off to a flyer – then set his sights on more goals as he continues to defy the years. Richardson headed a 50th-minute winner as the reigning Wessex League champions defeated a hard-working

  • Heart doctor saves life after wasp sting shock

    A PENSIONER who went into anaphylactic shock after being stung by a wasp at an agricultural show had his life saved by a cardiologist at the scene. The man in his eighties and in a wheelchair is said to have been stung on the lip by a wasp

  • Walker stars on the island

    WIMBORNE Town assistant manager Darren Powell highlighted the fine performance of Nathan Walker as Magpies earned a point on the Isle of Wight. Walker, playing alongside older brother Michael in the Wimborne defence, produced a commanding display as

  • Ollie on target in Poppies win

    OLLIE Phillipson-Masters headed a debut goal as new-look Bournemouth Poppies got off to a winning Wessex Premier Division start. The former Wimborne Town star converted a Paul Roberts corner to secure a 1-0 victory for the Victoria Park outfit

  • Bournemouth council showing true grit for winter

    IT MAY still be summer but Bournemouth council is already planning for the winter, splashing out on two new gritters to keep the roads ice-free. The gritters, which will cost £120,000, will replace ones that are more than 20 years old and no longer fit

  • BSO ABBA SYMPHONIC SPECTACULAR

    I’M not much of a Dancing Queen (though some may beg to differ) but I like Abba as much as the next bloke. As with tens of millions of others, the super Swedes – along with Freddie Mercury and his gang – provided the soundtrack for my teenage

  • Cyclist suffers serious injuries

    A CYCLIST, who rode the wrong way down a one-way street seconds before colliding with a car, has been rushed to hospital with serious injures. The 29-year-old Poole man was injured in Parkstone’s Bournemouth Road, at 5.15pm, on Friday.

  • Cherries: Guyett hails 'inspiration' Ponting

    SCOTTIE Guyett revealed he had taken inspiration for his comeback heroics from Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting. The Queenslander, a cricketing fanatic, answered Cherries’ defensive SOS when he made his first start for seven months