A RINGWOOD-based charity has attacked the decision not to allow NHS patients a last hope drug for treating liver cancer. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) found that sorafenib, sold under the trade name of Nexavar, was
PERHAPS it’s because I’m expecting to be the butt of one of his impressions, but I come over all confused about what day it is while I’m on the phone to Alistair McGowan. “It’s because there was no (English) football on this week,” he jokes
A GP’s timely warning that he could have to shut his surgery list to new patients if a much-needed extension did not get the go-ahead has swayed civic planners. Despite almost 100 letters of support, Bournemouth’s principal planning officer
LEAVES on the line have long been used as an excuse for rail delays. But leaves, debris and howling gales caused by the weekend storms failed to put Network Rail behind schedule with their work on the Ashley Road bridge. Saturday saw the demolition
A LEADING animal charity has announced its fundraising appeal for a new cat homing centre in Ferndown has topped the £1 million mark. But as Christmas approaches, Cats Protection is appealing to cat lovers to help it raise the remaining £550,000 needed
BOTH lanes of the A31 were closed near Wimborne this afternoon after a four-vehicle collision, a quarter of a mile east of the Canford Bottom roundabout. The accident happened at about 4.45pm and there were no serious injuries. The eastbound carriageway
Wimborne’S tradition of the town’s Militia firing muskets over the Christmas tree during the switch-on ceremony has been reinstated, after being banned last year. Town mayor John Burden said he has come up with a compromise. Last
A UNIQUE partnership in Poole is celebrating a successful first year that has seen 3,251 potentially life-saving blood donations given. This is the first permanent blood donor suite in a town centre location in the country, and on Saturday
STRENGTH and conditioning coach John Dalzell has joined the Cherries backroom staff on a permanent basis. Dalzell, who spent six weeks with the Cherries squad in an unpaid capacity during pre-season, has accepted a full-time post with the Dorset club
FORMER Cherries favourite Marcus Browning is targeting a famous FA Cup double – the third round as a player and the fourth round as a coach. Browning watched on from the dugout as Cherries booked their place in the third round of the |FA Youth Cup with
A BUDDING young author has penned a children’s booklet to raise money for Children in Need. Talented nine-year-old Leah Gelder of Cowslip Road, Broadstone, was at Allendale Community Centre in Wimborne signing copies of Ba Ba Pudsey, which she hopes
THIS one-woman comedy musical tells the story of Estelle Bright, a bubbly, quirky Englishwoman who is looking for love in Paris, when she is not working as a voice-over artist. And what a voice-over artist – pulling off vocal flourishes in French, English
DORSET County Hospital is haemorrhaging an average of half-a-million pounds a month. Figures in the hospital trust’s annual report showed a deficit of £1.84million for the last financial year of April 2008 to March 2009. Hospital chiefs have been
ALISTAIR MCGOWAN’S comedy show in aid of Children in Need will now be staged at the Chine Hotel in Boscombe Spa Road - it was originally planned for Bournemouth's Pavilion. Read Gavin Haines' interview with Alistair in the Daily Echo on Friday
Three Israeli men and an Israeli woman were due to be deported on Wednesday night after working illegally at Poole’s Dolphin Centre. The four were selling beauty products at stalls inside the shopping centre, which were raided by officers from the UK
OBJECTORS in Christchurch are hoping to topple two planning appeals by Vodafone to erect mobile phone masts in two different parts of the borough. Christchurch Borough Council rejected the applications for approval for the 10metre high poles
A CYCLIST accused of a double assault while weaving along busy Bournemouth promenade has appeared in court. Nicholas Rowntree, 43, of Market Street, Poole, denies both attacks, which are alleged to have happened a few minutes apart on June
Thinking back, it’s hard to remember a significant episode in my life that didn’t involve food. From satsumas in the bottom of our stockings on Christmas day to summer picnics at the beach with soggy sandwiches a plenty. Then there was
PLEASE don’t give us a third summer season of misery. That was the plea from one trader as shop owners and businesses heard about the Waitrose development plans for Wimborne. The packed meeting, organised by Wimborne chamber of trade but open
THIS is not the original Fame that was such a hit in the 80s, but a sequel set 20 years later, when the ghost of Carmen Diaz, who died of a drug overdose before she could graduate, finds herself back at the High School For Performing Arts watching both
I read with great interest the comments and the walkabout the Daily Echo did with Pam Donnellan, the chief executive of Bournemouth Borough Council, as Pam lives in Boscombe (Daily Echo, November 17). Sorry, Pam, much as I have great respect
Regarding the many column inches devoted to the various issues centred in and around Boscombe, it is my pleasure to announce that the next meeting of the Boscombe Area Forum scheduled for the evening of Thursday December 3 (venue to be confirmed) will
REGARDING the Kings Park conundrum, I hope that the powers that be have included all 999 emergency services, as well as ancillary services, bomb disposal, Coastguards, doctors’ cars and the AA/RAC in those vehicles permitted to go through the park.
I have recently finished banking all of the Poppy Appeal’s town centre and arcade takings for 2009 and would like to take this opportunity sincerely to thank the staff at Redhill Post Office in Leybourne Avenue/Hillview Road who were so helpful during
THE annual Christchurch Fish and Chip Supper for less mobile Senior Citizens will be held this year on Thursday December 17. We have enough funds to pay for the transport, food and drinks, but I’d like to put out a plea for Christmas gifts. Popular
BOURNEMOUTH is changing and not always for the better. With developers snapping up plots of land to cram houses on, the council has now resorted to removing and cutting back mature pines to accommodate builders. In Wick Lane we recently had a couple
I ONCE broke a record. It wouldn’t have mattered if it was Sugar Sugar by the Archies. But it wasn’t that sort of record at all. The record was the lowest score ever achieved by a member of my school’s Cadet Force in the Army Proficiency exam. With
The assertion that the Union Flag on the fishing boat at Poole Quay was being flown upside down is a sign of distress is inaccurate (Daily Echo, November 18). A British registered vessel flies the Red Ensign, most eye catching when flown wrongly.
HUNDREDS more school places must be created in Bournemouth due to a sharp rise in the birth rate. Ten schools are now being considered for expansion to ensure every reception age child can be offered a place in September 2011. A further 300 places are
The BSO had been whittled down to chamber orchestra size but the strength of character in the music belied the forces required. Duncan Riddell, directing from the violin, in partnership with Lawrence Power, viola rightly relished Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante
PEOPLE are being warned to stay on their guard against bogus callers after a number of incidents involving doorstep conmen. Police are hunting tricksters posing as bailiffs and cold callers offering council tax refunds in exchange for bank details.
A battered boat which sank in Poole Harbour on Monday night (16) has been recovered. The Channel Chieftain IV was raised by giant cranes today (THUR 19) during the 5am low tide. The 94-tonne vessel was towed by the Poole Harbour Commissioners
There’s not a lot that can rival being in a big city during an important sporting event in terms of atmosphere and passion. That’s the main reason I aim to get to London for as much of the 2012 Olympics as possible. I was in the centre of Dublin on Saturday
HOME was a cramped cellar beneath a Chinese restaurant. While their employers were netting “large profits,” their poorly paid illegal immigrants slept in four beds crammed into a small basement room below their workplace. But the tables
A pet shop owner has had 100 birds worth around £2,000 snatched in the fifth raid on his business in three years. Danny Brown, owner of Three Oaks Animal Kabin in The Courtyard Centre, Lytchett Minster, says thieves removed part of the roof
A COUPLE found inspiration for their baby’s name from the place she was born. But it wasn’t Brooklyn or Paris – little Kia was born on the back seat of a Kia people carrier. Tony and Samantha were just pulling into Poole Hospital when
SEVERAL Purbeck schools could be saved from closure as councillors consider new proposals in the controversial education shake-up. Dorset County Council decided in July to press ahead with plans to adopt a two-tier system in the district in
SAMMY Igoe looks set to become the next Cherries star to battle through the pain barrier after being given the all-clear to join the club’s walking wounded. The midfield playmaker made a goalscoring return following an eight-week lay-off when he paved
KING’S Lynn chief Jonathan Chapman revealed they could have got more money for teenage sensation Darcy Ward by selling him to an undisclosed rival Elite League club. But Chapman, who led Stars to a Premier League treble this year, insisted he let the
A salvage operation to raise a wreck from the waters of Poole Quay will resume today. The Channel Chieftain IV was half lifted out of the water yesterday at the 5pm low tide, after it suddenly sunk on Monday. But part of the craft’s
