A CLOSE friend of murdered Bournemouth University student Luke Campbell has called for his killers to face the death penalty. Andrea Young, 21, who knew Luke from his home town of Burton in Staffordshire, said the trio convicted of murder in
TEENAGE students will be checking the homes of vulnerable elderly residents then reporting back to police in a bid to save lives and cut crime across Purbeck. Under the PPALS project - the Purbeck Partnership Advisors on Living Safely scheme
IT'S a decision likely to make the March Hare seem sane. A night time festive event has been scrapped by health and safety bosses – because it was being held in the dark. The plug has been pulled on the ironically named Alice in Winter
Christmas treats for soldiers in Afghanistan will result from money raised in a raffle at the Bonmarche women’s fashion shop in Poole High Street on December 11 and 12. Boxes of goodies will be made up and sent to members of the 1st Royal Anglian Regiment
New Forest Show chief executive Richard Cuzens has been made chairman of the Association of Show and Agricultural Organisations, which represents the majority of rural shows around the UK. He was elected unanimously by fellow show organisers
WINNING combination Rob Ryan and Julian Baugh lifted the Daily Express Jamaica Doubles title at Runaway Bay. The Dorset Golf and Country Club pair overcame a late challenge from their Royal St Georges rivals to win by three points. Ryan (10 handicap
MORE than 800 health care professionals and breastfeeding experts from around the world will descend on the BIC for the Unicef UK Baby Friendly Conference next Wednesday and Thursday. Delegates will hear about research into breastfeeding and obesity,
A TWO-day salvage operation to raise the wreck of a sunken fishing boat from the bottom of Poole Quay ended successfully on Thursday. Giant cranes, teams of divers, and a 500-tonne capacity barge were called on to salvage the 94-tonne former
This week I went to see Jon, manager at Urban Beach in Boscombe, making their signature Boutique Hot Chocolate... What's so special about it? Well: it starts with four tablets of homemade 70 per cent cocoa ganache. While that's mixing
It’s time to declare war on private parking operators that slap unfair tickets on our windscreens in supermarkets, housing estates and hospital car parks. Often these are completely invalid, and the best advice is ‘don’t pay ‘em’. There
Get down to Centre Stage on Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th November for The Rebirth of Cool, a night of pure entertainment. It’s not often a variety night like this comes around in Bournemouth; so this is a night you don’t want to miss. Thanks
CONTROVERSIAL work on Bournemouth's A338 spur road is to switch from the southbound carriageway to the northbound carriageway on Monday morning. The work, to remove wildlife ahead of a major reconstruction project next year, has caused huge
THE inspiring lines and standard features of the new Vauxhall Insignia will need little enhancement for most owners, but a range of styling and lifestyle accessories has already been launched to take this deserving Car of the Year to the cutting edge
PLANS for a 60-bed residential care home on the old BAE Systems site in Christchurch have been rejected by the borough council over concerns about the economic future of the site. The application for the site in Grange Road, west Highcliffe
GETTING children to go to school can be a difficult task. But spending just one day with a little white bear with sticky paws is enough to get this little girl back into the classroom. Comes with a reward chart and stickers. 3-5 years
THIS collection of daft and fun poems about animals, the world, magic, childhood fears, relationships, school, poetry itself and many other topics by the esteemed late poet will capture a child’s imagination. Delightful comical illustrations by Tony
SPANNING 1,000 years of particularly vicious scrapping, this is a fascinating and well-illustrated account of military conflict. Taking us chronologically from the fall of western Rome to the Reformation, it strikes a neat balance between detailed narrative
“YOU damned interfering jackanapes!” snarls Professor Kew as our hero outwits him yet again, deftly side-stepping the clutching hand of death to solve another conundrum of evil. Think the vocabulary’s overwrought? Well, pretty much everything about
A RIDER was airlifted to hospital with suspected spinal injuries after being thrown from horse near Verwood. The woman, in her 40s, was riding near Verwood when her horse was spooked by a dog. Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance was alerted at
ART Art Loan Exhibition 2008-09 – Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus Manga to Mural: The Sketches of John Thomas – Russell-Cotes Art Gallery, Bournemouth (until April 30) Hidden Gems: 20th Century Faces – Russell-Cotes Art
THE place: Glasgow, a city of smoke-grimed buildings and tram cars. In Dalbeattie Street there’s a tenement close. Food and other commodities are still on ration but in The Close there are 12 flats occupied by couples and families, mostly
DID you see them? Those poor, grotesque creatures, faces distorted in pain, lips swollen, skin cracked and water gushing out of every orifice as they hauled themselves out of dark, gloomy passages. No, not Katie Price and Kim Woodburn on I’m a Celebrity
LIFEBOAT crew from Dorset have been deployed to Cumbria to help with rescues during the devastating floods. Two volunteer crew members from RNLI headquarters in Poole and two from Swanage lifeboat station arrived in Cockermouth at around
FRUSTRATED residents in Sopley are once again waiting patiently after councillors at Hampshire County Council voted to defer a decision on a wind turbine at the village school. Villagers are protesting about the potential noise levels.
“I live on the right side, I sleep on the left, that’s why everything’s got to be love or death!” belted out Harry McVeigh, along with hundreds of others, to close an enthralling and quite superb set. As a drumstick launched by Jack Lawrence-Brown
A STAR is born. Twenty-four-year-old British actress Carey Mulligan positions herself as a serious Oscar contender with a mesmerising portrayal of a conflicted schoolgirl in swinging ’60s London. Based on a memoir by journalist Lynn Barber,
BBC Solent has been criticised after a radio presenter played a clip of Meg Ryan faking an orgasm during a show broadcast during the school run. Steve Harris, presenter of the drivetime show on Radio Solent, played the ten-second recording from the movie
NOT since Harry Potter first cast a spell over cinema audiences has a franchise based on a series of best-selling novels been as completely critic-proof as The Twilight Saga. The good-looking cast could probably stare silently into the camera
WE all want to do the right thing, but few of us ever put ourselves on the line for the sake of a greater good. In the early 1990s, family man Mark Whitacre decided to blow the whistle on a global price-fixing scam in the agricultural industry
BANISHED by her husband and her village, Katalin Varga is left with no other choice than to set out on a quest to find the real father of her son, Orbán. Taking Orbán with her under another pretence, Katalin travels through the Carpathians
SOME may find it astonishing that an elderly woman can “go missing” at a social services day centre, only to be found hours later dead in a toilet having suffered a heart attack. This is precisely what happened to an 89-year-old widow at the Lymington
POUNDED by shells but protected from agriculture, a live firing range in Purbeck boasts some of the rarest pond life in the country. Ponds on Ministry of Defence land on the Lulworth firing ranges at Povington have been found to contain a caddis
IT was set up to try and encourage shoppers to support Boscombe while one of its main access roads is closed off. But just how effective is the 10p park and ride scheme from Kings Park to Boscombe? Transdev Yellow Buses, who have 16
BOURNEMOUTH council has now issued a total of 2,070 penalty charge notices to motorists for driving through Kings Park in Bournemouth to avoid traffic hold-ups. Motorists are continuing to cut through Gloucester Road to and from the park despite
We write in response to the article on the current road repairs to the A338 Spur Road, (Lizards 1, Drivers 0, Daily Echo, November 17). Dorset would be a much poorer place to live without its wonderful countryside and the unique wildlife that lives
With regard to the correspondent who objects to offering goats to Third World communities as a form of aid, suggesting that they would be better turning to farming (Have Your Say, November 17) might I point out that goats can, famously, live on almost
IN reply to Christine Oliver’s letter, I would like to write in defence of Mr Atley. At least he has had the courage to stand against Waitrose, and has stuck to his guns. OK we will have a small park area, but we will also have bland looking supermarket
The agonising picture of a poor starved dog stared out from the Echo (November 18) – and no justice for those other poor dogs that died. The so-called justice system allowed 21-year-old Natasha Longman, now of Maclean Road, Bournemouth, to
HAVING read the letter from Christine Oliver (Pitch battle on a sticky wicket, Have Your Say November 16), I felt compelled to write and congratulate her on summing everything up so succinctly. I am a former long term resident of Wimborne, now residing
IF you knowingly park without paying for whatever reason, then you are gambling and you lost. (Driver ticketed after stopping to pay his respects, Daily Echo, November 12). As for people having a go at the council for enforcing the law of parking,
A RADICAL £800,000 campaign has been unveiled by road, fire, police and council chiefs to cut the level of carnage on Dorset’s roads. The No Excuse campaign, to be launched on January 15, will see police officers taking to the roads in what Dorset Police
A JURASSIC theme playground has proved a monster hit with Swanage youngsters. The King George Play Area, boasting a specially-designed wooden dinosaur and crocodile, was completed thanks to a £85,000 injection of national lottery cash. Local group Play
TEENAGER Michael Sansom had just settled back into normal life after backpacking around Europe when a routine blood test turned his world upside down. Tests to find out what was causing him ongoing knee pain revealed the 18-year-old had leukaemia. The
TWO 19-year-olds who dramatically rescued a pair of brothers from a lake have received the highest Poole community champion award. Phil Comber and Rob Muir dived fully clothed into the lake at Ham Common in August and pulled out two lads aged around
DORSET motorists are being clobbered at the petrol pumps again as fuel prices head for a 26 per cent rise in just a year. Drivers filling up at pumps across the county are getting a shock when they get to the till to discover that filling the
Distressingly, more than 45 years have passed since a significant part of my Saturday afternoons were spent hiding behind the sofa as the terrifying Daleks invaded our flickering black and white TV. I’d like to think that this is down to time travel
MIDFIELDER Chris Knowles is hoping Bashley can give FA Cup giant-killers Staines Town a taste of their own medicine. Bash host the Blue Square South promotion chasers tomorrow bidding to reach the first round proper for the second time in three years
BOSS Graham Kemp is determined to see Christchurch quickly erase the memory of their FA Vase nightmare. Despite reaching the fifth round last season, Priory crashed out in the second round following a miserable 5-2 midweek defeat by Almondsbury Town.
NEW Milton joint-boss Andy Bye has welcomed the unpredictability of the Wessex Premier this season. Surprise leaders Poppies, together with Poole, Bemerton, Wimborne and Fareham, all look like genuine championship challengers, while only four points
Cherries boss Eddie Howe admits an increase in central midfield options is giving him a welcome selection dilemma. Howe shuffled his pack when injury to Sammy Igoe saw him split regular pair Danny Hollands and Anton Robinson for Cherries
AN investigation has been launched following the death of an elderly woman who is believed to have been locked in a council-run day centre. The widow suffered a massive heart attack at Christchurch Day Centre in Lymington Road, Highcliffe on
A BABY born on the back seat of a Kia people carrier, and named after the car, has netted her parents a new vehicle. Staff at Kia offered Poole couple Samantha Smyth and partner Tony Richardson a car after reading the story of Kia’s fast appearance,
SO, to the moral question of the week, which is this – are the 189 days it took military and Ministry of Defence personnel to assist with the Top Gear stunts in the last five years a disgraceful waste of money and resources? Or are they a brilliant
CROCKED Cherries star Mark Molesley faces a date with destiny next month when he should discover whether his season can resume in January – or if it has already come to an end. The midfielder had been pencilled in to have an operation to cure a persistent
AS the AFC Bournemouth-bashing season shows no signs of relenting, hypocrisy, it would appear, is the watchword of northern-based football managers. In hot pursuit of Accrington Stanley boss John Coleman and Rochdale manager Keith Hill slamming
CRAIG Boyce has warned Pirates fans not to expect too much too soon from young gun Darcy Ward. Poole’s all-time leading points scorer believes the Wimborne Road faithful should not expect the club’s record signing to fire in 10 points every meeting next
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