BRETT Pitman went from villain to super hero as Cherries came from behind to reclaim pole position in League Two with a deserved win at Moss Rose. Pitman recovered his composure after missing a seventh-minute penalty to fire Cherries to victory by bagging
THE Daily Echo is looking to hear from any surfers that are planning to visit the Boscombe surf reef over the next few days. According to the surf report and forecast for Boscombe on magicseaweed.com , there's good surfing conditions ahead
Personally approved by both John Lydon and Steve Jones, expectations were high ahead of the Sex Pistols Experience’s Kyps headliner on Friday night. Edward Tudor-Pole warmed things up, donning disordered attire with an acoustic guitar of cosmetically
A BOURNEMOUTH man has become a world powerlifting champion. Lee Cutler, 32, achieved a 320 squat, 210 bench press and 302.5 dead lift yesterday at the World Powerlifting Championships held at the Bournemouth International Centre. His results make him
WHO would have thought that the morning we were due to set off on our skiing holiday we would find ourselves trapped in our own drive… by snow. The irony of leaving snow-bound rural Dorset to visit snow-bound Austria was not lost on us as our
A DISABLED woman has phoned the thief who stole her vital medical supplies to appeal for their safe return. Grandmother Helen Herbert-Palmer’s mobile phone was among items in her handbag which was snatched during a shopping trip in Poole last Monday
A FERNDOWN-based car dealership is supplying a free Kia to a Poole family – to celebrate their baby’s arrival in a Kia Carens car. Baby Kia, whose parents intended to call her Tilley, couldn’t wait to get into Poole Hospital before making her
THOUSANDS of people came together wearing silly consumes and taking part in crazy events to raise cash for this year’s Children in Need appeal. Staff at Specsavers in Old Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, donned their buckled shoes, eye patches
AFTER a sold out BIC had been suitably warmed up by energetic support act, Example, the lights dimmed and Miss Allen emerged on stage wearing black suspenders and launched straight into Everyone's At It. A slow burning set included covers
POSH doctor Brooke Magnanti has outed herself as the prostitute Belle de Jour, whose mildly pornographic scribblings have kept many an excited person entertained of an evening, especially when they were screened on TV starring Billie Piper. Dr Magnanti
POOR Badger and Barney. Restaurant of the week last week, seemingly not the bonkers duo we first expected, and then – disaster. It was the cups that did it, the polethyrene straw which broke the former army man’s back. They were too big.
CHRISTIANS, Jews and Muslims have been seeking to understand each other better as part of the UK’s first Interfaith Week this week. On Wednesday, around 30 Jews visited Bournemouth Islamic Centre and Central Mosque. Sister Tama talked about the role
NOTHING evokes fond memories of childhood more than waking up for work at 6.30am on a cold Monday morning. While you may strive to remember the lyrics to an old song, the mind instantly recollects those magical times you had as a child. You remember
THE British Humanist Association has found support from an unexpected quarter after launching a series of billboard advertisements urging parents not to “label” their children with their own religious faith. The posters are part of a campaign
DISHES created by celebrity chef Gary Rhodes will not be appearing on the menu at a Christchurch hotel after the Michelin star chef ended his involvement with the town centre eatery. Gary, who has restaurants in London, Dublin and Dubai,
A GRIEVING family say a hospital trust has failed to explain how a much-loved mother and grandmother broke her hip while in the Royal Bournemouth Hospital. They say they have been given five different versions of what happened in the early
RINGWOOD footballers have been left soul-destroyed after burglars smashed their way into their refurbished clubhouse, causing damage and stealing drink intended for a party tonight. Ringwood Town FC chairman Steve Simpson, his wife Kim and daughter
I would like to address a number of points regarding the temporary opening of King’s Park for buses. The council has a duty under the Five Parks Act to allow only traffic with business in King’s Park into the park. The bus service serves the park-and-ride
Howard Davies, in his letter Hidden agenda in attacks on Brown (Have Your Say, November 13), was right to highlight the danger of a media stitch-up between the Rupert Murdoch empire and the likely upcoming Conservative government. I would go as far
CONTROVERSIAL roadworks on the A338 Bournemouth Spur Road will switch from the southbound carriageway to the northbound from Monday, November 23. The work, to remove wildlife ahead of major reconstruction next year, has caused huge delays and
ASK most young people if they are interested in politics and the chances are you’ll get a negative response, especially these days when more and more of us are disengaged from the political system. But ask them if they’re interested in things like 24
Faith Eckersall (Daily Echo, November 20) poses the question: “Are the 189 days it took military and MOD personnel to assist with Top Gear stunts in the last five years a disgraceful waste of money and resources or are they a brilliant showcase for the
So the St Peter’s Quarter Chicago Rib restaurant plans are on hold for now and yet another plan looks likely to go through on appeal (Daily Echo, November 18). But isn’t the cat out of the bag over what little power, if any, local councillors really
It seems to me that the answer to the threat posed by the giant oil tankers that are using Lyme Bay as a parking place, while their greedy owners wait for oil prices to rise, is for the government to penalise the companies that own them. (Oil fear
A splendid letter from Christine Oliver (Have Your Say, November 16). With work in progress in Park Lane in Wimborne, the time for opposition is past. The application for town green status is surely a dead duck. Unfortunately people in unelected quangos
AS a Dorset Premier umpire and ex Colehill player I have had many dealings with Wimborne cricket ground. Many different teams – youth, schoolboys, second elevens have played there nearly every day during the summer. It had an all-weather strip for
I am contacting you regarding the articles written by Ruth Oliver (See Faith Matters, page 20). I travel extensively and therefore have the opportunity to read many newspaper columns written by well known writers, so it is with great appreciation that
LIFEBOAT crews from Dorset have been deployed to Cumbria to help with rescues during the devastating flooding. Two volunteer crew members from RNLI headquarters in Poole and two from Swanage lifeboat station arrived in Cockermouth at around
THOUSANDS of schoolchildren stood up to be counted as they marched through Poole Park on Friday. The huge event, celebrating 20 years of children’s rights, involved pupils from nearly every school in Poole. Having congregated in the
THE tragic loss of “a captain in the truest sense” has left one of Dorset’s largest sports clubs reeling. Max Biles, 29, the first team captain of North Dorset Rugby Football Club, died suddenly in the early hours of Thursday morning.
FORGOTTEN Pirate Jason Doyle is back on a bike again after almost a year out injured and is targeting a dramatic Poole comeback next season. Doyle aggravated a shoulder injury in a spill at Newport in March and missed the rest of the 2009 British campaign
ANGLERS heading afloat from Poole have caught some cracking cod, with Nick Colbert landing the pick of the bunch – a 23-pounder. Colbert, fishing from the Andy Cummings-skippered Silverspray, had already landed a 7lb cod on a light bass rod
DORSET’S Lee James is hoping to play in the first two European Tour events of the 2010 season, regardless of where he finishes at this month’s Qualifying School. The Broadstone player has entered both the Alfred Dunhill Championship and South
NEIL Middleditch has likened teenage sensation Darcy Ward to a young Tony Rickard-sson, who went on to lift the world title a record-equalling six times. Pirates’ team manager, back for a 12th consecutive campaign in that role next year, has only seen
WHO’S playing up front with Bradbury and why hasn’t he scored any goals this season?” Just a little pre-match research and the freelance reporter at Chesterfield a fortnight ago could have answered his own questions. Having operated as a striker for
