A CHRISTCHURCH business owner has warned that this could be the toughest year yet for small businesses in the town. Tony Crew, owner of the Scissor Crew hair salon in the High Street, said traders need more help from the council to bring people into
Pirate boat ’Arrypaye has been blessed and now its buccaneer crew are all set to collect treasure for charity from Penzance to Poole. Six stalwarts from the home of the infamous pirate Harry Paye aim to row their 32ft Cornish gig 250 miles
A BIG-hearted Bournemouth woman aims to raise £30,000 for a home hydrotherapy pool to benefit her disabled nephew Sammy. Sarah Hooks, 29, of Curzon Road, Springbourne, is staging a fundraising dinner and auction with a 1920s flappers and gangsters theme
THE boss of a popular seafront bar hopes district chiefs will back plans for his revamped al fresco dining. Mick Storer, who has run Gee White’s on Swanage’s quayside for more than two decades, has submitted proposals for a glass and steel canopy to
A BOURNEMOUTH comedy club is in a state of shock after musical comedian Jason Wood died on Saturday, February 20, following a performance in the town on Friday night. “We’re still reeling a bit, it’s a terrible shock,” said Mick Callaghan from Funnybone
A NEW Milton shop has had its drinks licence revoked by New Forest District Council after staff were caught selling alcohol to minors in a trading standards sting three times in eight months. The offences took place at the Costcutters store at 36 Station
Super stardom is only a shake away. Milkshake chain Shakeaway, which has a store in Bournemouth, is looking for a singer and band to star in a promotional video to be released in July. A pre-recorded demo has already been created and the milkshake
TRAFFIC flow is to be improved on one of Bournemouth’s busiest thoroughfares – but there are five months of roadworks to get through first. A £950,000 scheme to replace a roundabout on Holdenhurst Road with traffic lights will get under way on Monday
QUESTIONS are being asked about the safety of a pedestrian crossing in Christchurch following an incident at the weekend where a young male pedestrian was trapped underneath a car. The man, who is 29 and from Christchurch, had been crossing
DISAPPOINTED Joe Roach admitted “we’ve got to be better than that” after watching Cherries’ under-18s suffer a 4-0 thumping. The head of youth revealed his team were “bitterly disappointed” after falling to a heavy defeat at the hands of Torquay United
BRITISH Airways cabin crew have voted in favour of strikes in a bitter row over jobs and working conditions, raising the renewed threat of action which could cripple flights in the run-up to Easter, it has been announced. Members of the Unite union
PREMIER Division strugglers Redlynch & Woodfalls seem to save their best performances for the top sides and they hauled themselves off the bottom of the table with a stunning 5-3 triumph over Dorset Knob. Ben Read bagged a hat-trick for Redlynch with
DIVISION Seven championship rivals LV FC and Sunseekers will go head-to-head in the MA Hart Nicholas Read Cup final at Hurn Bridge after they both came safely through their respective semi-finals. Danny Watts was the architect of both Tam Kinker goals
SUTTONERS Civil Reserves proved there is no substitute for experience when their ‘old heads’ combined to get them through to the final of the MA Hart Page Croft Cup. Jason Cliffe struck twice to give Fencing Centre a two-goal lead in an excellent semi-final
BOURNEMOUTH Sports’ unbeaten Premier Division run came to an end in a 1-0 defeat at the hands of championship rivals Wallisdown Liberal. Luke McArdle’s first-half strike was all that separated the sides, with Wallisdown defending magnificently in the
TRAIN commuters will have to use replacement buses between Bournemouth and Southampton during the evening rush hour after a derailment. South West Trains is warning of delays of up to 40 minutes after the train, operated by DBS, came off the line between
COUNCILS have rubbished reports of a switch to fortnightly bin collections. The government wants local authorities to claw back £550 million from waste disposal budgets to cope with the pressures of the recession. The Audit Commission, the government
A DISABLED skier from Blandford is representing Great Britain in the Paralympic Games. Russell Docker, 42, who was paralysed from the waist down in a skiing accident in France 15 years ago, will compete in Vancouver in five events using a “mono-ski”
I'VE been reading a couple of stories and their associated comments with great interest over the last couple of weeks. Both are fairly controversial for their own reasons and by giving my own opinion on these two topics I realise that I will get
Roast butternut squash with savoury ricotta 6 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil salt and ground black pepper 4 garlic cloves, peeled and roughly chopped 1/4 tsp chilli flakes pinch of grated nutmeg 2 small butternut
RACE for Life supporters arrived in Bournemouth to call on local women to sign up to this year’s series. Organisers are urging women to recruit their friends, family and colleagues to the UK’s largest women-only fundraising campaign. This year’s Race
LIKE many celebrity chefs before him, Anthony Worrall Thompson is on a mission to show the nation how easy it is to cook. In his latest cookery book, Antony Makes It Easy, the 58-year-old wants to prove that producing home-cooked food is just
Twice-baked Potatoes 4 large baking potatoes, scrubbed 1 tsp salt 1/2 tsp ground white pepper 175g/6oz unsalted butter, softened 1/4 tsp grated nutmeg 3 large egg yolks 75ml/21/2fl oz double cream
A “friend of Sturminster Newton” is being remembered by people mourning the loss of Cllr Len Goldbart. Mr Goldbart, 80, died in hospital on January 15 after a long battle with lung cancer, leaving a wife, two children, and two grandchildren. The retired
BOURNEMOUTH is to shun the opportunity to become the first town in Britain which makes pubs and clubs foot the bill for dealing with binge drinking. The town is set to turn down the chance to become the country’s first “alcohol disorder zone
YOU would think that a career which has included playing two of the arguably most popular and iconic characters in modern culture would be enough for one man. But no. The actor Terry Molloy, whose alter egos include Davros and the milkman Mike
CAMEL racing drew 5,000 people to Badbury Rings near Wimborne. Thousands flocked to the East Dorset beauty spot to cheer on eight competitors brave enough to mount the giant hump-backed steeds for two eliminating rounds and a grand final. After
A CONTROVERSIAL new book depicts Gordon Brown raging and swearing at a top adviser in his suite at a Bournemouth hotel. The End of the Party, by The Observer’s chief political commentator Andrew Rawnsley, suggests the 2007 Labour conference
THEY left in search of winter sunshine but ended up having to contend with torrential rain which caused fatal floods and mudslides on the holiday island of Madeira. It now seems likely that the 120 passengers who had flown from Bournemouth
Calling all former pupils and teachers of East Howe Kingsleigh School who may wish to celebrate their former school’s 100th birthday. One hundred years ago this coming April education first came to East Howe, Bournemouth. A temporary girls’ school
Can I please thank the many people who continue to sign the petition about Christchurch Hospital changes. If anyone else wishes to add their names they can look out for it in local stores around Christchurch area. Sue Ellis, Fairmile
A few years ago I wrote a letter to the Echo, concerning the closure and destruction of The Alderney Care Unit that had only been built four and a half years previously. My sister, who became disabled, had at last been entered into Alderney after several
Recently we had the joy of registering our estate agency business for anti money laundering regulations, a new government quango set up for policing the financial and property sectors to make sure we shop anyone we think might have gained their
FURIOUS motorists made their feelings known yesterday when they staged a “car conga” in protest against the 40mph speed limit on a section of Wessex Way. Hooting their horns and raising clenched fists in defiance, drivers reduced their speeds
I have only been to a bullfight once – long ago in Barcelona. At the final stage the ‘heroic’ matador plays around with the animal (which must be in shocking pain) and finally tries to kill it – to loud cheers of “well done” (Olé). I raise the matter
So Desmond Swayne will vote to repeal the hunting ban if the Conservatives are elected with a ruling majority (Daily Echo, February 19). Does he not realise that the majority of the voters are in favour of the ban? Is he not aware that there are far
TERRIFIED pensioners have told of an hour-long ordeal trapped in their homes by thick smoke as fire crews battled a blaze in the kitchen of their warden’s flat. Black smoke clogged the corridors and landings of the six-flat Springbourne Court block
WHEN I was very young, a tree fell on our house. I have no idea how much damage, if any, it did, but it was enough to galvanise my dad into action against the other unsafe trees along our street. He knocked on doors, produced a petition, lobbied
ANOTHER speed camera has been vandalised in East Dorset. The attack on the device in Golf Links Road, Ferndown, is the fifth against cameras in the district in seven months. Cllr Lesley Dedman, who chairs the town council’s traffic working party,
THIEVES making their escape in a van laden with 2,000 litres of stolen fuel risked engulfing other motorists in a fireball, a haulage boss says. Mike Pink, director of King Stag Transport, spoke out following the sentencing of two men responsible for
WILY Swede Bashir Hassan believes Ferndown’s Iain Weaver still has a lot to learn if he is to become a genuine Olympic medal contender after defeating Britain’s national champion on a split decision. Hassan, 26, is a European Championship bronze medallist
THERE is something irresistible in the juxtaposition of two reports today. One’s about a survey saying Bournemouth’s a retirement hotspot. The other’s a debate on whether it should become home to the country’s first Alcohol Disorder Zone.
LEE Bradbury helped Alan Connell complete a controversial Dean Court salvage mission and then saluted the striker’s persistence. Substitute Connell shrugged off the disappointment of two earlier missed opportunities to prevent an embarrassing
WITH squeaky bum time fast approaching, it is a conundrum he could probably do without. Cherries’ latest game of two halves has left boss Eddie Howe with a tricky selection dilemma. Enlivened by the half-time introduction of Alan Connell, Howe saw his
