Poole sit proudly at the summit of Division One after launching their promotion push with a comprehensive first round victory at Bath. They won 24 of the 50 events to finish 21 points clear of nearest challengers Soundwell. Poole now head the league
There were victories all the way as the top two clubs in Dorset swimming’s fast-changing landscape got off to a winning start in the opening round of the National Arena League. Swim Bournemouth – the newly-merged squad of Bournemouth Dolphins and Ferndown
DEBT-RIDDEN Lee James is making a last-ditch appeal to find a sponsor in a bid to resurrect his European Tour career. The 1994 British Amateur champion restricted this season’s Challenge Tour schedule to a handful of home events after he ran out of money
SHE was expecting her eighth child, but Cindy Masters had piled on so much weight since the birth of her first that nobody even knew she was pregnant. It was only when she was told that her life and that of her unborn baby son were at risk
A FILM two years in the making, created and starring learning disabled actors from Bournemouth and Poole, was unveiled at a red carpet premiere at Poole’s Lighthouse on Saturday. See It My Way has five different story lines, covering hard-hitting issues
A BURGLAR has stolen the camera and laptop that were a lifeline for a man with a crippling form of diabetes. Lee Nevitt discovered that someone had broken through his rear patio door early on Thursday morning. The 35-year-old used them as links to the
ENVIRONMENT Agency funding of £300,000 could lead to a cliff stabilisation programme at Barton costing more than £15 million. The action of water between layers of the famous fossil-bearing Barton clay means the cliffs there are sliding – or “slumping
PENSIONERS Marion and Derek Holland were horrified to discover the caravan they rented out in their back garden had been converted into a cannabis factory. For 18 months builder Elliot Gray had been “a model tenant,” paying £25 a week rent on time.
WHAT did you expect to see from the window of the Mayflower Theatre’s stylish new Ovation restaurant? Wildebeests roaming majestically across the city centre? The view was certainly less impressive than the level of sarcasm, wit and knockabout comedy
A ROYAL Marine killed in southern Afghanistan on July 1, has been named as Corporal Seth Stephens. Cpl Stephens, a married father, is believed to have been a member of the Special Boat Service (SBS) the naval equivalent of the SAS and based at Poole.
A GRIEVING mother has told how family and friends kept her going after the death of her eldest son in a motorcycle crash in Bournemouth. Joshua McArthur, 18, from Christchurch, died as a result of his 650cc Suzuki being in collision with a
THE brave husband of a pensioner killed in a fireball at their Poole home was beaten back by flames hot enough to melt glass as he tried to save her, an inquest has heard. Anne Wheeler, 76, died less than 12 hours after returning home from
IN hindsight it was probably the beginning of the end for Gary Rhodes and his culinary affair with Christchurch. The chef parted company with Kings Hotel last year to concentrate on fine dining at its well-heeled sister restaurant, Rhodes South.
ONE of Dorset’s most well-known hospices is to be demolished and rebuilt in a surprise move by trustees. Lewis-Manning Hospice in Lilliput was the former home of fundraiser and businesswoman Marjorie Lewis-Manning, whose dream was for it to
A WORRIED couple have hit out at a Poole cattery which lost two cats in three weeks – including theirs. Chris and Karen Dello from Whitecliff are desperately searching for their treasured moggie Zach, a longhaired black male, who went missing
IF there was ever an example of an artist re-inventing themselves to explode into the mainstream, Plan B is surely it. The release of his second album, the Defamation of Strickland Banks, has catapulted him from a rapper that, although critically
America took on Canada in musical terms at the O2 Academy in Boscombe on Tuesday night with LA based HEALTH and Toronto duo Crystal Castles both performing. HEALTH appeared on stage with the style and demeanour of sleepy sixth formers –
A BABY girl miraculously escaped injury after being catapulted into the air when she and her mum were involved in a collision with a car. The mum, who is in her early 20s, was pushing a buggy in Salisbury Road, Blandford, when the collision with a red
COLOURFUL and clever, the drawings are basic but to the point. Foxy DuBois has an egg turn up on her doorstep. She wants the egg for breakfast but first has to feed it to make it larger. Then she wants a fit egg so she plays games with it, acting
Chocolate Rose Truffles Warning: this recipe is not for you if you don't like turkish delight. Personally, I think the rose makes them seem more impressive somehow. But you can easily substitute a flavour you do like instead. 125g dark chocolate
A DOG walker is “very lucky” to have survived after spending a night halfway down the cliffs at Barton-on-Sea with leg and chest injuries. The 64-year-old man from Gwent, who has not been named, was walking his terrier at the cliff at 7pm on Monday.
TWO Bournemouth filmmakers have made a documentary about the humble washing line. Drying for Freedom says the lines are the new eco battleground in America. They are banned in many communities because they could affect house prices. The 90-minute documentary
WHILE I have never looked terribly comfortable on the stuff – my skating technique make Bambi look like Robin Cousins – ice has been good to me. I grew up very close to one of the very best rinks and rather than take my first dates to the cinema, I would
It’s been four years since Nils Lofgren toured the UK. Four years since I sat in virtually the same seat in the front row of The Anvil, Basingstoke, to experience one of the most memorable concerts I had ever been to. Four years on and I’m back and the
BOURNEMOUTH students will take part in a national demonstration against “a drastic rise in tuition fees”. They will join thousands of others in London next month after the long-awaited Browne review recommended a hike in fees and higher interest
MULTI-million pound plans for an Olympic-sized ice rink in Bournemouth, capable of hosting national ice hockey and figure skating competitions, look set to be approved. An outline application by Bournemouth council for a centre of excellence
Brilliantly bolshy to the end, agony aunt, writer and broadcaster Claire Rayner, who died at the age of 79 yesterday, told her family she wanted her last words to be: “Tell David Cameron that if he screws up my beloved NHS I’ll come back and bloody
A TERMINALLY ill woman who says she was told she had ‘lived too long’ to keep receiving benefits is calling for a reform of the system. Pauline Polley, from Ferndown, looked set to lose her link to the outside world last week when the Department of Work
ACTRESS Joanna Page, who found fame in the hit BBC comedy Gavin and Stacey, talks about her life-changing health condition and how people often think she really is Stacey. She says: “I am similar to her in some ways. She’s a real down-to-earth Welsh
I would like to contact Peter Wilkin, whose last known address was in Wimborne. I have tried without success, knocking doors and calling at the Post Office but have not found him. Peter owns a boat called Raffles, which is damaged and sinking. I
I read with interest the council’s plans for a new bus terminal. What a waste of time and money. Firstly, the existing facility is more than adequate and already stops at our award-winning gardens. I find the council, and particularly Cllr Beesley
I read the comments from Adrian Fudge about Bournemouth council’s plans to purchase the NCP car park with astonishment (Daily Echo October 11). He seems to be making the case that our capital funds could be used to protect front line services from the
Reference the correspondence from Cllr Eades, surely it is the responsibility of the local authority to provide affordable housing for local people, not private developers? Developers already subsidise the council with infrastructure charges on every
If Cllr Eades is right in his letter (Shameful record on social housing, Daily Echo, October 9) that there will be no affordable housing on either side of the water in the proposed West Quay development, it is nothing short of disgraceful and serious
I would like to take issue with the Sovereign Twynham “well publicised” public consultation (Daily Echo, October 6). The meeting took place on a Monday afternoon between 4.30pm and 6.30pm when most people, like myself, were probably at work, trying
I am sure I am not alone in my frustration at the increasing number of learner drivers clogging our backstreets and causing yard upon yard of tail-backs as they ineptly execute their reversing and turning manoeuvres. Just the other week a driving school
CHERRIES star Lee Bradbury believes a bigger appetite for the game is helping him continue to strike a blow for the thirtysomethings. The seasoned campaigner insists his desire to keep producing the goods is growing stronger rather than diminishing,
NEIL Middleditch is refusing to get carried away by Pirates’ confidence boosting 50-43 away Knock-out Cup triumph at Peterborough. Poole Castle Cover’s boss said he’d been around too long to believe they already had one wheel in the final following his
GEVA Mentor questioned the wisdom of England netball coach Maggie Jackson after watching on from the bench as a last-quarter capitulation saw her gold medal hopes snuffed out by Australia. The Bournemouth-based defen-der formed a fearsome defensive partnership
BOURNEMOUTH’S Ben Gollings admitted England only had themselves to blame after their Commonwealth Games rugby sevens medal bid went up in flames in the Delhi heat. England were billed as one of the tournament favourites to be on the podium
