BJARNE Pedersen had to settle for fourth place in the Elite Riders’ Open Championship at Peterborough tonight. The Dane agonisingly missed out on a podium place after he and Chris Harris collided on the first bend in the final and gifted Fredrik Lindgren
A STIRRING second-half comeback – sparked by Steve Fletcher’s arrival from the bench – helped Cherries preserve their unbeaten home record at the expense of fellow high-fliers MK Dons. Trailing to Sean O’Hanlon’s 45th-minute header, Cherries
IF you’re looking for a hot date the Queensmount Nursing and Residential Home in Bournemouth may be a good place to start. There’s at least one “guy” up for grabs at the Queens Park West Drive home and he’ll be ready to go out in time for bonfire night
A BOURNEMOUTH play association described as “the essence of the Big Society” is to keep its council funding for the next two years. Fernheath Play Association in West Howe, which has been continually threatened with having its council grant
SMALL though it is, Guernsey is an island that thrives on its surprises. The coast is a good place to start – you can’t really avoid it on an island of just 30 square miles. With the second largest tidal range in the world, the diverse coastline –
ALMOST exactly 44 years ago I saw Jeff Beck for the first time trading licks with Jimmy Page in The Yardbirds. A dozen years later I witnessed him driving a heaving, sweaty rock audience into a drunken frenzy that ended with everyone jumping up and down
FREDERICK Stebbing won a grant to return to Normandy, but it’s a shame he couldn’t get a grant to recreate the time he invaded his own village. The 87-year-old Bournemouth resident was awaiting D-Day when he got the chance for a once a lifetime
FEATURING showstopping numbers from top musicals such as Hairspray, Phantom Of The Opera, Wicked, Les Miserables, 42nd Street, Barnum, Oliver and Mamma Mia, Gotta Sing Gotta Dance is back with a stunning new show that plays Bournemouth’s Pavilion Theatre
RADIO presenters from Hope FM, Bournemouth's Community Christian Radio Station, will shortly swap their usual Hope T-Shirts to support a nationwide Not Ashamed’ campaign. They are urging Christians to wear the Not Ashamed logo during Advent this year
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IT looked as if it was all going America’s way; Gorbachev, Reagan, Berlin and the Cold War warming up. Superficially, We Were Winning. Doing Business with the Commies. Little did “they” realise what was actually happening to make the edifice rock. It
A GRANDMOTHER who died after her car ploughed into a garage door had been planning a memorial service for her husband the next day. Paula Bright, 77, died following the accident at the Garden House block of flats on Meyrick Road, near the Roundhouse
A TRADE union representing Bournemouth council workers has questioned what bosses have to hide after it was denied information about the council’s outsourcing plans. Unison wants to know what former Section 151 officer Judith Martin – who until
EXCERPTS from the diary of Ferndown Marine John Thornton have helped inspire a unique musical memorial to the UK’s fallen heroes. The tribute, entitled Eternal Voices, will form part of a special concert at Exeter Cathedral next month.
ASHER Nardone was moved into a council house in Grange Gardens, on Poole’s Bourne Estate, with her two sons in May 2006. It proved to be the start of a nightmare for the young family. They became targets for a wave of anti-social behaviour
RINGWOOD pop hopefuls, Luke and Samantha were thrilled to get through to the X Factor’s Boot Camp – but their dreams of stardom were not to come true this year. Undeterred, they’re back on the pot-holed path to stardom and have made the regional
AN 83-YEAR-OLD woman was knocked down and carried 80 metres on the bonnet of a car when she was knocked down while out shopping. Blanche Peto, 83, suffered a fractured skull and shattered pelvis, spending nearly three weeks in hospital following
A MAN was fighting for his life and a Bournemouth lorry driver was in a serious condition on Friday night after a Royal Mail vehicle smashed into the front of a hotel. A man walking along the pavement was struck by the Royal Mail lorry and catapulted
A FAMILY terrorised for years in their own home by yobs have been completely failed by the authorities, a scathing report has concluded. The Home Office launched an investigation into the case of single mum Asher Nardone, who has been subjected
Newly retired, I recently tried to find a day-time web design course starting in Poole. I tried Adult Education and I tried the local college. I was hugely disappointed – there was nothing. All the college courses were for full-time students, or
I WAS very interested to read the piece by Jim Durkin on October 8 about the actor Edward Fox intervening in the debate about having another supermarket in Wareham. Wareham already has the Co-operative store in North Street and the Sainsbury’s store
Your correspondent Diane Flexman (Claire and the Pope, Have Your Say, October 15) questions your editorial wisdom in printing the late Claire Rayner’s views on Joseph Ratzinger. To sum up, Claire found his views abhorrent. In May 2005, shortly after
I am old enough and was near enough to have hung out the washing on the Siegfried Line, as the wartime song encouraged us to do. However, I have lived in several properties where there was a covenant prohibiting washing being hung out on a Sunday and
I was in the Sovereign Centre in Boscombe the other day and got quite excited to see an exhibition of photographs. “Great”, I thought: “Some local culture being promoted”. How wrong I was. There were photos of smashed and broken windows, grotty
On September 14 our very dear mum, Phyllis Wilson, passed away suddenly at home, aged 72, despite the very best efforts of Poole Hospital’s oncology & radiotherapy teams and Dr Mike Bayne. Almost five years ago mum had a brain tumour which her consultant
I RECENTLY watched a television programme in which a collection of eminent physicists and cosmologists deliberated at length about the possible state of the universe before the Big Bang. The problem with the Big Bang is that it occurred so long ago
LIKE me, I expect lots of you can’t really remember the day we heard about a mine disaster in Chile, way back in August. Probably we were too busy reading about Really Important Things, like how the Premiership had just started, or who was going
’Ello ’ello ’ello, what's been going on ’ere then? Bobbies on the tweet in Manchester? With all that paperwork, how come they’ve got time for that, eh? That seems to have been a common reaction to the exercise carried out this week by the Manchester
AT the bottom of almost every council document, every newspaper piece about benefits, debts and social disaster, it’s there: “For more help and advice, contact your local Citizens’ Advice Bureau.” And we do. In our hundreds of thousands. Last
FEATURING showstopping numbers from top musicals such as Hairspray, Phantom Of The Opera, Wicked, Les Miserables, 42nd Street, Barnum, Oliver and Mamma Mia, Gotta Sing Gotta Dance is back with a stunning new show that plays Bournemouth’s Pavilion Theatre
IF a referee were needed for today’s clash of the managerial tyros, Stuart Murdoch would fit the bill perfectly. The only man to have managed both Cherries and MK Dons is well qualified to pass judgement on Eddie Howe and Karl Robinson. At 32, Cherries
DARREN Anderton has revealed how his Dean Court swansong rekindled his love for football – and that being appointed Cherries captain was one of the proudest moments of his career. Anderton, who was capped 30 times by England and made more than
BJARNE Pedersen feels it’s more important for Pirates to lift the Knockout Cup than for him to taste individual glory in the Elite Open Riders’ Championship at Peterborough tonight. The Dane lines up at Alwalton (7.30pm) intent on repeating
BOURNEMOUTH Athletic Club’s discus diva Phoebe Dowson has been thrown an Olympic challenge by her Polish coach. But Ringwood School’s hottest sporting star may need some cold winter training in Poland first to help her reach sun blessed Rio, Brazil,
