THE delighted family of an injured ex-serviceman has found a new home after being featured in the Daily Echo. Sgt Eddie Stalker was living in a cold, damp Bournemouth flat. He spent 20 years in the Royal Logistical Corps and felt let
GOVERNMENT transport chiefs have turned down a second multi-million pound funding bid to rebuild the A338 Spur Road. Highways bosses at Dorset County Council learned today that the Department For Transport had again refused funding for vital maintenance
BOURNEMOUTH Air Festival representatives are heading for the European Airshow Convention (EAC) in a bid to woo more international teams to the event. At the end of February, event manager Jennifer Impett and PR and marketing boss Michelle Roberts
On Wednesday I was delighted that Cabinet gave the green light to a £43million development, kick-starting the major regeneration of Westover Road. The project is the result of almost four years of renegotiation with developer Osborne Bournemouth
PLANS for giant wind turbines in North Dorset will again go before district planning chiefs. Members of North Dorset District Council’s planning committee will hold a special meeting to consider a second application from green energy firm, Ecotricity
ART Mister Sixties: Philip Townsend's Portraits of a Decade - the Arts University College at Bournemouth (until February 25) The Cousins art exhibition - The Regent, Christchurch (until February 11) The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral
A TEENAGE dancer from Wimborne is a step closer to realising her dreams. Sophie Wathen is part of a 24-strong group called Tap Attack and the collective have made it through to the live semi-final stage of Sky1’s Got To Dance show. Tap Attack are one
BOSS Lee Bradbury believes the Dean Court faithful could be treated to another open encounter as Cherries bid to derail the Leyton Orient express. Cherries’ impressive home record – the best in League One – is likely to face a stern examination
A LITTLE girl with a winning smile has lost her brave battle against cancer. Zoe Dobson, 22 months, from Christchurch, died last week after contracting swine flu while undergoing a further round of treatment. The youngster had been having intensive
IF you were born after 1975, the news that an actor called Larry Hagman is reprising his role as a scheming oil baron called J R Ewing will mean as much to you as the 1972 Equal Opportunities Act means to Andy Gray. You won’t understand why the fact
NEW Forest roadsides could be littered with walkers’ cars if parking charges are introduced after a sell-off of the nation’s forests, claim campaigners. The chairman of the New Forest Association, William Ziegler, warned of “chaos” if the forest
PLANS to close 20 Dorset libraries “are not set in stone”. That was the message to Dorset County Council’s cabinet on Wednesday from a senior councillor tasked with delivering about £800,000 of savings from the library service. Community Services chief
MURDER accused Alan Pickersgill yesterday told a court Julie Bywater strangled herself as a bondage sex game went “horribly wrong”. The former Sunseeker carpenter told Winchester Crown Court Ms Bywater had requested something to put around
A YOUNG horticulturist from North Dorset is heading to Zambia. Eve Worrall, 24, head gardener at Launceston Farm in Tarrant Launceston, is joining the Trees 4 Zambia nursery near Lusaka to help reforest the area with native trees. The trip promises
VIOLENT protests and political unrest in Egypt would make many people think twice about jetting off on holiday. But for passengers leaving from Bournemouth going to Sharm el-Sheikh yesterday, those worries were not enough to make them miss their bit
A NUMBER of students at a Bournemouth church school have been expelled after being caught “misusing” drugs. The Bishop of Winchester Academy in Mallard Road has refused to say how many boys were involved in a mid-morning incident on Monday,
FAMOUS faces selling products and services are ten-a-penny, think of Jamie Oliver for Sainsbury’s, George Clooney for Nespresso, Cheryl Cole for L’Oreal and, er, Michael Winner for Esure. But when the celebrity fronting a campaign happens to be Dustin
Congratulations! You’re one of millions of people, in potentially 38 countries reading this column today. You’ve also enabled me to make history, by becoming the first person to obtain a Guinness World Record for the “The most published feature newspaper
FRIDAY night – there’s no better time to treat the family to fish and chips. So it was that the four of us, on a rare night all together, went to try out Lakeside Fish and Chips, a new restaurant and takeaway. At first glance Lakeside is a misnomer
DURING these dark and frosty nights, a winter cocktail is a powerful home remedy to soften the chill and distract you from the plummeting mercury. And this smooth yet spicy cocktail will certainly help warm the cockles, although it’s might not be the
WHAT is it about beautiful England that seems to irritate so many people? According to Keep Britain Tidy, it costs almost a billion pounds a year to clear more than two million pieces of litter a day dropped here. Just how obscene is
AS a very frequent visitor to the New Forest area, I am very distressed to hear of the continual loss of animal life. It is possible that fencing might be too costly, not desirable and probably not visually attractive, unless it is of rustic construction
I WAS so disappointed to read in the Daily Echo that ‘Kelly’s Kitchen’ had lost its appeal at the High Court in London. ‘Kelly’s’ is such a lovely place to go to eat. The staff are really kind and the food is excellent value. It is an important part
I AM writing with reference to the article ‘Dorset Healthcare Trust head asked to respond to abuse claims’ (January 12). The article stated there were two incidents of whistleblowing at the healthcare trust, one involved the abuse of a disabled person
REGARDING the controversy of the Imax Waterfront building, I understand that many people object to the structure due to the disproportionate height and think it is rather ugly. Although I am not a great admirer of modern buildings, particularly in concrete
SINCE the latest figures on the economy came out, the news media have been making a meal of how bad they are, especially the BBC. They bang on about how the Coalition decisions to combat the dreadful deficit is not working and a double dip recession
I WITNESSED today, what most motorists have seen themselves, a driver using a mobile phone. Surely something more could be done. This particular driver was driving a flat-bed breakdown lorry, not a small saloon car on a quiet road, which would be bad
MEMBERS of one of Britain's biggest networks of armed robbery gangs, including Bournemouth man Anthony Bado, have been jailed for 140 years between them. The 17 raiders - dubbed the men in white because they wore boiler suits to carry out their
Joyce Styles (Letters, January 10) and other readers of the Echo may wish to know that the events of March 27, 1941 are recalled each year at St. Aldhelm's Church, Branksome. Every Remembrance Sunday the names of the workers who died during the bombing
AS AN able hardworking former councillor, Ruth Cooke (Letters, January 15) is eminently well qualified to come up with her sensible idea to reduce ward councillors from three to two, in an effort to save/reduce costs to taxpayers. Why not?
I FIND it unbelievable that Bournemouth Council is prepared to leave the £8million IMAX site for 15 years at half cock waiting for a commercial developer. Bite the bullet and realise without a commercial proposition no one will be interested
IT is fitting that Bournemouth’s greatest living resident should be duly recognised by a tree in Central Gardens (Daily Echo, February 1). And I would assure Dame Jane Goodall that she is far from ignored here. Members of the Bournemouth Natural Science
“The sweetness of parsnips can be a little too much sometimes in a soup but the tartness of the Bramleys balances that up nicely.” Parsnip and Bramley Apple Soup Serves 4-6 700-800g parsnips, peeled and roughly chopped 60g butter
A snake escaped unharmed this morning after triggering a fire alert in Ferndown. The reptile dislodged a heat lamp in its tank setting alight some bark and a table. Local firefighters were called to the incident in St Cleve Way.
LITTER-strewn verges on one of Poole’s busiest roads is making the town look rubbish, say motorists. Bottles, food wrappers and even industrial waste dropped by lorries is among the detritus spotted by readers on the verges of the busy road
Acker Bilk is something of a legend in trad jazz circles. Worshipped by hip young jazzers in the post war era, he became an international star when Stranger on the Shore, a throwaway instrumental he’d been tinkering with became the first single to reach
ALEX Browne has quashed speculation he walked out on struggling Wimborne after their 3-0 home defeat against Abingdon. But the under-fire manager admitted he held crisis talks with Magpies chairman Ken Stewart following Saturday’s game.
RISING stars Joe Partington and Danny Ings have both highlighted the vital role played by Cherries’ unsung hero Joe Roach in their respective developments. Partington and Ings, products of the fruitful Dean Court youth system, were yesterday rewarded
DAVID Dunn has reiterated the importance of bonus points to Bournemouth’s players before they aim to step up their title bid against lowly Coney Hill. Lions beat the second from bottom strugglers 21-0 away in October in the second match of an impressive
OAKMEADIANS fly-half Joe Frost is sidelined for the rest of the season due to work commitments. Jamie Tryska moves to number 10 as Oaks try to climb away from the South West One East relegation zone. They host Buckingham tomorrow (2.30pm) hunting revenge
A TEENAGE boy was lucky to escape uninjured after three thugs robbed him then threw him into Poole Park lake. The 16-year-old, who was left shocked but otherwise unhurt, was confronted by the trio in the early hours. He was attacked in the car park
STEVE Riley has called upon another of his former Bashley players in a bid to revive their fading Zamaretto Premier Division play-off hopes. The New Forest outfit’s manager, who has already taken Dave Allen and Ryan Hill back to the Recreation Ground
POOLE Town boss Tom Killick is resisting the temptation to panic following their third defeat in seven matches. Dolphins were crushed 4-1 by derby rivals Hamworthy United in a frantic midweek Wessex Premier clash. The reverse, which followed setbacks
PERFECTIONIST Marc Pugh believes Cherries need to up their performance levels if they are to remain in the League One promotion frame. Leading goalscorer Pugh will be hoping to help Cherries maintain their quest for honours when they host
MANAGER Lee Bradbury is backing his dynamic strike duo to continue their early success. Bradbury has demonstrated his faith in summer signing Michael Symes and emerging talent Danny Ings by throwing the pair into League One action in the past three matches
