THE DEADLINE for parents to register an interest in Swanage’s proposed free secondary school is fast approaching. Campaign group Education Swanage launched their ambitious bid to establish the school after Dorset County Council ruled against
A DAIRY farmer who allowed some of his cattle to starve has been ordered to pay costs of almost £20,000 and handed a three-year conditional discharge. Gerald Creed, 44, of Holloway Farm, Holloway Lane, Shillingstone, failed to provide adequate food and
A NEW battle is looming over plans to stage medieval jousting tournaments in the New Forest National Park. Entrepreneur Alan Girling has lodged an appeal against the district council’s refusal to allow him to hold indoor contests at a former riding school
PLACARD-waving protesters made their feelings known about benefit cuts at a rally in Poole on Thursday. Around a dozen protestors gathered outside the Job Centre in Dear Hay Lane in a bid to get their message across. Members of the Bournemouth and Poole
FOUR Filipino women appeared in court yesterday accused of ill-treating elderly residents at a Poole care home. Melissa Berdin, 21, of Wimborne Road, Poole, Jasmin Caraos, 32, and Arlyn Manabat, 37, both of Woking Road, Poole, and Mae Mahiney, 40, of
BOURNEMOUTH taxi drivers fed up with competitors flouting licensing laws have called off a protest planned for Monday after licensing chiefs promised to take their concerns seriously. An urgent report will now go before the next meeting of
AA Milne’s honey-loving bear, immortalised in the illustrations of EH Shepard, celebrates his 85th anniversary this year. Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and the other residents of Hundred Acre Wood come to the big screen for a Winnie The Pooh animated feature
Welsh Rarebit Serves 2 2 tbsp of beer 1 tbsp flour 100g grated mature cheddar 1tsp wholegrain mustard 1 spring onion, thinly sliced 4 pieces of bread Place all ingredients (except for bread) into a saucepan and gently heat. Keep stirring
DOUBLE Olympic medallist Simon Hiscocks and six of the country’s top sailors were among the star guests at an Echo ‘Bring on the Games’ event. A host of 2012 hopefuls including Giles Scott, Luke Patience, Stuart Bithell, Kate and Lucy Macgregor
DETECTIVES are still questioning a number of people arrested as part of the continuing investigation into the discovery of an arms cache on Kinson Common, Bournemouth. No further arrests have been made since Tuesday night, when armed police
POLICE are hunting a man who indecently exposed himself to a 15-year-old girl. The Poole girl was left upset after the incident, which took place at around 8.15am last Tuesday between Gladelands Way and Springdale Road in Broadstone. The man is described
THE Old Bridge Tearooms is a bit of an institution round our way. Tucked away in Old Bridge Road, close to Iford Bridge, it’s a very traditional tearoom indeed. It does the most amazing cream teas and when we have guests (particularly if they
‘Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.” With these words, children around the world fell in love with Winnie the Pooh. Written in 1926 by the playwright Alexander Milne, Pooh
A HERO neighbour rescued a man from a raging fire that tore through his Dorset home. Chris Langdown led his retired neighbour, Michael Hughes, to safety after flames spread through the ground floor of his home near Blandford. Mr Langdown
NINE – NIL: what a result! After 17 years of ‘false dawns’, Poole Town have finally found a permanent home. Fans cheered as nine councillors unanimously granted planning permission for a £2m ground off Magna Road, at Bearwood. In a dramatic
I AM glad to see that Purbeck councillors had the good sense to finally reject permission for East Stoke Wind Farm. It is a bit much though for certain of your correspondents to accuse people who live in the area to be affected by the Wind Farm of ‘
IS this a serious accident waiting to happen? Last weekend we cycled along the prom from Sandbanks to Bournemouth pier on a lovely, sunny day. However, despite a 10mph speed limit we were struck (no pun intended) by how hazardous this seemed for us and
I ONCE covered Lady Diana’s first visit to Broadlands and was given a plum press position by the official visit organisers… standing bang in front of a group of elderly ladies who had got up very early indeed to get a good view of her planting a tree.
IT’S great to see the peregrines are back at the clock tower. Peregrines are truly amazing to watch especially when they hunt. They fly up into the thermals then drop (stoop) straight down on to their prey at up to 180mph. They carry their prey back
TESTIMONY Films is producing a new documentary for Yesterday Channel to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Arctic convoys in the winter of 1941. We are very keen to hear from anyone who made the treacherous journey from Britain
WITH regard to the correspondent who wonders what interest we can have in Libya; over the past few decades, Colonel Gaddafi’s regime has supplied arms and explosives to the IRA, murdered WPC Yvonne Fletcher as part of a campaign against “enemies of the
BANKS, building societies and the government have, at last, been forced to insure savers 100,000 euros or £85,000 on savings, instead of the paltry £30,000 previously offered that was reluctantly raised to £50,000 after some banks went bust. Savers
LAST week saw the retirement of Anne the Elephant who was rescued from a life of misery at the hands of Bobby Roberts’ Circus with whom she had spent the last half of a century. I’m sure nobody would argue that she would be better kept as circus fodder
THE Christchurch woman who died following a head-on collision on a notorious New Forest road has been named as Emma Dunn. The 30-year-old was cut free from the wreckage of her overturned Citroen Saxo by fire fighters after the crash on the
HAVING weathered three recessions, Mike Stokes certainly knows his business onions. Now, as he marks 31 years in the trade, Mike Stokes Motoring and Motorsport, based in Moordown, Bournemouth, is continuing to expand by supplying Toyo tyres to a newly-established
DAVID Dunn believes his players can handle the roller coaster of emotions experienced in the wake of Sam Yarwood’s tragic death. Lions will tomorrow take to the field for the first time since winger Yarwood’s death in the Lake District earlier
BOSS Lee Bradbury has told his under-pressure charges there will be no hiding place at Notts County tomorrow. Cherries travel to Nottingham on the back of a barren run that has seen them fail to win any of their past seven league encounters, with Rochdale
LEE Bradbury insists none of Cherries’ stars walk into his starting 11 and says he is not afraid to drop big names for the good of the team. A number of Bradbury’s players have come in for criticism from a section of the Dean Court support, while the
CHRISTCHURCH boss Graham Kemp confesses to being “extremely jealous” of Poole Town’s continued success – but says he is not bitter towards the Dolphins. Kemp has added to the debate after Poole star Micky Hubbard claimed their rivals were
CUTHBURY comeback king Scott Joyce wasted no time rediscovering his golden touch and admitted he would need all his prolific powers to regularly prosper in the Southern League. The injury-plagued frontman marked his eagerly awaited full step four debut
A BID to secure £4 million for the UK’s first National Business Academy has failed – but tourism chiefs have vowed to fight on for government funding. The bid team was led by Mike Francis MBE from Bournemouth Tourism Management Board and Bruce
STALWART midfielder Steve ‘Taffy’ Richardson says the latest developments in Poole Town’s search for a permanent home are a triumph for the club’s loyal band of supporters. The Dolphins were boosted when councillors yesterday unanimously
LIAM Feeney says Cherries have “pulled up trees” to sustain a promotion push – and has chopped down suggestions they have blown their chances. Feeney has been one of the leading lights this season as Cherries have mounted an unexpected bid to claim a
STEVE Cotterill believes the plight of Notts County is a measure of Cherries’ progress this season and is backing Lee Bradbury and Steve Fletcher to blossom in management. Cotterill, who was crowned player of the year at Dean Court in 1994, guided the
