A MAN suffered serious injuries after being stabbed in Bournemouth on Friday(13). Police said the assault took place during an altercation between two men, thought to have taken place in Westby Road, Boscombe, at about 1.30pm. Insp Kevin
LEADERS from some of the world’s largest communication companies are coming to Blandford to consider the findings of a report on bringing superfast broadband to North Dorset. Campaigners to bring the latest digital technology to the north
TICKETS are still available for tomorrow’s League One play-off at Dean Court. Cherries host Huddersfield Town in a semi-final, first leg clash at 12.45pm. A limited number of home tickets for the Main Stand and South Stand will go on
COMEDIAN, TV and radio presenter and former Bournemouth University film student, Joe Cornish, makes his directorial debut with Attack the Block. Aliens descend on an unsuspecting south London council estate but they meet their match when a gang of
A MAN who led police on a high-speed 26-mile chase, reaching speeds of up to 90mph through one Dorset village, was spared jail. Keirren Genge, 18, of Pinehurst Road, West Moors, refused to stop for police sirens after they became concerned
PETAL the cat had strayed a very long way from home when Poole residents found him in their garden. They were hoping to adopt the grey and white puss, when a microchip revealed he actually belonged to the Mayor of High Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire
MP Conor Burns says Tesco will be holding a public exhibition of plans for a new supermarket in Bournemouth on Saturday. The store wants to knock down the shops by Millhams Road and build over them. Developer Hampton Hill Richmond has
ALMOST 1,000 people packed out the Daily Echo recruitment fair at its first ever outing in Poole. The event, sponsored by the Silly Group, took place at Poole Lighthouse on Thursday and offered job hunters a wide range of local and national
It might yet become one of the biggest domestic hits of the British movie year, but Attack The Block owes its earliest origins to director Joe Cornish getting mugged. “It was quite a pathetic mugging,” the debutant filmmaker, former Bournemouth Film
A FATHER of two from Christchurch who refused to pay a £150 fine he incurred while dining at a fast-food joint in the town has won his battle against the restaurant chain. Alex Cook, 45, was visiting KFC at Lyndhurst Road in Christchurch earlier last
THE need to buy a cucumber, a new fake tan and being a stranger to the area are among the latest bizarre excuses given by motorists caught committing driving offences during the Dorset Road Safe Partnership’s No Excuse campaign. More than 20,000 motoring
Whether you're a Dan Brown or Danielle Steel devotee, we all know that some retailers flog beach reads at massive discounts. Exactly the same goes for package holidays – many different travel agents sell the SAME tour operator holiday at different
WHEN someone who is not taking strong medication says in all seriousness: “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit, when there are footsteps on the moon” it can only mean one thing... The Apprentice (BBC1, Tuesday, this week only, and Wednesdays, 9pm
RAIL chiefs are being urged to think again over their decision to sack an award-winning employee with an "outstanding" record. Desmond Swayne, MP for New Forest West, has written to the head of South West Trains Brian Souter following a public outcry
Barbecued Asparagus with Parmesan and a Lemon and Mint Butter Serves 4 2 bundles of British asparagus 2 tbsp olive or rapeseed oil 125g unsalted butter Juice of 1 lemon 2 tbsp mint leaves, finely chopped 50g parmesan shavings Trim the asparagus
A COMPANY suspected of distributing “Bernhardos” charity sacks around Bournemouth last autumn has been raided. Numerous suspected fraudulent charity bags were discovered and several computers seized during the operation earlier this week in
ONE of my favourite pubs, the Bull Inn at Wimborne St. Giles, kicked off its what has been dubbed an “occasional dining club” last week. I’m told it’s the first of many gastronomic events pencilled in for the pub, which hopes to bring gastronomes together
POOLE residents travelled up to London on Wednesday to join the largest ever mass protest by people with disabilities. More than 5,000 people took to the streets of Westminster for the Hardest Hit March against cuts to disability benefits.
IN THE league table of long-serving monarchs, Her Majesty the Queen has just zoomed into second place, beating her barmy German ancestor George III and with just Queen Victoria’s 63 years and 216 days to surpass. Given that she’s been around for longer
LIVES are at risk in a Poole special school housing some of the county’s most vulnerable young people, according to its own head teacher. Unsuitable buildings mean 75 children with severe, complex and profound needs are at risk every day and staff are
THE travellers who pitched up in Verwood at the end of April are facing court action to force them to move on. Early last week they had assured East Dorset District council workers that they would be leaving Potterne Park within seven days, but the camp
I AM writing to let your readers know that during Cancer Prevention Week we are promoting the fact there is now strong evidence that people can make lifestyle changes to reduce their risk. Scientists now estimate that about a third of the most common
IT may be of some interest to Barbara Crouch (‘Missing part of Lord’s Prayer at Royal Wedding service’, Letters May 5) and Angela Wood (reply May 11) to know that the part to which they refer, although a suitable and worthy doxology, was probably added
THE Highcliffe chairman’s comments that we should have more councillors shows he is out of step with current opinion, for we should have far less but more effective councillors. But he is right in one thing in that it should be the councillors who are
YOUR recent correspondent Derek Smith complains of the problems he had attending his local polling station. Given that the distance between his road and the station is less than a mile, perhaps he should have considered walking? This would have left
PERHAPS in retaliation for Cllr Borthwick’s defection, the Independent Bournemouth councillors should join forces with the Liberal Democrats. On their own, against the huge number of Conservatives, they will achieve, I suspect, next to nothing. Bournemouth
WITH reference to Cllr Borthwick’s defection to the Conservatives, a defecting councillor thwarts the will of the people. The election was less than a week ago and if the voters of Muscliffe and Throop wanted a Tory councillor they would have elected
AS the first episode of the new series of The Apprentice opened, Sir Alan Sugar’s would-be partners were introduced as, ‘the country’s entrepreneurial elite’. If they really are, then the country is in deep, deep trouble. Why on earth would someone
SHOCKED colleagues have paid tribute to a “kind and thoughtful” volunteer worker who died after falling from a bridge over the A31 on Wednesday morning. Police identified the woman as Rebecca Mae Wheeler, who lived in the Ringwood area. A spokesperson
WHAT has happened at Bournemouth Airport? Arriving back after an extended stay in Italy, I found myself unable to leave the airport on foot to catch my normal bus at Parley Cross. It appears that the only way to and from the airport now is by combustion-engine
THE Poole People’s Party may be new to Poole, but just down the road Portland had a Portland Party running for council many years ago. They kept clear of politics and sided with no one. I trust this will be the same with PPP. PETER WOODLEY, Lydford
MAY I make a couple of points about council spending during these difficult times when all one hears about is financial cut backs and job losses? I was amazed to see that along the cliff tops the council have installed new solar powered bins that
OFTEN famous people’s lives seem a world apart so it was oddly reassuring, a few years ago, when Sir Alex Ferguson, stopped by police for driving on a hard shoulder, said he had the runs and was trying to find a toilet. It’s not something you’d make
A MAN has been left distraught after a Rottweiler burst into his garden and savaged his pet cat to death. Father of two, Russell Johns, 34 of, was at work when the dog got away from its owner and attacked grey persian Kess in the front garden
CHRISTCHURCH health centre has been cited as one of the worst unused buildings in the country for wasted Department of Health rent, according to an investigation. The building, which has lain empty since 1989, still has a lease in place and
FORMER Cherries and Huddersfield star Marcus Browning is throwing his weight firmly behind the Dean Court club as the play-off combatants prepare for battle. The Cherries old boy insists he has no divided loyalties and is backing the Dorset
IF the new kid on the Dean Court block is feeling the heat, he has a funny way of showing it. Enveloped by the media circus, the youngest of Cherries’ likely play-off participants comes across as anything but overawed. Wearing a wide
NEWLY-appointed New Milton management duo Darran Atkins and Steve May hope to use their Havant & Waterlooville connections to help boost Linnets’ squad. The pair both spent part of their playing careers with the Hawks in the early noughties before the
SADDLE up and ride! Nearly 250 people have already signed up to complete this year’s Daily Echo-backed Macmillan Dorset Bike Ride. But organiser Peter Smith-Nicholls wants to quadruple that figure so that at least 1,000 cyclists will take part – each
BIG-game player Stevie Lovell is urging his Cherries team-mates to seize the moment as they attempt to realise their promotion dream. Lovell is tomorrow likely to be the only starter in Lee Bradbury’s team to have performed in such high-profile
