CHERRIES suffered penalty shoot-out heartache at the Galpharm Stadium after Huddersfield booked a place in the League One play-off final at Old Trafford tonight. Cherries lost the shoot-out 4-2 after 90 minutes and half-an-hour of extra-time had failed
SEAGULLS’ water polo player Megan Fletcher has survived the first round of selection for the England ladies’ talent squad for girls born in 1996-97. She is the first girl from the Christchurch club to achieve this stage in national selection and follows
FIONA Hardie became the second Poole swimmer to achieve nine qualifying times for the summer nationals when she recorded a personal best 5min 06.63sec in the 400m individual medley at the Portsmouth Open Meet event. The time was the latest in a string
PLANS to increase the number of teams in the Premier Division of the National Arena League West from 18 to 24 could be reversed following objections from some of the clubs affected. League members meet this Sunday to make the draw for the first round
A QUARTET of Christchurch Seagulls are flying high after striking gold twice in the South West regional relay competition at Millfield. Abbie Noyce, Ellen Broadfield, Chloe Scott and Zoe Gannaway went into the 9-10yrs 4x50m freestyle and medley relays
TOP Australian polo players will be battling it out with England’s finest at Poole’s British Beach Polo Championships. The fourth spectacular event to take place on Poole’s Sandbanks beach on July 8-9 will be the first time the team from down under will
Bold and bright and standing out from the crowd, this is how the lion sculptures of the Pride in Bournemouth project could be described, until now! A new lion is set to join the pride that is just as magnificent but will be harder to spot,
St Michael’s Primary School has welcomed a new pupil to the classroom thanks to Coles Miller Solicitors. The new student is slightly different to the norm, as it’s a Pride in Bournemouth lion! The miniature lion statue was given to the Bournemouth
YOUNG carers from across Dorset are making the community arts project, Pride in Bournemouth, all aflutter with their amazing butterfly adorned lion. ‘Kaleidoscope’ is the latest lion sculpture to be decorated, and will join the pride once it has been
THE survival of the Lulworth Skipper, one of the UK’s rarest butterflies, is under threat more today since records began, the latest research shows. A scheme run by East Lulworth’s Butterfly Conservation and the Centre for Hydrology shows the
THE land train service from Boscombe seafront to the shopping precinct is being extended until the end of the summer season. And one councillor has told the Daily Echo how he hopes the long-awaited route can become an all-year-round attraction. Cllr
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THEY’RE something of a five-star family. As well as being five generations strong, this Christchurch family is also standing up for girl power – each eldest child is a female. The line starts with Olive Martin, 91, who lives at the White Lodge and St
MUD, mud, glorious mud. At least some birds think so. And wildlife charity the RSPB is urging the public to provide fresh dollops of it in their gardens to help birds struggling to build nests in the dry spell. The driest April on record has left swallows
A pathologist gave a detailed account at Winchester Crown Court this morning of the injuries Heather Barnett suffered on the day she died. Dr Allen Anscombe arrived at the scene in Capstone Road, Charminster, at 8.45pm on November 12, 2002
A FATHER of three says he is “disgusted” after his bicycle was stolen from outside a hospital as he accompanied his sick child to an eye appointment. Paul Bartlett, 34, of Truman Road, Kinson, locked up his bicycle near the main entrance of Royal Bournemouth
THE move to establish a Swanage secondary school has taken a huge leap forward following the donation of the town’s former grammar school building. London-based property developer Welfare Dwellings Residential Care Ltd says it will hand over
A TERRIFIED couple were threatened with a broken bottle in an attempted robbery in Poole’s Old Town. The pair refused to hand anything over to the attacker despite his threats of violence. The incident happened on Levet’s Lane between 11.20pm and
ENERGY giant BP has announced the sale of its Wytch Farm oilfield in a deal worth a staggering $610 million. The Purbeck plant, the largest onshore oilfield in Western Europe, has been sold to Perenco UK Ltd, the British arm of an Anglo-French
THESE are the 13 bullets found by children playing in a Bournemouth garden. They were uncovered by a young girl and a seven-year-old boy in West Howe on Sunday. Armed police were called to search for any more weapons at Moore Avenue. Police said the
DEBATING the virtues of blended wines compared to single grape varieties can often lead to a fiery exchange in certain circles. Supporters of blended wines will champion the likes of Rioja, Champagne and Châteauneuf du Pape, while those on the other
GET your rocks off with new show Rock ‘n’ Roll Paradise that is twisting its way to the Pavilion Theatre on July 24. There’s no plot, no storyline, simply a rock ‘n’ roll show where the music plays the leading role. The talented cast brings to life
Strawberry Ice Cream 600g strawberries, sliced 180g caster sugar 500ml full fat milk 500ml double cream 1 vanilla pod, split 10 egg yolks 2 tbsp lemon juice Put the sliced strawberries into a
SHE’S often mistaken for a drunk - even though she’s stone cold sober. For Lynne Ballard has Multiple Sclerosis which sometimes affects her speech. “The nerves in my lips, tongue and facial muscles may not always function very well - that is why you
POLICE officers are expected to ask tough questions of Theresa May when she delivers a keynote speech in Bournemouth today. As well as addressing delegates at the Police Federation Conference, the Home Secretary will sit on a panel during a
JENNY Dale is used to some strong reactions when people find out that she sacrificed one of her kidneys for the sake of someone she had never met. “I’ve been told I’m really selfish because of putting my family through me having surgery when
THE man who died in a plane crash in Dorset at the weekend was an “inspirational” former Royal Marine who had taken part in a trans-Atlantic rowing effort for charity. Orlando Rogers, 26, from Poole, was a passenger in a friend’s Tiger Moth
With that curious sensation in one's stomach that only a true foodie would recognise, (being excitement at using a new ingredient, nerves in case it all goes wrong, more nerves in case nobody likes it and even more nerves, well, just because),
THE Olympic torch will spend a night in Bournemouth during an 8,000-mile journey around the UK next year. Bournemouth will host the torch on Friday, July 13, 2012 – just two weeks before the opening of the London Games. The resort is
I WAS interested in the responses to a sporting gentleman to replace the likes of Henry Cooper. I am an ardent football supporter (Fulham), but I would opt for Jonny Wilkinson on all counts. CLAUDE PINNEY, Craven Cottage, Abingdon Drive, Highcliffe
GLAD to see that the subject of the price of the TV licence was corrected although some will say it is still too high. Well, for those who doubt we get value for money from the BBC, tune into children’s CBeebies weekday mornings and watch a programme
THOSE who voted for Derek Borthwick as an Independent, are rightly angered that he has joined the Conservatives. (“Anger as councillor joins Conservatives”, Daily Echo, 11 May). They voted for him as an Independent candidate – not as a Conservative.
I WOULD like to express my disappointment at the comment from the Bournemouth Council spokeswoman in the last sentence in the report concerning the roadworks problems in Boscombe. She obviously is unable to look at the wider picture which local residents
FURTHER to the statement by a South West Trains’ spokesman quote: “Our absolute priority is to run a safe railway for our passengers and staff” – then surely the initiative and actions taken by the station master Mr Faletto in alerting the situation to
WE ARE all aware that our country is faced with an enormous debt left by a profligate Labour government. We now have a Tory led government, determined to reduce that debt by severe cost-cutting measures which will hurt us all. Tough, we say, but ‘needs
UNSELFISH concern for the welfare of others isn’t something you always see in the pages of a newspaper like ours. While we like to strike a balance between right and wrong, good and evil, it’s often the “I’m more important than everyone” brigade that
CRUISE passengers have spoken of their relief after flying into Bournemouth airport from Sweden after their ship broke down in the Baltic. Tugs were sent to tow the MSC Opera to port after it lost all electrical power off the island of Gotland
AT 21:00 on Thursday May 12, I went on one of my moonlight walks to the Tilly Whim caves. There was a clear sky and the visibility was excellent with views of the Needles lighthouse and the two radio masts on the Isle of Wight. Returning on the Diagonal
IT may sound a wacky suggestion, but in our ever wider search for forms of green electrical power would it be technically possible to place small tidal turbines under the railway bridges in Holes Bay and at Rockley. Could that make a small but useful
READING the article on traffic control at the above roadworks, I was struck by the superior (arrogant?) management-speak response from the transportation manager Ian Katras. Approaching the same works from Richmond Park Road is a sign left to “Charminster
I FULLY support all your correspondents who pinpoint all the inequalities that stem from our membership of the European Union. The simple truth though is that as long as the British public keep ticking the boxes of the three main political parties, then
PROSECUTOR Michael Bowes QC said evidence against Danilo Restivo in the murders of Heather Barnett and Elisa Claps is “compelling”. Turning to events in Italy in 1993, Mr Bowes said: “Our case is that Restivo was responsible for the murder of Elisa
HEATHER Barnett’s son was yesterday heard by the courtroom describing the moment he found his mother’s mutilated body. In a video interview which was recorded the day after Heather was killed, 14-year-old Terry told police officer Helen Davis and a
THE man accused of murdering Heather Barnett bought a bus ticket on the morning of her death and “quite deliberately put it forward as a false alibi”, Winchester Crown Court has heard. Danilo Restivo told police he left home at 8.10am or 8.20am
REIGNING champion Tom Leech fended off the challenge of Dorset’s ‘top two juniors’ to retain his county title at Ferndown on Sunday. Leech, who landed his first Dorset championship last May, beat newly-crowned South West Four Counties junior champion
FORMER Dean Court star Alan Connell believes Huddersfield face a huge task to halt the momentum generated by Cherries’ odds-defying rise. Connell, whose goal at Burton Albion sparked last season’s promotion party, is willing his old team-mates to complete
GEORGE Webb highlighted the importance of the AFC Bournemouth connection after opting to join Wimborne ahead of two of their Southern League rivals. The 20-year-old is believed to have rejected approaches from Poole Town and Gosport Borough in order
A GIFT of £1m to the RNLI will boost training for newly recruited lifeboat crew for the next five years. The grant of £916,510 has been donated to the Poole-based life-saving charity by the Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust. It will be used to help
CHERRIES manager Lee Bradbury has challenged his players to carve their names in the Dean Court record books. Bradbury is hoping Cherries can heap more play-off misery on Huddersfield as they look to take another step towards clinching back-to-back promotions
MIDFIELD maestro Anton Robinson believes Cherries must be brave and rely on their passing principles as the race for the Championship gathers pace. The 25-year-old insists his team will look to take the game to Huddersfield Town in tonight’s semi-final
