Swim Bournemouth and Christchurch Seagulls booked their places in next month’s Southern Junior League final after coming first and second in a fiercely competitive second round gala. But third and fourth places for Yeovil and Poole at Littledown means
STRIKER Steve Lovell extended his stay at Dean Court for at least another season and then revealed he felt Cherries were “going places”. Lovell today penned a one-year deal with a 12-month option before telling the Daily Echo his decision to re-sign
A £3.2MILLION state-of-the-art operating theatre has officially opened at Wimborne’s community hospital. The Friends of Victoria Hospital funded 95 per cent of the project, which includes treatment rooms and more offices. Building the Minster Operating
FROM fossil hunting to burlesque, DJ lessons to beauty treatments – it’s all on offer for free at this year’s Bournemouth Family Festival. The event, now in its second year, takes place at Meyrick Park on July 28 and organisers say there really is something
RYAN Giggs will have spent tens of thousands of pounds to keep his private life out of the newspapers – and he had the law on his side. But that didn’t stop his cover from being blown thanks to an MP and the determined efforts of thousands on the micro-blogging
THE man accused of murdering Heather Barnett was found with a large fillet knife in his car while under surveillance two years later, a court heard today. PC Ian Fryett told Winchester Crown Court he found the knife during a search
THE man accused of murdering Heather Barnett was found with a large fillet knife in his car while under surveillance two years later, a court heard today. PC Ian Fryett told Winchester Crown Court he found the knife during a search of Danilo
WE’VE all heard of the shaggy dog story, but how about the shaggy alpaca story? A pair of Dorset businessmen are hoping their tale will become a local legend, after setting up an alpaca wool processing plant in Wareham. Phil Allen and
TORNADOES are set to thunder into Bournemouth this summer. The Daily Echo can reveal that this year’s Bournemouth Air Festival, set to be held between August 18 and 21, will boast not one but two RAF Tornado jets. It is the first
WORK has begun on the new £2.2 million stroke unit at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital, which will see rehabilitation moved under the same roof as acute care for the first time. Building work to revamp wards 27 and 28 is due to finish in late October,
POOLE councillors are set to vote on whether to drop the authority’s opposition to a controversial town green application. Currently, Borough of Poole leisure officers are pursuing an objection to Baiter and Whitecliff gaining town green status
AN ELITE commando, killed during a secret Afghanistan mission deep inside enemy territory, acted with “selfless bravery” in the moments before he was shot dead, an inquest heard. Corporal Seth Stephens, a member of Hamworthy’s Special Boat
HISTORY was brought alive for youngsters at a Purbeck first school when they took part in a mock Roman battle. Normal lessons were put to one side as Corfe Castle First School pupils marched on to the school field complete with shields, spears and swords
A DALEK has invaded Poole. But don’t panic – it’s just part of a new interactive game, and K9 is here to protect us. BA media production student Doug Inman is the brains behind the out-of-this-world Doctor Who adventure which sees players flying the
A WOMAN has died following an alleged stabbing at her Christchurch home on Monday evening. The woman, named locally as Elizabeth Perkins, was believed to be in her 60s and was pronounced dead at Scott’s Green on the town’s Somerford estate
FOLLOWING last week’s wine column on blended wines, this week now celebrates the great wines made from one single grape variety, proving that sometimes less really is more. Lagar de Bouza Albariño 2009 £11.49 M&S Albariño is a top variety grown in
A MOTORCYCLIST has suffered serious injuries after a collision involving an articulated lorry on Poole lifting bridge. A black Triumph motorcycle registered to a man from Poole, and a white, Volvo articulated lorry registered to a firm from
ONCE they were just an outdoor working gum boot. Now they are the latest must-have fashion accessory. And with the festival season just around the corner, this is the time to get suited and welly-booted. For although the likes of Kate Moss and Sienna
BOURNEMOUTH council and ASR have still not agreed “payment and construction details” for work on the Boscombe Surf Reef. The £3million reef has been closed to the public since March, when divers found a sandbag had deflated and became almost
I DON’T care about what Ryan Giggs does or doesn’t get up to off the pitch. Nor am I someone who normally gets troubled by the Human Rights Act. (Why demand fewer human rights?) But I am concerned that the rise of superinjunctions, born of such
MANY students, especially those studying IT, are unable to find employment when graduating. If they chose vocational subjects and became electricians, plumbers, painters and decorators, gardeners, they would seldom be without work, especially in a retirement
MANY years ago I’ve been a few times for holiday in Christchurch. Unfortunately the contact to the people I’ve stayed there is lost, because of some personal problems of my own. The only thing I know, is that they went to Dorset.But still I’m in love
I JUST feel this has to be mentioned. While we were driving along the busy Wareham Road last Sunday at about 10.15am a young man had abandoned his bike into the hedge and was trying to retrieve something from the middle of the road, thus risking his
AS THE summer approaches, Echo readers will be preparing to go on holiday. As a charity for people with both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, the Insulin Dependent Diabetes Trust (IDDT) knows that going on holiday requires more organisation and is not quite
I WOULD like to endorse the sentiments written about AFC Bournemouth by Barbara Osborne (Have Your Say). What a credit to the town all the Bournemouth players are (plus the management team). They played magnificently in both play-off games and all
HAVING used Hurn Airport for many years I was absolutely astonished to see that it has decided to commit financial suicide at a time when it needs local support! Yet another nail in the coffin of Bournemouth International Airport on its way to unpopularity
FOLLOWING on from the disastrous financial downturn caused by winning the last war, an infectious disease HSE1 spread out simultaneously from the UK and the USA and ravaged the northern hemisphere in the late ’70s to early ’90s under the generic
A YOUNG woman told a court yesterday that the man accused of murdering Heather Barnett snipped a chunk of hair from her head as she travelled in front of him on a bus. Katie McGoldrick said the incident happened sometime between September 2002
A YOUNG woman told a court yesterday that the man accused of murdering Heather Barnett snipped a chunk of hair from her head as she travelled in front of him on a bus. Katie McGoldrick said the incident happened sometime between September 2002
NO Excuse is making no difference. That's the claim of one anti-speed camera campaigner in the wake of the latest statistics from Dorset's road safety drive, reported in the Daily Echo last week, which showed more than 1,000 drivers were
Bournemouth Airport continued to operate as normal on Tuesday despite the volcanic ash cloud affecting some flights in Scotland. Bournemouth Airport said they were running as normal and they did not expect that to change for the “foreseeable
