DESPITE Middleton Cup demands on their resources, Alexandra Park departed Knyveton Gardens with a 9-5 (87-74) victory in Section One. Mark Tomberry collected a last-end 18-18 tie for Alex and Alan Trevett, Alan Burden, Dave Hodgkiss and Paul
FASHION students from the Arts College in Bournemouth brought a touch of the seaside to London when they presented their collections at the Graduate fashion show. Twelve students all hoped to win a prestigious award at the event on June 7 and had entries
Swanage Library re-opens tomorrow following a six month, £424,000 refurbishment. The news will be welcomed by many residents, who have spent a winter of discontent queuing at a temporary mobile library on Shore Road. Dorset County Council
FORMER Cherries favourites Tony Nelson and Brian Bedford have paid warm tributes to Ollie Norris – a key figure from the club’s most famous FA Cup run – who has died in Australia after a long illness. He was 82. Derry-born Norris, who began his professional
DRIVERS are facing 10 months of disruption as engineers work on Canford Bottom roundabout. The Highways Agency has announced the £2.6million project, due for completion in time for the Olympic events in Weymouth next July, will start in early September
POLICE investigating the death of Emily Longley want information about two teenagers seen “acting suspiciously” the night she died. The 17-year-old, who moved to Bournemouth from New Zealand, was found dead at a bungalow in Queenswood Avenue
A controversial £100 million town centre development slammed as a “carbuncle” by Poole residents has been redesigned. Developers responded to a storm of more than 400 comments from residents, the planning authority and the Commission for Architecture
A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving following a collision in which New Forest teenager Esther Walters died. The 19-year-old man from Fordingbridge has been bailed until September pending further enquiries. Esther Walters, from
Monkey World director Dr Alison Cronin has launched a stinging attack on the research of a visiting American academic and has urged students in the south to boycott her lecture. The University of Portsmouth is hosting a visit on Wednesday
Spiced pork and cumin sausages with fennel and preserved lemon salad Makes 16 For the sausages: 500g ground pork 2 garlic cloves, crushed 1 and 1/2tsp ground cumin 1/4tsp ground nutmeg 1/4tsp ground cinnamon 1/2tsp ground coriander 1tsp mint
HATS OFF to it! Royal Ascot runs until Saturday, and there are few venues that can match the rich heritage and 300-year-old history of Ascot Racecourse. As well as now being a national institution and a centrepiece of the British social calendar, it
RESIDENTS could be charged for recycling their garden waste – and banned from putting it in their regular bins. Poole council is considering charging £31 a year to collect their garden cuttings – a service that is currently free. At present 22,000 households
A CAMPAIGNER who cycled naked through Bournemouth and Poole last summer has been given a year’s conditional discharge after being found guilty of a public order offence. Richard Collins, 54, who lives with his elderly mother in Bexhill-on-
CLLR Eades has never been shy in peppering his campaigns with personal attack, vitriol and misdirection, but the lack of accuracy in his latest personal attack on me is staggering. He forgets that in cabinet I spoke out and voted against the portable
HAS anyone else noticed how worn the line markings are on the upper floor of Castlepoint’s car park? They are so worn in some places that they can hardly be seen. Some of the give way markings are virtually invisible. This is most certainly a risk and
I AM normally slow to anger, but your front page (June 11) made me boil with rage. The sight of a distressed fawn looking in vain for her offspring is one of the most harrowing pictures I have seen for a long time. The arsonists who perpetrated this
IT was with a mixture of bemusement and growing irritation that I read the article in the Faith Matters section of the Daily Echo titled “Streetside healing” (June 11) as it espoused the wonders of faith healers who work outside the Methodist Church on
A DECADE ago, when I first came across the 1990 Environmental Protection Act and noted the £2,500 penalty for the “criminal offence” of littering, I was appalled that so little was being done by our councils to deal with the litter issue. It is then
ANSWERS wanted regarding Bournemouth’s council housing shambles. Disappointing was the reply made by Cllr Charon regarding my queries and criticism of the plans revealed a week or so ago to borrow the largest amount of money in its history – £45 million
I’VE become really rather good at recycling and I feel confident in standing proud as our household’s head eco-honcho. Everything that can be recycled ends up in my well-preserved blue bin, while my larger black bin is always filled to the brim with
TEN of Dorset’s threatened libraries could be spared after council officers backed new proposals for the future of the service in Dorset. However, library campaigners are still angry as they claim a panel of councillors’ calls to keep open
JIM Lynch summed it up almost perfectly: This was a meeting where the contrasting sides of Chris Holder were the difference. The Belle Vue team boss could see his men were up against it when interviewed before heat 15 at Kirky Lane last night. And he
ASSISTANT boss Steve Fletcher believes coveted Cherries striker Danny Ings would be well advised to continue his footballing education at Dean Court. Fletcher’s comments came after Ings was linked with a dream move to the Premier League
A MAJOR housing association is bowing out of Dorset and Hampshire and transferring its homes to other companies. Knightstone Housing Association, one of the largest independent providers of affordable housing in the South West, has announced major changes
ROB Woodman produced a masterful display of batting to put Dorset on the ropes at Dean Park yesterday. After the opening day of the Minor Counties Championship clash was wiped out by the weather, Woodman took control on day two as the visitors declared
MENTOR Neil Moss believes Dan Thomas has the ability to become an accomplished goalkeeper and is urging his young protégé to realise his potential. The youth team graduate, who was handed a new 12-month contract last month, will spend next
