FERNDOWN star Hayley Davis takes a three-shot lead into tomorrow’s final 36 holes of the English girls’ championship at Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire. The 18-year-old England international added a 74 to her opening round 70 for a level-par halfway total
IN-FORM Kevin Spurgeon followed up his top-20 finish at Walton Heath with victory in the Speedy Senior Tour Pro-am at Wentworth on Monday. The Ferndown star, who finished tied 16th in the Senior Open the day before, carded a four-under-par 64 on the
MARK Wiggett thanked fellow Dudsbury touring professional Lee Thompson for his help after winning the Remedy Oak Pro-Am, sponsored by Kitchen Elegance. After carding six-under-par 66 to pick up his first Pro-Am win of the season he said it was all down
CURATORS are celebrating a £150,000 cash injection that will help a planned vehicle conservation centre at the Bovington Tank Museum become a reality. Heritage Lottery Fund trustees agreed the award, which will support detailed plans for a new 40,000sq
A CHOCOLATE company based in Bournemouth has taken its wares to the world’s favourite entertainment giant. The Walt Disney Company has started enjoying chocolate-themed team-building events run by Chocolate Delight. Boss Gerry Wilton said: “This time
A D-Day veteran has been left infuriated after becoming embroiled in a costly immigration row that led him to fear being deported from the UK. Canadian national Bob Roberts had to pay £658 for a passport stamp to avoid the threat of being excluded from
PLANS to introduce cattle to graze on a Bournemouth nature reserve go on show on Thursday. The council is proposing to introduce cattle each summer and autumn to grassland at Stour Valley Local Nature Reserve. Countryside bosses say it will improve
“KEEP Christchurch cultured.” That’s the message from guesthouse owners concerned about the type of clientele a proposed 68-bed Travelodge in Christchurch could attract. They are urging residents and fellow proprietors to join their battle against the
PARAMEDICS treated a man for head injuries following a collision with a car in Poole on Wednesday lunchtime. Several police cars are on the scene, off West Quay Road, after the man came into contact with a silver Mazda at around 12.21pm.
What’s that coming out of the sea? Is it a monster? As the finishing touches were being put into place before the Sea Monsters exhibition opens at the BIC this Saturday, the Daily Echo took a look behind the scenes. Visitors can get
HORRIFIED councillors have called for the owners of a dog that savaged a Bournemouth couple’s beloved pet to death to be prosecuted. On Monday the Daily Echo told how retired Michel Hiernaux, 62, and his 58-year-old wife Marie’s spaniel-collie
A BOURNEMOUTH head teacher has spoken out to reassure parents about their children’s education. Roger Allen, head of both Winton and Glenmoor, said standards at both schools were on the up. And he said proposals to cut support staff would not have a
AFTER a hard day at work sometimes it’s nice to get home, open a bottle of wine and put your feet up but a bottle can be too much. I have recently discovered that M&S have a solution to ending those almost finished bottles of wine cluttering
A BOURNEMOUTH man’s face was rebuilt by surgeons after his jaw was shattered during a vicious gang attack in the resort’s Pleasure Gardens. The late-night assault happened a week after a 25-year-old Bournemouth man suffered facial fractures in another
THE smell of freshly-baked bread, a word of praise, driving around an apparently full car park and finding a vacant space. These are just some of the things that make people happy and what David Cameron is spending £2million a year to find
ST CATHERINE’S Hill, Christchurch, is tipping the balance of nature in favour of sand lizards. Earlier this year, in an effort to extend heathland for sand lizard breeding etc, the powers that be decided to chop down the majority of mature pine trees
I WOULD like to refer to the story front page Savaged To Death (July 25). How sorry we are to hear the sad news of the death of Jessie and send our condolences to Michel and Marie Hiernaux. We had the same experience in June 2011. Our dog Twiggy was
AS a dog owner, I am horrified that someone’s innocent pet (headline, ‘Savaged to death’) should be killed by another dog. To begin with, most male dogs will respect a bitch and therefore such confrontations rarely progress beyond a snarl, maybe a small
IT’S risqué, and I hope you’ll excuse my French, but there’s a funny, probably apocryphal story about what Mme de Gaulle is alleged to have said when asked by a US diplomat’s wife (or a British prime minister’s wife or the Queen depending on the version
AWARD-WINNING musician, singer, producer, twice Mercury Music Prize nominee and winner of more than five BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Eliza Carthy is one of the UK’s pre-eminent modern musicians. Having played a sell-out gig in Bridport earlier this year
I HAVE spent many holidays in Boscombe over the last 45 years and have been sorry to see its decline over the last 10 years. It started with having people pestering you for your spare change in the street or asking you to buy alcohol for
I AM a very senior citizen! I wonder at this time if anyone in business or government could speak the truth. If an occasional “sorry, we got it wrong”, it would suffice, and then we could call the Honourable Gents. What a hope! I don’t suppose that to
I OBSERVE on the Bournemouth Yellow Bus (YB) website that they are offering a 25 per cent discount on the Route Ones day ticket until August 15. Super. Good value at £2.50. However, this only applies if you buy it on the 1b/c west of Gervis Place (or
TWELVE years ago, when many people were fighting to stop Britain junking the pound and joining the euro, I made this point: no nation gives up its currency and with it the right to determine its economic and taxation system, unless it has been conquered
SOME of Britain’s best-known actresses added a touch of showbiz glamour to the opening day of the New Forest Show. Stars of the stage version of the hit movie The Calendar Girls, which has opened at Bournemouth Pavilion, took time out to visit
THE sick “manifesto” drawn up by Norwegian killer Anders Breivik included suggested terrorist attacks on Dorset targets, it has emerged. Breivik – who claims links with British right-wing extremists, including the English Defence League – is
BASED on a true story, Calendar Girls is an emotional tale of bereavement, fundraising and ultimately fame as six members of the WI decide the best way to raise money for the local hospital is by stripping off for a nude calendar. The play
PIRATES chief Matt Ford has revealed his determination to keep prized asset Chris Holder at Wimborne Road – for the rest of his career.. Ford is hoping to see the Australian spend his English speedway life in Dorset after seeing him achieve
TEAM manager Neil Middleditch emerged from the wreckage of Pirates’ incident-packed defeat at Coventry on Monday and said: “I’d never seen anything like it.” Title-chasing Pirates endured a torturous night at Brandon as no fewer than three riders withdrew
SEASONED striker Steve Lovell is hoping to exorcise the ghost of his injury nightmare once and for all – by returning to haunt League One defences for Cherries. Lovell, who signed a one-year deal with further 12-month option in May, could emerge as a
PARENTS and staff of an outstanding Poole first school are celebrating after winning a battle to provide 30 more reception places. Borough of Poole’s proposal that Poole’s oldest school, Courthill First in Parkstone, could have another reception class
SHELLSHOCKED Sean Walbridge hailed Oxfordshire bowler Chad Keegan after Dorset slumped to a 163-run defeat on the final day of their Minor Counties Championship clash at Dean Park. South African Keegan finished with astonishing match figures of 13 for
MATT Ford is tipping Pirates target Martin Vaculik to be a roaring success in the UK despite his disappointing showing in the World Under-21 Championship at Wimborne Road. The Slovakian, who has already held talks with Ford regarding a possible move
