A POOLE angler’s relaxing day of fishing turned into a nightmare when he received a £250 fine for failing to buy a £3.75 day-long rod licence. Surveyor Danny Roach, 29, told how an officer from the Environment Agency confronted him while he was fishing
Well, we know the summer holidays are here because the weather is rubbish! We had a very busy end of term, with various shows, presentations and of course sports day. I entered the parent's race which was egg & spoon. I was the only parent
A TASTE of Asian culture, in all its colour and finery, will be coming to Poole’s Baiter Park this weekend. Large crowds are expected at the Bournemouth and Poole Mela event, which has been organised to promote Asian culture and language by
THREE young North Dorset men died on a South African highway when their car inexplicably crossed into oncoming traffic, an inquest has heard. The trio, 18-year-old Oliver Mobsby and Ed Lowton, and Nick Thompson, aged 19, had just embarked on
DIG out your glitter glue and dust off your finger paints because children’s arts and crafts is making a colourful comeback. As sales on the high street continue to fall, Britain’s leading hobby retailer Hobbycraft – which started in Dorset 16 years
SIX new ‘studio screens’ open at Poole’s Empire cinema tomorrow to make it one of the largest in the South. The £3million refurbishment at Tower Park, bringing 500 extra seats and top-of-the-range projection and sound systems, means Empire
TWO pedestrians from Christchurch were involved in a collision with a car in Bournemouth on Wednesday night, July 27. A 17-year-old woman from Bournemouth, who was driving a Ford Fiesta, was arrested on suspicion of driving offences following the accident
TORY backbenchers voted against their own leader to force a study into the effects of the proposed wind farm. They want to see if the plans for around 200 windmills would damage Bournemouth’s tourism and residents’ quality of life. Council leader Peter
TWO pedestrians from Christchurch were involved in a collision with a car in Bournemouth on Wednesday night. A 17-year-old woman from Bournemouth, who was driving a Ford Fiesta, was arrested for driving offences following the accident at Dean
DO YOU fancy a sing-a-long to some old favourites or the chance to delight in a misanthropic ogre’s antics in a spellbinding atmosphere under the stars? Well dreams really can come true thanks to Movies by Moonlight, Wave 105’s newest family event,
POOLE’S parking charges have been seen as a “cash cow” to raise funds for council expenditure, it has been admitted. But those days are numbered, said cabinet portfolio holder for transportation, Cllr Xena Dion. The income was needed
LOSING Colehill Library after 37 years feels like the death of a family member to residents, says the chairman of its Friends group. Since last week’s decision by Dorset County Council to pull the library’s funding, the “devastated” community is torn
DETECTIVES are calling for the public’s help after a pregnant woman was subjected to a horrific attack in her own home. The 26-year-old mother-to-be was punched in the face, knocked to the floor and subjected to blows to the head and body by
THOUSANDS of fans have joined an online campaign to get one of Bournemouth’s most colourful characters to carry the Olympic torch. Gordon Roberts – who is often called Gordon the Tramp, despite having a home – has got the support of 4,500 people
OPPONENTS to the controversial Poole old town gyratory system aim to pack a key council meeting tonight in a show of force. Residents want to demonstrate to Borough of Poole’s transportation advisory group that a one-way gyratory system feeding the Twin
IT is being hailed as the greatest show on Earth and finally the countdown to the London 2012 Olympic Games is officially under way. With exactly 12 months until the opening ceremony, a series of special events took place yesterday including
This recipe is courtesy of Gary Wicks, head chef at the newly refurbished Garden Restaurant at the Cottonwood Boutique Hotel in Bournemouth. “This dish is easy to make, and a lovely way to liven up a simple piece of meat. Serve with roasted cherry tomatoes
JULIUS Caesar is one of Shakespeare’s tragedies believed to have been written in 1599. It portrays the conspiracy, lead by Marcus Brutus and Caius Cassius, against the Roman dictator Julius Caesar. The conspirators gather around Caesar and he
THE Pavilion Theatre is to be haunted by not just one phantom but three, as home-grown West End star Earl Carpenter brings his show The Three Phantoms to Bournemouth this November 6. The Daily Echo-backed show is as much a celebration of
PORTCHESTER School’s new sports hall got off to a record-breaking start at its official opening. Year 9 students smashed the British one-hour rowing record for under-14s by seven minutes in front of 500 guests gathered to celebrate the opening of the
THE first plane of Bournemouth Air Festival has landed in the town. Except this one won’t be going anywhere – it’s the promotional Leopard jet that can be seen near St Paul’s Roundabout. With three weeks to go to the festival, which takes place between
THE £5.7million plans for Canford Bottom roundabout are far from ideal, Highways Agency bosses have admitted. Engineers are due to start work on the junction on the A31 in September, but local residents still aren’t convinced the changes will
I HAVE just read online about Turner’s Nursery (in Poole’s Uppleby Road). The news that the field is still there and folk want to ensure that it remains a wildlife and community area is good news, keep it so. I have very fond memories of this area
GRAHAM Watson, MEP Liberal Democrat, wrote that the other parties failed to vote for an increased target on CO2 emissions. I say bully for them. We have gone through worries about global warming and when that failed to materialise or impress, it was
I WOULD like to add my congratulations and appreciation to Tony Ruth’s letter of Saturday July 3 on the 100th birthday last Friday of Wally Driffield MBE, a great and most knowledgeable man of Bournemouth. I first met Wally in 1991 when I enrolled on
IF you were to ask Jessica Ennis if she was sporty, she may well reply, “Well, I do a bit of running and the like.” Even though she’s a world-class British heptathlete. But we Brits take pride in self-deprecation. And another British
SUNNY skies provided the perfect backdrop for the second day of the New Forest Show as thousands of people crammed through the gates at New Park showground near Brockenhurst. Amid the throng of families, visitors and show members vying to
WE all know Bournemouth council has got its problems with lack of funds. So I have an idea that will solve that and also be beneficial to the community. What should happen is each electoral ward be broken up into divisions and each division has an
WITH reference to the two letters from Sammy M Davis and R W Johnson (Sat July 10), I am sure that the majority of pensioners in our country could afford two or three pounds each week for buses. For years they were paying more than that to travel a mile
AS always when such things happen, it hasn’t taken the ‘armchair experts’ long to start laying the blame for the high death toll in the Norwegian massacre on the ‘slow’ response time of the Norwegian police. Norway is a small country with nothing like
A MAN who died in a car crash near Christchurch has been named as Richard James Turner from Brockenhurst. The 35-year-old was driving a red Mini eastbound on the A35 at Roeshot Hill on Monday, when his vehicle collided with a tree at 4.20pm. The coroner
A BOURNEMOUTH MP has urged an inspector not to recommend approving the controversial Talbot Village Trust application. Bournemouth West MP Conor Burns had asked Secretary of State Eric Pickles to call in the application after Borough of
CHERRIES boss Lee Bradbury has admitted he could look to bolster his central defensive options in the wake of Ryan Garry’s retirement. Talented centre-half Garry last week announced he had been forced to hang up his boots at the age of 27
DUBBED the Place of Pace, Wimborne Road was transformed into the Theatre of Thrills and Spills as Pirates snatched victory from the jaws of defeat in an Elite League classic last night. An epic last-heat decider settled an evening of high
WHAT should have been one of the greatest days in Poole SC’s 80-year history ended in controversy and confusion after a day of appeals and protests at the ASA National Age Group Championships in Sheffield. Three days later Alan Wong, Noah Vides, Todd
