TEENAGE goalkeeper Jordan Seabright played a starring role as Cherries went down 2-1 against Football Combination rivals Cheltenham this afternoon. The 17-year-old, standing in for Shwan Jalal who was unwell, made a string of fine saves as a youthful
CHARLIE Rowberry played a starring role as Swanage & Wareham gave their stuttering South West One East season a major boost. Winger Rowberry ran in a crucial second-half try and slotted over one penalty and one conversion as the Swans edged to a 15-9
WIMBORNE Town boss Steve Cuss watched his team taste defeat and then admitted Magpies’ epic Cuthbury comeback had taken its toll. The Dorset outfit lost 2-0 at Taunton Town on Monday night as counter-attacking strikes from James Blake and Jon
DAVID Dunn hailed quiet man Alan Manning as Lions continued their impressive start to the campaign by thumping Barnstaple 28-3. The National Three South West leaders have racked up maximum points from their opening four games as they seek to go one better
PLANS for Penton Motors to move onto the site of a long-established former factory in Christchurch have been given the green light. Part of the Revvo Castors factory in Somerford Road has been demolished to make way for the company’s move from their
A SWANAGE care home that closed amid a wave of protest will reopen for the town’s elderly, it has been announced. James Day Care Home shut in January, last year, leading to the traumatic re-housing of 22 elderly residents. A joint planning group, including
NEWSHOUND for a day at the Daily Echo is among top prizes on offer at a charity auction staged by Wave 105 this autumn. Proceeds from the annual Cash for Kids auction helps local children who are financially, socially, emotionally or physically
“I LIKE contradictions,” said Steven Murphy, the cagefighting playwright, whose living room includes grappling gloves and books on Oscar Wilde. The 37-year-old is built like the proverbial brick outhouse but he has a poet’s sensibility and
A WOMAN claims she was singled out for being female by a wheel clamper who demanded £180 to free her car from a plot behind a busy Ferndown shopping area. Amanda White, 41, parked on an area behind Lloyds TSB in Victoria Road. When she returned
HIGH street giant Marks and Spencer is set to be handed a heavy fine today for failing to protect customers from exposure to asbestos during the refurbishment of its Bournemouth store. Today is the second day of a two-day sentencing hearing
A SALVATION Army meal run service for Bournemouth’s homeless has been asked to leave a town-centre churchyard and move almost a mile away. St Peter’s Church in Hinton Road has provided a base for the charity to help the homeless for 20 years
A SPECIAL event giving Purbeck residents the chance to help shape development in the district takes place at Wareham’s Corn Exchange this evening. Residents are being asked to voice their opinions on how they would like new homes - outlined
What a week! There has been a huge amount of discussion over the last week mainly due to the report about a cyclist who knocked over an elderly lady on a pavement. The discussion seemed to be split into two distinct types; there were the cyclists
A SOLDIER serving in Afghanistan got the perfect send-off present – thanks to Tottenham Hotspur boss Harry Redknapp. Lt Ian Thornton of Ferndown was deployed earlier in the month, with the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment. A couple days before he
DEFENCE giant BAE Systems confirmed today that 51 jobs could be cut from its site at Christchurch. The company is cutting almost 3,000 jobs at sites across the country, mainly in its military aircraft division. The firm ended days of speculation by
SOLICITORS representing the Lap Dancing Association are arguing with Bournemouth council on what makes a performance ‘lewd’ or ‘stimulating’. They have written to the council asking for amendments to the conditions for sexual entertainment
DORSET’S Durdle Door is one of the best sights in the world, according to a new Lonely Planet book, published today. The leading travel guide company’s 1000 Ultimate Sights, ranks the Jurassic rock arch alongside such spectacles as the Taj
A DOG was thrown from a moving car in a “horrific” example of animal cruelty, an RSPCA inspector says. Shocked Verwood resident Andy Thompson was out walking his dogs when he saw a Jack Russell being dumped from a silver car as it drove around
A UNIQUE festival for people who love both food and film will be starting in Dorset in October. Now in its seventh year, Screen Bites is the only event of its kind in the country, and this year features 20 screenings, mostly at village halls across
THIS is an aerial theatre company, specialising in circus style physical drama on aerial equipment. It focuses on the relationships between people and their vulnerability, trust and reliance between them, whilst all the time they are suspended in mid-air
A MAN collapsed and died during a walking expedition with a group from Dorset. The 50-year-old was accompanying a group of teenagers from the county on Corn Du in the Brecon Beacons when the alarm was raised on Saturday. It is not yet known whether
THE show must go on, as local Pearl Jam fans will get a second chance to watch Cameron Crowe’s Twenty documentary about the US band at the Lighthouse, Poole. Following the unfortunate technical glitch last week at the Lighthouse cinema, the venue has
Slow Roast Belly Of Pork, Green Sauce & Mash (Serves 6) 2kg piece of belly pork, bone in, rind on 1tsp salt 4 cloves garlic 2tsp paprika 30ml vegetable oil Juice of 1 lemon For the mash: 1kg Maris Piper potatoes 250g butter 150ml double cream
DORSET Police are convinced the right man is behind bars for the murder of student Jong Ok Shin despite growing claims of a miscarriage of justice. Lawyers acting for Omar Benguit claim convicted killer Danilo Restivo murdered the 26-year-old Korean
IF a survey could be done on people’s perceptions of golliwogs, it would be interesting to see exactly how many people regard them as racist. For example, would anyone class Raggedy Anne or Cabbage Patch dolls as racist because they do not conform to
I WOULD like to take issue with your comment (Daily Echo, September 23) that ‘the golly was adopted by Enid Blyton in her Noddy books as a badly behaved and often criminal figure’. This has been repeated so often that some people now take it as fact!
LET me tell you what normal people do when they are no longer able to look after their pets or would like to pass them on to a loving home. They choose a highly-respected local newspaper – for argument’s sake, let’s call it the Daily Echo –
OF all the things to write your first book about, why choose The Beatles? After all, millions of words and thousands of books have already been written about the group whose recorded output is the closest we have to a universal language. There
IF only we could change the whole privileged club that Faith Eckersall describes (Let’s not be fooled by this talk of ‘we’, Sep 24). People who have never worried about paying a bill know nothing about the reality of ‘ordinary’ people’s problems, which
REGARDING Faith on Saturday, September 26, I have never read an article in which I have agreed on every word. I wish I had written the article and in such clear understandable English. What the Big Society really means is ‘we are handing it all over
IN response to your article about Viv Endecott and her golliwogs (Daily Echo, September 23), I would like tell you about two experiences I have had. The first, that the only time my children received a golly was as a present from my son’s godmother who
POLITICAL correctness gone bonkers. Carol Maund says it is widely accepted that golliwogs have racist connections. Of course they do... in the eyes of bureaucrats like her, but to any normal, tolerant citizen, they are cuddly toys that have been around
REGARDING your story ‘Pier shop banned from golliwogs’ (Daily Echo, September 24), I thought we lived in a democracy with freedom of speech. I don’t pay council tax for some bored, overpaid jobsworth control freak to tell residents and retailers what
THE Faith On Saturday (September 24) essay titled ‘Let’s not be fooled by this talk of ‘we’ was spot on the button; and every word sparkled with what is wrong with not only England, but every government across the globe – in that they are playing with
TWO women were taken to hospital after being injured when a bus collided with a bus shelter in Ferndown on Monday morning. An investigation has been launched into the incident, which happened at about 8.30am near the Smugglers Haunt and Sainsbury
A ROAD safety campaign is claiming success after recording that the number of offences committed by drivers has dropped. Dorset Road Safe, which runs the No Excuse campaign, said a similar number of officers patrolling the same locations are finding
TAFFY Richardson opted to cross the great Dorset divide, leaving Poole for Wimborne after feeling he had dropped below the tea lady in the Tatnam pecking order. Richardson, who famously skippered the Magpies to FA Vase glory in 1992, swapped camps last
IF ever there was a performance to dem-onstrate genuine championship credentials, this was it. The resounding message booming its way from Wimborne Road to Arlington could not have been clearer: Pirates are back in form and mean business. Ravaged by
NEWLY-appointed boss Glenn Burnett says he is relishing the opportunity to try to revive the fortunes of Wessex Premier strugglers New Milton Town. The 37-year-old will officially take charge for the first time tonight when the Linnets host Hayling United
