CONFERENCE South outfit Dartford have confirmed that they have accepted a bid from Cherries for striker Charlie Sheringham, son of ex-England star Teddy. Boss Lee Bradbury revealed his interest in the frontman after today’s draw at MK Dons but said that
WES Thomas struck twice as Cherries bounced back from a goal down to claim a hard-fought draw at MK Dons this afternoon. Cherries went behind two minutes before half-time when QPR loan man Angelo Balanta fired the hosts into a deserved lead. But Lee
NEW Forest residents would get a “raw deal” if proposals to lose more beds at two of the district’s busy mental health units go ahead, a councillor has warned. Cllr Di Brooks, New Forest District Council cabinet member for health and leisure
LOVE will find a way. And it certainly did for a Poole widow and widower. In a poignantly romantic turn of events, Valerie Flude, 69, from Parkstone, met her second husband John, 76, from Wimborne, while attending a Bereavement Support Group at Forest
HUNDREDS of park home protesters have rallied outside Downing Street to demand a change in the law which they say allows them to be conned out of thousands of pounds. The campaigners, led by Wareham woman Sonia McColl, were in the capital to
A 21-YEAR-OLD man pretended he had a gun as he robbed a terrified shopkeeper in a Bournemouth newsagents, a court heard yesterday. Joseph Hurd, of Garsdale Close, Bournemouth, entered East Howe Food and Wine shop in East Howe Lane shortly after 8am
THE old blues legend goes that if you wait at the crossroads at midnight, you can make a pact with the devil for extraordinary musical talent. Judging by the hypnotic performance tonight, I fear that Bob Dylan has struck just such a deal with old
FOOTBALL star Paul Gascoigne has told how The Providence Project in Boscombe has helped him turn his life around. Speaking yesterday on ITV’s This Morning, he said that without the help from the Project and its staff, he wouldn’t have quit his addiction
IT’S hard to get any sort of atmosphere going in the Lighthouse’s huge concert hall with an audience of just a couple of hundred, but folk star Eliza Carthy and her band did a great job. Two other members of the Waterson dynasty, Eliza’s cousins
POOLE’S spectacular Twin Sails Bridge is finally living up to its name. With its sails proudly soaring into the sky for the first time, the second harbour crossing can be seen in all its glory. All five spans, consisting of 41 separate
Angel Adoree’s Tall Filo Baskets with Stilton, Pear and Walnuts Makes 12 6 sheets (20cm x 40cm) of ready-rolled filo pastry 70g butter, melted 2 small ripe pears 100g Stilton cheese, crumbled 12 walnut halves, roughly chopped Preheat the oven
IMAGES of West Dorset MP Oliver Letwin chucking documents into the bins of a London park may have surprised readers of the red-top tabloid that splashed this story. But it probably won’t surprise his constituents who must be getting quite
MY husband, younger daughter and boyfriend recently spent a week on the Hoburne Naish site, New Milton and would like to say what a lovely time we had. The site itself is really nice and all the staff that worked there were very pleasant and helpful
AN EMINENT scientist used her visit to a top Dorset independent school to warn that young people could become addicted to Facebook and other social networking sites. Speaking at the official opening of Sherborne Girls School’s new £2.5 million science
LAST night we arrived back to Bournemouth Airport at 7.30pm to utter chaos. Another flight had landed just ahead of ours and the airport was unable to cope with two planes landing together. The people on the earlier flight were occupying the whole
THE more I read about Baroness Greenfield, the more I like her. How often do we hear about the negative impact of the internet expressed by people who wouldn’t know how to turn a computer on? Yet here is a qualified scientist, of pensionable
HOW clever it was of Mark Smith to blame the Olympics for next year’s poor tourism; surely the blame for poor tourism is down to lack of imagination and forethought? Most holiday resorts have a full summer of entertainment not just four days like Bournemouth
OVER the last two years, the generosity of Faith Matters readers has overwhelmed a couple from the Wessex Christian Centre. Tess and Neville Wylie have received a terrific response to their Soldier Christmas Shoe Box appeals, and they are once again
A MAN from Essex is fighting for his life after stepping into the path of an oncoming car after consuming "a large amount of alcohol." Police said the accident happened across the road from Tesco Express on Holdenhurst Road in the town centre
AS we all now have been fully informed, analogue television will cease to exist around March next year. Most people I visit, including the very elderly, either have a new flat-screen digital television or digital set-top box installed as they have known
IF FORMER Defence Secretary Liam Fox’s best mate Adam Werritty wasn’t conducting business, official or otherwise, during any of the 18 foreign trips, and 22 meetings they had together at the MoD, the question still has to be asked; what the hell
LAST month Faith Matters reported on a BBC survey which indicated that almost two thirds of parents said their children did not attend a daily act of collective school worship and that 60 per cent of parents were not in favour of enforcing legislation
MATT Ford is talking up the Turbo Twins as they aim to edge Pirates a step closer to unprecedented quadruple club glory today. Ford has set his sights on a four-trophy domestic clean sweep ahead of a potentially dream season finale over the next six
LEGEND Taffy Richardson insisted he had no plans to hang up his boots despite admitting his brief stay at Wimborne Town had been affected by injury. The 44-year-old spent the past three weeks at Cuthbury after rejoining his former club in a bid to stay
STEVE Cuss believes the signing of former Liverpool youth team star Ryan Wignall will give his Wimborne Town squad some “real quality”. The Magpies boss this week completed the signing of midfielder Wignall, who had been playing in the Belgian fourth
CHERRIES fans have given their verdicts on the club’s heated goalkeeping debate – with supporters remaining split on the Darryl Flahavan-Shwan Jalal discussion. Jalal was dropped when summer signing Flahavan was given the nod to start the season. And
