THE Royal Bournemouth Hospital’s new purpose-built stroke unit has opened its doors to patients, bringing acute care and rehabilitation under one roof for the first time. The hope is that by putting the latest facilities on the single site, instead of
PEOPLE in East Dorset will soon be able to have their say on gypsy and traveller sites proposed for the district. East Dorset District Council launches its consultation on November 18 and it will run until February 10. All of Dorset’s local authorities
WORK has begun on the main construction phase of a Poole school, under the watchful eye of the town’s mayor. Cllr Graham Wilson was on hand to see foundations laid at Ashdown Technology College at Canford Heath as the main construction phase
BOURNEMOUTH choirmaster Gareth Malone takes on a whole new challenge next week. His latest series The Choir: Military Wives, starts on BBC2 on Monday night and will see the former Bournemouth School pupil help the women left behind when their husbands
SOARING birth rates in Bournemouth are forcing the council to create hundreds more primary school places. Hundreds of additional spaces have already been found but forecasts have revealed at least 400 more will be needed by September 2014.
Could you solve a wildlife murder mystery? Put your sleuthing skills to the test with the RSPB this Sunday 6th November at Upton Country Park in Poole. The event runs between 10am and 3pm and it is free to take part. To join in come to the
AN award-winning restaurant has been forced to close its doors to customers. News of the closure of Riverside Sopley Mill restaurant and tearooms has caused distress to many couples who had chosen it as their wedding venue. The mill
A FAMILY’S dog, which went missing last month, has been found and returned after being ‘stolen to order’. Jack, the black and white Patterdale Terrier, disappeared from the family farm in Ashington, near Wimborne, on October 5 while his owner
HALLOWEEN, the time when scary creatures come out to terrify us. And so on to Nancy Dell’Olio in Strictly Come Dancing (BBC1, Saturday). Ooh! Nancy. She reminds me of an old Morecambe and Wise sketch. When she dances, she uses all the right moves
NEW York City celebrates thanksgiving with an annual parade of giant balloons and these colourful festivities on the streets of the Big Apple provide a perfect cover for a daring robbery in Brett Ratner’s action-packed comedy. Ted Griffin, who penned
NEW Zealand-born screenwriter Andrew Niccol has consistently conjured dark clouds with his dystopian visions of life in the 21st century and beyond. His debut feature Gattaca starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman cast a chill with its depiction of a society
ONE man can make a difference in Marc Forster’s inspirational true story, based on a screenplay by Jason Keller. Unfortunately, that man isn’t Gerard Butler, whose portrayal of thug-turned-guerrilla humanitarian Sam Childers seems to have one
POLICE have taped off an area off Poole Hill in Bournemouth this morning following a serious assault. A section of Upper Norwich Road is cordoned off from its junction with Poole Hill. Police were called to the scene at 4.21am by the ambulance service
IN 1971, legendary director Sam Peckinpah sparked a wide-ranging debate about violence in cinema and the depiction of women with his coruscating thriller Straw Dogs, based on the novel The Siege Of Trencher’s Farm by Gordon Williams. Now
IF you want to have a good country pub grub experience but don’t want to drive more than a few miles out of town then the Avon Causeway is a good bet. Although I’ve often driven past the place, which is set back off the main road between Hurn and Christchurch
THIS is what Bournemouth’s Winter Gardens site would look like under £100million plans to revitalise it with a multiplex cinema, flats, restaurants, hotel, supermarket and public piazza. The bold proposals to transform the former concert hall
SEVENTY-five years ago this week, the British Broadcasting Corporation started to air the world’s first regular TV service. No need to ask what happened next; millions of us already know. In no particular order, Faith Eckersall shares her most memorable
The sika rut is in full swing. It is well worth coming to the RSPB reserve at Arne to have a look especially in the farm fields. There is often one dominant stag in each of the fields surrounded by a number of hinds and immature males.
THE protest group that has spent the week camped outside Bournemouth town hall says it is “disappointed” with the council’s decision to take court action to remove them. As reported earlier this week, the council is due to have a court hearing
THE irony that the Winter Gardens was originally planned to be an indoor bowling centre should not be lost on us. Quite a few of Bournemouth’s buildings started out as one thing and have been transformed into another. The Imax was a cinema and will
BOURNEMOUTH Highways department seem determined to cover most of Bournemouth with speed humps despite the damage they cause to cars, people and property, the additional noise and exhaust pollution and the cost. One only has to look at their actions
REG Tiller’s letter and accompanying photograph suggests that parts of the RAF Halifax which crashed in Moordown in 1944 landed as far away as Broadway Lane and Throop Road near where Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging so tragically lost his life. This is
FIREWORKS may be beautiful and exciting for us, but for animals they can be terrifying. Cats and dogs are reduced to fearful, shivering wrecks; sheep can spontaneously abort; horses gallop into fences; and rabbits have been known to die from the shock
IT WAS very commendable that RNLI sought fit to issue an immediate apology... clearly PR savvy! If, as I understand it, many of their lifeguards are volunteers, allowances should be made for such juvenile behaviour (albeit well-thought-out and executed
DEAR Sirs,whilst I might fully agree with the motives of the Anti-Capitalist Protest outside London’s St Paul’s, I just cannot fully comprehend their methods. I believe that they are strongly against the rich capitalists making so much money, whilst
IN response to Robert Readman’s letter ‘Political do-gooders got rid of death penalty’, I for one like to see solitary punishment given to people like Robert Black. A friend of mine from childhood Genette Tate is suspected to be one of his victims.
A COLLISION involving three cars and a van at an accident blackspot brought rush-hour traffic to a halt in Poole on Thursday night. The crash happened at about 5.15pm on the eastbound carriageway of the A3049 Dorset Way. Emergency services
POOLE residents who opposed a waterfront scheme they called a “carbuncle” are celebrating victory after the planning committee turned down the proposal. Overturning the recommendation of officers, members unanimously rejected Neptune Consultants
WHEN Lady Luck was handing out the horseshoes and rabbit’s feet, Steve Riley must have been preoccupied with running over a black cat or breaking several mirrors. Despite enjoying a fruitful career as both player and manager in non-league
MARC Pugh has fired a warning to League One’s big guns: Little Bournemouth are no pushover. Cherries last week sprung a surprise on former Championship high-fliers Preston North End when they won 3-1 at Deepdale And Lee Bradbury’s men will come face-to-face
ASSISTANT boss Steve Fletcher admits Cherries’ inconsistent form has left the management team with a tricky formation conundrum. Cherries have enjoyed a fruitful six-match unbeaten run on their travels and have been reaping the benefits of deploying
IT may take years for an area of protected landscape, destroyed by a stray firework at a Purbeck beauty spot, to fully recover, experts have warned. A swathe of grassland, equivalent in size to a football pitch, was decimated by fire after the rocket
TOM Killick has laughed off talk suggesting he could be in the frame for the Dorchester Town vacancy by joking: “My mum could go on a message board and link me with a job.” The Poole Town manager believes speculation linking him with becoming the successor
ANNOYED boss Simon Browne has told his Hamworthy United team: “I’m hoping for a reaction.” Hammers visit Christchurch in a battle between the Wessex Premier’s fourth and fifth-placed teams at Hurn Bridge tomorrow (3pm). And Browne has
MANAGER Steve Cuss is confident Wimborne Town are developing the battling qualities to cut it in the “punishing” Southern League. New-look Magpies have endured a tough start to the Division One South & West campaign after Cuss was forced to rebuild the
HARRY Arter wants supporters to keep writing off Cherries’ promotion chances – with the midfielder insisting the doubters are spurring on Lee Bradbury’s men. Arter has been one of Cherries’ leading lights as Bradbury’s troops have encountered Jekyll-and-Hyde
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Some of you may remember that last Christmas our sightings board made it into the Daily Echo because of the sheer number and variety of birds. Wardens have already reported seeing lots of birds in AMAZING numbers. Starting with the car park area, they
Visitors at Arne have been Stepping Up for Nature by helping to collect acorns on their visits to the reserve. Rob Farrington, Dorset Visitor Experience Manager at Arne reports: "We’ve been amazed by the response. We now have a huge pile of
