MALNUTRITION and obesity will hopefully become a thing of the past for many Bournemouth families, thanks to a new project. The breakfast and lunch club at Townsend Children’s Centre has received £3,000 from Rotary Clubs in the area to help fund it for
Police want information after a 50-year-old Blandford man was discovered by a member of the public unconscious with head injuries. The man was found in a walk way close to the Stour Inn around 2.15am. The man is currently in the Intensive Care Unit
A 30-year-old man is in Royal Bournemouth Hospital with serious head injuries. Police said they were called to an altercation outside Chilli White on St Peter's Road in Bournemouth town centre at 3.16am. A 20-year-old man Bournemouth
A HAMPSHIRE firefighter on a 999 call had a python thrust at him by a householder furious that his pet snake had been woken by a fire engine. James Edwards was outraged that his beloved python Isobel had been scared by fire-fighters responding to a blaze
A NEW partnership that plans to boost Dorset’s economy and create much needed jobs has been awarded £6.5million by the government. The Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has been set up to improve areas of the county in need of investment
CHURCHES and businesses have been warned to be on their guard after another series of metal thefts in Bournemouth town centre. The police are urging premises to step up security measures after lead was taken from the roofs of the Virgin Media
It will be more like bottom gear than Top Gear when Porsches and Range Rovers are left at home for a challenging 470 mile drive. Entrants of the Air and a Prayer Rally’s first object is to buy a banger for less than £300 – and then drive it to Scotland
AFC Bournemouth will be holding a charity day to boost two hospices. Cherries’ Help the Hospices Day will take place on February 25, when the team hosts MK Dons at the Seward Stadium. Families will be offered a ticket for two adults and
PLANS to turn a former Upton pub into a care home for the elderly have been abandoned by brewery chiefs. The Hall and Woodhouse brewery has worked for the past couple of years to seal a deal that would have seen the Greenridge pub, which has sat derelict
RETIRED British Aerospace worker Peter Lunn of Bournemouth is celebrating after winning the £2,100 runner-up prize in last weekend’s Find the Ball competition. “Wowee! That’s fantastic – you’ve made my day. I’m over the moon,” said the 84-year-old when
A GIRLS’ football team is making sporting history after winning through to the final of a national tournament. But the success has left the team at Branksome Heath Middle School with a problem – because they are not allowed to wear their prized
THE Purbeck accountant who set out to complete a trio of marathon distances in just three days has already smashed his charity target fourfold. Tim Evans walked the challenging 78-mile Dorset coastal route last month. The 47-year-old
HRH The Princess Royal has confirmed she’ll be travelling to Poole next month to visit the town’s new Twin Sails Bridge. Her visit, scheduled for March 12, comes three days after the official opening of the £21million structure. The finishing touches
A natty knit has helped secure £400 for Poole hospice Forest Holme in a charity knitwear knockout. Charity shops were plundered by the photographic team of Christchurch-based design and marketing company chs creative and staff issued with a
PARENTS say they are “fuming” that teenagers were left standing in the cold on the morning of GCSE exam work. They say it was because a bus driver had not been told about the seven weeks of road closures around the Canford Bottom roundabout. Pupils
A road closure in Poole that was to have been in place throughout the entire Olympics, has been cut by seven days. Borough of Poole had agreed that a section of the A349 at the top of Gravel Hill, leading to the A31 Wimborne by-pass should
I AM very disturbed by your front page (‘Worst School in England’). What message does that send to the staff and pupils who are working so hard to turn the school round? As a former secondary teacher, and having read the Ofsted report, I am sorry that
MRS Walker asks (Letters, January 30) for some enlightenment over St Clement’s School. The history of St Clement’s goes back to 1871 when a small day school was opened by a Miss Emma Mordaunt. Enlargement and new school buildings resulted in St Clement
ON Wednesday evening members of the public were able to witness an example of Council decision-making by Christchurch’s resources committee councillors, chairman and council leader. To this observer it appeared a breathtaking demonstration of ignorance
WILL a wind farm eight miles from Swanage and 10 miles from Bournemouth and Poole really have any effect on tourism? First, you have to ask yourself how visible they would be. The plan is for 180 to 200 wind turbines with no definite heights yet given
ALL Poole Hospital’s wards have closed to visitors again in a bid to halt the winter vomiting bug in its tracks. Bosses took the decision yesterday following high levels of Norovirus in the community and a number of suspected cases at the hospital
REGARDING the letter in Saturday’s Daily Echo from Geoff Budden about some charities not accepting furniture, may I say that this charity is always grateful for donations of furniture and some electrical items. We have sold both for several years and
READING the Monday Echo’s Taste section, The Queens Park Wednesday night Steak Night caught my eye. We don’t usually eat steaks out because more times than not they arrive either overdone and tough or underdone and the way the chef likes it but not I
PEOPLE in Dorset are being given the chance to go down in the history books. A team of researchers at the Salvation Army want to collect the stories of anyone who has a connection with or has been helped in any way by the international church and charity
PREPARATIONS are underway to ensure that the arrival of the Olympic Torch in Bournemouth is a ‘once in a lifetime spectacular’. With six months to go before Bournemouth hosts the Olympic Torch Relay on Friday, July 13, the council has appointed
NATASHA Jones who beat leukaemia and now runs a charity to support other sufferers, has been chosen to be an official Olympic torch bearer. The 32-year-old mum who lives with her husband and three sons at Stapehill near Wimborne, was diagnosed
IN just six months time, the world’s largest sporting event is coming to Britain with the Olympic and Paralympic Games bringing a wonderful celebration of sport to our shores. Dorset will be making headline news with sailing events being staged at Weymouth
BOURNEMOUTH hoteliers have welcomed a watchdog ruling that should go some way to preventing fraudulent and malicious online customer reviews damaging trade. Yesterday the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) told the travel website TripAdvisor
We did our first World Cup event of the year in Miami last week, which was a good start to the year because we came away with the gold. It was a tricky week and we didn’t really sail our best so, in many ways, we were even more pleased with
An MP has said we should make the most of the wind farm plan because his ‘gut feeling’ is that it will be built. Tobias Ellwood was giving evidence to Bournemouth councillors who are assessing the potential impact on tourism. He said
FORMER boss Jimmy Quinn labelled Matt Tubbs’s big-money move "mind-blowing" and told Cherries: "You could have had him for nothing." Boss Lee Bradbury smashed the Dean Court transfer record to sign Tubbs from Crawley Town on Monday, for
CHAIRMAN Eddie Mitchell has confirmed AFC Bournemouth will follow the club’s code of conduct when dealing with Gary Bowles. The Cherries defender was this week convicted of attacking his former partner and was given a suspended prison sentence
BOSS Glenn Burnett revealed he had secured the services of Alex Baldacchino until the end of the season – then set his sights on extending the deal. The goalscoring sensation is on loan at New Milton Town from Conference South outfit Havant & Waterlooville
