THE National Farmers Union will be using an event on rural crime in Dorset to ask for more policing. The NFU vice-president Adam Quinney will be among the speakers at Kingston Maurward on Friday and is urging countryside residents to champion their cause
ELLIOT Turner told a pal of Emily Longley he started getting ready for work after waking to find her “cold and grey” the day she died, a trial heard. Witness Carla Simons says Elliot talked quickly and paced up and down when she asked him about
The annual Open Day at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital takes place between 10am and 4pm, on Wednesday 9th May. The day gives members of the public the opportunity to find out about some of the services and treatments available at the hospital
While opinion is most decidedly divided about Buffy creator Joss Whedon's first cinematic outing of the year, tonight's the night the cinema-going public finally gets to pronounce its verdict on Avengers Assemble. Will motion capture have
A CHRISTCHURCH pensioner recently met a team of people who helped save her life. Pam Fasani, 81, visited the CarelineUK monitoring centre where she was able to meet the people who helped when she was taken ill at her home. Pam’s husband Frank pulled
IT’S out with the old and in with the new at the Regent Centre cinema as they go digital. The centre has replaced the cinema’s 35mm celluloid film with state-of-the-art digital cinema. And all this week the new digital cinema at the arts centre has
A PERSONAL trainer who became a drug dealer was stopped in Poole with nearly £9,000 worth of cannabis and £8,975 cash in the back of a car. Daniel Bullock was on Ashley Road in Parkstone when police pulled over the Peugeot 207 being driven by another
POSTAL workers have called for immediate action on measures designed to tackle the problem of violent animals. Members of the Communication Workers Union, who are holding their annual conference this week in Bournemouth, said the measures to crackdown
As if the horror that is the hot dog stuffed pizza wasn't enough, we've just stumbled upon Pizza Hut Middle East's latest offering - pizza with cheeseburgers in the crust. Yes, you heard that right. Cheeseburgers. Burgers, with cheese, in your
POLICE are appealing for information after an elderly woman was burgled while she was at home in Burton, near Christchurch. The burglary took place in Treebys Close, Burton last Sunday night around 9.15pm. Police have only just released
THE owners of a seaside hotel have been given permission to extend their premises and provide a roof terrace for guests. Bournemouth Sands Hotel at West Cliff Gardens applied for consent to erect a single-storey flat-roofed extension to enlarge the dining
A WORRIED resident is calling on safety experts to look at whether measures designed to calm traffic in a busy Poole road are creating danger. A chicane was installed at the top end of Springfield Road, Parkstone, in 2004 with the aim of reducing the
THE Great Dorset Beach Clean attracted 36 volunteers who collected 47 bags of litter from scenic Worbarrow Bay. Purbeck’s clean-up hosted by Dorset Wildlife Trust and Surfers Against Sewage resulted in 162kg of litter picked up from the World Heritage
We know you've seen this trailer already (mainly because we showed it to you a couple of weeks ago) but the full Prometheus previews is getting it's TV premiere on Sunday, in the first advert break of Homeland on Channel 4. And what with nothing being
A GANG of around 50 vandals wrought havoc in a street, dragging a road sign across a car and terrifying elderly residents at the weekend. Wimborne resident Phil Gibson, 58, says he heard a ‘commotion’ and looked out to see 40 – 50 people outside his
SHOCKED staff discovered their building is the alleged love nest of a British businessman and a Chinese politician’s wife accused of killing him. Neil Heywood was found dead in a hotel room in Chongqing in China last November and is being reported
A POOLE school is looking forward to a bright future after coming out of more than two years of special measures. Talbot Combined School in Wallisdown is now “a satisfactory school which has changed significantly for the better”, according to inspectors
DOOR staff won praise from police after helping deal with a chaotic crowd of around 50 people, some drunk and some angry, after a traffic accident. Bouncer Mark Wadham said: “I couldn’t believe it. People were fighting each other to get closer
POOLE Tidal Energy Partnership is cresting a wave thanks to a £20,000 grant from the Department for Energy and Climate Change. The funds have been used for an energy audit of Hamworthy schools, Upton House and other buildings, highlighting the importance
A CHEEKY pooch sparked a rescue operation after it chased a mouse through a gap in a pile of rubble – and got stuck. The terrier, called Mr Scribbles, had only been let outside for a few seconds before it spotted the rodent scurrying across
POOLE Hospital has apologised after a power failure put all its direct dial telephone numbers out of action for more than three hours yesterday. The problem meant that the only way for outside callers to get through was via the hospital’s already busy
A THIEF who craves chewing gum is being sought after £60 worth disappeared from a shop in the Winton area of Bournemouth. The suspect entered Wilkinson’s at around 10.20am on Friday, April 13. After putting his unusual haul in a shopping basket, he made
FOOTBALL boss Harry Redknapp took time out of his hectic schedule to launch a new charity appeal in Bournemouth. The Spurs boss and favourite for the England manager’s job dropped into Bournemouth School to give a boost to Leukaemia Busters and to receive
WHEN it comes to clever one-liners, Canadian comic Stewart Francis is in a class of his own. The stand-up comes to the Pavilion Theatre on Sunday, where he’ll pack in as many jokes as he possibly can during his time in front of the Bournemouth crowd
AN OVERNIGHT closure of Poole’s troubled Twin Sails Bridge last night took place to allow a blitz on its problems. And Borough of Poole is in negotiations with contractors over “delay damages” which could run into hundreds of thousands of pounds
KEVIN PAUL SAUNDERS aged 48 of Mansel Close, Poole. Admitted driving a Vauxhall car on Wallisdown Road with no insurance. Fined £110, victim surcharge £15, costs £85 and licence endorsed with six points. CHRISTINA JANE SMITH aged 53 of Durrant Road,
SULTAN AHMED aged 23 of Tower Road, Bournemouth. Admitted using threatening and abusive behaviour. Conditional discharge for 18 months. Costs £85. Conditional discharge was increased from 12 months to 18 due to racially aggravated element of the offence
IT was once described in a Daily Echo article as Bournemouth’s best kept educational secret. For although St Martin’s School boasts possibly the best 11-plus exam results in the area, many people still don’t know about it. The school, which celebrates
PARENT and former pupil Katie Reed: “I had such happy memories that I really wanted to send my children here too and have the full experience from Reception as I didn’t join until Year 3 so I always felt a bit cheated!” PARENT Jill Moore: “It is a very
>ST MARTIN’S School, 15 Stokewood Road, Bournemouth, 01202 760744 Website: stmartinsschool.co.uk. Number of teaching staff: 10 Age range: 4 to 11 Pupils: 101 Ofsted report: “St Martin’s School is a friendly, welcoming school where pupils develop
FURTHER to the articles in the paper about how the council should spend any receipt from Alexandra Park Lodge, I would like to make the following points. The Borough of Poole faces a rapidly increasing, well above national average, ageing population
BOURNEMOUTH council should not allow the 100-metre weather tower to go ahead. If it does not go ahead, the Navitus Bay project will not be able to go ahead either. Allowing it to be built will give a green light to the unwanted Navitus Bay project
LIKE Bob Danks (Letters April 20) I too think there is a lot of scaremongering going on about the proposed wind farm off the Dorset coast. When the proposal was first mooted, a few years ago, I was a bit concerned but after giving it some thought then
MEMBERS of a ‘Super Heroes Club’ at a Bournemouth academy have formed their own comic creating business. The club at the Bishop of Winchester Academy, which includes students with high functioning autism or Asperger syndrome, has formed Blue Book Comics
THE sky’s the limit at a Wimborne school celebrating its centenary. Children from Wimborne First School marked 100 years by launching colourful balloons into the air after a service in the Minster led by the Bishop of Salisbury. Youngsters from the
WE have all read about the Imax problem, the cost of purchase and now the proposed cost of demolition, some £2m. To demolish a perfectly sound building because some residents object to its appearance and loss of view seems the worst possible solution
IT was with a mixture of disbelief and despair that I read your report on the supposedly gloomy outlook for Bournemouth’s hoteliers (‘One third of hotels face risk of failure’, April 21). There simply is no need for such pessimism. Yes, times are tough
WHEN the Waterfront building – home to Bournemouth’s Imax cinema – won planning permission in 1997, there were only two objections from the public. And neither of those letter-writers was worried the building would be too big. Fast
ELIO Pace arrived onstage with his five piece band and made the next two and a half hours simply whiz by. Elio is probably better known to some of us as Terry Wogan’s Weekend With Wogan’s bandleader or as the wonderful Albert Lee’s former pianist, a
KERRY Katona has been announced by the organisers of Bourne Free – Bournemouth’s Pride Festival as one of the headline acts for July 14. The singer and TV personality will open the evening’s entertainment on stage and will sing later in the evening.
COUNCILLORS have unanimously backed plans to demolish Bournemouth’s controversial Imax building and create an outdoor events arena in its place. Contractors will now be sought to demolish the Waterfront building. An outdoor events and
A SCHOOLBOY suffered serious leg injuries in an accident on a road that residents call ‘lethal’. The 13-year-old was crossing Kinson Road in Bournemouth to catch a bus when he was in collision with a car at around 8.20 yesterday morning.
POLICE stumbled on a cannabis factory after forcing their way into a rented unit on an East Dorset industrial estate. Bournemouth Crown Court heard how officers had found 135 cannabis plants, with a street value of up to £37,000, as well as a hydroponic
ELLIOT Turner accused his girlfriend of looking like a “whore” on her last night out, a court heard yesterday. Oliver George, 18, spent the evening of May 6 last year with Emily Longley and friend Turner and described the “awkward” atmosphere
RESIDENTS in parts of Christchurch, Bournemouth and East Dorset have been warned about potential flooding as the wet weather looks set to continue. The Environment Agency said a flood warning remains in place for areas surrounding the Lower
THE jury in the Emily Longley trial were yesterday shown a CCTV video containing the last moving images of the 17-year-old alive. The footage shows accused Elliot Turner and Emily arriving at Cafe Shore in Sandbanks on May 6, 2011, and leaving
CHRISTCHURCH boss Graham Kemp lamented his side’s finishing as Priory suffered Russell Cotes Cup final agony at Hurn Bridge. Jack Slade’s double ensured the Wessex League big-guns Bemerton Harlequins claimed the silverware 2-0 despite Christchurch creating
COACH Tim Collier believes Lions should target a mid-table finish when they begin life in National Two South next term. Bournemouth closed their record-breaking National Three South West season with a thumping 57-5 away victory over Oxford Harlequins
MATT Ford is adamant Poole’s top 2012 target Sam Masters will repay his faith – by sticking with Pirates for the long term. The Wimborne Road chief wants to see the Australian become Poole’s latest wonder from Down Under. Fast-learner Masters has so
NEIL Middleditch insists he is happy with the balance of his Pirates team despite them being dubbed top heavy by Elite League rivals. The Poole Coastal Aluminium boss expressed his faith in the strength of his one to seven after questions were raised
