The Olympic torch visits Purbeck, Poole and Bournemouth on day 56 of its journey around the UK. Torch Relay timings by street and a list of the torchbearers are here View a map of the route here. Send your photos in to us by doing
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BREAST cancer patients will benefit from a new piece of equipment donated to the Royal Bournemouth Hospital. The £9,700 Galaxy probe upgrade will help surgeons find the most important lymph gland during cancer surgery by giving a clearer visual display
A RECENTLY closed children’s play area at Tower Park in Poole is set to reopen on Wednesday. Families were distressed when Monkey Bizness, above the Empire cinema, shut last month when its parent company went into administration. Now the operators of
AN ELDERLY woman has died following a collision with a lorry at lunchtime yesterday. The 77-year-old from the Winton area of Bournemouth suffered fatal head and leg injuries in the accident involving a Scania lorry at Wimborne Road shortly
A Bomber Command veteran gave up his seat at the London memorial unveiling for his nephew. Wing Commander Kenneth Newman, 90, from Bournemouth, had waited decades for his 55,753 lost comrades to be recognised. But when the time came, he sent his sister
ALWAYS a live favourite in Bournemouth, Newton wowed fans earlier this year at the Old Fire Station and is set to return in October at the O2 Academy. This is the singer-songwriter’s third album and drips with cynical optimism, perhaps indicating
TEN years of Lighthouse, Poole is celebrated in a birthday autumn season packed with everything from high-quality drama and breathtaking circus to side-splitting comedy and a vintage series of concerts covering nearly a century of music. The venue, which
1. Bo Saris – She’s On Fire ( Maya Jane remix) 2. Data – One In A Million 3. 10CC – Dreadlock Holiday (H.A.T. edit) 4. Tina Moore – Never Gonna Let You Oo (Tuffjam mix) 5. Stardust – Music Sounds Better (Justin Martin edit)
SHHHHH ... Bournemouth is set to enjoy an outdoor Silent Disco tonight. Pavilion Dance, Bournemouth’s national dance house is opening up its terraces to club-goers in an alfresco event that hopes to revive this summer’s festival spirit. Clubbers will
A NATIONAL campaign against knife crime is being launched in Bournemouth at an event held in memory of stabbing victim Nicholas Ormerod. The Anti-Knife Awareness Campaign will be unveiled at a party on what would have been Nicholas’ 31st birthday
BARCLAYS employees from Broadstone raised £4,000 for Julia’s House children’s hospice with a range of activities. The team made £2,000 from a musical night and raffle attended by more than 130 people at Broadstone Conservative Club, who enjoyed local
COSTLY repairs may have to be undertaken on a main road into Christchurch town centre, just months after the road was re-surfaced. Waterloo Bridge in Bridge Street, part of the Olympic torch relay route on Saturday, was shut for two months from September
A MEMORIAL to Red Arrows pilot Jon Egging began to take shape yesterday. Competition winners who helped design the sculpture for Bournemouth’s East Overcliff looked on in awe as hefty machinery cut out three jets and contrails from marine grade
LOCAL acts will be rubbing shoulders with international superstars and fantastic home grown talent at this year’s Larmer Tree Festival until Sunday night. For the uninitiated, the four day festival takes place in the grounds of the lavish at the Larmer
For the 16th year the boogie-woogie piano man opened this most special of festivals, but this time it looked as if the weather might be the winner. It rained a couple of times, once torrentially, as highly-impressive, LA-based, old-style R&
THEY’VE been a bit quiet of late, but local rockers 100 Giants are plugging their guitars back in and bringing their alternative sound back to the fore. Having been together for years under various different names, line-ups and styles of music, this
PALS of Jason Falconer, the cyclist seriously injured in a Poole crash, say they are “absolutely devastated” for him. Mr Falconer, who is in his 40s, is still in hospital following a collision with a car as he rode along Constitution Hill Road, in Parkstone
A SPECIAL BBC live event is heading for Bournemouth this weekend after plans to visit the Isle of Wight were scuppered by the weather. Blue Peter’s Big Olympic Tour will be at Kings Park from 10am until 4pm on Saturday and there will also be a live programme
I WISH to reply to the article ‘A total shambles’ in the July 4 edition. This refers to Christchurch Council putting a hold on all of the supermarket applications. I was at the five-hour long planning meeting. The whole problem is that the legal processes
MG’s letter “Go and park outside your own places” (June 23) made me smile when I thought about your anonymous writer parking outside someone else’s property who shared their sentiments. But some of the main points raised were valid and did strike a
THE wait is finally over. At last the big day has arrived. Tens of thousands of excited spectators are expected to line the route today as the Olympic Torch Relay comes to Bournemouth, Poole and Purbeck. Come rain or shine, the crowds
I AM writing with regards on the closure of the Portland Coastguard helicopter base featured in Saturday, July 7 edition. We as a family along with friends are campaigning for signatures. Tragically Jack Craig, my nephew was on the ‘Purbeck Isle’ which
THROUGH your columns I would like to thank all my family and friends, my friends at the Broadstone Day Centre and shop and the staff of Barclays Bank, Broadstone for their generous wishes and gifts on the occasion of my 70th birthday. Thanks also to
A TORCH bearer has described his frustration at not getting a ticket for Bournemouth Council’s Olympic party. John Dickinson from Queens Park in Bournemouth carried the flame at Fortuneswell near Weymouth at 8.20am today. The 68-year-old
THOUSANDS of people greeted the Olympic Flame in north Dorset as it passed through Blandford and Shaftesbury yesterday. Jack Delaney, 17, from Blandford, climbed out of his wheelchair to walk around 300 metres through the town with the flame
SCORES of inspirational local people will be amongst the torchbearers carrying the Olympic flame through the conurbation today. Today’s 147 torchbearers range from charity fundraisers to sporting stars. They include Jenny Dale, of Bournemouth, the first
A busy Bournemouth road is closed this morning. Workmen are on the scene in Owls Road, Boscombe, where there is an eight foot by eight foot hole. Percy Road is also affected and diversions are in place. Bournemouth Borough Council's
THE Olympic Torch will make its long-awaited appearance in Bournemouth, Poole and Purbeck today, to the delight of tens of thousands of onlookers. Day 56 of the Olympic Torch Relay will see the flame carried 76 miles from Portland Bill to Bournemouth
MILES Addison is convinced the harsh lessons from last season’s fall from grace will stand Cherries in good stead for an assault on the Championship. Addison yesterday put the finishing touches to a permanent move to Dean Court when he joined Cherries
MATT Metcalfe will be hoping to take his rich vein of form into July after being named Southern Premier League cricketer of the month for June. The Bournemouth paceman scooped the award for Division One after helping the Lions claim three wins during
POOLE Yacht Club’s Bob and Margaret Clewer used boat speed and local knowledge to win all three races at the annual Yachting World Dayboat Open meeting. Hosted by their home club last weekend, a somewhat depleted fleet took to the waters as the weather
Matt Ford is hoping sports fans will flock to Wimborne Road when Pirates host a Great Britain-Australia showdown “of the highest quality” next month. The familiar foes will lock horns at Wimborne Road after Poole Coastal Aluminium announced
BOURNEMOUTH’S Denise Mellor – the fighter labelled the ‘hardest mother on earth’ – will be aiming to power to world glory on home territory tomorrow. World Boxing Council (WBC) international Muay Thai champion Mellor will battle Thailand’s Nattaya Kantasit
FERNDOWN matchplay champion Dominic Knight will be flying the flag for England at next month’s schools home internationals. The 18-year-old will tee up against Wales on Monday, August 20 at Pennard Golf Club in Swansea. “I enjoy playing team golf and
AN inaugural beach football tournament hosted by AFC Bournemouth Ability Counts has been hailed a “massive success”. Cherries welcomed more than 250 children and youngsters to the competition held for people with learning and/or physical disabilities
A TALENTED young endurance rider from Bransgore has beaten her fellow competitors to win a national championship. Lauren Mills, 18, won the 2012 Young Riders Endurance Nation-al Championship with her grey Arab, Oakleaze Farm Czarko. The youngster sped
IT was a golden weekend for Bournemouth at the Aviva English Schools Track and Field Champion-ships in Gateshead as Phoebe Dowson claimed top step on the podium in the senior girls’ discus. The Bournemouth Athletic Club thrower, competing for Hampshire
