POOLE volleyball star Dan Hunter and Great Britain's volleyball men bowed out of the Olympics with a straight sets defeat to Argentina this afternoon. Former Wessex player Hunter, the GB team's libero, impressed during the Games, particularly in
A woman was taken to hospital after police rescued her from the sea at Swanage Pier. The woman, thought to be drunk, had reportedly jumped off the pier in the early hours yesterday morning. Two police officers used a small dingy to rescue the woman,
FROM spray-flecked action shots of kitesurfing or windsurfing, to images of waterside wildlife – we want your photos of harbour life in Poole. The Echo has joined forces with Poole Harbour Commissioners to launch a photographic competition celebrating
As Team GB cyclists take gold, Wave 105 is offering listeners the chance to win two VIP tickets to the Team Garmin-Sharp ride out on Friday, September 7. The winning bidder will ride with members of Team Garmin-Sharp and 500 cycling enthusiasts
UNSUSPECTING residents could be sitting on dishwasher time-bombs, as rescue workers confirm they’ve attended five fires in Dorset due to faulty appliances this year. Dorset Fire and Rescue Service, that has produced a video highlighting the danger
THE new head of Wareham’s Purbeck School says the district’s £36.5m education shake-up is ‘a huge opportunity for the school to redefine itself’. Leanne Symonds, pictured with pupils, who takes over as headteacher in September, told the Daily Echo
A fun run takes place on the weekend of the Bournemouth Air Festival in memory of Red Arrows pilot Jon Egging . Runner Ade Holloway has teamed up with Parley Golf Centre for the eight-mile ‘Jet 8 Race’, which takes place at 10.30am on Sunday, September
A BOURNEMOUTH public park was transformed yesterday into the colourful setting for a celebration of the best of Thai culture. The sun shone as thousands of visitors from all over the country descended on Kings Park in Boscombe to savour a host
“IT’S only a matter of time before she has a terrible accident – if a neighbour hadn’t arrived in time, the house would have caught fire.” These are the words of a worried daughter after her 86-year-old mother’s home care package was slashed in
Just as the glorious British summer is thinking about warming up, my UK Youth Parliament is already hotting up! I’m now half-way through my year in office and things are starting to come together. July was a busy month for me as I continued
THE man behind plans to create the south coast’s first-ever indoor skate park in Dorset is looking for a local ‘dragon’ to invest in the project. Tony Hill won planning permission in April to convert an empty industrial warehouse in Ringwood Road
AN OUTSOURCING firm with a multi-million pound Bournemouth council contract has been pulled back from the brink by the banks. Controversial Mouchel , who run a number of council departments, have been taken over by a consortium of banks after piling
A BOURNEMOUTH nightclub boss has agreed to a string of measures to end late night noise causing their neighbours “hell”. Residents living opposite Alika, in Christchurch Road, say bass music emanating from the venue keeps them awake at night, even
A BOURNEMOUTH soldier and his family face an uncertain six-month wait to learn if he will be deported. Lance Corporal Bale Baleiwai, 32, was refused citizenship and risked being booted out of the country over an old decision to accept punishment
A SPECTACULAR first day of medal races gave the British Sailing Team a boost as they head into the final week of the 2012 Olympic regatta. Team GB’s Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson brought home the first sailing medal – a silver – in the men’s Star keelboat
THIS year’s Bournemouth Carnival came to a colourful close yesterday afternoon with a parade of floats through the town. The procession marked the end of a week of children’s charity events including treasure hunts, duck races and a teddy bears
ONLY the brave or some may say the foolish, dared to sample this year’s Great Dorset Chilli Festival’s fieriest morsels. Iron-stomached contestants grimaced their way through a number of eye-watering rounds in the hot chilli eating contest, as
A DORSET MP has called for a review of the evidence on the impact of making it compulsory for cyclists to wear helmets. Annette Brooke spoke up after Olympic champion Bradley Wiggins was asked for his views on safety following the death of 28-year-old
JAKE ASLETT aged 38 of Lower Farm, Chettle, Blandford . Admitted driving a Ford Fiesta on Nursery Road with 55 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. Fined £110. To pay victim surcharge of £15, costs of £85 and disqualified from holding
JANARDAN SAHOO aged 30 of Hampreston, Wimborne. Admitted failing to provide a specimen of breath for analysis in the course of an investigation into whether an offence had been committed. Fined £120. To pay victim surcharge of £15, costs £85 and
SIMON JOHN MCDONALD aged 31 of Adelphi Court, Manor Road, Bournemouth. Proved in absence that he drove a Vauxhall car on Cobham Road in excess of 30mph. Fined £400. To pay victim surcharge of £15, costs of £85 and licence endorsed with four points
ON MY recent visit to the beach at Westcliff, the zig-zag is ‘Out of Order’. As I am slightly disabled I went to use the lift. ‘Out of Order’, on the same day I went to the toilets on Westcliff – ‘Out of Order’. Clapped out Bournemouth.
NIGEL Hedges, in his letter of August 3, expresses surprise that the Echo continues to publish letters from correspondents with the temerity to criticise Bournemouth and its administration. The reason Mr Hedges, that I, Richard Grant and the many
A BIG ‘thank you’ to everyone who helped make the week-long Southbourne and Pokesdown Music Festival 2012 a great success. This was a 'first' for Southbourne and I hope it will become an annual event. A special ‘thank you’ to all the performers
I WOULD like to recommend to your readers the reconstruction in the Lower Gardens of Bournemouth Parks Department's entry at the Hampton Court Flower Show. This Gothic garden, which I feel should have won a Gold medal rather than the Silver Gilt
THE Imax again! Surely after the weather we have recently had there can be no point in making the case for an ‘open air arena’ in place of the Imax building. I know there are people who want to see the demolition of the building, but surely Bournemouth
Is the proposed wind farm the right answer to the climate change question? The majority of scientists do agree that human global Co2 emissions are affecting the climate, the nature and speed of that change however is still uncertain. The Navitus
ASTONISHING. There has never been a weekend like it in British Olympic history. There is barely enough space in this column to list the incredible achievements of Team GB in the past 48 hours alone, never mind the first week of London 2012. After
Dorset Police has one of the worst records in the country for detecting crime, it has been revealed. The force cleared up just 22 per cent of reported crimes in 2011/12 and has been ranked joint fourth lowest in England and Wales – its worst performance
AN area of heathland at Christchurch’s St Catherine’s Hill has been destroyed in a blaze believed to have started by a campsite barbeque. Two fire crews from Christchurch were called to the area on Saturday at around 7am, after smoke was spotted
INTERNATIONAL cellist Julian Lloyd Webber has been announced as Patron for the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra ’s young persons’ membership scheme BSO Vibes for the next two seasons. The popular musician, who has been playing the cello since the
COINCIDING with the finale of the 2012 Paralympic Games, Lighthouse Gallery in Poole welcomes Sailing Out Of Grain from September 8 – 29, an intimate portrait of Hilary Lister, the first disabled woman to sail solo around the UK. This new artwork
A NEW service has been launched in Poole Harbour teaching vital skills to the boating community. Keen sailor and powerboater Arran Scott, Principal of watersports academy Absolute Aqua Ltd, has teamed up with the award-winning Port of Poole Marina
A LARGE order for swimwear and equipment raised the suspicions of Broadstone sports shop SOS Swim. The online order came from Spain but requested delivery in the UK. “We thought it may have been the start of an elaborate scam,” said Maureen
BOATERS are leaving Poole in droves due to ongoing problems with the Twin Sails Bridge . Berth holders at marinas in Holes Bay are dealing not only with additional transit time in and out, but failures of the £21.6m Twin Sails have left some stuck
HE’S the greatest. Lymington ’s Ben Ainslie secured his place in sporting history books yesterday when he became the greatest sailing Olympian of all time. There are now calls for Ainslie to be knighted after a sea of cheering spectators
Cherries boss Paul Groves is convinced Richard Hughes can still cut it in League One – despite a near 19-month playing absence. Groves has persuaded Hughes to come out of retirement to rejoin Cherries – 10 years after he left the club for Portsmouth
PIRATES powerhouse Darcy Ward has given new recruit Linus Eklof a glowing reference ahead of his debut for the Dorset club. Eklof, who has been drafted in at reserve to double up with Kyle Howarth, is likely to have a tough baptism when Poole Coastal
LYMINGTON’S Ben Ainslie is the most successful Olympic sailor of all time after recording an extraordinary fourth - and potentially last - gold medal on home waters. The 35-year-old replaces Denmark’s legendary Paul Elvstrom as the Games’ most
ANDREW Simpson admitted he and skipper Iain Percy had been left “frustrated” after missing out on Olympic gold, but confessed competing on home waters had been a “huge honour”. Sherborne’s Simpson and best mate Percy, gold medallists in Beijing
