Bashley goalkeeping legend David Elm has come out of retirement to play for Wimborne Town. Experienced stopper Elm was tonight named in the Magpies starting line-up for their Southern League clash at Paulton Rovers. Wimborne boss Steve Cuss
WIMBORNE Road old boy Gary Havelock believes new king Chris Holder will provide a huge boost to speedway's image throughout the world. Holder will be given a hero's reception tomorrow night when Pirates and their supporters welcome him home following
RUMOURED managerial target Karl Robinson says the vacant Cherries job is “one of the best” in the Football League. The 32-year-old Mk Dons boss has been heavily linked with the Goldsands Stadium hot-seat and is believed to be high on Cherries’
With my wedding and subsequent honeymoon at the beginning of September, most of September was spent having a fabulous time on a road trip around Arizona and the surrounding states. I left my son and then parents in charge of the garden and watering
TV chef Valentine Warner is urging everyone to use the extra hour when the clocks change this October to support Rainbow Trust’s The Big Hour Cake Sale. Valentine, who was brought up in Dorset and found fame in 2008 with his BBC Two cookery programme
CHAIRMAN Eddie Mitchell has revealed Cherries are waiting to hear back from a “great” managerial contender after conducting interviews today. Mitchell confirmed Cherries had stepped up their search for a new boss by drawing up a shortlist and talking
ROLL up for the Bournemouth Tourism Awards. Hotels, shops, attractions, restaurants and other businesses involved in the tourism industry are being invited to enter and attend this year’s gala event next month. The annual celebration of the
CHRISTCHURCH band State of Undress will be performing a unique show for shoppers at Sainsburys Christchurch tomorrow afternoon. To celebrate the arrival of their new clothing collection designed by TV presenter and fashion guru, Gok Wan, the store
THE WOMAN who accidentally killed her cat after giving the animal paracetamol has accused the RSPCA of persecuting her. Grandmother Claire Pritchard from Mandale Road, West Howe, said: "I think generally the RSPCA do a great job but they will persecute
A FILM company has put out an urgent appeal in Bournemouth – for zombies. Anyone who fancies a role as an extra in low-budget production Convention of the Dead is asked to get in touch before filming starts tonight. London-based Three Edged
THE terrible Tudors were on the throne as history was brought to life at a Poole school. Pupils from Branksome Heath Middle School in Parkstone came dressed as the monarchs, courtiers and street ruffians of the time. The year five students
HELP save the Jurassic Coast path, one of the area’s most valuable and scenic assets – that’s the plea from a body set up to aid people’s enjoyment of it. The South West Coast Path Association is organising a special event to celebrate its 40th
LUKE ANTONY ROBERT SHARMAN aged 22 of Coles Avenue, Poole. Admitted driving a Ford Transit van without a test certificate. Fined £35. To pay victim surcharge of £15. Costs of £35. SUSAN SHORTEL aged 37 of Durrell Way, Poole. Admitted driving a
CHAIRMAN Eddie Mitchell says Cherries are likely to turn their attentions to an out-of-work boss in their search for Paul Groves’s replacement. Burnley’s Eddie Howe and MK Dons boss Karl Robinson are both believed to be high on Cherries’ wish-list
DAVID JOHN MELLARS aged 49 of Viscount Walk, Bournemouth. Admitted driving a Ford through a red light at A350 Holes Bay Road junction with Sterte Road, Poole. Fined £100. To pay victim surcharge of £15. Costs of £35. Licence endorsed with three points
A DORSET author has written two books to help victims of child sex abuse and warn of the dangers teenagers face from pornography. Wilma Davidson, 77, has been a healer and therapist for 20 years and often helped patients deal with the trauma of
THE first ever Poole 5 Quays Walk was hailed a success. The Rotary Club organised the charity event on Sunday (SUN OCT 7) and hopes it will become an annual event. Around 250 to 300 people did the 3.4 mile route taking in Lifeboat Quay, West
A BANK manager took out a fraudulent £18,000 loan from his own bank and used his own staff ID to log on. Simon Dinnage was swiftly caught and was jailed for 12 months at Bournemouth Crown Court. The 38-year-old was the manager of Lloyds TSB
SWINGING at the Cotton Club features The Jiving Lindy Hoppers and Harry Strutters Hot Rhythm Orchestra. Step back into 1920s New York City and through the doors of Harlem’s hottest nightclub, The Cotton Club, at Lighthouse in Poole on October 12
A POOLE man shot his former girlfriend with a flare gun before savagely attacking her with a meat cleaver and drugging their toddler child, a court heard. Gillian Blackmore, 27, ran for her life, naked and covered in blood, leaving her 20-month-old
YOU would think that being cast in a globally-successful television series would entitle you to sit back and take it easy. Not so. David Robb, who plays dashing Dr Clarkson in Downton Abbey, is on stage at Lighthouse in Poole this week in Haunted
PASSENGERS on Wilts and Dorset M1 and M2 bus services now have access to free wi-fi as they travel. Wilts & Dorset have spent £150,000 adding Wi-Fi equipment to the 36-strong fleet, which runs between Poole, Bournemouth Castlepoint and Southbourne
Extreme athlete and skydiver Felix Baumgartner hopes to end five years of preparation with a death-defying 23-mile (37km) free fall into the New Mexico desert today. Weather permitting, the 43-year-old Austrian will take off in a 55-storey, ultra-thin
DROPPING your mobile phone might seem like a disaster. After all, for many people, that phone would contain their diary, address book, “to do” lists – and perhaps even their music collection and some priceless photos. So you can understand
I WRITE to respond to Ms Butler’s letter relating to the Borough of Poole’s green waste collection services (October 6) in which she wonders at a rise in collection charges for this year. I would assure her there is absolutely no increase in the
FURTHER to his letter in the Echo, I feel that Gary Dalkin has rather misinterpreted South Dorset MP Richard Drax’s comments that this country is full. Firstly, to the best of my knowledge, Mr Drax’s home and estate does not rely on the state for
I WAS shocked to read in the Echo that David Brown and other helpers recovered 5,000 cigarette butts from a small section of Boscombe Beach (Letters, October 5) and was wondering how long it took to count them all? As we boast of seven miles of sand
I WONDER if your Wimborne/ Colehill readers could kindly help solve a puzzle close to my heart? In 1998, we took in a black Labrador from Labrador Rescue, who was born in the Wimborne/ Colehill area on April 30 that year. He was a wonderful
I AM very unhappy about streetlights [in Christchurch] turning off at 1am every night. I feel this to be very unsafe, and where is the health and safety here? With everything else, health and safety goes berserk. But suddenly this seems not
ELEVEN people stood together in the dock to face mortgage fraud charges totalling nearly £4million. They appeared at Bournemouth Crown Court and denied a total of 18 charges in the trial, expected to last for up to eight weeks. Amanda Powis
DETECTIVES have released a description of a man they want to speak to after a rape in Boscombe. As reported in Saturday’s Daily Echo, a man was subjected to a serious sexual assault in the area of Boscombe Gardens between 10 and 11pm on Thursday
GET involved with Local Business Accelerators. That’s the message from Dragons’ Den star Deborah Meaden and Prime Minister David Cameron as the campaign gets underway for a second year. Both are supporting the initiative, which gives promising
COASTGUARDS have urged people to use their common sense before calling after a man rang 999 – because he’d dropped his iPhone at the seaside. The caller contacted Portland Coastguard on the emergency line after his phone slipped between rocks on
A WOMAN accidentally killed her cat after giving it paracetamol to treat a limp. Claire Pritchard gave Midnight a quarter of 500 milligram tablet twice over two days after noticing it was limping. The drug is poisonous to cats and Midnight
THOUSANDS of teenagers are preparing to spend a big chunk of their school holiday queuing in a bid to meet their idol Olly Murs. His appearance at Waterstones in Castlepoint is set to attract the biggest crowd ever for a book signing there.
Cherries will field their development squad when they host Winchester City in the Hampshire Senior Cup tonight. The League One outfit’s young prospects are set to be tasked with trying to help the club win the second round clash at Goldsands Stadium
MATT Ford believes Chris Holder’s Grand Prix triumph will provide “huge publicity” for Poole as the town and club prepare to greet their hero. Pirates chiefs are planning a spectacular homecoming for the Bearwood-based Australian after he conquered
It’s generally accepted that should humankind find interplanetary fun in the future, it’ll comprise some kind of sordid western frontier with aliens, mutants, alien mutants and guns the size of the Pleides system. So Borderlands hasn’t exactly
