GENEROUS chairman Eddie Mitchell is offering supporters free coach travel to Cherries’ FA Cup second round clash at Carlisle next month. Mitchell has made the gesture as a “thank you” to fans following the “tremendous backing” given to Eddie Howe
CHRISTCHURCH manager Graham Kemp has fired a warning to Wessex League defences: Our wing wizards will take some stopping. Kemp was speaking after talented duo Harry Cornick and Sam Griffin had produced dazzling displays to inspire Priory to a 3
WESSEX Premier strugglers New Milton Town twice surrendered a lead as they failed to close out victory in their derby clash at Victoria Park. Richard Jackson’s last-gasp leveller earned Bournemouth Poppies a 2-2 draw against Darren Curtis’s Linnets
READING prospect Andrew Jenkinson kept his cool from the penalty spot to hand Bashley an impressive 2-1 victory at Arlesey Town. The midfielder, on loan from the Premier League club, held his nerve in the 89th minute to help Bash end Arlesey’s
CHERRIES boss Eddie Howe has tasked Jayden Stockley with returning “a better player” from his loan spell with Conference outfit Woking. Stockley, who has not featured for Cherries for eight months, today completed a short-term move to the Surrey
COMPLAINTS about the state of a Bournemouth rugby club pitch have led to calls for dog owners to pick up after their pooches. Youngsters and adult members of East Dorset Rugby Club at Iford are forced to clear the pitch of multiple piles of dog
IT'S Children in Need day on Friday - and we want to know what you're up to. We'll be running a live blog during the day as well as including a roundup of events in Saturday's paper. From dressing up at Bournemouth Day Nursery to throwing wet
ROBERT Walter, MP for North Dorset, has welcomed the announcement that the Post Office has won the competition to continue supplying tax discs and driving licences for up to 10 more years. Having lobbied both the Department for Transport and the
A PEDESTRIAN has been injured in a collision with a car outside Bournemouth University on Wednesday afternoon. It happened at around 3pm in Fern Barrow close to the university's Talbot Campus. The car involved was a Toyota Prius and police
A TEAM of 140 volunteers are working like Santa’s elves to sort through donations for this year’s Christmas shoebox appeal in Dorset. The Mayor of Christchurch, Cllr Peter Hall, officially cut the ribbon on Monday to kick-start the sorting work
STAR-struck baby ballerinas took to the stage for their very first public performance. Seventy youngsters aged from three to six performed in front of a captivated audience of mums and dads, family and friends at St Peter’s School, Iford, Bournemouth
DON’T forget about us - that was the message from members of Bournemouth’s visually impaired community when they met with two of Dorset’s Police and Crime Commissioner candidates on Monday. The RNIB and Bournemouth Society for the Visually Impaired
SOME of them must barely have been sat in – but 220 seats from Bournemouth’s Imax have been donated to a small theatre. Bournemouth council says it expects to recycle 97 per cent of the town’s Waterfront building and its contents as it begins demolishing
A BOURNEMOUTH woman claims that a council official told her falling leaves were “an act of God” during a year-long battle to have them swept. Christine Wood, of Mallard Road, said the official told her that there was nothing the council could do
THE government’s plans to relax planning rules have been deemed “daft and potentially devastating” by the Bournemouth Civic Society. Chair Ken Mantock has voiced fears the proposed planning reforms would lead to town cramming and could hit the
A NEW exhibition at Bournemouth University is exploring the relationship between art and language. The Art and Language installation is part of a two-year project entitled Evolution: Frink and the next generation and is a collaboration between
A CHARITABLE trust which runs two schools in Oxfordshire looks set to run a new Townsend Primary school. The Aspirations Academies Trust is being recommended to councillors as the best sponsor for a £4million academy. It looks set to be chosen
KNITTED boobs to encourage breastfeeding? It might sound wacky but they are being used as a teaching aid for young mums and health professionals. Local crafters are being enlisted to create more of the breasts to help convince more young mums in
LESS than a month after the Remploy factory in Poole closed its doors for the last time, one employee is already celebrating a new job. Julie Arnold, who is deaf but can lip-read perfectly and was given new cochlear implants six months ago, is
THREE former students are hoping a renewed love of vinyl will make a success of their new record shop. Ben Waugh, from Bransgore, has been joined by two pals to open the store in Bournemouth with new and old music albums on sale in plastic as well
Julia’s House is appealing for more people to sign up to its Santa Shuffle after a slow response to its fun Christmas fundraiser. The Shuffle – a festive fancy dress stroll through the centre of Poole – is on Sunday, November 18, immediately after
AFC Bournemouth star and Green Goals ambassador Stephen Purches fought back against litter-bugs as he took part in a clean-up exercise with local schoolchildren. The Cherries’ utility man assisted pupils from Heathland Primary School in collecting
A HOST of sporty Santas will be running off their mince pies this Christmas with help from the Wimborne Rotary Club. The third annual Great Santa Fun Run will see people dressed in St Nick’s infamous red suit to walk, jog or run two or four miles
Poole will still play a ‘major role’ in the plans of Condor Ferries, harbour commissioner chief executive Jim Stewart has stressed. The company will return its full-time fast ferry service to Weymouth from Poole next summer.
BOURNEMOUTH’S Yellow Buses has launched the newest addition to its operation – a redeveloped website. The site, now available on smart phones, tablets and Kindles, now offers details of fares, a chance of passengers to top up their travel ‘Glo’
Members of the public are being urged to increase their awareness of pressure ulcers as part of an international day of action. Sometimes known as bed sores, pressure ulcers are a result of damage to the skin and the underlying tissue. The ulcers
AWARD-WINNING pianist Benjamin Grosvenor is to perform with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra later this month. The rising star has two Grammy awards to his name at just 20. Grosvenor will take centre stage to perform Grieg’s Piano Concerto
Durlston Castle has been voted Britain's favourite heritage project. The Swanage folly has been crowned the country's after topping the public vote in this year's National Lottery Awards. EastEnders and Gavin & Stacy actor Larry Lamb paid
A LEADING Dorset head teacher is continuing to demand answers following controversy over this summer’s English GCSE results. Twynham head Dr Terry Fish is among thousands of heads across the country pushing for grade boundaries changed at the last
ANOTHER day. Another traffic jam. This time it’s the A338 Wessex Way in Bournemouth. Yesterday a single-vehicle accident near the Cooper Dean roundabout just before 6am managed to snarl up most of the immediate area for nearly three hours.
AN amazing suggestion “Sell The Town Hall”. I must admit that the suggestion submitted by Mr Dave Wells (Daily Echo Nov 5) to sell the town hall and for the whole administration to “camp out” at Littledown can only be described as amazing, especially
I HOPE that you can find space for this letter of thanks to the several professional and volunteer people who rendered assistance to me when I collapsed whilst attending the Remembrance Day ceremony at Poole Park. Unfortunately, due to my condition
I KEEP reading with some puzzlement letters in the Daily Echo about the possible effect on tourism of the proposed offshore wind farm. Any detrimental effect would surely be very small compared to the present effects of global warming on our weather
I WOULD like to add a few facts to the Friends of the Earth debate (‘Wind farm wars’, Daily Echo November 8), in the hope they will be included rather than mocked. The small group of Andy Atkins supporters are pictured holding a banner saying “
IN reply to Cllr Atkinson’s letter of November 1, I understand the visual impact of the offshore wind turbines is a major concern but one that must be viewed realistically. The Navitus wind farm cannot be sited further south because of a reef immediately
A POOLE sweet factory is set to close down after more than 50 years next March with the loss of up to 75 jobs. Tangerine Confectionery Limited has announced plans to transfer the manufacturing currently carried out at its rented site in Branksome
AN EIGHT-year-old from Southbourne has made a hair-raising contribution to Children in Need this year. Declan Lovelock agreed to have an image of Pudsey bear cut into his hair at the back of his head for the cause. He was asked to undergo the
NGPS Ltd is offering people the chance to win a 555 watt solar electricity system. Find out more online at ngps-ltd.co.uk or look out for the word search in the free Advertiser newspapers around the conurbation on November 29 and December 6.
A TAXI driver showed “sheer stupidity” when he reversed up a dual carriageway slip road. The yellow United Taxi was heading down from the Rich-mond Hill Roundabout towards the A338 Spur Road when the driver saw the queues caused by yesterday morning
THOUSANDS of motorists faced a morning of misery yesterday as Bournemouth came to a five-hour traffic standstill. The main cause of the chaos was a single-vehicle accident on the A338 Wessex Way by the Cooper Dean roundabout which forced police
A FORMER member of Poole Hospital staff found dead in his room on the site could have been there for between two and four weeks before being discovered. Paul Brown, who was in his 40s, was discovered at Parkstone House, the tower block in Parkstone
IT’S been 19 long years but last night Gary Barlow finally returned to the BIC for the first show of his 16-gig sell out tour. The X-Factor judge showed exactly why he is one of the country’s biggest stars as he performed a fantastic selection
BOSS Tom Killick is tonight hoping to pilot Poole Town over a tricky first hurdle before they lock horns with several of the frontrunners in the race for honours in the Southern League. The high-flying Dolphins visit Division One South & West
VERWOOD Town boss Adie Arnold has described as “a massive loss” the impending departure of inspirational skipper Matt Delaney. The combative central defender and his American fiancée Lindsay have decided to emigrate and set up home in Hudson, Massachusetts
CHERRIES boss Eddie Howe believes consistency will be the key to Josh McQuoid reviving his international career. McQuoid has not featured for Northern Ireland since coming off the bench in a European Championship qualifier in Estonia more than
WING wizards Harry Cornick and Sam Griffin both weaved their magic as Christchurch last night cast a spell over fellow Wessex Premier high-fliers Moneyfields at Hurn Bridge. Cornick’s clinical double sandwiched a sublime effort from Griffin as
