SCHOOLCHILDREN across Bournemouth are being taught about healthy living with a new programme run by AFC Bournemouth. The football club’s Community Sports Trust has joined forces with Christchurch-based digital office equipment supplier Time Business
THE Do It for Dorset Campaign is a joint initiative between Daily Echo and the Dorset Community Foundation. The Dorset Community Foundation is a registered charity dedicated to promoting charitable giving and grant-making for charities and community
A GRAND Charities Fair organised by the Wimborne in Bloom committee has raised more than £5,000 for good causes. The event, which was held in the Allendale Centre last weekend, has been heralded as a tremendous success, with charities including
LEWIS Grabban plundered an 18-minute hat-trick to propel in-form Cherries to a fourth successive League One win of the season. Grabban, who served Oldham on loan in 2006, bagged his treble in the second half as Cherries took the game by the
UPTON Wood has scooped a silver gilt in the prestigious South and South East in Bloom Conservation Awards. Judges awarded the woods 144 points out of a maximum 200 in categories including conservation, facilities and community participation.
DORSET’S High Sheriff got an insight into the other side of the law at an event marking 40 years of the community service punishment scheme. Jeremy Pope visited the Dorset Community Payback Unit at Holton Heath, near Poole, after agreeing to be
MORE than 300 people together raised £6,000 for three Dorset hospices by taking part in a sponsored run on Bournemouth seafront. Keen charity runner Wayne Lyle travelled from Essex to take part in the Hospice 10k in memory of his mother, winning
THERE are calls for a new weir bridge to be named after a councillor who has spent years fighting for it. But Muscliff and Throop ward councillor Ron Whittaker, who campaigned for a new footbridge with local residents, said he would much rather
A FOOTBALL legend travelled to Dorset to officially open a new part of a Wimborne care home. Lawrie McMenemy MBE, an ambassador for the Alzheimer’s Society, cut the ribbon on Oakdene’s new wing, Acorn Lodge, in front of an audience of around 90
TECHNOLOGICAL advancements could see amputee soldiers returning to service, Bournemouth University lecturers believe. Experts at the university’s Design Simulation Rese-arch Centre are creating a ‘smart socket’ – a lower-limb prosthetic which can
A DISABLED pensioner has been left “stranded” by the double yellow lines in his road. Alex Mellon said many of the friends who used to visit his Bournemouth home in Richmond Park Road no longer come round as they have too far to walk after finding
THOUSANDS of homes in the Upton and Hamworthy areas were plunged into darkness on Thursday night, in some cases for more than five hours. The Wessex Water roadworks in Blandford Road were initially suspected of causing the power cut at 5.42pm,
A MAN had to be cut free from his car after it was involved in a crash with a lorry in Christchurch yesterday morning. The accident happened at 11.07am in Salisbury Road, Burton, outside the Manor Arms and involved a red BMW, registered to a man
THOUSANDS of people have signed a Dorset man’s e-petition to protest about the Police and Crime Commissioner elections. The petition was set up by Adrian Howard and friend Luke Williams who wanted to make a public statement that their ‘no vote’
TWO mobility scooters were badly damaged in a suspected arson attack in Bournemouth in the early hours of Saturday. Firefighters were called to garages at Draper Road, West Howe, at 4.30am. They requested that the police attended as it was
IF you think dinosaurs are extinct then it’s time to think again. Lurking in a classroom at Queens Park Academy exists a range of creatures too realistic to be models. From triceratops and tyrannosaurus rex to brachiosaurus and pterodactyl,
KIM JOYCE aged 19 OF Lawes Cottages, Hinton Martell, Wimborne. Admitted driving a Peugeot 206 on Grove Road with 73 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. Fined £120. To pay victim surcharge of £15. Costs £85. Disqualified from holding
SHAUN PETER TRAYNOR aged 21 of Daggons Road, Alderholt, Fordingbridge. Admitted to use of threatening behaviour. Community order made. Carry out unpaid work for 200 hours – supervised. Drinking banning order made for 12 months. To pay compensation
IAN DAVID BARTON aged 35 of Cowslip Road, Broadstone. Admitted possession 0.4 grammes of diamorphine a controlled drug of class A. Conditional discharge of two years. Costs £85.
A CONTEMPORARY fairytale comes to Lighthouse in Poole today. The Girl and The Shoes transports the audience from the rural countryside of France to vibrant Paris in a world of glamour and beautiful shoes and story of love, courage and understanding
SHANE HUGHES-WILLIAM aged 21 of The Lea, Verwood. Admitted used threatening, abusive behaviour. Community order made. Carry out unpaid work for 200 hours – supervised. Drinking banning order made for 12 months. To pay compensation of £65. Costs £85
DAMIEN STEPHEN CHARLES CABLE aged 27 of Chaldon Road, Canford Heath, Poole. Admitted driving a Ford Mondeo on Glenville Road without third party insurance. Also admitted to drive a vehicle otherwise than in accordance with a licence. Fined £100. To
A SHAMED former college vice-principal, whose job involving safeguarding students, received a suspended prison sentence yesterday for downloading child pornography. Married father-of-two Chris Birkhead earlier admitted 20 charges of making indecent
DORSET residents have raised thousands of pounds for Children in Need, with people donning fancy dress, baking cakes and staying absolutely silent for the cause. The annual charity benefit raises money for children in the UK and abroad, and kind-hearted
Cherries good value for the points. Far better after the break. We have just interviewed Eddie Howe and Lewis Grabban. Howe video reaction will be online shortly and Grabban article with video will be available tomorrow morning.
WHY oh why does Poole council think it’s a good idea to dig up the crossroads outside Victoria School in term time? It’s a school for disabled children and most children get dropped off and picked up by mini buses, funded and organised by the council
THE humble toilet. Not something we talk about much, but where would be without it? For 2.5 billion people across the world, it’s not a scenario that requires much imagination. Lacking access to this basic necessity is not just an inconvenience
I MUST comment on Doctor Rodger’s letter (November 5), criticising Mark Smith and Councillor John Beesley for reporting that the Poole Bay wind farm will damage tourism. A June 2010 fact sheet produced by ‘renewable UK, the voice of wind and marine
I OFTEN find beauty in many things not least the wonderful colours of autumn. Whilst driving for a day out to West Bay, a beautiful place, I was pleasantly surprised to see, from the Dorchester bypass, glistening white in the sunshine a large shape
MANY moons ago I read an article in an American magazine, instructing the reader on how to ‘winterise’ your home. How ridiculous, thought the 20- something me, who wants to celebrate the season of vests and freezing pointlessness? Why should anyone
The jackpot in this week’s Echo Find the Ball competition is £7,000. Kathy McCarthy from Sussex scooped the £1,000 runners-up prize last week. Find the Ball appears in the Daily Echo and three other Newsquest titles each week. Last year more
SPECIAL wristbands in memory of a Bournemouth schoolboy will be on sale in Sainsbury’s at Castlepoint today. The “4 Kyle” bands have been designed by five students of Harewood College and Avonbourne College to raise money for Southampton General
DAVID Dunn admits the quality of National Two South defences has left Lions struggling to emulate their prolific form of recent years. Free-scoring Bournemouth rocketed to promotion last season after finishing the campaign with an astounding points
EDDIE Howe has highlighted the influential role of Jason Tindall in Cherries’ revival and insists: “It is never a one-man show.” The Cherries manager deflected praise to his assistant and the club’s backroom team following his unbeaten start to
CHERRIES have announced the appointment of three new directors – with Mikhail Ponomarev and Alexey Panferov becoming the first Russian representatives on the board at the Dorset club. Bournemouth-based businessman Adam Murry, who was responsible
