THIS year's Camp Bestival will be pop-tastic with Labrinth, DJ Fresh and Richard Hawley taking to the stage. The Lulworth Castle family festival, which will take place August 1 to 4, will also see Saturday headliners Levellers and rock star Billy
CHERRIES star Charlie Daniels faces an anxious wait to discover whether his season may have come to a premature end. Daniels has missed Cherries’ past three games due to a persistent foot problem and will again sit out when Eddie Howe’s men meet
Sub Pitman Tubbs 88 mins Crewe launching it forward now 4 mins of added time and a corner to Crewe 0-0 at Doncaster full time Need to run down clock Full time Cherries are top of League One tonight Possibly an unjust scoreline
THIS van found itself high and dry when it mounted a traffic bollard in a Poole road on Tuesday afternoon. The incident took place in Recreation Road, Branksome, when the flatbed truck got stuck on the top of a speed bollard. The incident was
THE generosity of a couple who retired to Ringwood substantially funded a £204,000 new lifeboat for the RNLI. A naming ceremony was held at the charity’s sea survival centre at Poole to officially name their inshore lifeboat Malcolm & Mona
DOMESTIC violence support charity the Butterfly Foundation has received a welcome £60,000 grant from the Tudor Trust. The foundation, based at the Bourne Spring Centre in Springbourne, supports men, women and children who have suffered from domestic
POOLE’S Dolphin Shopping Centre has been sold for £57.7million, it has been announced. New owners Legal & General Property (LGP) bought the centre on behalf of its Managed Fund from Dutch firm Wereldhave. The purchase throws into doubt
RESIDENTS are invited to have their say on the impact of housing development on the long term future of Dorset heathland. Public consultation will run from eight weeks up to March 28 on the preferred options document for heathland, developed by
A ROCK legend came to Dorset to discuss his woodland vision with residents in Bere Regis. Queen guitarist Brian May spent yesterday in the village to discuss his plans to transform around 160 acres of land in the area into a woodland nature reserve
FIVE Bournemouth students who raised £4,000 in memory of their school friend have been given the Royal seal of approval. The sixth-formers from Avonbourne College received a special award from Prince Andrew at Buckingham Palace in recognition of
Fashion chain Republic, which has a store in Bournemouth town centre, is reported to be calling in administrators tomorrow, putting 1,000 jobs at risk. The group has already lined up Ernst & Young to handle the administration, according to
A CHRISTCHURCH couple are appealing for help with treatment for their baby daughter after she was diagnosed with a rare blood vessel defect. Nine-month-old Ryah Airey has high-flow extremity arterioven-ous malformation (AVM), an abnormality of
AN ARTIST described as “a latter-day Andy Warhol” is giving his pictures to youngsters at his homecoming exhibition. Former Poole college student Stuart Semple sells his work in New York, Milan, London and Hong Kong and has celebrity fans including
A man has appeared in court charged with sexually assaulting a woman in a Bournemouth subway. Tomasz Skolmowski, 27, of St Paul's Road, Bournemouth, is accused of attacking the woman in the early hours of February 1, this year in the subway which
University graduate Cait Reilly has won a Court of Appeal ruling that a Government flagship back-to-work scheme requiring her to work for free at a Poundland discount store was unlawful. Three judges in London declared today that the regulations
DRASTIC action is needed to improve the health of Bournemouth’s street sex workers and to help them escape a life of prostitution, according to a new report. Around 30 vulnerable women between the ages of 24 and 49 regularly work on the streets
THE Charlatans lead singer Tim Burgess is paying a visit to a Boscombe coffee shop later this month before a gig in town. The 45-year-old singer will be performing an acoustic set for 100 fans at Café Boscanova in Christchurch Road at 4pm on February
A CHILDREN’S centre manager is warning council chiefs to expect more vandalism if they shut down due to funding cuts. In the latest incident in West Howe, Bournemouth, arsonists set fire to football nets, smashed up other sports equipment and burnt
HE may have missed out on the big moment, but Hampshire adventurer Nick Bubb can take comfort from the words of his expedition leader. Shortly after completing a gruelling Antarctic adventure, internationally-renowned Tim Jarvis praised the courage
Nigel Slater and Delia say you need butter. Xanthe Clay reckons an extra egg yolk. Gwyneth Paltrow uses THREE eggs and a slosh of buttermilk, while Jamie Oliver has designed a “one tweet recipe” that could be no easier. We’ve rounded up the best
ROMANCE was in the air when Bournemouth Square provided the setting for a flash mob marriage proposal. Stunned shoppers watched as security guard Andrew Hall got down on bended knee while being serenaded by a theatre school choir. The stunt
MP Tobias Ellwood praised Bournemouth and Poole College on a visit last week after it won two prestigious awards for the excellence of its hospitality courses. The MP for Bournemouth East said the World Association of Chefs Societies award was
DRUITT Hall in Christchurch will stay open until May as talks continue between council bosses and supporters. Despite Christchurch Borough Council’s initial plans to destroy the hall and repeated vow to close the facility on March 31, the council
A DRAMA school has been letting parents take the lead in a bid to raise cash for struggling families. The Helen O’Grady Drama Academy encouraged parents to take part in their children’s classes and donate money for the Bournemouth Food Bank, based
KARL N ALEXANDER aged 28 of Rochester Road, Bournemouth. Proved in absence that he, being the registered keeper of a motor vehicle, failed to deliver to the Secretary of State that part of the registration document containing the required particulars
IT’S not often that local authorities find themselves within an extra £12million to spend. Yet that’s the amount of grant that councils have to ease congestion in Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch. But there is a risk here of raising public
REGARDING the Navitus Bay windfarm consultation, we are now more than half-way through this important consultation with four more events (including today) still to go. Sadly, there remain serious misrepresentations. For instance, the A3 display
It was good to read the letters of support for St. Mary’s church, Ferndown. Quite refreshing in this seemingly growing anti-Christian climate. Sadly, Emily Sargeant, (February 5) like so many other critics, appears not to fully understand the basis
WELL done to the Reverend Martin Howard, as he says marriage is for one man and one woman for procreation of having children, that’s what life is about. To have marriage between the same sex couples makes a mockery out of marriage. If they want
I totally agree with the letters written by correspondents (Echo Feb 6) regarding the sign outside St Mary’s Church in Ferndown depicting marriage between male and female. I have some gay friends who totally agree with them as well – being quite
Looking online for cheap flights from Bournemouth I was thrilled to note Ryanair’s competitive offers for flights starting soon. Whilst some grumbled about Ryanair’s flights commencing increasingly later year on year, few were concerned about Blue
THE next live satellite broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera in New York will be Verdi’s Rigoletto. The opera, which was first performed in Venice in 1851, will be shown on the big screen at the Regent Centre in Christchurch on Saturday at 5.55pm
These pictures from Bournemouth Council's demolition team show how work inside the soon-to-be demolished Imax is progressing. The demolition has been on site since October, taking the building apart from inside in preparation for the more
HE’S A dance music favourite and someone you will certainly hear in a nightclub, but to see Example live is no comparison. Whilst there may have been the same hyped up atmosphere and dressed up revellers, the 30-year-old brought a live band and
Bournemouth Council has become the first local authority in England to launch a regional 'accredited landlords' register. The register, which also covers Poole, Christchurch, East Dorset and Purbeck is intended to deal poorly-maintained properties
Cheesy Fondue For Two 2 tubs or tubes Primula Original Cheese spread 142ml/5fl oz dry white wine ½ tsp lemon juice Corn flour mix (2 tsp corn flour blended in 4 tsp of wine) White pepper or paprika to taste Crusty French stick
WE have known the occasional harsh winter in recent years but nothing compares to the Big Freeze of 1962-63. Most of the country was coated in a seemingly permanent thick white blanket and rural communities were completely cut off. It was the worst
A CAR passenger was taken to hospital after a collision in Bournemouth caused "substantial" damage to a road. Police were called at 5.10am to the single-vehicle collision outside the Talbot Rise Club in Columbia Road. The incident involving
Disappointment has greeted a decision by a Poole Council committee to kick out a proposal for a Blue Badge style parking permit for residents suffering temporary disability. “I am dismayed at the council’s decision,” said Annette Brooke, MP for
Bournemouth Council has confirmed that there will be no rise in council tax this year, despite an increase in both police and fire precepts. The freezel, to be approved by Bournemouth’s Cabinet next Tuesday, is made possible by a 0.7% reduction
BANKING giant Barclays has said it will cut 3,700 jobs following a strategic review. The cuts include 1,800 jobs at its investment bank and 1,900 in European retail and business banking. It comes as the bank reported a plunge in pre-tax profit
THOUSANDS of people in Ringwood were without water this morning due to a burst pipe. Sembcorp Bournemouth Water said the pipe burst around 5.15am in Spittlefields, Ringwood, leaving around 3,500 homes without water or suffering low pressure.
POOLE Town boss Tom Killick has tipped midfielder Marvin Brooks for a bright future – just days after dropping him. Brooks was one of the Dolphins’ shining lights last season as they narrowly missed out on promotion from Division One South &
EDDIE Howe admits the pace of Cherries’ revival has surprised him – but is refusing to get carried away at the prospect of writing a new chapter in the Dean Court record books. Howe is bidding to become only the second manager in the club’s history
MANAGER Eddie Howe says Cherries will tread carefully as they bid to ease back from injury recent signing Ryan Fraser. Fraser, a £300,000 recruit from Aberdeen last month, has seen the start of his career at Dean Court delayed due to a hip problem
SHAUN MacDonald is vowing to pull out all the stops in an attempt to win back his place in the Cherries engine room. MacDonald hit the comeback trail following a two-month injury lay-off when he came off the bench as a late substitute during Saturday
MORE than 20 graves have been vandalised at Poole Cemetery – the second attack there in two weeks. Mindless vandals kicked over headstones – breaking some in half – ripped out flower pots, and threw floral tributes, leaving a trail of destruction
There really is no limit to the generosity of slaughtered foe sometimes, and the necromorphs in Dead Space are among the most rewarding upon their sticky demise. Box after box of ammunition, health packs and jolly useful doodads erupt from their
