FIREFIGHTERS released a horse which had been stuck in a metal gate at Willett Road, Ashington, near Corfe Mullen on Wednesday evening. A vet attended the scene at 6.20pm to sedate the horse before firefighters using pedal cutters freed the animal
BASHLEY boss Frank Gray called for cool heads after watching his Southern Premier strugglers suffer a 3-1 defeat to Chesham United on Tuesday. Bash let slip a seventh-minute lead given to them by Ian Oliver as the play-off chasing Generals netted
POLICE are currently hunting a burglar who was disturbed while inside a property in the Lorne Park Road area of Bournemouth at around 5.40pm this evening. Officers in squad cars are searching the Old Christchurch Road, Lansdowne and Horseshoe Common
IN 1990, Parliament enacted the Environmental Protection Act to try and take on the blight of street littering. In 2005, this was further strengthened by the Clean Neigbourhoods Act. Not only did local authorities have the power to issue fines
The Semi Colon Bowel Cancer Support Group will be hosting its 10th Anniversary Ball at the Hamworthy Social Club, Magna Road. For more information contact Jan Boot on 01202 704611 or visit thesemicolons.co.uk
More than 200 people attended a talk on hip arthritis by Mr Rob Middleton, orthopaedic consultant at The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The next health talk will focus on cataracts, a common eye condition by
New members are urgently needed for the Breathe Easy Group, a friendly support group for people suffering with lung conditions such as COPD. There is no membership fee. Contact Jan Mouland on 078702 638892.
BOURNEMOUTH photographer Andy Scaysbrook is hoping that an interactive version of his book will help create a new level of awareness of ovarian cancer. Andy who lost his own mother to the disease 10 years ago, created Holding onto Hope, a collection
AS a highly-qualified nurse, Noeline Young knows that ovarian cancer is relatively rare. And yet she has had far more experience of it than most. For not only does she specialise in gynaeoncology, but just eight months after her daughter started
THERE is still time to enter the dance section of the 85th season of the Bournemouth Music Competitions Festival. The closing date for entries is Thursday March 28. Many of those who take part in the festival go on to become professional performers
THE second annual Bournemouth Festival of Words is to be “bigger and better”. The festival will be officially launched by the Mayor of Bournemouth, Councillor Phil Stanley-Watts, at a Writers’ Networking Event on Friday May 24. A week of events
A PURBECK teenager jumped at the chance to meet Arsenal FC stars and take a behind-the-scenes tour of the Premier League club’s training ground. Stacey Gillespie, from Langton Matravers, was among a handful of girls picked to take part in the initiative
IF YOU like talking about old football matches or other sports history you can help improve the lives of people living with dementia. A project being championed by New Forest District Council aims to stimulate past memories by reminiscing about
MID Dorset and North Poole MP Annette Brooke became a citizen scientist to help Cancer Research UK’s fight against the disease. She spent five minutes on the charity’s new Cell Slider website, the first interactive website to run real archive cancer
New volunteer drivers are needed for Christchurch Neighbour Cars, which provides door to door transport for elderly residents in the BH23 area for health-related appointments. Call Mary on 01202 430176.
Bournemouth's green waste collection restarts on April 8. 30,000 households are registered and collections will take be fortnightly until November. Visit Bournemouth.gov.uk/ recycle.
The first-ever Dorset Day will be on June 23. Councils are now urging residents to celebrate the county’s heritage by using the day as an opportunity to get together with friends and family at a landmark, bake a traditional recipe, wear the colours
The police and council are calling on residents to clearly mark their house numbers and names after emergency services had difficulty finding the correct address. The Is Your Number Up? project starting tomorrow is warning people it is a legal
BOURNEMOUTH University has been praised for its work to widen access to higher education. A number of schemes are currently running at BU to work with people from under-represented groups in higher education, such as care leavers, people with disabilities
THERE’S still time to have your say about designs for the new Jigsaw Building which are now on display at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital until Tuesday. Public and patient feedback has been a key part of the design process and a number of suggestions
AS a highly-qualified nurse, Noeline Young knows that ovarian cancer is relatively rare. And yet she has had far more experience of it than most. For not only does she specialise in gynaeoncology, but just eight months after her daughter started
A CUT in the price of beer and the scrapping of a planned fuel duty rise were the headlines in yesterday's Budget. Instead of a 3p-a-pint rise in beer duty and the same in fuel, both were ditched, but the Chancellor also painted a picture of a
RESTAURANT owners are being fooled into employing illegal workers by sophisticated counterfeit IDs, a manager claims. Four Bangladeshi waiting and kitchen staff were arrested at Cinnamon in Victoria Road, Ferndown, during a series of UK Border
FOUR Canford Heath schools have joined in “educational alliance” – the first of its kind in Poole. Ad Astra First School, Canford Heath First and Middle Schools and Haymoor Middle School are now under the umbrella of a new charitable Trust – the
THE total reward for information about the death of Jade Clark has now been increased to £15,000, Dorset Police has confirmed. The Ringwood business community agreed to offer £14,000 in the hope of finding the driver of the Volvo XC90 who fled
BRITTANY Ferries' popular Barfleur has made its first Channel crossings of the season between Poole to Cherbourg - almost 21 years after its inaugural trip. The Finnish-built ship sailed into the Dorset port on Tuesday evening and left again this
A SECTION of the A350 at Sturminster Marshall is currently closed following a collision between a car and a lorry. The road is closed between the A31 and the Dullar Lane junctions while the vehicle - a grey Volvo V50 estate - is recovered.
ASPIRING bakers are being encouraged to pull on their aprons and get practising for this year’s Great Christchurch Bake Weekend and Fete. The event, part of this year’s Christchurch Food and Wine Festival, will take place on Saturday 18 and Sunday
A POOLE woman who bravely fought breast cancer will be among the thousands stepping out to take part in this year’s Race for Life series. Jayne Fisher, 52, discovered she had cancer when her very first mammogram highlighted a hidden lump which
FIT-again Cherries striker Charlie Sheringham has today rejoined former club Dartford on a month’s loan. Sheringham signed for Cherries from the-then Conference South outfit in October 2011 before he was struck down by a serious foot injury just
THE parents of a six-year-old Poole girl who survived a potentially deadly illness have thanked the NHS for saving her life. Eve Tucker, of Parkstone, became poorly on Friday February 1. Within hours, she was being rushed to Southampton Hospital
PUPILS of a school that suffered a devastating blaze had a special visit from a fire engine and its crew. Firefighters from Poole’s Green Watch – led by crew manager Leah Stewart – dropped into Buckholme Towers’ temporary home in Parkstone United
A POPULAR Poole boat show which brings in £10,000s in sales and attracts 1,500 people each year has been cancelled because of a traveller invasion. Canford Park Arena's Dorset Boat Jumble, which was due to open on Saturday (March 23) has been pulled
AN ELDERLY woman who was left fighting for life after a collision with a bus is in “stable but serious condition”, police have said. The Ringwood woman, in her 70s, suffered life-threatening injuries in the accident on Bournemouth’s busy Castle
A HAVE-a-go hero window cleaner who stepped in to help stunned staff at a Poole pet store was bitten twice... by a shoplifter. Brave Rob Franks and his wife, Carla, were visiting Pets at Home in Broadstone Way, when they noticed staff trying to
A GARDENER pushed a “terrified” woman into her bedroom and assaulted her after going in to use her bathroom, a court heard. Peter Barney is alleged to have pushed the woman on to her bed before covering her mouth with his and assaulting her.
A VISIT from an Olympian got a brand new swimming club off to a great start. Katy Sexton MBE, who competed in 100m and 200m backstroke at the 2004 summer Olympics in Athens for Team GB, visited the Rothesay Hotel in Highcliffe to launch the Seabrook
A NEW £1.2 million education centre has been officially opened at Bournemouth and Poole College. The new state-of-the-art facility for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) at the North Road Campus in Poole has been designed to
A VOLUNTEER is being sought to be the eyes and ears of Police and Crime Commissioner Martyn Underhill in Boscombe, pictured right. Mr Underhill, right, is looking to recruit a PCC Advocate for the Boscombe area and, if the initiative is successful
A MAN denied stamping and kicking Geoffrey Reed to death before putting a screwdriver in his head because he was a “dirty paedo”. Stuart Wareham told Winchester Crown Court he had “smacked” convicted rapist Mr Reed once in the face after Mr Reed
4:13pm We're winding down the blog now, but see tomorrow's Daily Echo for reaction from the public and businesses. 4:02pm NATALIE Greenfield, who runs independent Christchurch-based
Good morning. Trial is expected to get underway again soon. Jury are back in court. Stuart Wareham continues to be cross examined by prosecutor Timothy Mousley QC. Judge is talking to jury and tells them that the contents of letters written
CHANCELLOR George Osborne this morning promised “a Budget that tackles the economy's problems head-on, helping those who want to work hard and get on”. His pledge came in the Chancellor's first message on Twitter, issued on the morning of a Budget
MORE than 10 days ago I reported a street light being lit day and night continuously (this is one of the larger ones containing five or six bulbs at Seldown Bridge outside the swimming pool). I can only think that the message was not passed on
I READ the letter from D James with great disappointment and some frustration (Daily Echo, February 28) as he again criticises the vision and ambition of Bournemouth council. When we took office in 2007, we realised that Bournemouth needed a long-term
WE have probably all been there at some time or other. The dilemma. You see something, perhaps a crime or a bit of anti-social behaviour and you have to decide whether to get involved or not. For some people instinct kicks in and they do
AS an ex-architectural student from Cardiff and a keen art and craft follower, I wondered if the space now created from the Imax could be used to bring both artists/crafts people within Dorset together. A building which could interact with its
LET us question why the Highcliffe meeting (Saturday’s Echo) voted 20 to 1 against the proposed wind farm. Apart from the lady who was heckled for having the temerity to speak ‘for’, nobody in the audience was under the age of 60. I’m 71 and one
TWO hundred police officers were assaulted while on duty in Dorset last year, figures have revealed. The assaults range from inflicting GBH with intent to actual bodily harm. The chairman of Dorset Police Federation – the ‘union’ for police
SET in the heart of the Dorset countryside, the award-winning Langton Arms has long held a reputation for fine dining, great pub grub and outstanding real ales. The 17th-century thatched inn at Tarrant Monkton, near Blandford, is usually packed
HARRY Redknapp still fondly remembers the day he and Ken ‘Nimbus’ Sullivan masqueraded as owner and stable boy to bluff their way into Wincanton races. Redknapp takes up the story: “There was a long queue for the car park so we headed for the owners
EX-CHERRIES bosses Harry Redknapp and Tony Pulis have led the tributes to Ken ‘Nimbus’ Sullivan, who passed away on Saturday following a long illness. He was 87. A Cherries stalwart, Mr Sullivan worked on a voluntary basis for the club for 35 years
POOLE Town manager Tom Killick is searching for cover at full-back as he looks to avoid any player shortages during Dolphins’ promotion push. Southern Division One South & West title favourites Poole will be aiming to move a step closer to
A PEDESTRIAN involved in a collision with a car on a busy pedestrian crossing has been transferred to Southampton hospital with life-threatening injuries. Her condition was described on Wednesday morning as "serious and unstable". The collision
A SIGNIFICANT section of the Imax building is being demolished this morning, opening up more of the sea view for the first time in almost 15 years. A 220-tonne crane moved on to the site on Bournemouth seafront on Monday in readiness to start
CHERRIES prospect Harry Cornick netted a clinical 26-minute hat-trick to help Christchurch emerge victorious following a pulsating first league meeting with neighbours Verwood last night. Cornick’s exploits contributed to an absorbing Dorset derby
