A DANCE and drama production described as slick and professional has seen a Bournemouth school judged the premier performers of the south – for the second year running. Students from the Oak Academy - LeAF Campus swept the board at the Southern
THE Red Arrows were forced to cancel a display after due to bad weather in Bournemouth. The team were due to soar over Southampton Water shortly after 3pm for the first time as part of the Cunard line’s 175th anniversary celebrations. The jets
THE half dozen traveller vehicles that arrived at a Sandbanks car park midweek have now left the immediate area. Borough of Poole confirmed the remaining four motor homes left the Banks Road car park early yesterday morning. %headlines(article_ids
AROUND 100 people gathered to discuss how best to support entrepreneurship on the south coast. Entrepreneurs, students and a cross-section of the community were at the evening hosted by Barclays and chartered accountants Saffery Champness.
SUMMER Live is returning to Bournemouth Square later today for its second year. The free seven-week programme of outdoor musical performances and art kicks off at 5pm Town centre manager Caron Khan said she is proud that the event, which this year
A COACH was stuck for around 15 minutes as it attempted to leave the Sandbanks chain ferry this afternoon. Workers at the Bramble Bush Ferry, which runs the service between Sandbanks and Studland, had to free the vehicle shortly before 2pm.
A BRAIN tumour survivor who was given just months to live has written a book to raise funds for the small Purbeck chapel where he once contemplated ending his life.Paul Bristow, who recently celebrated his 68th birthday with friends and family, has written
THERE were queues on the westbound Wessex Way due to a broken down vehicle. The blue Peugeot 307, registered to a Poole woman, was stopped on the central reservation just before the Bournemouth West/Cambridge Road roundabout, partially blocking
A SCARECROW competition will be among the highlights at Queens Park Academy's big summer event this year.AFC Bournemouth mascot Cherry Bear and Mayor of Bournemouth Cllr John Adams will open the event at 10.30am on Saturday July 11.Quad bikes, trampolines
A motorcyclist seriously injured in a collision with a fence post in Fontmell Magna remains in a critical condition in Southampton Hospital. Police said the 40-year-old man, from the Worthing area, has been placed in an induced coma following the
PART OF Bournemouth town centre was both flooded and without power yesterday afternoon following a burst water pipe and a power cut that affected over 300 properties. And two utility companies are now in dispute over which problem caused the other
POLICE are investigating a burglary at a Tesco Express store in Bournemouth. Officers were called to the shop at Southbourne Grove at 3.49am on Thursday, a spokesman for the force told the Daily Echo. It is thought that an offender broke into
GRAMMY Award-winning jazz-soul singing sensation Gregory Porter is to make his first appearance at the Lighthouse in Poole on April 21, 2016. Tickets for the show go on sale at 9am on Friday, July 3. Fresh from a storming set at Glastonbury last
JUST over nine months after work began on Poole's new junior school, the £6.8million structure has been completed.Ocean Academy Poole has been built on the old Fourways site on Constitution Hill Road and is due to take in its first pupils in September.However
This year, the Daily Echo is putting together three special supplements of photographs from your school proms - one for Bournemouth, one for Christchurch and East Dorset and one for Poole. The Bournemouth supplement will be inside your Daily Echo
THE COST of keeping a suspect overnight in a police cell costs more than a stay in a luxury hotel suite. Figures obtained by the Echo under a Freedom of Information request, show Dorset Police have spent almost £8 million over the past two years
Fraudsters are targeting tax credits claimants with scam emails, fake websites and text messages in the run-up to the 31 July renewals deadline, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) warns today. New statistics show that nearly 51,000 phishing emails were
POLICE are hunting a man who indecently assaulted a teenager on a train to Poole. Officers from British Transport Police (BTP) are investigating the inappropriate touching of the 19-year-old, who got on the train at Southampton Central railway
PLANS for revamped training facilities at AFC Bournemouth have been unanimously backed by borough councillors. The proposals, which include creating a new pavilion and third training pitch, as well as various additions required by Premiere League
LAST year we filled out questionnaires by Poole council for Ashley Road improvements. We in particular supported a better high street environment with trees. We said in our questionnaires : “yes please, more trees”. We assumed that was
I RECEIVED my copy of the summer edition of BH Life but was disappointed, after reading it from cover to cover, that while much was made of the improvements being made to the Pier Approach and the regeneration of Boscombe, there was no mention of
SOME months ago I wrote to you as I have in my possession a headstone which I found discarded in the hedge near Cherry Tree Nursery in Northbourne. I have since been trying to trace any living relatives or to find out which cemetery/churchyard
ON behalf of Wareham Rangers FC youth section, I would like to express the club’s gratitude to BEEREX for their kind and generous donation which will ensure all youth teams will have new footballs to train with and use in matches. I would also
ONE of the problems for as long as I can remember is something known as the generation gap and we need to be doing something to address this issue. We currently have several million silver surfers who are elderly people who have learned to master
A NINE-YEAR-OLD boy was one of two people injured when a car collided with two motorbikes and the driver fled the scene. The youngster was a pillion passenger on a Honda motorcycle when the incident took place at Holes Bay Road in Poole at 6.40pm
PIRATES battled through the absence of Chris Holder to push title rivals King’s Lynn to the limit in a sensational meeting at the Adrian Flux Arena. The visitors had been stunned by the late withdrawal of their Aussie star due to sickness and had
FOR many in the audience of 1,600 excited Dorset schoolchildren, this was their very first experience of an orchestra and a concert hall. This schools’ concert at Lighthouse, Poole also marked a first for the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra – it
A pod of dolphins have been caught on camera off the Dorset coast cutting through the waves. Anya Parkhouse shot the footage from a boat at the weekend as the dolphins made their way alongside it. She she saw around 30 dolphins near Hengistbury
The Milky Way over Lulworth Cove, a ladybird's wings and Dorset looking beautiful in the sunshine. It's time for our round-up of pictures we love from our Echo Year 2105 Flickr group in June. You can see our gallery of favourite shots from
RINGWOOD Foodbank is set to open a third distribution centre to better meet demand from those in need of help. The Fordingbridge centre will open in September and will join those already in operation at Hangersley and Verwood, which provide emergency
TIME is running out to enter this year’s Macmillan Dorset Bike Ride. To support the final call for entries, Sunseeker, which is sponsoring the event, organised for a static bike to be put on top of the flybridge of a Sunseeker 86 Yacht.Sally Collins,
TESTS show no asbestos particles in the air following the suspected arson attack on a derelict building in Poole, it has been confirmed.Dorset Fire & Rescue Service (DFRS) attended the fire at Churchill Road, Parkstone, in the early hours of Tuesday morning
THE semi-finalists have been announced in Dorset’s awards for working women.The Dorset Venus Awards attracted a record 1,301 nominations and 402 applications.Sponsor Breeze Volkswagen hosted the announcement of the 80 semi-finalists at its Poole showroom.The
BOSS Eddie Howe has called on new signing Sylvain Distin to take Ian Harte’s mantle at Cherries having rubber stamped the ex-Everton defender’s move. The 37-year-old, a free agent having left Goodison Park this summer, has signed a one-year deal
GEORGIA Hall will have a familiar face alongside her when she tees it up at the 500,000 euro European Masters this afternoon. The Bournemouth professional, in her rookie year on the Ladies’ European Tour, will be joined at Buckinghamshire Golf
A MAN travelling on a Ryanair flight from Bournemouth to Tenerife was pinned down on an airport apron and detained after becoming aggressive on board. The drama happened on the weekly 7am Ryanair flight from the airport at Hurn to the popular Canary
NEW recruit Sylvain Distin insists his switch to Cherries is no SOS on the club’s part and has targeted enjoyment first in the Premier League. The vastly-experienced 37-year-old defender sealed a one-year deal at Dean Court following his release
TOP marathon runner Steve Way will be running in this year's Bournemouth Marathon Festival. The entry deadline for the event is Wednesday, July 8, and anyone wishing to take part is urged to sign up as soon as possible. Way, one of the UK’s
Think theme parks are just for kids? Even adults can have their fair share of fun at Florida's top attractions, says Ryan Hooper It's funny that, while suspended 335ft above the beautiful Florida skyline, I can neither see nor hear a single shrieking
Dorset Highways needs to close one lane of the A338 Spur Road for five more nights to finish tree felling in preparation for this autumn's rebuild. Two weeks of work were carried out overnight in June, but there is still scrub clearance and tree
DORSET residents only have until Monday to comment on proposals for new county ward boundaries. The Local Government Boundary Commission for England has been running a public consultation on its draft recommendations to increase Dorset County Council
