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  • UPDATE: Can you help save Thomas the cat?

    A COMMUNITY project to help save a cat from being put down after it was shot has launched in Poole. Thomas the cat was initially thought to have been run over on Blandford Road on Sunday night after he was found injured in a neighbour's bush. However

  • 'It was silt': Wessex Water dismiss beach sewage claims

    WESSEX Water has dismissed claims that sewage leaked into the sea at Boscombe. Bournemouth councillor Amedeo Angiolini said on Friday that he believed a pipe near the pier had been oozing sewage directly into the water, prompting lifeguards to

  • Farmer calls fire service after 84 hay bales catch alight

    FIREFIGHTERS tackled a fire at a farm in Blandford this morning after hay bales caught alight. A concerned farmer called the fire service around 9am after hay bales in the Stubhampton barn started to combust. Two fire engines attended the scene

  • Alton Towers owner Merlin warns 'profits will drop'

    Alton Towers owner Merlin expects annual earnings for its theme parks business to drop by as much as £47 million this year following last month's rollercoaster crash. The group said the crash has had "an adverse impact on trading at the start of

  • MPs' salaries

    COMPARED with what the majority of us earn, the salaries of MPs look attractive. When viewed alongside the incomes of Premiership footballers, ‘celebrities’ employed by the BBC, and those who dabble with our money in the city, they are a pittance.

  • Heading to catastrophe

    ONE curious feature of the supporters of Navitus Bay is their enthusiasm for reversing the progress of civilization (‘Sails pitch for wind farms’, Letters, July 24). The big problems with wind energy are excessive cost, unreliability, intermittency

  • Support for wind farm

    I BELONG to the large group of people who you might describe as the silent supporters of the proposed Navitus Bay wind farm. I say this as I have discovered on numerous occasions when discussing this proposal with friends and colleagues, the number

  • House of Lords an outdated regime

    READING the letter from Mr Gordon Cann referring to a long overdue reform of the membership of the House of Lords (Echo, July 21). He states that nearly 800 members are entitled to a daily allowance of £300 each. Eye-watering numbers! We are supposed

  • Bad planning from council

    DOES anybody at Bournemouth Town Hall have any idea of what the word ‘planning’ means? The school holidays have just started, the air show (arguably the biggest event of the year) is in four weeks’ time and someone has decided that this is the

  • Condor Liberation service cancelled due to adverse weather

    CONDOR Ferries have been forced to cancel the Condor Liberation service to Jersey today, due to the adverse weather. The Met Office have issued a weather warning for strong winds today. A statement on Condor's website said the cancellation

  • Vehicle fire causes delays on M27

    A fire is causing major rush hour delays on the M27 this morning. The vehicle fire has blocked two lanes of the M27 and is causing traffic queues. The incident has happened on the M27 Westbound before Junction 5 for the A335 Wide Lane and A335

  • GALLERY: Superheroes flock to Swanage Carnival

    SCORES of superheroes descended into Swanage town and along the seafront for the annual carnival procession. Thousands of visitors and residents from across Purbeck and Dorset cheered, clapped and threw money in the charity buckets of the floats

  • Tributes paid to former Mayor of Bournemouth and "amazing mum"

    TRIBUTES have been paid to former Mayor of Bournemouth Sheila McQueen, who died earlier this month.Mrs McQueen served on Bournemouth Council for two decades during which she was appointed mayor in 1982, as well as eight years on Dorset County Council.During

  • Weather outlook for the week ahead (warning: windy today)

    After some very temperamental weather this weekend, which put a stop to several events in Dorset, what's the weather looking like for the week ahead? Today Although it was already windy on Sunday, the Met Office has issued a yellow weather

  • Poole High School needs to improve in all areas, says Ofsted

    POOLE High School needs to improve across the board, a critical Ofsted inspection report has concluded.The Wimborne Road secondary, whose head teacher Fan Heafield retired at the end of term, has been told to improve in all five main areas inspected.Borough

  • Golf: Georgia targets British Open berth at final qualifying

    BOURNEMOUTH’S rising star Georgia Hall will today attempt to grab a last-gasp spot in the Women’s British Open at Turnberry. The 19-year-old professional, who shared the silver medal as an amateur in 2013, is due to compete in final qualifying

  • Poole schoolchildren swap classroom for the great outdoors

    SIXTY children at a Poole school have benefitted from taking some lessons in an outdoor classroom environment.Pupils at Sylvan Infant School in Parkstone have enjoyed weekly lessons with Victoria Vincent, leader of the Bournemouth-based Kith and Kin Forest