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Sandbanks summer fireworks are off – but there will be a folk festival in Poole (From Bournemouth Echo)
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Summer Breeze events re-think means no beach fireworks for 2013
12:00pm Friday 15th March 2013 in News By Diana Henderson
POPULAR: Summer Breeze fireworks at Poole Quay
THE need to boost the economy of Poole Quay and the town centre has led to a re-think of the Summer Breeze events.
This year there will be no summer firework evenings on the beach at Sandbanks and the long-running event will concentrate on fun Thursday nights on the quay.
There will be six weeks of live music, street entertainment and family fun followed by fireworks over Poole Harbour from July 25 and every Thursday evening in August.
In previous years the popular event has started at the quay in July and moved to the beach in August. This summer there will be three fewer firework evenings but the wave 105 Summertime in the South programme promises new events including a free folk festival on the quay on June 29-30.
“Times have been really difficult throughout the year,” said Graham Richardson, Poole Tourism manager. “The tourism partnership management board is keen to make sure we do what has the greatest economic impact.”
Summer Breeze first moved to the beach in 2001 and has been part of the annual event ever since, sponsored by the FJB Collection and supported by the Sandbanks Beach Café and Branksome Beach Restaurant since 2011.
Bruce Grant-Braham, chairman of Poole Tourism Partnership, said: “The local businesses that support the events and pay for the fireworks wanted to concentrate Summer Breeze on Poole Quay over the main summer holiday period.
“After talking to partners, Poole Tourism Partnership took the decision to focus the event at the time and location that provides the most economic impact for the town.
“Our aim in putting on special events is always to provide entertainment for visitors and residents to enjoy whilst benefitting the local tourism and hospitality business that invest in the town.”
Graham Richardson added: “Poole is a great location for special events and this is an exciting time to be involved.”
Comments(12)
bourne free
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3:59pm Fri 15 Mar 13
portia6
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4:42pm Fri 15 Mar 13
it takes off!
manyogie
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5:17pm Fri 15 Mar 13
bourne free wrote:Poole park bank holiday music, a great weekend, bring it back, the miserable so and so's in the cafe have gone so no one to object to your liquer license, and, lets be honest, Upton Country Park was dismal!
will they bring back Windfest and Poole park fest ?
Poole Park Fest was great, as you just walked there and had fun!
awsokend
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5:43pm Fri 15 Mar 13
we are having a minimum 5 cm of rain every month this year
you better believe it or get soaking wet
master plan
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6:10pm Fri 15 Mar 13
master plan
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6:10pm Fri 15 Mar 13
ashleycross
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9:45pm Fri 15 Mar 13
The council is acting illegally by allowing smoking there, allowing litter to accumulate and also keeping it so dark as to be in breach of the disability discrimination act because it is dangerous for partially sighted people,compounded by the risk of tripping over litter. Allowing people to smoke also discriminates against asthmatics who avoid the area and classify as disabled. This is not the 1950s, the car is not king, Poole needs to catch up big time instead of dawdling along keeping bus users living in the very grubby past.
Yankee1
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10:14pm Fri 15 Mar 13
awsokend wrote:Why do you think the British Empire became the largest in the history of the world?
Don't forget your macs
we are having a minimum 5 cm of rain every month this year
you better believe it or get soaking wet
The dismal, dark, bleak weather.
The weather drove those with initiative out. That is why Canada, Australia, NZ and America are doing better (America not as well because its British immigrants were religious).
tricky1007
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8:08am Sat 16 Mar 13
manyogie wrote:windfest is a seperate business not run by the council. They are planning on moving to the new forest area to hold it, as the council wanted to charge such high rent, and fewer spaces were made available in the sandbanks carpark every year, so another event lost because of the council being greedy!
bourne free wrote:Poole park bank holiday music, a great weekend, bring it back, the miserable so and so's in the cafe have gone so no one to object to your liquer license, and, lets be honest, Upton Country Park was dismal!
will they bring back Windfest and Poole park fest ?
Poole Park Fest was great, as you just walked there and had fun!
portia6
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3:37pm Sat 16 Mar 13
Council, maybe we can get a celebrity
to help, how about Johnathon Ross?
Yankee1
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10:20pm Sat 16 Mar 13
portia6 wrote:He is a Swanage resident.
Crikey do we have to rely on Poole
Council, maybe we can get a celebrity
to help, how about Johnathon Ross?
adspacebroker says...
2:56pm Fri 15 Mar 13