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Lost species of Dorset

9:30am Tuesday 16th March 2010

When we think of extinct species the Dodo or possibly the great auk comes to mind – but not the red squirrel.

Dorset's only Stretch Hummer really is humbelieveable!

STRETCH: Faith Eckersall

8:10am Monday 15th March 2010

FIRST thought: it’s humungous. Second thought: thank God there are only two other vehicles in the King’s Park lorry park.

Clare Teal talks about the inspiration behind her tour

Clare Teal talks about the inspiration behind her tour, which calls into Wimborne

9:30am Sunday 14th March 2010

Jazz singer Clare Teal tells Nick Churchill about her new show featuring great British songs, which arrives at Wimborne’s Tivoli Theatre on Thursday

The mother of all roles

8:00am Sunday 14th March 2010

NO ONE wants to be called a bad mother, but there’s no such thing as the perfect mum either.

Y'all get ready for a hoedown with Hayseed Dixie

8:00am Saturday 13th March 2010

“PEOPLE are people and they tell the same jokes about us at home in the southern States as they do about you all in southern England – in Dorset you have that chalk drawing of the man with the huge thing on the hillside, well that just shows you have a long history of this way of thinking!”

Peter Crouch voted funniest man in British sport

Peter Crouch

10:32am Friday 12th March 2010

ENGLAND footballer Peter Crouch has been named the funniest man in British sport, topping a poll of the best one liners and comedy football moments.

Is the school curriculum failing to deliver on history?

OLD STYLE: ‘Professor’ Jimmy Edwards in Whacko! Picture: BBC

10:14am Wednesday 10th March 2010

WELL, what is the name given to the lines on a synoptic chart?

Bournemouth sound man celebrates Oscars win for The Hurt Locker

Simon Bysshe

10:07am Tuesday 9th March 2010

OSCAR celebrations were not confined to California after it emerged that a film production graduate from Bournemouth Arts University College had worked as boom operator on The Hurt Locker.

Right royal mix up for Charles' chef

FOOD FIT FOR A KING-TO-BE: Darren Blunden, chef at Brambles Restaurant in Broadstone, cooks up a treat

8:00pm Sunday 7th March 2010

ALTHOUGH it happened six years ago, Darren Blunden still cringes at the memory of his first encounter with Prince Charles, the man he calls “The Boss”.

Light in the darkness, with Bournemouth's nightclub chaplain

5:40pm Sunday 7th March 2010

IT’S hard to find God on the night-time streets of Bournemouth but you can find people doing his work.


Catch up with our columnists

Jenny's Week: Bobotie – pardon? (external link)

bournemouthecho.co.uk 3:14pm Monday 15 March 2010

3D: What do you think of it? (external link)

bournemouthecho.co.uk 1:31pm Monday 15 March 2010

The Great Helmet Debate (external link)

bournemouthecho.co.uk 10:51am Monday 15 March 2010

A breathtaking view of the Brazil/Argentina border (external link)

bournemouthecho.co.uk 9:10am Monday 15 March 2010

Did you make mother’s day yesterday? (external link)

bournemouthecho.co.uk 8:00am Monday 15 March 2010

I sing it my way! (external link)

bournemouthecho.co.uk 9:40am Monday 8 March 2010

Venables back where he belongs (external link)

bournemouthecho.co.uk 9:23am Saturday 6 March 2010

When did the Hairy Biker's morph into Sid James? (external link)

bournemouthecho.co.uk 9:00am Friday 5 March 2010

Our property ladder (external link)

bournemouthecho.co.uk 7:00pm Sunday 28 February 2010

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