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Imax and surf reef money could have been used to save Winter Gardens

9:00am Saturday 18th May 2013

It was once so beautiful SO, the Imax building has finally gone, no doubt to the great delight of many Bournemouth residents who missed that wonderful view of the bay from Bath Hill. However, I feel extremely upset that the enormous amount of money which was wasted on its unnecessary construction and ultimate demolition could have been put to far better use!

Training the town's staff

9:00am Saturday 18th May 2013

T was highly encouraging to read that Mandy Payne, the Bournemouth Chamber of Trade and Commerce’s new president, plans to focus on training and apprenticeships during her tenure (Daily Echo, May 14).

Concerned by police sponsors

9:00am Saturday 18th May 2013

IT is six months ago (November 15th- 2012) that a mere 15 per cent of the public elected the first Police Commissioners.

New signs on A31 needed

10:36am Friday 17th May 2013

AT last, a proposal to slow the traffic down to 50mph through Ringwood.

Write to air home fears

10:35am Friday 17th May 2013

 PLEASE can I urge anyone with concerns about the planning application put in for The Cedars in Recreation Road in Poole to put them in writing to the planning department by May 22?

Act of 1871 defined law

10:34am Friday 17th May 2013

 IN reply to your reader Tom Godman’s question “When is a bank holiday not a bank holiday?” (Letters, May 13), the answer is when it’s a public holiday.

I had to pay on holiday

10:33am Friday 17th May 2013

ON reading Tom Godman’s letter in the Daily Echo (May 13), I just wanted to say I was also asked to pay on Yellow Buses on Monday bank holiday, on the 1C at 8.40am from Sea View.

Better if it all was taken

10:28am Friday 17th May 2013

HOW can Cllr Roger West of Bournemouth council say that charging for garden waste would be fairer and more efficient (Daily Echo, May 11), when the experience of Poole is exactly the opposite?

Money wasted over cull issue

OPPONENTS: Protestors with their faces painted as badgers protest against badger culling

10:28am Friday 17th May 2013

LEE Connor (Letters, May 10) is absolutely correct about the badger cull.

Neal was just so dignified

9:43am Thursday 16th May 2013

MY deepest condolences for the very sad loss of Neal Butterworth. I was truly shocked and saddened. I remember seeing Neal walking around Bournemouth last year in his lunch hour.


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