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Fight for heritage on the home front

8:00am Tuesday 9th February 2010

NUMBER 37 Sandbourne Road is a family house on the Branksome Dene estate, built in 1928 in Cape Dutch style with a distinctive blue roof.

Clock appeal is timely

8:00am Tuesday 9th February 2010

I so much agree with Cllr Anne Filer, chairman of the Bournemouth Bicentenary celebrations, that it would be great if the Lansdowne clock could be chiming again (Daily Echo, February 6).

Online restaurant info off the menu

8:00am Tuesday 9th February 2010

The correspondent who is not convinced about award statements including ‘seeing stars’ used as selling techniques to attract diners to restaurants is a little out of date! (Have Your Say, February 6).

Imax isn’t the only eyesore on front

8:00am Tuesday 9th February 2010

As a new resident in this beautiful part of the country I feel I must join in the debate on the future of the Imax building.

Community values cleaned up for us

8:00am Tuesday 9th February 2010

I share the feeling of the writer (Stop your messing, Have Your Say, February), but I might add it isn’t a problem we have here in Upton and Lytchett Minster.

Give protection the green light

8:00am Tuesday 9th February 2010

The Parkstone Bay Association has submitted an application for the green open spaces known as Baiter and Whitecliff Recreation Ground to be designated a town green.

No winners in pre-school cuts

9:00am Monday 8th February 2010

THERE are really no “winners and losers”, there are only losers if guarantees are only in place to allow for capped reductions in funding over the next two years (Pre-schools under pressure, Daily Echo, February 2).

Health and safety no joke to victims

8:00am Monday 8th February 2010

In 2008/09 180 workers died in accidents in British workplaces – 22 of them in the South West.

Inquiries just leave us with questions

8:00am Monday 8th February 2010

Just what is the point of engaging in very expensive, time-consuming exercises such as the Chilcot and Hutton inquiries?

The ladies told me to get on my bike

8:00am Monday 8th February 2010

THE scandal surrounding England football captain John Terry has caused me to recall the days when, as a young man, my attempts to attract young ladies invariably ended in rejection and humiliation.


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