JAMIE Oliver hit the headlines and even caught the government’s attention when he launched his healthy school dinners campaign. But the wheels were in motion in Bournemouth long before the celebrity chef came up with the idea. For the
ALAN Connell hit his first league goal since rejoining Cherries as Eddie Howe’s men kept hold of the League Two top spot in style this afternoon. The cultured forward, replacing the rested Steve Fletcher in the starting line-up, rewarded
THE ashes of the last survivor of the Titanic were scattered on Saturday at the terminal where the ill-fated ship set sail. Millvina Dean, who was nine weeks old when the liner sank after hitting an iceberg, died on May 31 this year.
DON’T forget British Summer Time (BST) comes to an end in the early hours of Sunday morning. Clocks will need to move backward by one hour at 2am when we switch over to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
DEAN Court chairman Eddie Mitchell has denied claims he offered Weymouth a financial package to take on son Tom as a player and ex-Cherries star Shaun Brooks as manager, blaming a computer hacker. Weymouth director Paul Cocks claims he turned
THIS latest nostalgia package from the pop-revival scene brought together The Tremeloes, Marmalade and Freddie Garrity’s Dreamers. The warm-up comic/compere initially left me feeling as if I’d accidently wandered into a holiday camp and didn’t know whether
A BIKER is seriously ill in hospital after a head-on crash along a rainy Dorset road. The motorcyclist, a 35-year-old man from Wimborne, was rushed to Southampton General Hospital following Friday’s (Oct 23) 10pm crash. He was in a collision with a
THE follow up to the Daily Echo’s best-selling Dorset Coast book has been unveiled at Borders in Bournemouth and is already being snapped up. Dorset: A Photographic Journey has been produced by the Daily Echo and Dorset Echo in association
STARTING promptly five minutes late, the nation’s favourite landlord bounced onto stage with his usual cheery face and immediately launched into scathing attacks on the front few rows of the “beautiful audience”, describing many as spud-faced and
THE news that the Catholic Church has opened its doors for disillusioned Anglicans to join its flocks has been welcomed by local church figures. The Pope announced this week that he is smoothing the way for Church of England priests and even
A FOREIGN student has vowed he will never return to Bournemouth after his group was attacked and robbed in Southbourne. The victim was among students targeted by Thomas Williams and Stuart Westwood near Fisherman’s Walk in the early hours of July
TWO weeks ago I defended the ludicrous Rocking Egg Man sculpture that’s up for a Turner Prize, on the grounds that every time I saw it, I couldn’t stop laughing. On Thursday night on Question Time I saw Rocking Egg Man in the flesh. BNP
THE chairman of the trust that runs the Dorset County Hospital has quit the day after proposals to cut the maternity and special care baby units were revealed. Robin SeQueira, who is chairman of the Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, stepped
HATE crime in Dorset is going largely unreported, fear police. They believe most of the victims of attacks motivated by race, religion, disability or homophobia are suffering in silence. The vile attacks are endured as people find it difficult to
The Chief Executive should come forward and explain why this matter was not placed before the council standards committee. I hope the material viewed from the laptop is still available should it now be thought that this matter should be so referred.
Monday marks the halfway point between the August and Christmas bank holidays. We would like this four month gap to be broken with a new Community Day bank holiday in late October. Community spirit is a long standing and unsung British tradition. Millions
One of the great joys of retirement – As BWGT (British Winter Gloom Time) approaches, we can totally ignore it, act like good little Europeans, and enjoy the available daylight in our own sweet time! NAME AND ADDRESS SUPPLIED
IT’S a mouth-watering prospect for the people of Dorset … Masterchef winner Steve Groves has revealed that he would like to return to the area and set up his own restaurant. Steve, 28, a former chef at Branksome Beach restaurant on Poole seafront,
The late night violence in the town centre stems from the fact that the venues are no longer owned by local breweries who leased the premises to local tenants who ran the places personally and had the best interests of the community at heart. They are
I am neither a Conservative nor a particular fan of politicians, but as a researcher of feminism and pornography I am interested in the public reaction to Cllr MacLoughlin’s recent embarrassment (Council chief in porn shock, Daily Echo, October 21).
THERE’S nothing quite as Machiavellian as politics. Opposition councillors predictably demanded the resignation of Cllr Stephen MacLoughlin. Equally predictably, Cllr MacLoughlin bullishly declared that he had no intention of resigning. This genre
Regarding ways to cut council budgets, I would suggest that the councils abandon their grandiose schemes, which include enormous fees to consultants and, instead, allocate the money to putting right what we have already got – social care, day centres,
DIRECTORS, like actors, must have a natural instinct for what they’re doing if they’re to be successful. Boo Feltham, here making her directorial debut, is clearly very instinctive indeed and this production will certainly go down as one of the best I
IT HAS been heartening to see the decline in attacks on foreign students and the smaller number of incidents has helped our reputation as a tourist resort where parents from around the globe can send their teenagers to brush up on their English. This
I’m sure Elkie Brooks won’t mind me observing she’s been around for a very long time, and it shows. It shows in the quality and delivery of her vocals, her mastery of an impressively varied catalogue of songs and her obvious love of being on stage.
BUCCANEERS assistant manager Neil Vatcher has registered his “disappointment” that their title play-off clash at Plymouth was called off two hours before scheduled tapes-up last night. Referee Graham Reeve postponed the first leg of the National League
A POOLE schoolboy is to become a dad – aged just 13. The mother, now several months pregnant, is a 14-year-old who is in the year above the boy at the same Poole school. The teenagers are now set to become some of the country’s youngest parents
KEN Middleditch believes Jay Herne’s record run of 36 races unbeaten by an opponent at Poole should be the spur for the Buccaneer to go on and carve out an Elite League career. Middleditch, a legendary Pirates rider from 1950 to 1962, was big mates with
CROWD pleaser Mark Molesley completed his impressive first year at Cherries and then described playing in front of the Dean Court faithful as the “highlight of my career”. In his first 12 months at the club, Molesley’s all-action midfield displays have
BNP leader Nick Griffin’s performance on the BBC’s Question Time has been roundly condemned by Dorset MPs. During the hour-long programme Mr Griffin declined to explain why he had denied the Holocaust, described one faction of the Ku Klux Klan
LOCAL boat anglers have again been finding fine fish with David Hutchings and Ricky Kirby both heaving quality rays over the gunnels while fishing from the Poole-based charter boat Onamission, skippered by Malcolm Collins. Hutchings was rewarded with
Cherries might be unable to sign additional players – but they are expecting three new arrivals in the very near future. Mark Molesley, Jeff Goulding and Ryan Garry are all bracing themselves for the birth of their babies, with the trio
