MATT Metcalfe and James Park were the star performers as Bournemouth continued their relentless Southern League title charge. South Wilts were the side on the receiving end at the weekend – with the Chapel Gate outfit stretching their 100 per
A NEW mayor has taken the helm for the second half of Bournemouth’s bicentenary year and beyond. At his mayor making in the Pavilion Theatre, Cllr Barry Goldbart looked forward to the Imax building’s future, the new Pavilion Dance Centre and granting
THE dream of secondary school education in Swanage has moved a step closer to reality following the new coalition government’s Academies Bill. Earlier this year, Dorset County Council chiefs ruled against a secondary school campus in the town, which
A LEADING figure in the angling community died after his van came off the road and collided with two trees in icy conditions, an inquest was told. Shaun Seabright of Ferndown was pronounced dead at the scene after his Renault panel vehicle
A TEENAGER who lost all his possessions in a fire at his flat in Boscombe has been presented with a brand- new drum kit by his fellow school students. Alfie Adams-House, 14, was at home over a month ago with his mother Pamela Adams when they heard a
A PIONEERING study launched in Bournemouth two years ago has shown that keeping active improves the health and well-being of people who have been treated for cancer. The Bournemouth Cancer Survivorship programme was one of 18 Department of Health-backed
MORE funds are needed to boost a village event in Christchurch to honour British Armed Forces. The Burton Veterans Day, which is due to be held on Sunday, June 20, is calling on local people and businesses to help the event move forward following the
A TALENTED dancer whose life was cut tragically short nearly three years ago will be remembered at a charity ball in Bournemouth on June 5. The event marks what would have been Poole teenager Ellaline Vincent’s 18th birthday. Ellaline, who went to Wentworth
POOLE’S present-day RNLI crew gathered to commemorate the historic role of one of their most famous “members” on Saturday. Historic lifeboat Thomas Kirk Wright, which now resides at the lifeboat station on the Quay, was one of the evacuation craft
WALKING into Bryan Apps’ lounge is something of a spiritual experience – especially if you’re a motor sports enthusiast. The faces of legendary drivers and action from epic races adorn the many paintings on the walls. The retired reverend
Lucy, Nicky and Ally took silver today at the Delta Lloyd OCR in Medemblik, Holland. After defeating Greece’s Sofia Bekatorou 3–0 in the semi-finals, the GBR Match Race Girls faced Anne-Claire Le Berre of France in a hotly contested final which
IT’S the non-stop showstoppers musical express from Saigon to Paris. Now in its 11th year, this excellent company was back with another selection from top West End musicals , opening with Schonberg and Boubil’s Vietnam War set Miss Saigon, and going
THIRTY-odd years ago, if anyone had told me I’d willingly go and see Mark Knopfler in concert, I’d have had to stick a safety pin into myself to see if I was dreaming. This was the post-punk era of Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Clash and Squeeze
IT feels like I’ve watched Paul Jones perform about a billion times. I first saw him fronting the original Manfred Mann back in the mid-Sixties, then singing solo and appearing on the West End stage. There have also been countless Blues Band gigs
THIS relatively young company has established quite a reputation, and this triple bill showed the Poole audience exactly why. The first act was the somewhat dour Brouillards with Debussy’s piano preludes, in which we were treated to some extremely
CYCLISTS keen to chalk up a century are being urged to sign up for the Daily Echo-backed Macmillan Dorset Bike Ride 2010 – by taking on the 100-mile challenge. The call for super fit cyclists to sign up for a new and improved 100-mile route
DORSET & Wilts produced a stunning four-try second-half performance as they toppled Leicestershire 36-26 in the County Championship Shield final at Twickenham today. The Bournemouth duo of Jo Burns and Michael Pope, Chinnor's Liam Gilbert and
DORSET & Wilts tossed away an early 10-3 lead to trail Leicestershire 16-10 in the County Championship Shield final at Twickenham today. A Scott Chislett try, converted by Adam Westall, who also slotted over a penalty, saw Twin Counties bounce
IT seems there’s a series of novels set in every period of UK history now, and Susanna Gregory is responsible for at least two of them – medieval Cambridge sleuthing in the Cadfael tradition, and Restoration sleuthing in post-Cromwell London with her
HER doctor said don’t go and she knows she might lose her fingers, but Debbie Clayton is heading for the mountain anyway. The 45-year-old is going to scale Africa’s Mt Kilimanjaro in September despite a recent diagnosis with Raynaud’s phenomenon
NOT that he’s thinking too hard about it, but Kelly Jones is already looking ahead to Stereophonics’ next greatest hits album. “The songs we’re writing now and the ones off the new album are going to be around for a while,” he says on the phone
