Butterfly Conservation is a national charity devoted to looking after our fluttery friends. And it’s based right here, in Dorset. Faith Eckersall paid them a visit… DO the workers at Manor Yard in East Lulworth love a butterfly? Does Michelle Obama
CONTROVERSIAL plans to compel councils to build permanent and temporary travellers’ sites are set to be ditched. The new coalition government has confirmed that decisions on the provision of travellers’ sites will rest with local councils in the future
A FERNDOWN man is going for a world first by fronting a computer-led sing-a-long at a summer fair tomorrow. Cerebral palsy sufferer Ken Dykes, 37, wants the karaoke session with his Stephen Hawking-style computer at Holton Lee Summer Fair to raise money
PUNK survivors The Damned will top the bill at this year’s Endorse It In Dorset festival at Sixpenny Handley from August 6-8. They’ll be joined by fellow punk types Subhumans and Vice Squad, ska kings Symarip and Pauline Black of The Selecter, ska-punks
Rio Ferdinand's World Cup dream is over it has been confirmed. The 31-year-old suffered a knee injury in training on Friday lunchtime and has been ruled out of the tournament, just one day after arriving in South Africa. It is a bitter
Forest Leisure Cycles are attending the Police Blue Light Roadshow at Mudeford Quay on Sunday, June 6, and will be offering free bike safety checks and adjustments. If the bikes can't be fixed or made safe there and then, we will put together an estimate
A BUNGLING robber who was brought to justice after a “friend” took a picture of him carrying out the theft has been jailed for two years. Gary Thompson, 30, was so drunk he couldn’t even remember being captured on the mobile phone camera as he snatched
EVERYONE knows Stand By Your Man, but little is known of the woman who sang it. Mississipi-born Virginia Wynette Pugh came from poverty but had an amazing singing voice. After her first marriage broke down, she and her three children took off to Nashville
FREE massages, spinal checks and nutrition consultations will be on offer at a special event in Poole tomorrow. Lilliput Health is celebrating its first birthday with a community day from 12 noon to 4pm. Also available will be healthy food, goody bags
Light Years: Jurassic Coast Lighthouse, Poole (until July 3) Robert Golden Lighthouse cafe, Poole (until December 31) Becky Mohr Regent Centre, Christchurch (until June 18) Dorset Art Weeks Open studios
“YOU can’t legislate against someone going mad – no law on earth would have stopped him.” These are the views of Dorset gun expert Geof Hermsen after watching the horror of the massacre in Whitehaven on Wednesday. Mr Hermsen, the chairman
Cherries have today completed the signings of Steve Lovell, Michael Symes and Marc Pugh. The news comes after the Football League last night gave the club the green light to bolster the Dean Court playing resources - as exclusively revealed
Jim Field Smith’s effervescent romantic comedy centres on a lovable airport security guard, whose low self-esteem almost wrecks the best relationship he might ever have. We’ve all done it – extinguished the embers of potential romance before they have
Tequila Guacamole Dip 2 just ripe avocados juice of 1 lime 1 small shallot, finely chopped 1 garlic clove, finely chopped 1 tomato, seeded and finely chopped half cup of fresh coriander, chopped 1 jalapeño
THE weight of public expectation can be a heavy burden – it can cripple even the strongest men. In 2006, at the tender age of 20, Noel Clarke wrote and starred in Kidulthood. His gritty portrait of disenfranchised youth culture raised eyebrows and two
WE asked for help recommending foods from each country taking part in the world cup - and here's our first recipe, all the way from Cape Town. Thanks Jane! We are all so excited in South Africa that the world it just about to start -
SHOWN as part of Dorset Arts Weeks, Derek Jarman’s beautifully composed 1986 film portrait of the great Italian painter played by Nigel Terry. As the dying Caravaggio casts his mind back over his life he recalls his stormy affair with his model and muse
MANY years after his death, Bill Hicks remains a potent influence on successive generations of comedians. His fearlessness at the microphone, tearing apart religion and the very fabric of society, was his trademark and he seldom took prisoners
A YOUNG man flashed a woman as she walked along a Poole road. Police have released this photofit of the man they are hunting in connection with the “upsetting and unacceptable” incident. The 22-year-old victim warned off the man, who
GET ready for the World Cup with a fantastic 72-page magazine, free with your copy of the Daily Echo on Monday. With a wall chart, statistics, squad details and interviews with all the key players, it’s everything you need before the world’
FRIDAY Theatre Crocodiles In Cream: A Portrait of Lewis Carroll – The Exchange, Sturminster Newton Certain Dark Things – Nuffield Theatre Studio, Southampton And the Music Rolls On – Weymouth Pavilion Little Shop
FRUSTRATIONS are building as Lymington councillors still wait to take the plunge and open the town’s sea water swimming baths. Initially expected to open in time for the Spring Bank Holiday rush, the opening was called off at the last minute
“Everybody was kung fu fighting. Those cats were fast as lightning,” sang Carl Douglas. Like the words to his popular song, kung fu dancing is a little bit frightening and you definitely need expert timing. As I found out when I joined
A WOMAN driver caught not wearing a seat belt in a Dorset Police road safety clampdown told officers: “I just had a spray-on tan applied and don’t want to smudge it.” And a man behind the wheel of a Volkswagen horsebox said he was not wearing
A VERWOOD author who re-wrote some of Shakespeare’s classics in “yoof-speak” for the text generation has done the same for Charles Dickens. One of literature’s most famous opening sentences – the start of A Tale of Two Cities, now renamed Da
AN elderly Dorset couple came within three feet of crazed taxi driver Derrick Bird as he neared the end of his killing spree in Cumbria. Reginald and Kathleen Miller, of West Moors, were strolling along a country lane near the village of Boot
A DUNKIRK veteran who walked 1,300 miles to freedom has been honoured by the French village where he was taken prisoner 70 years ago. Les Kerswill was one of 600 men who made up a last line of defence at the village of St Venant in a bid to
I enjoyed reading For Those About to Rock (May 29) and, while music fans’ suggestions were worth reading, most supergroups do not work – Cream were an exception. May I recomend one that did? The album I am listening to at the moment is The London Howling
It is with mixed feelings that I learn of Bournemouth council having to adopt the new petition scheme set down by central government to enable local residents more of a say. I am very pleased that the people of Bournemouth will now have the opportunity
I read with interest about the boulevard of trees along the St Paul’s end of Holdenhurst Road, at a cost – so I have been told – of £100,000. I don’t in principle oppose this expenditure, recession notwithstanding. What does concern me is the degree
CALLS for Bournemouth’s historic twinning links with Israel to be severed in the wake of the Gaza aid flotilla raid have failed to win favour with civic leaders. In a letter to the Daily Echo, Tony Williams from Warnford Road, Bournemouth,
A COLLEAGUE recently regaled us with his sorry tale of being caught driving while not wearing his seatbelt. We were all waiting with anticipation to hear how he had managed to get himself into further trouble by arguing the toss with the officer, but
I noted with eager anticipation your article in Saturday’s Echo advertised as “Who would be in your greatest rock and roll band?” Unfortunately when I read the article I realised that your contributors had made the common mistake of confusing rock and
How many more accidents or deaths will it take before the highways agency takes action on the Somerford by-pass (Driver killed in A35 smash, Daily Echo, May 24)? Remove the clearway restriction and put a 50mph limit on this relatively short section of
I cannot believe the viewpoint one of your writers took regarding Bournemouth twinning with Netanya in Israel (Have Your Say, June 1). The whole point with twinning is to create goodwill between townships and to promote friendships at council level
The letter below is similar to a letter handed to Bournemouth council before a recent meeting regarding plans for a casino alongside the Pavilion Theatre. I have not had a personal acknowledgement. I, like many others, was against the casino when the
CHERRIES management duo Eddie Howe and Jason Tindall are keen to continue playing their part in the Dean Court revolution. Howe and Tindall want to help the Cherries board build a stable future after agreeing to extend their respective stays with the
Cherries boss Eddie Howe has expressed his disappointment at the decision of both Southampton and Bristol City to withdraw from the Football Combination. However, despite ruing the loss of two of the stronger teams in the Wales and West
SKIPPER Rob Coombs admits newly-promoted Bournemouth are on a Division Two survival mission. The Chapel Gate outfit are one of only two clubs to boast first and second teams in the top two tiers of the Southern Premier League. And while Craig de Weymarn
“THE worst kept secret in North Dorset” will be discussed at a public meeting in Shaftesbury. Residents are being urged to attend a “fact-finding workshop” at the town hall to discuss district council plans to build a travellers’ site on land
A MAN has died after being struck by a train at a Poole railway station. Witnesses saw the man, aged in his late 30s to early 40s, step in front of the Southampton-bound train at Parkstone station on Thursday morning. Despite on-the-spot
