TAKE a good look at the house next door. Are the curtains permanently closed? Maybe the occupier has sealed the letter box or tacked up bin-liners against the windows. Perhaps you live in a semi and have noticed how hot the party walls are. Or that
ON THE day the nation paid tribute to The Few of the Battle of Britain, the pilots of Bournemouth Air Festival honoured the heroes of the RAF with displays of near-perfect flight – despite challenging weather conditions. High winds forced
A BUS service launched just two months ago to meet passenger demands has been pulled without warning. The Connect 10 service serving Upton, Creekmoor, Waterloo, Broadstone and Merley was heralded by Borough of Poole as “the bus service we’ve all been
IT’S not only tourists who have been swarming to the Bournemouth area. Angry wasps have been plaguing parts of the region and spoiling the summertime fun with a painful air display of their own. The aggressive wasps have been indiscriminately
I am pleased to see that the non-exempt background papers considered by the Standards Hearing Sub-Committee last week have been published online today (see Saturday's Daily Echo and website for full details and all the documents.) I hope that many
ART Robert Golden – Lighthouse café, Poole (until December 31) Imogen Welch: Funny Business – Lighthouse, Poole (until September 4) Sea Fever – Southampton City Art Gallery (until September 5) Cruising with the Queens –
To celebrate the Bournemouth Air Festival 2010 we are giving away a copy of Dorset: A Photographic Journey for every day of the festival. The 176-page full-colour hardback contains hundreds of superb photographs taken by Echo photographers
ANNIE Gilbert sampled some cracking fishing when she went afloat in her own boat Happy Hooker 11 to a mark well south of Swanage, where she landed a personal best cod weighing 24-6. The hefty specimen beat her previous best cod by just over 8lbs. The
CHERRIES chairman Eddie Mitchell has confirmed Brett Pitman has failed to agree a move to Blackpool - although the Echo understands the Seasiders could look to resurrect the deal. The Cherries striker flew to the North West yesterday after
This a really enjoyable read and you will find yourself reluctant to put it down. Christabel Blakemore and her fiancé, Philip Henderson, have finally got permission from her father to marry. But as she prepares for the wedding she receives the distressing
Ken came from a middle class background in Glasgow. His taste in music still appears to be the same as it was all those years ago. He mentions few artists by name, but we can guess from just one mention of Jim Reeves. Ken wasn’t destined for radio
BOURNEMOUTH Air Festival organisers have explained why the first ever dusk display started earlier than billed. The programme on Thursday evening was due to kick off at 8.15pm, but many people arrived to find that the Red Devils parachute display team
A GRUELLING 90km sponsored paddle around the Isle of Wight has raised £260 for Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance. Chloe Bunnett, 32, of Banks Road, Sandbanks, Peter Molnar, 30, from Horsham Avenue, Kinson, and Ivan Lawler, 43, from Surrey,
These compilations of handy hints and old-fashioned know-how have something of the tone of those old “Enquire Within” manuals, but with more of an emphasis on the “green”. Admittedly, some of the advice is so obvious it hardly needs stating (if a lightbulb
WHEN was the last time you went to the cinema? My dad hasn't been since he saw A Clockwork Orange in 1971! He always says 'why would I go to the cinema when I can watch films from the comfort of my own home?' If you're anything like
THE Eurofighter typhoon is returning to the Bournemouth Air Festival with a preview flypast this afternoon - and to celebrate, we're giving you its signature sound as a free ringtone for your phone. If you've got a smartphone or internet-enabled
HAS the world gone mad? You go on holiday for a fortnight and return to find EastEnders hardman Phil Mitchell high on crack cocaine. Fortunately his descent into drug hell wasn’t actually in my home, but it felt like it was, as I watched him
HAVING conquered primetime television, the logical next step for any celeb is to open a seafood restaurant in Poole. Well, maybe not, but when X Factor presenter, Dermot O’Leary, unveiled his co-owned Fishy Fishy eatery last week, it wasn’t
NEVER in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. These famous words of Winston Churchill were spoken 70 years ago today in the House of Commons. And there must have been a lump in the throat of many yesterday
A 43-year-old man is being treated for serious head and facial injuries after violence flared in a flat above a Bourne-mouth photographic shop. Emergency services were scrambled to Wimborne Road in the Winton area of the town at 1.40am yesterday
WRESTLING’S not too violent for Ferndown after all. Last week the Barrington Centre caused a stir by saying James Riley’s Fightstar Sports Entertainment evening was inappropriate and cancelling a November booking. Now chairman of the
SPECTATORS watching the first-ever evening display at a Bournemouth Air Festival saw a breathtaking demonstration of world-class flying last night. The Red Devils, the Parachute Regiment’s freefall team, kicked off the proceedings, with
BOURNEMOUTH’S most famous hotel has upgraded security after two couples were burgled in the same expensive suite within days. The Royal Bath has upgraded the locks and improved CCTV coverage after the raiders got in through the patio doors
THE mighty Vulcan bomber roared into Bournemouth yesterday afternoon with a man who grew up in the town at the controls. The only airworthy example of the Cold War bomber touched down at Bournemouth Airport for the first time since 1992 and
FINAL preparations are being made for an open-air music festival in Spetisbury tomorrow. Villager Jenny Wood, pictured, is working round the clock ahead of the second Music and Merriment festival at Spetisbury Rings. “Little by little we’re transforming
A WINE-tasting dinner will be held at the Crown Hotel, Blandford, on Wednesday, September 15. Tickets cost £55 and include four courses of food and six fine wines. To book your place, contact the hotel on 01258 456626 or email francesca.bethell@
A WORRIED Ringwood pensioner claims a life will be lost unless fewer vehicles are allowed through the town centre on market days. Shirley Tobias lives just off Market Place and as each Wednesday passes becomes increasingly concerned by the risks posed
A Macmillan Cancer Support coffee morning is being held at the Three Tuns pub barn between 10am and 12.30pm on Friday, October 1. There will be a marquee with stalls selling a range of goods including jewellery and shoes.
SERVICES from leisure centres to public toilets could be under threat if a government proposal for referendums on parish council tax rises goes ahead. That’s the warning from civic leaders in Blandford and Durweston, whose authorities both voted for
VOTERS are being urged to sign on to the electoral roll. District polling chiefs say as many as 5,000 eligible voters in North Dorset could be missing out on their chance to vote. Karen Ramscar, the electoral services officer at North Dorset District
POLICE discovered the bodies of a father and his six-year-old son tucked up side by side at their home in Poole. Chris Hall, 53, and his son, also called Chris, were found dead at a house in Queen's Road, Parkstone. No arrests have been
LIFE at Dean Court is rarely straightforward. Nobody quite does a saga like AFC Bournemouth – it’s why life with the Cherries is so intriguing. From the eventful administration process and ensuing points deductions to transfer embargoes and winding-up
CROCKED Wimborne Town hotshot Scott Joyce believes he will be able to live up to his goalscoring reputation in the Southern League. The 28-year-old is targeting a return to action in October as he continues his bid to overcome a persistent heel problem
ON the first day of the Bournemouth Air Festival, it was ironic that Brett Pitman’s move to Blackpool should end last night well and truly up in the air. Pitman yesterday flew to the North West for talks after Cherries chairman Eddie Mitchell on Wednesday
LIKE his predecessor Kenny Allen, Cherries goalkeeper Shwan Jalal says he would willingly take a beating at Prenton Park for a victory over Tranmere. Allen was victim to one of the most bizarre incidents of football hooliganism when he was
POOLE Town boss Tom Killick is calling for further defensive improvements ahead of tomorrow’s clash against Romsey Town. The reigning champions have had an eventful start to the season – including some uncharacteristic lapses at the back. After beating
BASHLEY new boy Luke Whitley is relishing the challenge of testing himself in the Southern League. The defender, a former Portsmouth trainee, signed for Steve Riley’s side in the summer after a productive five-year spell with Poole Town. A popular figure
YOU already know what to expect from Piranha 3D before you even settle down in your seat with a bucket of popcorn and drink. Kelly Brook, who plays glamour model Danni, has described the 3D remake of the 1978 horror as “a big, fun B-movie with
BASED on the newspaper comic strip by Brand Anderson and Phil Leeming, Marmaduke is a mildly entertaining family comedy about the rites of passage of a dog who believes you have to wag your tail to someone else’s beat to fit in. Marmaduke
BRAWN triumphs over brains in Sylvester Stallone’s explosive adventure that shoe-horns some of the biggest names of the movie action genre into one preposterous, all-guns-blazing film. Barney Ross (Stallone) is the leader of a band of mercenaries known
ANGELINA Jolie’s first film for two years takes itself far too seriously. Salt, named after the CIA operative played by Jolie, is a thinly-veiled attempt at making a Bourne-esque franchise, but rather than be genuinely gripping, the plot starts
