CHAIRMAN Eddie Mitchell has given his verdict on Brett Pitman’s imminent exit but remains tight-lipped on the finer details of the deal. Pitman’s Dean Court departure was today all but sealed after both the 22-year-old and Cherries agreed terms with
IT is a picture of simpler, more innocent times. A young Bournemouth woman arrives at a game reserve in Africa, accompanied by her mother. The pair share an ex-army tent with no built-in groundsheet and are plagued with snakes and spiders
CHERRIES shrugged off the absence of star striker Brett Pitman to record their first victory at Tranmere since 1981. Goals from Josh McQuoid, Michael Symes, a penalty, and Mark Pugh earned Eddie Howe’s men all three points at Prenton Park. A superb
THE Night-Air entertainment has been attracting thousands of people to a mix of elegance and violence. Friday's show in the Lower Gardens included a beautiful falconry display and graceful circus performers. But the Royal Marine
LOW cloud and rain forced festival organisers to cancel most flights on Saturday but people still made the best of their day in Bournemouth. Much of the Night Air programme should go ahead between 4-10pm – see link below. The Red Arrows
LATEST NEWS: The organisers have just confirmed that there will no more flights today. Only the Black Cats display team took to the skies today. Your guide to what's going on during day three of the Bournemouth Air Festival 2010.
A contrast of the old and the new shared stage space at Mr Kyps on Friday night with new boys New York Alcoholic Anxiety Attack providing support for the old hands New Model Army. For a currently unsigned band, NYAAA kicked off the night
Cherries have, in the past few minutes, announced that Brett Pitman is set to join Bristol City, subject to a medical on Monday. The Robins emerged as leading contenders for the highly-rated 22-year-old after his proposed move to Blackpool
HIGH up in the Swiss Alps, the resort of Flims is the perfect spot for a break combining action and tranquillity. Comprising three villages – Flims, Laax and Falera – it’s a place where millennia-old mountains and modern action sports merge. Often overlooked
THE wrangle over Bournemouth’s Imax could be closer to a resolution after an administrator was brought in to negotiate over the future of the giant-screen cinema. Bournemouth council intends to “substantially demolish” the Waterfront complex
BRISTOL City are believed to be the mystery club in the race to sign Brett Pitman. Cherries chairman Eddie Mitchell exclusively revealed to the Echo that a second interested party had yesterday entered negotiations for the 22-year-old, after
JULES Knight has returned to Studland for a summer holiday, like he does every year. Except this time, he has brought the other Blake members – Oliver Baines, Stephen Bowman and Humphrey Berney – with him. The founding member of the
HOW are we going to tell our children? That’s the worry for parents of children at Courthill First School reeling from the tragic death of little Chris Hall. Tricia Williams, the clinical director of Dorset-based child bereavement charity Mosaic, said
ALL the documents relating to Cllr Stephen MacLoughlin’s computer porn hearing have finally been published – but critics claim they raise more questions than they answer. A week after the former Bournemouth council leader heard he would face
THESE are the first pictures of Chris Hall, the father who took the life of the six-year-old son he feared losing. Our exclusive photographs show Mr Hall posing outside the Poole council-owned lodge he lived in when he was caretaker of Branksome
“YOU were my best friend. So many amazing memories and happy times.” A school pal’s heartbreaking message to little Chris Hall is among dozens of tributes that have been laid outside the boy’s home in Queen’s Road in Parkstone. It was
A little bit of Poole history has popped up in a sunny Californian garden more than 5,000 miles away. The instantly recognisable Victorian, Borough of Poole street lamp is lighting up a front drive in East Palo Alto, south of San Francisco. Poole mayor
A SPECIAL council meeting will be held next month to “thoroughly review” the way in which issues relating to members’ conduct are handled in the future. All four of Bournemouth council’s group leaders agreed a special audit and governance committee
ARE you enjoying your summer holidays? I do hope so! Holidays are times for rest and relaxation, and an opportunity to restore our body, mind and spirit in order to cope with the daily pressures of life. However, we can enjoy holidays or “holy
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
MUSIC on an organ is “like a piece of impressionist art”, according to Daniel Campbell. The organist at Richmond Hill St Andrew’s United Reform Church in Bournemouth, who has been playing the organ since he was a child, clearly has a passion for organ
A ST Peter’s School student is thankful he was wearing a cycle helmet when a car driver turned left in front of him causing him to crash, fracturing his wrist and chipping an elbow. James Verdon from Everest Road, Somerford, Christchurch, was cycling
LIKE millions of other British parents I spent Thursday gnawing my nails to the wrists in between frantically punching my son’s details into the UCAS Track system to discover if he’d got a place at his first-choice university. He did! And the relief
SO POOLE council will clean away dog mess from the footpath between Sterte Road and Poole High School, but any faeces on the grass verge will be spray painted green? If the intention is to bring this problem to people’s attention then surely bright
PHEW Bournemouth’s answer to “Tesco made me feel like a criminal” (What you’re saying online, Echo, July 26) doesn’t surprise me. I was at a Tesco express branch a few weeks ago, early in the morning. When I wanted to pay, the woman (who seemed to
I AM indebted to the brilliant “good Samaritan” who took me directly out of the busy Bournemouth traffic, post-accident, right to my destination. You were a most generous star, I applaud you as a top man. GEOFF Edmondson, Nelson House, The Beacon,
YOU stand there with your mouth wide open as they display their flying skills, turning this way and that. Hardly daring to blink, you watch their acrobatic manoeuvres in the air. Next, you hold your breath, afraid of what might happen
THE phenomenon of “glamping” – or Glastonbury-style glamorous camping – along with the recession, the dry weather and air traffic problems have all contributed to a bumper holiday season in the beautiful New Forest. Typically there are 13 million day
AN article was featured in your paper recently concerning the opening of a new park near to Kinson School. This encouraged me to go and view the area and I was certainly impressed by the thought put into the design and the general layout. Top marks to
AS MANAGING director of Watson Contract Cleaning Services Ltd I would like to thank Nick Noakes (Have Your Say, August 18) for his comments regarding the high standards my staff and council staff achieve in cleansing Bournemouth town centre. We are constantly
Can I please make an appeal to all family and friends of those people who are trying to give up or have given up smoking recently. Don’t continually bombard them with remarks such as “you must be a lot better off” – of course they are not, they have
THANK goodness the firework display has finished on Poole Quay! Walking along the quay this morning (Friday, July 30), it was disgusting. Bottles, cans, rubbish everywhere and somebody had turned over the plants outside the lovely Enid Blyton museum
ANDREW Elkins might have failed to make it to the final at the Youth Olympic Games – but the hammer thrower insists his Singapore experience is far from over. The 17-year-old from Poole only just edged his way on to the plane to the Far East
BUCCANEERS have been rocked by the news that Jerran Hart’s season is over after an horrific crash in a rain-lashed meeting at Redcar on Thursday night. Hart was thrown over the safety fence and collided with a post in the pits area, sustaining a split
TOM Hicks has urged Bournemouth University to improve Dean Park – or risk next month’s Minor Counties Championship final becoming a damp squib. Dorset captain Hicks took 10 wickets against Wales Minor Counties earlier this week to fire his county to
BRETT Pitman has rejected a move to Blackpool but still looks likely to depart Dean Court imminently after another club entered the race to sign him. Chairman Eddie Mitchell last night confirmed that Pitman’s proposed move to the Seasiders had collapsed
NATHAN Bailey admitted his all or nothing approach failed to pay off after a disappointing performance in the trampoline final at the Youth Olympic Games. Bailey – a member of the local Olga Gymnastics and Trampoline Club – qualified in fifth place,
THE Vulcan’s display pilot says he’s delighted to actually be on the ground in Bournemouth for the first time. Although the Cold War bomber displayed at the air festival last year, on Thursday it landed at Bournemouth Airport for the first
