PIRATES duo Chris Holder and Bjarne Pedersen narrowly missed out on Elite League Pairs glory as they finished runners-up behind Coventry at Ipswich tonight. The Poole Castle Cover pair won three of their qualifying races 7-2 to storm into the semi-finals
MARC Pugh grabbed a deserved equaliser as Cherries maintained their impressive start in League One by earning a share of the spoils at the Galpharm Stadium. Pugh headed home at the far post after Cherries substitute Harry Arter had supplied a delightful
ARRIVING at the ski village of Beitostolen, three-hours south of Oslo, Norway’s capital, I was a little nervous, to say the least. The majority of my two-hour flight from Gatwick to Fagernes Airport, and then the 40-minute drive to the village
THE mayor of Christchurch has sent a message to his counterpart in New Zealand after the devastating earthquake at the weekend. The 7.0-magnitude quake struck in the early hours of Saturday (September 4) local time and the epicentre was around 35 miles
SPARKLING Miss Dorset Alice Hall reckons this year’s Dorset County Show will be a winner. Alice visited the showground near Dorchester yesterday for a quick inspection of the marquees and the livestock and says everything looks set for a bumper
TWO men have been banned from keeping reptiles for 10 years, ordered to carry out 100 hours of community service each and pay costs totalling £2,226 after pleading guilty to dumping five bearded dragon lizards. The lizards had been thrown
EVERYONE feels like they're Jennifer Aniston's best friend. After years of watching her as Rachel Green on Friends, it's as though you know everything about her. So maybe that's why some people think they can ask intimate details about her personal life
TWO women were treated for smoke inhalation after a fire in East Howe. Firefighters from Redhill Park and Springbourne were called to Brook Road at around 7.30am this morning, Saturday. Both women, one of whom was pregnant, were treated at the scene
A COMMUNITY police officer is launching a campaign to further honour the only Allied airman to be killed over Bournemouth during the Second World War. New Zealander Cyril Hight lost his life in a dogfight after his squadron intercepted German
A DORSET road with a shocking accident record has been targeted for safety improvements. The single carriageway stretch of the A31 between Bere Regis and Sturminster Marshall has become notorious for serious and often fatal collisions.
Slow Braised Beef in Red Wine Serves 4 175g streaky bacon, chopped v2tbsp sunflower oil 900g braising steak, cut into 4cm cubes 12 small shallots, peeled 12 baby carrots 1 tbsp flour 300ml red wine 300ml beef stock 2tbsp soy sauce 100g
When your soon to be ex-wife tells you that you’re a taker, a user and a waste of space, what better way of dealing with the situation than putting it all into a song and bunging it on your latest CD. That’s what Dennis Locorriere did and
Many of us express where we would like our funeral to take place after we pass away, but few anticipate that the building could have been transformed from a church to a supermarket! Hazel Wilson, from Creekmoor was horrified when she discovered
The 33 miners entombed in Chile are in contact with the surface at ‘Camp Hope’ by two boreholes. But it could take three-and-a-half months before an escape shaft can be constructed. We pray for their survival until then. To some extent we are in a similar
HE has his father's looks and charm, and even his father's musical director, but his talent is very much his own. Ever since the death of Matt Monro aged 54 in 1985, his son has kept the legacy of the hugely popular singer fresh in the memory
THE terrible knowledge that she introduced her own daughters to the man who sexually abused them still haunts the mother of Andrew Harvey’s victims. Sobbing tears of relief, following Harvey’s conviction, the Bournemouth woman said: “I blame
A LONG-awaited refurbishment of the Southampton Road area in central Ringwood is to begin on Monday. The £349,000 scheme will be carried out in two phases, part one taking in Southampton Road, The Close and the Mansfield Road pedestrian crossing
IT’S early evening at a Buck House reception for newly-elected Labour MPs. Prince Phillip approaches “very sincere, leftish MP” Joan Walley and, says Tony Blair, asks her where she represents. “Stoke-on-Trent,” she replies. “Ghastly place, isn’
THE mastermind behind a terrifying raid on a Bournemouth snooker club has had more than £1,000 confiscated in a hearing at Bournemouth Crown Court. Former Loyalist paramilitary, Billy Grogan, 48, currently serving a 15-year prison sentence,
PROPOSALS to build two new hotels in the centre of Bournemouth, one of which will be topped by a “sky bar”, are being recommended for approval. The latest attempt to redevelop Terrace Mount car park seeks to build a three or four-star, 167-
Has Ed Perkins the remotest idea of the relationship between British Prime Ministers and alcohol (Opinion, September 2)? A hundred years ago, HH Asquith (Liberal) was not nicknamed ‘Squiffy’ for nothing and as for Winston Churchill (Tory), his consumption
Harry is my new pet spider. He lives in my right-hand car mirror. There is another spider living in my left-hand mirror, but Harry is so special to me. He is very brave and a clever spider. He has built over three webs between the mirror and my door
IT is heartening to note the Ministry of Community Services and Local Government is proposing to restrict the number of signs displayed on our roads etc and I am writing to the Minister asking him to also include the placing of A boards on our highways
I am a resident of Boscombe and have recently seen members of Dorset Police in the precinct area of Boscombe, at the Palmerston Road end. They have been targeting cyclists who are cycling on the pavement and in the precinct. While I have seen these
Your article Former Vulcan bomber pilot reunited with aircraft after 30 years (Daily Echo, August 30) was a very nice story with a nice anecdote thrown in. I’m glad that former RAF pilot Colston Nichols was given the opportunity to re-acquiant himself
IT’S SAID that Tony Blair’s new book is the fastest-selling autobiography in the history of the world, ever. Or something. It might be; who knows? Who cares? How can we believe anything told to us by Tony Blair, or those who earn their crust from
THE 11-year-old daughter of a friend of mine was extolling the virtues of her middle school teacher this week, on the first day back after the summer holidays. “He’s brilliant”, she said. This young lady is one of the (relatively) few pupils
Cllr Tony Woodcock (Have your Say September 1) is trying to frighten the horses again with his pre-Christian fairy story. The fact is that our national debt is 60 per cent of our national annual income. Most households could only dream of such
I challenge the accuracy of the claim published in both the Daily Echo and Advertiser that investigating the feasibility of finding Poole Town Football Club a home on Branksome Recreation Ground cost the council £100,000. This figure is unresearched,
With the latest drugs raids in Bournemouth and the recent highlighting of organised people traffickers, isn’t it about time we legalised them – both drugs and brothels? Let’s face it, whatever we are doing isn’t working. Drug barons all over the UK are
DANCING queens and kings of all ages took to the floor as a flagship dance centre opened in Bournemouth last night. Pavilion Dance, boasting two studios, a 200-seat theatre and state of the art backstage area, is now a reality thanks to £3.29
ARTUR Mroczka’s manager has confirmed the polished Pole is eager to line-up for Pirates again next year. Maciej Simionkowski, who negotiates the youngster’s deals, says he can’t picture the rider putting on any other British club race jacket apart from
MARK Molesley is hoping to follow in the footsteps of comeback king Shaun Cooper after revealing he is making patient progress in his recovery from surgery. The Cherries star went under the knife in April to cure a persistent left-foot injury
GLYN Treagus feels Dorset’s current team are far better equipped to lift the Minor Counties Championship crown than their triumphant 2000 title winners. The former Hampshire batsman admits spin king Vyv Pike was a major reason why the south
