The past few days have been windy and wavy in Palma for our first session of training here. Today we had a great day with blue skies sun, wind and some friends to play with! Over the weekend we are joined by the Monin Brothers from Switzerland
PLANS for a visitor centre at Hengistbury Head look set to be given the green light, despite 17 letters of protest including an objection from Bournemouth Civic Society. Bournemouth council wants to alter and extend Barn Cottage to provide an information
DANNY Cadamarteri came off the bench to grab a dramatic late leveller as Cherries were forced to settle for a share of the spoils with League One promotion rivals Huddersfield. Cadamarteri netted in the closing stages to cancel out Michael Symes’s 74th-minute
A COUNCIL enforcement officer has admitted Bournemouth council’s Car Parks section is displaying signs without consent in the town. Planning and Transport Principal Enforcement Officer Nigel Billett said an application for permission for the signs at
NEW Forest residents should immediately dial 999 if they see “workmen” removing metal from buildings during the current spate of lead thefts. Homes, businesses, schools and churches across the New Forest have been targeted by thieves stealing roofing
“IMAX vanishes in the night” or “AFC Bournemouth sign Messi.” These are just two of the headlines we think our readers would like to see and we’re asking you to come up with a few more. Any great ideas will be used as part of the biggest
A MAN whose dying wish was to see his heroine Rosemary Squires perform will be remembered at a special memorial night on Sunday February 27. Travelling to see the radio and television star, even meeting her backstage, brought Richard Jackson, 79, a little
TOURISM chiefs have voiced concern over a council decision to partially demolish Bournemouth’s hated Waterfront Imax building before fully marketing the prime seafront site. Earlier this week cabinet members awarded a design-and-build contract to Morgan
DOMESTIC violence victims in Dorset are in safe hands, say councils. Despite charity Women’s Aid warning that more than half of the country’s 300 shelters will close or have to reduce services, Bournemouth Churches Housing Association, which runs Bournemouth
A DORSET vet has described the plight of animals in Egypt as “shocking”. Luke Gamble, 34, returned yesterday after a two-day spearhead mission to assess how bad conditions are. “Animals are literally starving to death,” said Mr Gamble, who runs the
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Shaun Hill’s Buttermilk Pudding with Baked Cardamom Figs Makes 2 puddings For the puddings: 3/4 gelatine leaf 100ml double cream 63g caster sugar 1/4 vanilla pod, split in half lengthways 1 strip orange peel 1/2tbsp lemon juice 150ml buttermilk
ROLLING back in style. From 1972 to '78 Les McKeown was lead singer of the tartan trousered boy band from Edinburgh, the Bay City Rollers who, for a while, especially among teenage girls, were the biggest British worldwide musical sensation since the
THIS weekend’s Find the Ball jackpot now stands at £32,000. No one won last week’s top prize, but Colin Aitcheson of Totton, Southampton, receives the £2,300 runner-up prize for coming the closest. Find the Ball appears in four Newsquest titles
Are you a Belieber? If you are not a 13-year-old girl or the mother of one, then the answer is likely to be, no. A Belieber is a person who is proudly afflicted by the latest pop-culture epidemic of Bieber Fever, a distinct love of the young pop sensation
DORSET Police will be cutting 248 jobs by March 2012 in order for the force to save £18million over the next four years. The staggering loss to the county’s force was agreed yesterday by members of the Dorset Police Authority who had to make their hardest
THE SHOCKING report into the neglect of our elderly could not have spelt it out more plainly. In many instances the National Health Service, the body they have paid into all their lives and which was once held up as an international treasure, is failing
PLEASE Mr Trevor Osborne, may we have a little more imagination for the Bournemouth Pavilion than places to sit and eat and places to sit and watch films? The government is particularly concerned about the increasing cost of obesity and your proposals
OH what a shame Cllr Mark Howell wasn't around when the Poole Pottery site was sold off to developers and was replaced by those awful apartments (‘Party aims to revive old town’, Daily Echo February 8). I wrote to the Echo a couple of years ago
THIS May the UK has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make a real difference to our politics. I am voting yes to AV in the referendum on May 5 because I believe politicians should have to work hard to keep our vote, and not to rely on safe seats
ELECTORAL reform. There you see, I have lost your attention already no doubt. However, the YES and NO campaigns are now lining up in the battle to change our electoral system from the First Past the Post system to the Alternative Vote. This is the system
THE whole town of Bournemouth should get behind Lee Bradbury, Steve Fletcher and the AFC Bournemouth team because they are pushing for promotion into the championship. They play with a team spirit and are a proper family community club and the lads at
MY sentiments are with Bob Woodland (February 10) re the safe jobs of bankers and politicians but offer a minor amendment to his analysis of their respective roles in the debacle. It was Gordon Brown, son of the manse, who ignored the biblical story
I AM surprised that anyone could have ever imagined that Waitrose would bring more business to other traders in the town, although I seem to recall that Caroline Nash herself was in favour of the supermarket originally; Shops’ fury at wait for bridge
IWRITE with regard to the article referring to empty shops in Boscombe (Echo, February 16) and other areas. I started my career in estate agency over 40 years ago, and at one time to be different, I use to try and specialise in the sale of retail units
PRINCE William and his bride-to-be, Miss Catherine Middleton, have intimated that they did not wish to receive an abundance of gifts on the occasion of their marriage on April 29 and have asked that donations be made to a favourite charity. I am urging
BOURNEMOUTH council is looking to crack down on Council Tax cheats in a bid to generate £600,000. The council’s outsourcing partner Mouchel is proposing a review of the system and a clampdown on people who claim the single person discount of 25 per cent
A GANG of teenage girls whose violent attack at a Bournemouth shop was caught on film has again come under fire. They were bombarded with criticism after Daily Echo readers saw footage and photographs of their assault on a convenience store worker and
CHAIRMAN Eddie Mitchell has unveiled fresh proposals for Cherries’ youth set-up after admitting revenue from homegrown stars offers the club its “lifeline”. Mitchell also vowed to inject funds from the sale of Josh McQuoid and future starlets back into
VERWOOD Town boss Adie Arnold has wished local lad Matt Tubbs well – even though the FA Cup hopeful could deal him a double blow today. Arnold has been forced to name a depleted squad for his side’s Wessex League clash at Petersfield after four key players
FIT-again Rhoys Wiggins insists Cherries are determined to send out a message to their League One rivals by taking a bite out of the Terriers this afternoon. Wiggins is back in Lee Bradbury’s squad after overcoming a calf injury and will battle with
