A NEW £2.5m school in Poole to educate youngsters excluded or unable to attend ordinary schools for other reasons, has been opened. The Quay School, built on the old Rossmore library site in Herbert Avenue, provides short stay education programmes from
POOLE Town faltered at the final hurdle on the road to Wembley as their FA Vase dream was shattered by holders Whitley Bay. Paul Chow bagged a clinical hat-trick to book the Northern League outfit a third successive appearance in the showpiece
A POOLE teaching assistant will be celebrating Mother’s Day and her daughter’s 19th birthday this Sunday with renewed energy after shedding 7½ stone. Tina Duchesne, 43, joined Parkstone Weight Watchers in August 2009, when she tipped the scales
“DAVID was a great comfort to me and my main companion.” These are the touching words of terminally ill Annie King, the mother of 48-year-old lorry driver David King who was found dead in the water at Poole two months after he disappeared following
BOURNEMOUTH Council has installed 25 new generation solar bins along the seafront as part of its campaign to encourage people to dispose of waste responsibly. The new bins installed as part of the council’s £1million Smart Streets campaign,
THE royal couple are all ready to exchange rings at the end of the month. The trouble is, Prince William doesn’t want to wear one. Palace officials revealed on Thursday the groom-to-be has decided against wearing a wedding band. One
A CATHOLIC church has closed its doors to a service which has been offering food to the homeless for 24 years. Bournemouth’s Church of the Sacred Heart has told the Drop Inn service to leave, leaving the town without food handouts for the homeless
THE Dorset-based company that runs Legoland, Madame Tussauds and Alton Towers says its latest visitor figures show families will still stump up for a good day out. Merlin Entertainments, whose head office is in Poole, has reported a 2.5 million
BOSS Lee Bradbury admitted his emotions had lurched from agony to ecstasy during Cherries’ eventful 3-3 draw with League One promotion rivals Peterborough last night. A stirring second-half comeback saw Bradbury’s men claim a potentially-crucial
THE AIRCRAFT door is flung open and a powerful blast of cold air rushes inside misting-up my plastic goggles. I start to shuffle across the floor towards the open exit until my feet are dangling 13,000ft above the ground. A few minutes earlier
IT was midway through our starter when the inevitable game of rock, paper, scissors began. My girlfriend and I were using this famous argument settler to decide who was drinking and who was driving, a verdict that was delivered when my scissors
A FORMER Daily Echo journalist was killed reporting from the front-line in Afghanistan in a “cold blooded killing”, a coroner ruled yesterday. Sunday Mirror defence correspondent Rupert Hamer, 39, was travelling in a US Marine Corps armoured
LENNY Henry, the arena-filling comedian, national treasure and Comic Relief icon, has harboured an all-consuming ambition to be a musician since he was eight-years-old. The audience chuckled along as the perfect showman, who has 28 whole days on his
EVERY year some bright spark – probably a bloke – calculates the ‘value’ of a mum. This year it’s reckoned that over 12 months, mums do an average of housework worth £32,032. But only if they are of the stay-at-home variety. If you have
Imagine your foolhardy teenage exploits replayed on the big screen, those youthful aspirations cruelly contrasting with old friends who surpassed them. Now you might get a sense of how journalist Neil McCormick feels watching Killing Bono.
ROBERT Readman (Letters 24/3/11), came up with one very interesting point, mainly being, ‘Why the hell have we become so involved?’ We already have two wars on the go that are costing our country billions within these so-called ‘lean and mean-times
THE proposed design for the Imax has the attraction of a shoebox and I agree with John Tout (Echo, March 29) that the wavy roofline should be retained. I think the time has come to accept that Bournemouth Council has no grand vision for the
WE have recently moved into the Christchurch area having come from West Sussex. We can’t believe the amount of rubbish on the road verges. The A338 towards Ringwood is especially bad and looks like a lorry load of garbage has been strewn along the
REGARDING the recent proposed closure of Swanage police station. I think it’s wrong to close police stations, that’s why myself and colleague Cllr Chris Rochester spoke to police chiefs and bobbies at the Police Authority meeting in Dorchester over
IT’S rather like that action-reaction dumb-clever credit card advert. (Don’t shut our bank, March 23). Closing the bank is clever for HSBC as it’s under-used, but dumb that the Milford residents will create more CO2 in the ozone travelling elsewhere to
SHUT up and cut is the message to charities from local government chiefs, apparently. Many organisations in the voluntary sector are on the receiving end of grant reductions from councils as the deficit reduction programme really begins to bite. Now
IN response to MD Hobson’s letter on EU membership (March 28), every government since Heath’s has been guilty of treason by, bit by bit, giving away our sovereignty. The Queen who swore a coronation oath to protect our sovereignty has endorsed seven
POOLE’S Empire cinema will become one of the largest in the south if plans to build six new screens by the start of the summer blockbuster season go ahead. Bosses at the Tower Park complex want to put in an extra 500 seats upstairs, bringing
MY objection to wind turbines is that their performance does not match the hype. Turbine companies make much of the power that the turbines could deliver if they were constantly working day and night but the reality is that for much of the time there
I WOULD like to bring to notice something that many dog owners seem to have forgotten. I was told by a police officer that it is still law that dogs must be on a lead by roads. Today my wife saw an idiot with an unrestrained dog walking down
I WOULD like to reply to the letter from Nicholas Coombs regarding the Lighthouse. I agree with Mr Coombs that there seems to be a lack of modern bands and artists playing at the venue. I am a bass player and, whilst never making the “big time”, have
IN front of the Sky TV cameras, it was typically Cherries that provided the dramatic finale as their unforgettable League One campaign continued. Having given as good as they got for much of an absorbing third tier clash, the Dean Court outfit left it
WEMBLEY winner Alex Pike is still backing Poole Town to reach the FA Vase final despite their agonising 2-1 home defeat against holders Whitley Bay. Pike, who managed Wimborne to Vase glory at the old national stadium in 1992, saw the Tyneside outfit
FORMER Leicestershire 2nds top order batsman Tom Flowers is set to make his Dorset debut against Gloucestershire’s second team at Sherborne School tomorrow (11am). Flowers, who has also played for Loughborough UCCE, is teaching at Clayesmore School and
SRI Lanka spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan could come up against Dorset’s part-time Minor Counties champions next month. Muralitharan, who was due to line up in today’s World Cup final against India in Mumbai, is one of Gloucestershire Gladiators
