Chris Holder battled back from a horrendous start to finish third in the British Grand Prix at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium this evening. The Pirates spearhead finished his qualifying rides with 10 points, but had just one after his first two
CRIME in Dorset is at a 13-year low with Chief Constable Martin Baker reporting a four per cent fall in offences in the last year. Anti-social behaviour has also gone down, as has the number of people killed or seriously injured on the county’s roads
CLAD in Lycra with their pristine bikes ready for the off, a motley crew of 11 men kicked off an intense physical challenge to raise money for the Steve Bernard Foundation yesterday. The group, including Steve’s dad Tony and brother Jacques
MORE Bournemouth councillors than ever have decided not to make their home addresses or phone numbers available to the public. Honorary Alderman Philip Whitelegg – who served on the council for half a century – has protested over the fact that six members
WAR-TORN Sudan, a country where millions of citizens have died in conflict or famine, is a world away from Poole. But thanks to a link, established between the Diocese of Salisbury and the Episcopal Church of the Sudan almost 40 years ago,
FOR LOVERS of its well-priced and at times, iconic designs, the news that furniture retailer Habitat has been put into administration is sad indeed. Yesterday it was announced that all but three of the UK Habitat stores, including Bournemouth
A YOUNG entrepreneur from a New Forest village has pulled off a multi-million-pound deal with Donald Trump’s business partner to buy the entire contents of two famous motoring museums in Cumbria. And in a few weeks, Rebecca Donovan, 22, who currently
DORSET drivers are waking up to the least expensive petrol prices in months this morning after a fresh supermarket price war began. Yesterday several chains slashed 3p per litre from their prices, with Tesco leading the way and Asda, Sainsbury
NEW guidelines for New Forest horse owners advising them how to look after the land their horses live on are being put out to consultation. The New Forest National Park Authority working in partnership with the New Forest Equine Forum have
ANOTHER good idea from Poole Council. Start charging residents for recycling waste. I thought we had a problem with fly tipping. Is this not going to add to this problem? Surely this is going to increase work load, and increase cost to clean it up,
YES please, let’s see the council meetings televised. Some of the men might smarten themselves up and perhaps wake up. At the meeting of June 7, I was astonished to see one councillor slouched across his seat as if asleep and another councillor was actually
IT is scandalous that Poole Council are thinking of charging to collect garden waste (Echo June 14). Don’t they realise they are collecting a valuable basic raw element used for composting, and if they are not being paid for it, they should be. In fact
After Dorset’s biggest heath fire in 30 years, an urgent appeal has been launched to help restore devastated Upton Heath. The massive wildfire two weeks ago destroyed 140 acres, around one-third of the internationally important heathland, near
AS local authorities go, Christchurch Council is pretty civilised. This may be because local members do their best to make sure that the town’s motto – Where Time is Pleasant – filters into the council chamber. And it’s a small council with only 24
I NOTICE that the independent petrol stations are lobbying the authorities about unfair competition from the supermarkets. I wish them luck as they will probably go the same way as the butcher, baker, fishmonger and milkman. Card shops are on the
AS one of the Throop and Muscliff Ward councillors, I have been trying to help Mrs Lorraine Zavadil and her son Tarik (Echo, June 9) and attending meetings with officers from Social Services to try to reinstate the funding to care for her son. Mrs Zavadil
RECENTLY, during a short break in Poole, I decided to use the Dolphin Swimming Pool as part of my training for the forthcoming Liverpool Triathlon. I was impressed with the friendliness of the centre staff, cleanliness of the facility and enjoyed my
A WORRYING trend is occurring in a neighbouring county. To cut back on police pay and numbers and reduce the Home Office budget, pensioners are being entrusted to man speed traps. There is a gaping problem in this venture in the development of the
LISTENING to the news about the Greek financial problems, with their government’s efforts to impose cutbacks to deal with their deficit, it leaves me wondering why our own government can get away with this continual harping on about ‘Look at the state
I FEEL sorry for future Bournemouth University students if fees are increasing to at least £8,200 per year. The government claims there is no reason for most universities to charge more than £6,000 and fees of £9,000 should only be charged in exceptional
CAN anyone tell me what the point of the Highway Code is? New drivers learn the Code to pass their test and then they throw out what they have learned like most other drivers already have. Most of the Highway Code is not actual law so if someone parks
Spam Messages Suck. That's not SMS's original meaning, but apt enough. To fight back first, identify which of three types of unwanted texts it is. Legitimate, unwanted marketing texts usually stem from forgetting to opt out of a marketing form. They
Coleen and Wayne Curry (serves 4) Preparation: 10mins Cooking: 30-35mins Price per portion: 36p Per serving: 312 calories, 8.1g fat, 0.8g saturates, 14.3g sugars, 0.97g salt Contains a third of your RDA of iron and counts for 3 of your 5-a-day
SEVERAL light years ago I witnessed the second incarnation of Ringo Starr’s All Starr Band in action in a TV studio. It boasted an astonishing line-up of guitarists - Joe Walsh, Nils Lofgren, Todd Rundgren and Dave Edmonds. What did they do? They plonked
A biker died in the early hours of Saturday morning after his machine was in collision with a stationary car in Wareham. Dorset Police are appealing for witnesses to the incident which took place in Sandford Road shortly before 2am.
AN EDITORIAL in last week’s Guardian backed John Humphrys’ assertion that it is ‘bizarre’ to slip a Christian message into a breakfast radio programme. Its radio critic Elisabeth Mahoney criticised the religious slots on Radios Two and Four
THOUSANDS of pupils will have an extra day off school next week when teachers will leave their classrooms to support strike action. Scores of rural schools are set to close on Thursday, with secondary schools expected to be hardest hit during the walkout
IF YOU GO down to the Square on Friday, you’re sure of a big surprise. Because, at 12.30pm precisely – and the precisely is very important – hundreds of people will suddenly lie down for five minutes. Then they’ll get up again and melt away, as quietly
THE IMAGE is of a youngish couple, she looking over her shoulder and him apparently gawking down her top. Lamely the tagline asks: ‘Can you keep a secret?’ Yes, it’s that advert in Poole’s Alder Road, which promotes a website for people who want to
THE firm behind the wind farm planned off the Dorset coast says that 79 per cent of Bournemouth residents are behind the scheme. Eneco is planning to put up between 150 and 240 turbines off the coast. At their closest they would be eight miles from
SKIDDING for a living. That is what Chris Holder does and he does it well. Anyone who follows Holder on social network site Twitter would be used to the young Aussie’s ‘yeewwwwww’s and #wolfpackbehaviour hashtag. As well as that, Holder’s off-track
EDDIE Mitchell insisted he was powerless to stand in the way of Jason Pearce’s move to Portsmouth and admitted he wanted to see the popular defender further his career. Pearce yesterday penned a three-year deal at Fratton Park, returning
THE hole left by Jason Pearce’s exit is of gargantuan proportions. There is no escaping that fact. But, quite rightly, Cherries supporters yesterday took a moment to shut out the disappointment caused by their captain’s departure to wish him all the
EMOTIONAL Jason Pearce admitted he would never forget his time at Dean Court after sealing a dream move to the Championship with Portsmouth. The Cherries captain yesterday penned at three-year deal at Fratton Park in a move reported to be worth around
AN evening sortie to Southbourne Beach produced a personal best small-eyed-ray for Shaun Miller from Northbourne that tipped the scales down to exactly 9-0. Miller used sandeel fished around the 70-mark to tempt the specimen that was weighed
