A LANDMARK tree that has stood in the heart of Wimborne Square for around 20 years is to be cut down. Experts say the London plane tree has a ‘significant defect’ and say it must be felled or have a faulty branch removed. Rather than
GOALS from Wes Thomas and Wes Fogden saw Cherries come from behind to see off Notts County at the Seward Stadium today. Thomas fired home his ninth of the season midway through the first half to cancel out Hamza Bencherif’s fourth-minute
POOLE war veteran Neil Heritage has revealed how the crew on the Row2Recovery cross-Atlantic challenge are coping with life on the waves. The crew are currently waiting for relief water supplies to reach their vessel after the desalinator broke down
Bournemouth Male Voice Choir is putting on a concert for Bournemouth and District Samaritans. A Song for Samaritans takes place on Saturday January 21 at 7.30pm at St Ambrose Church in Westcliff Road and features a mixture of classical and
CASH-STRAPPED customers are pawning their most prized possessions in a bid to keep financially afloat and pay their bills. Unlike many struggling high street companies, pawnbrokers are attracting new customers. According to the National Pawnbrokers
A PREGNANT woman and her family had a lucky escape when fire broke out at their Bournemouth home. Jez and Jenny Erwin and their three year-old daughter Lilla were alerted by their smoke alarm after a fire broke out in their tumble dryer at
TARGETED inspections of privately-rented accommodation in Boscombe will begin this month in a bid to improve standards. There are around 1,300 privately-rented properties in central Boscombe, which has been identified as the most deprived area in the
A FAMILY musical in Bournemouth is donating part of the profits to an education charity. Just So, being performed by All Saints Dramatic Society (ASDS), will be giving a third of the profits from ticket sales to Life Education Wessex, a health and drug
PLANNERS have been urged to demand changes to a major scheme for Bournemouth town centre. The plans would see 62 flats built overlooking the town’s Horseshoe Common, along with new cafes at street level. But Bournemouth Civic Society
A young dancer from Wimborne was one of the last people off the sinking cruise ship, Concordia. Rose Metcalf, 22, was winched to safety by a rescue helicopter as she was about to plunge into the water off the coast of Italy. The ship
A BOSCOMBE teenager will be appearing in a dance talent show on Sky1 this weekend. Isla Moir, 15, a contemporary and lyrical dancer, will be featured on Got To Dance tomorrow for the audition stage. She has worked hard over the years to perfect the
PUBLIC exhibition dates have been revealed for the controversial Poole Bay off-shore wind farm. Eneco plans to build 150 to 240 turbines in Poole Bay, around 10 miles from Bournemouth and Poole, and eight miles from Swanage and Christchurch
A LONG-STANDING Poole business has closed two of its hairdressing salons. Marc Young’s Dolphin Centre and Broadstone branches shut this week, leaving just the main salon and training school in Parkstone Road, open. Marc Young Hairdressing has gone into
VIEWING the disappointing trading figures published this week, my wife said that she was not surprised; she has shopped at Tesco for a long time but now apart from escalating prices she gets frustrated at items being moved from one place to another and
As a grandmother of three Bournemouth children I was very pleased to receive your November 29 issue with the first class pictures. My daughter sent it to me in her Christmas parcel. What a great idea and it is heart warming to see so many lovely young
I WRITE to support and applaud the letters from Mr Vincent (January 4) and Eileen Tyson (January 10) appealing to Bournemouth council to put a large Olympic pool into the Imax site. What I would like to highlight in particular is that in many resorts
THE continuing grief that Julie Middleton is experiencing over the death of her son Regan is unimaginable. Unimaginable too, the shock when the mum from Poole was informed that her son’s brain had been stored in jar for 13 years at Southampton Hospital
IS THERE any reason on God’s earth why, in the 21st century, our royals are still pocketing multi-million pound gifts from regimes which slaughter their opponents in cold blood? I know it’s not the royals’ fault that the government forces them to accept
COULD the council and bus companies please explain why traffic is being directed down Marlborough Road (yet again) when there appears to be no work being carried out in the main stretch of Poole Road from Queens Road lights to Westbourne? On speaking
IN response to Eric Sciacaluga (‘Make better job of mending potholes’, Have Your Say, January 12), I would like to reassure residents that Bournemouth Council’s highway inspection and maintenance programme (including pot hole repairs) is undertaken using
IN her feature piece on the Lawrence Murder trial (January 7), Faith Eckersall makes some fundamental errors. The Double Jeopardy law has not been “scrapped” as she claims. Since 2003 there is now the ability to try someone for very serious crimes
I WAS appalled to learn that Warren Crago and Craig Real, two of the gang who kicked Big Issue seller Ralph Millward to death in 2009, have been released from jail on licence after serving just two years in jail (Daily Echo, January 12). That tells us
CHAIRMAN Eddie Mitchell handed Lee Bradbury a long-term contract – and then backed him to lead Cherries into the Championship. Manager Bradbury yesterday celebrated his opening 12 months in the hot-seat by agreeing a new three-and-a-half year deal –
CHERRIES have been rocked by the news that Charlie Sheringham could be out of action for up to six months following major foot surgery. Club physio Steve Hard has confirmed the striker is set to miss the remainder of the League One campaign – and also
DARRYL Flahavan set his sights on promotion after signing a contract extension with Cherries. The experienced goalkeeper yesterday committed himself to the Dorset club until June 2013. Flahavan has been an ever-present in League One this season since
MATT Ford has finalised the team to launch Pirates’ 2012 title defence by naming Adrian Miedzinski and Todd Kurtz in a new-look line-up. The Poole promoter last night confirmed he had put the finishing touches to the one-to-seven that will go to the
“I DON’T want anyone else to go through this”. Those were the words of single mum Julie Middleton, 40, after she this week received the news that the brain of her six-week-old son had been found in a jar at Southampton General Hospital after
A CHEF was stabbed to death in Bournemouth in a street robbery, a murder trial heard yesterday. Glyn Helliwell, 42, from Poole, was found dead in Parkwood Road, Southbourne, on July 6 last year. Winchester Crown Court was yesterday told
