A NEW specialist school is to be built in Bournemouth to cater for a growing number of pupils with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The £5.3million project will see a new school built next to Heathlands Primary School at West Howe, which will be managed
BOURNEMOUTH University engineering students are the second highest earning graduates in the country, according to new figures. The Higher Education Statistics Agency looked at the wages of former students six months after leaving. They
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after an elderly lady fell while travelling on a bus in Bournemouth on Saturday afternoon. The 86-year-old woman from Lychett Matravers is currently under observation in Royal Bournemouth Hospital with minor injuries
AN eagle-eyed reader has solved the mystery surrounding the origins of an offshore structure in Poole Bay that left cliff-top residents and sightseers puzzled for days. Several seafront home owners who contacted the Daily Echo assumed that
BOURNEMOUTH has made a ‘tremendously exciting’ bid for £2million to set up a national academy of business and tourism. Head of tourism Mark Smith said the town is on the final shortlist of 10 from more than 100 applications and has a ‘fighting
FAST food chain Subway has been granted a late-night refreshment licence for its Wallisdown branch – but requests to extend the hours of its Bournemouth and Winton branches were refused. Members of Bournemouth’s licensing committee agreed the
FOR most of us, everything stops for tea – but for Dorchester entrepreneur Joanna Davies, a good brew has proved the starting point for an increasingly successful and popular business venture. Inspired by Parsons, a fragrant old-fashioned grocer’s shop
AN ELDERLY man carrying out his “civic duty” will boycott Bournemouth after a wrangle with the council over a parking ticket. John Bunnell, 81, was in town to make a witness statement at Bournemouth police station when he received the penalty charge
