JERRAN Hart rediscovered his best form as Buccaneers reaffirmed they will be one of the top teams to beat in the National League this year. An Elite League-sized crowd packed into Poole Stadium to see speedway's newest team, Bournemouth Castle
PIRATES chief Matt Ford has confirmed he has had to release Paul Hurry but that he hopes he has not seen the last of the rider at Wimborne Road this season. Hurry has done a creditable job at reserve for Poole Castle Cover since replacing injured Kyle
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When Keith Waterhouse wrote Billy Liar, little did he know it would become one of the seminal plays and films of the early 1960s. The play is a comic masterpiece centred around an undertaker’s clerk who juggles three girlfriends and escapes
GURKHA soldiers and their supporters have welcomed a government U-turn on allowing members of the brigade who retired before 1997, and their immediate family, to live in the UK. Gyan Tamang, who served with the regiment of Nepalese soldiers
THE Daily Echo’s ban on ads for “adult entertainment” has been praised in an influential government report on people trafficking. The Home Affairs Committee concluded much more needs to be done to tackle the problem across the UK. But it said a decision
IT’S a sunny May morning and what could be better than a leisurely drive through the New Forest? And I do mean leisurely. The official speed limit here is 40mph, but I’ll be driving 30mph – just to see how people react. Even before you
SAM Shepherd (Primera) went one place better than his father Darren with a win at the second round of the Southern XC series, Crow Hill, last weekend. With much of last year’s National Championships course in use, only in the opposite direction
DORSET’S Lee James continued his impressive start to the European Challenge Tour season today by securing another payday in Torino, Italy. James, who received 24,500 Euros for winning his fifth Tour title in France on Sunday, safely negotiated the halfway
MORE used to playing guitar to tens of thousands of fans in heavy rock band Hello, Tom Katz has now made a home on the South Coast and it taking part in this weekend’s open studios event in Bridport and West Bay. Having enjoyed a 30-year career in music
FROM Hollywood to a down and dirty rock venue in Southampton – make no mistake, Juliette Lewis didn’t have to be at the Talking Heads. Nevertheless, after splitting with The Licks this year, the film star has put acting on the back burner to embark
IT WAS mostly about saying a heartfelt farewell to a man who who had lived so hard and died too soon. But it was also about a spirit of community that the cynics say this country has lost, swamped by greed, selfishness and the art of turning a blind
“I am the one and only, you can’t take that away from me” sung Chesney Hawkes, as I clumsily knocked over a group of girls at Ice Trax in Tower Park, Poole. Nearly 20 years on and it’s still the only time I’ve been on an ice rink. But all that
POTENTIAL buyers are set to get a welcome boost thanks to a new scheme from Taylor Wimpey designed to save them time and money. The Ask the Experts initiative, which is available on George Wimpey and Bryant Homes developments across the South,
BOURNEMOUTH’S bid to buck the recession and regenerate the entire town-centre area has been handed a £500,000 boost. The South West Regional Development Agency is investing the money into the town-centre master vision project, which will help
REGARDING the letter by D Vivian and those “Ignorant drivers” regarding no entry to Poole Park on the day of the Race For Life, why are there no warning signs of the closure on the day? Ideally they would be before the roundabout as it is
I HAVE just read the letter from H Sansom regarding the new look for Poole bus station and I have to say that I totally agree. Having walked through there the other day, I was disappointed to say the least. It looked just as shabby as
ALCOHOL abuse among teenagers is a serious problem in this country, and one of the reasons is the cheapness, availability and lax licensing system, where the more premises they allow to sell alcohol, the more revenue the council gets in licence
I READ with interest the article on the restaurant owner being filmed by a council worker on his mobile. I would like to know if the council provides this mobile from our council tax or, if it is in fact the person’s own, what right have the
COUNCIL offices seem to be full of Dudley Dorights ever willing to spy out any contravention of some petty byelaw or directive. Heaven forbid that a shopkeeper should return wind blown dust to its proper place in the gutter (Daily Echo, May
I ADMIRE Sharon Carr-Brown’s approach regarding a public meeting for the electorate to size up potential future parliamentary candidates. However, does she not understand just how much the public despise the current Labour government and every
READING the Echo I just could not believe the ridiculous lengths councils will go to make problems. The gentleman in question is only sweeping the dust and rubbish from his decking blown there from the road and surrounding areas – which is
I WRITE in support of the council worker who took note of the restaurateur sweeping detritus from his restaurant’s seating area into the road. I know in Ashley Road that some retailers make efforts every day to sweep their forecourts and deposit
A PASSENGER plane continued to fly for 11 days after being involved in a difficult landing incident because a holiday airline did not appreciate the seriousness of the event, an air accident report has said. The Boeing 737 operated by Thomsonfly
A BOURNEMOUTH MP has ruled himself out of the race to find a new speaker of the House of Commons. Sir John Butterfill, who represents Bournemouth West, said he had been asked if he would be interested in replacing Michael Martin but called
BOURNEMOUTH advertising and marketing agency Aylesworth Fleming has announced its biggest win since acquiring the Taylor Woodrow property account in 2004. It has won the multi-million- pound Galliford Try Homes group account after a competitive
A SYNDICATE formed by Lewis Innovative Investments in Poole has bought the JobCentre building in Bournemouth. Contracts have just been completed on Tamarisk House, the Bournemouth JobCentre Plus in Cotlands Road for £5.28 million – the firm
A CALL has been made for a blanket 30mph speed limit on unfenced forest roads in a bid to stop the tragic toll on their ponies and cattle. Last year 73 animals belonging to commoners – ponies, cattle, donkeys and pigs – lost their lives as a result of
A MOTHER hen wasn’t at all shell-shocked when the eggs she was hatching cracked open to reveal ducklings. The “chucklings” were hatched by broody Cornflake, who was given six fertile eggs to nest over by her Bransgore owner Pippa Latimer-Harris
Oliver!, P&P Productions, Lighthouse, Poole WHAT with the TV search for a West End Nancy and Oliver, not to mention other very recent productions of the show, you might think we’d all be Olivered out – but not a bit of it. Charles
THERE were extraordinary scenes in Bournemouth as a community united to show its respect and love for Big Issue seller Ralph Millward. Hundreds of people gathered outside Marks & Spencer in Westbourne – where a roadside shrine of flowers
A BUS driver subjected to a series of horrific attacks has insisted he will carry on driving. Earlier this week, the Daily Echo reported how Wilts & Dorset driver Kevin Sanderson, 57, was pelted with bricks and stones when he got out of
Procedures will be reviewed after Poole council admitted it had no idea that a consultant it employed had a criminal record. “It’s not a good day for us,” admitted Peter Pawlowski, strategic director for Borough of Poole, acknowledging that the whole
A MOTHER hen wasn’t at all shell-shocked when the eggs she was hatching cracked open to reveal ducklings. The “chucklings” were hatched by broody Cornflake, who was given six fertile eggs to nest over by her Bransgore owner Pippa Latimer-Harris
A CHORUS of disapproval has greeted the closure of Bournemouth railway station’s travel centre. South West Trains closed the open-plan office and will replace it with a set of ticket windows. Passengers said even station staff criticised
JUBILANT neighbours are celebrating a decisive victory in the battle of the Balston Road phone mast. District planning chiefs threw out the unpopular application, from Vodafone, to put up a 10-metre mobile phone mast just yards from residential properties
LANDING a support tour with one of the greatest musical icons of the last 30 years is a hell of a big break – even bigger when you’re an unsigned band. Doll & the Kicks have been personally plucked from the relative obscurity of the Brighton music scene
IF THE success of Comely Lumley is anything to go by, maybe we’d be better off letting well-loved celebrities run the country. Now that her doggedly-determined, but terribly good-natured campaign to allow all retired Ghurkha soldiers the right to live
NEIL Middleditch has admitted he has no axe to grind with Pirates new boy Hans Andersen. Poole Castle Cover’s team manager fell out with the Dane over his antics in the final heat of the 2004 World Cup Final when Middleditch was Great Britain boss.
PAUL Baker admitted there had been enquiries about some of Cherries’ stars but then insisted that he does NOT intend to sell any of them. Co-owner Baker is actively seeking a buyer for the Dorset club, but while he is looking to end his association with
CHRIS Harris prised back the British title he had relinquished to Scott Nicholls in 2008 as the old guard kept the young guns at bay for at least one more summer. The 26-year-old Cornishman is always a firm favourite as a visiting rider to Poole. And
BUCCANEERS boss Garry May wants his boys to show speedway newcomers what the sport is all about by turning on the style against King’s Lynn at Poole tonight (7.30pm). Promoter Matt Ford has made entry free for all for newly formed Bournemouth’s historic
OAKMEADIANS chief James Croker insists his men are “better prepared” for a tilt at Bournemouth Sevens glory this weekend. But Swanage and Wareham captain Rob Elford believes the holders, Bournemouth Lions, will be the team to beat when the area’s top
A SEWAGE pumping station is planned for green belt land in Colehill, the Daily Echo has learned. Wessex Water is preparing to seek planning permission to build an underground pumping station on the old drover’s road between Wimborne and St Michael’s
