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Stories for 22 April 2006

Bournemouth News

Drivers: Hang up or else

TODAY'S Daily Echo pictures some of the law-flouting drivers we caught behind the wheel, talking on their mobile phones.  more...

Demolition day looms for Winter Gardens

YEARS of campaigning to save Bournemouth's Winter Gardens are set to end in defeat on Monday when bulldozers move in to demolish the historic concert hall.  more...

STEVE'S GERMAN MISSION

POOLE southpaw Steve Bendall believes he can silence German star Sebastian Sylvester's fans and lift the European middleweight crown on Saturday.  more...

Sounds of vanishing wildlife... and some making a comeback

SOME of the South's rarest wildlife features among the country's most elusive species whose vanishing sounds can be heard on a new CD.  more...

Cannabis `factory' made £9,000 month

AN OUTWARDLY respectable engineer who set up a cannabis factory in a rented Boscombe house, cultivating up to £9,000 worth of the drug a month, has been jailed for two years.  more...

DRIVERS: HANG UP OR ELSE

SATURDAY'S Daily Echo pictures some of the law-flouting drivers we caught behind the wheel, talking on their mobile phones.  more...

Bournemouth Sport

Steve's German mission

POOLE southpaw Steve Bendall believes he can silence German star Sebastian Sylvester's fans and lift the European middleweight crown tonight.  more...

Poole News

Beating of Bounds must `modernise'

TALKS are being held in a bid to resolve conflict over an ancient Poole ceremony threatened by political correctness.  more...