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  • Team take to the air for Cumbrians

    KEVIN Bond may have piloted Cherries to within sight of League One safety - but will resist the temptation to return to the cockpit when they take to the skies. Bond's charges have chosen to let the plane take the strain and are due to fly to Newcastle

  • Bond: No easing up in battle to beat drop

    BOSS Kevin Bond insists Cherries could still be "easily caught" by the chasing pack as moving day looms for the League One relegation candidates. As the battle for survival hots up, no fewer than 10 of the clubs languishing in the bottom 11 are set to

  • Magpies whittle managers down to four

    WIMBORNE will have a four-man shortlist in place ahead of Tuesday's home clash with Brockenhurst (7.45pm kick-off) as their search for a new manager intensifies. Magpies boss Paul Arnold recently announced that he is to step down at the end of the season

  • Mostyn hails Bond's treble triumph

    NEW Cherries chairman Jeff Mostyn has saluted manager Kevin Bond for masterminding a dramatic upturn in the club's recent fortunes. Mostyn and co-owner Steve Sly have seen Cherries win three successive league games - all without conceding a goal - since

  • Who’d do the job?

    THERE were calls for Kevin Bond to be sacked after just two games in charge at Dean Court. Now he is ramming the critics' words back down their throats, with Cherries having won three in a row, and tantalisingly close to staying up. I hope England boss

  • Tracks of my fears

    UNLESS you are a keen fan of armoured vehicles, Bovington Tank Museum may not seem the most exciting place to spend a Saturday night. But with the help of a group called Haunting Experiences, my mother and I discovered there may be more lurking in the

  • Britain’s first air hostess dies aged 91

    A FERNDOWN woman who won fame as Britain's first air hostess in the 1930s and then went on to teach hundreds of people in Dorset how to drive has died at the age of 91. Daphne Watson was working as a secretary for airline Air Dispatch in 1936 when its

  • Attacker’s chance to 'stay out of trouble'

    A MAN who attacked his neighbour with a baseball bat after violence flared at a bed-sit block has been given a chance to change his criminal ways. David Genner, 29, of Jewell Road, Townsend, admitted two counts of common assault in November. Tim Dracass

  • £2.7m to £4m in 14 months!

    A RUN-down bungalow which sold for £2.7 million 14 months ago has been put back on the market at £4m - in exactly the same condition. While some property developers can spend thousands on a project, all the owners of this Sandbanks home house did was

  • An eggs-tra special treat

    THEY easily burnt off all their chocolate egg munching by running around trying to find them. Children visiting Adventure Wonderland in Hurn were enjoying an Easter egg hunt organised by the Daily Echo's cuddly mascot Eddie Echo. The youngsters had

  • Dog lovers set to fight park clean-up move

    MORE than 100 dog walkers turned out to a meeting Hamworthy Park to protest at proposed changes in dog restrictions in the area. The event was organised by Dog Walkers Action Group (DWAG), which formed to fight Borough of Poole's proposals. The park

  • Museum entry free thanks to subsidy

    RESIDENTS and visitors to Blandford can now access local heritage at the town's museum free of charge thanks to an increased subsidy from the town council. Members of the Blandford Museum Trust asked civic bosses to support them in their bid to increase

  • Call to change rules on patient confidentiality

    A HEARTBROKEN New Forest couple marked the first anniversary of their daughter's suicide by renewing their call for patient confidentiality rules to be reviewed. Kay and David Edgell say they were powerless to prevent their daughter Lara from taking

  • TV’s Woss digs deep for play area project

    POPULAR TV presenter Jonathan Ross has donated cash to help transform an ailing Purbeck play area. The Langton Matravers Play Project is a community group, which was set up in 2006 to improve the play area in the village's Playing Fields, which consists

  • Cornfactor site plan go-ahead

    "ONE of the best things to happen to Christchurch" say the owners of the historic town centre cornfactor site, after being given permission to redevelop it. At the centre of the development is the restor-ation of the long-abandoned 18th Century three-storey

  • Lee poised for a rankings lift

    DORSET'S Lee James boosted his chances of an improved European ranking this season after a top-20 finish in the Portuguese Open at Oitavos on Sunday. The 33-year-old Parkstone-based professional carded rounds of 73, 71, 70 and 70 for a share of 17th

  • Quest is on to find the top shop in town

    POOLE town centre retailers are undergoing rigorous mystery shopper tests for this year's Top of the Shops awards. Finalists will be invited to the glittering Top of the Shops awards dinner at the Quay Thistle Hotel, Poole on May 16. The awards, in

  • Suga and spice...

    Sugababes mania is in the air as Britain's most successful girl group heads for Bournemouth and a sell-out concert at the BIC tonight. The band is, of course, a masterpiece of music biz and media manipulation - a carefully constructed combination of

  • White in winning start to new role

    FERNDOWN'S Richard White celebrated his official appointment as Bournemouth Alliance secretary in winning style at Meyrick Park. White teamed up with Iford professional David Miles to secure the Alf Perry Trophy with an impressive betterball nett score

  • Mary Shelley 'did not write Frankenstein'

    AN AMERICAN academic has stirred up controversy by claiming that Mary Shelley, who is buried in Bournemouth, was not the true author of the Gothic masterpiece Frankenstein. After seven years of research, Harvard-educated John Lauritson has concluded

  • Easter bakes

    EGGS for Easter don't have to be the chocolate kind. For Easter baking why not try Woodland eggs (available from Sainsbury's). These eggs come from hens that are free to roam, forage and play among trees all day then roost in protected barns come nightfall

  • 36 High West Street, Dorchester

    I went to Sienna at the weekend. No, no... before you get carried away by poetic images of Tuscan hills and sun-drenched olive groves I must just point out I'm talking about Sienna in Dorchester. And I don't mean this in a disappointing way. Far from

  • Never too young to learn

    ONE quarter of British parents admit they don't teach their children the basics of cooking, a new study reveals. Despite the fact that 66 per cent of the 1,600 people questioned cooked with their parents when they were young, 25 per cent admit they

  • A textbook tour de force

    Razorlight, BIC AS DARKNESS fell on the auditorium, the five foot high flashing lights said it all - Razorlight. A wave of anticipation swept through the crowd, quickly culminating in an electric swell of foot-stomping, sweaty, shouting bodies. The

  • Bolton stunner

    Michael Bolton, BIC WE have had such a fantastic run of top class shows at the BIC's Windsor Hall lately and Friday's Michael Bolton concert was yet another stunner. The Grammy award-winning soft rock balladeer demonstrated just why he has earned himself

  • April Fool? Cows about that?

    WHAT'S this? Cows grazing the cricket pitch at Poole Park? That was the sight that confronted visitors to the this website on Sunday. We reported that "cattleman" Chris Bullen had introduced the heifers to keep the grass down after most of the grazing

  • Woman rushed to hospital

    A WOMAN was taken to hospital after the car she was driving was in collision with two parked vehicles. The accident happened at about 8.30am this morning on Charminster Road in Bournemouth. The woman driving a black Fiat Punto was in a collision with

  • Maternity unit forced to shut

    POOLE'S maternity unit was again forced to close its doors to all but high-risk cases last week after being swamped by new arrivals, it has been revealed. Health bosses say they had to shut down non-emergency admissions for a total of 24 hours to ensure

  • Not FOB-bed off by Fallout Boy

    Fallout Boy, BIC FOB burst onto the stage with an unexpected opener from 2005's From Under the Cork Tree, Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name of This Song So We Wouldn't Get Sued. With the crowd singing along to every word, it was clear that Fall Out

  • Warning to OAPs after burglaries

    POLICE are warning vulnerable OAPs in Ferndown to be on alert after two elderly residents became victims to a pair of distraction burglars. In the first incident the two thieves distracted an 89-year-old woman with a tale about a lost dog before stealing

  • New chapter ahead for small library

    A KIND gesture will open a new chapter of life for cramped Blandford library by paying for a mini-makeover, while county chiefs wait to see if their Lottery bid is successful. A £5,000 bequest from a customer will be used to install a new service counter

  • Invasion is etched in the memory

    "FROM the front window, we could see an awe-inspiring stream of tracer shells arcing from the harbour. Shouting, screaming and machine-gun fire permeated the crisp air." The moment Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands on April 2, 1982, is forever etched

  • What on earth are we doing?

    WHEN I was younger, I'd often day-dream about being the first human being to meet visitors from another planet. Sadly it never happened, and while I have met many people during my life who may have come from another planet - or should be exiled on one

  • A knockout event

    FORGET Rocky. It was Ricky who was the big draw for boxing fans in Bournemouth on Saturday night - along with his pals Sir Enery and Big Frank. Champ Ricky "Hitman" Hatton and legends Sir Henry Cooper and Frank Bruno were the guests of honour at a sportmen's

  • Waiter trial 'should not have happened'

    THREE waiters have been cleared of assaulting a pair of customers who left their restaurant without paying. Now the men's boss has said they should never have been put on trial. The case started when two customers - Neil Francis and Paul Buffrey - left

  • EXAM MARKS ANGER

    A BOURNEMOUTH University professor has told why he quit after senior managers overruled his decision to fail some students. Archaeology professor Paul Buckland, who has 25 years' teaching experience, decided that 13 second year students re-sitting exams

  • Simply the B’s knees

    The Three Mr B's, Pavilion, Bournemouth Swinging in splendid harmony - Messrs Barber, Bilk and Ball. These three grand old jazz masters of trombone, clarinet, and trumpet, respectively, each supported by their own star-filled bands, gave their fans true

  • Bernie socks it to 'em as Cherries victory ends jinx

    KITMAN Bernie Morton went from villain to hero as Cherries finally broke their Millmoor jinx. April Fool's Day appeared to have come early for the popular team attendant who unwittingly played his part in this latest triumph, despite initially fearing