JASON Crump and Bjarne Pedersen both went through the card unbeaten by an opponent as Pirates put Oxford to the sword. It was one-way traffic at Cowley as Piotr Swist only lost out on a paid maximum when Steve Johnston squeezed outside him to grab second
POOLE SPEEDWAY is prepared to let every child in free to Monday's meeting providing they dress up as a pirate! The club is ready to waive the £4 entrance fee but will only allow them into the Stadium for nothing if they are suitably attired like a real
INFLUENTIAL Cherries star Darren Anderton could hit the comeback trail earlier than anticipated after making a rapid recovery from injury. Cherries' midfield maestro looked set to be ruled out until the final day of the season after suffering a groin
CHRISTMAS in Fordingbridge could be very dark this year unless additional sponsorship is found to finance the town-centre festive lights, say traders. Mounting costs and increasing health and safety regulations have now put the price of the Christmas
Saint George would be spinning in his grave to witness the wave of apathy for his special day. The patron saint of England, famous for his dragon-slaying antics, might well have been expecting a public knees-up to celebrate the old bulldog spirit. I
AN ACCOUNTANT has found an innovative solution to the parking problems in Bournemouth. Jane Kelly and her boyfriend, window cleaner Ian Woodland, have set up an online introduction service which allows the owners of free parking spaces to meet people
EVERYTHING is in place for the demolition of Boscombe Pier to begin on Monday. The excavator to be used in the process was floated out of Poole docks yesterday morning and arrived in Boscombe just after midday. The device was transferred on to one of
IT has provided generations of women with unstinting support - so please raise your cups and toast the 100th anniversary of the humble bra. Created in 1907, the word brassiere (derived from the French word meaning upper arm) first appeared in the American
MANY YEARS back someone was silly enough to ask Kate Middleton if she felt lucky to be going out with Prince William. "He's lucky to be going out with ME!" was her spirited reply. Good woman. And silly William, for letting her slip through his fingers
PILOT projects giving parents the right to know if paedophiles live in their area have been heavily criticised by child safety campaigners. Steps to allow anxious families to find out how many child sex offenders are in the neighbourhood - but not their
Teenagers who are not old enough to hold a driving licence will have the unique opportunity to get behind the wheel as part of a new campaign to highlight the dangers of the road. A Come and Have a Go Driving Day for 15 to 17-year-olds at Matchams Park
TRANSDEV Yellow Buses has reversed its decision to cut crucial bus services just as pupils begin their exams. The company had announced it was to drop the 53, 55, 57 and 59 buses, which serve Bournemouth School and Bournemouth School for Girls on June
HE might seem an unlikely frontman for a casino which could occupy one of the most prominent sites in Bournemouth. Damian Aspinall is a conservationist, especially passionate about the welfare of gorillas - but he's also a businessman whose good works
THE number of people injured in accidents on Poole's roads is at its lowest level for almost 20 years. Figures released by Dorset Police show there were 529 casualties in Poole in 2006 - down almost 25 per cent on the previous year's figure of 696.
THERE has been a huge rise in beach litter on Dorset beaches, according to a nationwide survey. In last Sunday's Great Dorset Beach Clean, more than 700 people removed plastics and other debris from the shores of 22 beaches, stretching from Lyme Regis
UNLESS he is very much mistaken - and it has been known! - Murray Walker does not think rookie racer Lewis Hamilton will win the Formula 1 world championship at his first attempt. Certainly the form of the British boy racer, currently joint leader of
DIESEL power will return to Shillingstone Station for the first time since the 1960s, when the track was removed as the result of Dr Beeching's axe. Right to the very end of regular passenger operation in March 1966, the Somerset & Dorset Railway between
THE sale of Bournemouth-based Portman Building Society's £600 million Channel Islands operation has completed. It has been sold to the Scarborough Building Society group. The business will now be known as Scarborough Channel Islands Ltd (SCIL). SCIL
TRAFFIC was tailing back from Longham to Ferndown after a three-vehicle collision on Friday afternoon. The crash happened just before 2.20pm on the A348 Ringwood Road around 150 metres south of the double mini roundabout at Longham. Vehicles involved
YOU'D imagine Tariq Knight was a pretty impressive magician - he has performed for the Queen of England, after all. Having watched this DVD, I'd imagine "one was not amused". An astoundingly short (17 minutes) feature showcases some of the most childish
DUBBED Trainspotting for women, this black-as-night Irvine Welsh comedy could easily have been a cinema release, instead of on Channel 4. Four life-long friends from the tough end of Leith (no Sunshine here) are getting ready for the wedding of leader
THIS 1976 martial arts tale of revenge, redemption, and bizarre robo-warriors is considered to be one of Jackie Chan's best pre-Hollywood movies. How you regard that statement says a lot about what you'll think of the movie. It's old-school kung-fu
DAVID Schwimmer and Simon Pegg sound like an unlikely pair of villains, and indeed they are. But once you've got over the initial annoyance of Simon Pegg with an American accent, the partnership works pretty well. The plot shift in Big Nothing is nothing
LOTS of people who know about these things predict lots of good things for The Procession - and three minutes into their debut album I thought, just for a second, they have a feel of Big Star about them. Then, a minute later, I heard the first in a tedious
FOLLOWING the angst-ridden introspection of the excellent I'm Wide Awake It's Morning was never going to be the easiest trick in the book, but Conor Oberst has pulled it off as by the sheer scale of his ambition as anything else. Lining up the likes of
PEELIE always had his favourites, this we know, but some were more favoured than others. This sprawling set acts as an unofficial history of the band that epitomised the C86 indie era as Peel quickly emerged as their earliest champion. From the tense
THE strutting ex-Family and Streetwalkers singer is now a chilled-out veteran, big in Germany, although still something of a cult in his native UK. Here he's in fine voice, keen to get his message across - and there's evidence of Chappo's love of American
"Look closely enough and you'll find everything has a weak spot where, sooner or later, it will break." There are a few noticeable cracks and flaws in Fracture, a taut and involving courtroom thriller about an embittered husband who plans then executes
ACCORDING to the Bible, "whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap". In this spooky thriller, director Stephen Hopkins and screenwriters Carey W Hayes and Chad Hayes sow supernatural bunkum, Deep South mysticism, a sweat-drenched sex scene and
THE attacks of September 11, 2001, dealt a devastating blow to the seemingly unstoppable beating heart of America. To this day, the wounds have not healed - for many of the survivors, they never will - and few filmmakers have dared to tap into a nation's
DECISIONS made on the spur of the moment, then enacted with similar reckless disregard for the likely consequences, rarely end well. In summer 2000, Californian teenager Jesse James Hollywood and some friends reportedly abducted the younger brother of
Five more retailers have settled compensation claims with the owners of Castlepoint over losses incurred by the shopping centre's closure in December 2005. Discount store TK Maxx led the way in February when it settled its dispute against the Castlepoint
BOURNEMOUTH council is to finally open some parking bays on a blocked-off area of the East Overcliff for the summer season - but the capacity will actually be cut in half. The spaces, which lie at 90 degrees to the kerb, have been blocked off since 2005
A MAJOR supermarket chain is investing more than £1 million into its Fordingbridge branch to create a flagship store to be copied throughout the UK. The Co-op says its new-generation supermarket in the market town will also generate 15 new jobs locally
A PET cat had an eye removed after being shot with what is believed to have been an air gun. And the vet says his surgery has dealt with three further pets with similar injuries over the past month. Georgie, a one-year-old tabby cat, was playing in
A TEENAGER suffered horrific burns when he accidentally set fire to his hair after using a new head lice lotion. Fifteen-year-old Matthew Moore's mother Lesley applied the lotion at their home in Purbeck. Matthew then went to his room and played with
PIOTR Swist reignited Pirates' title challenge with a superb gating performance as they hammered Ipswich at Foxhall on Thursday night. The 38-year-old Pole, nicknamed Twister', blew away any lingering doubts among Poole Castle Cover fans that he might
