SARAH Jones Nash is about to set off on the most difficult 138 metres of her life. She doesn't need your help - just your donations. Her cerebral palsy leaves her with muscle stiffness and back spasms. Her wheelchair is too old and rigid to let her
WORK begins next week to improve one of the area's worst traffic bottlenecks and accident blackspots - the junction of the A35 Barrack Road with Stour Road in the centre of Christchurch. To clear the way for the start of the £1.25 million revamp in the
POOLE Museum pulled in 27,500 visitors in just one month after it reopened following a £1.3 million refurbishment. More than 6,000 people visited the museum on the day of its grand reopening on July 14, which ended 21 months of closure for a revamp paid
HUNDREDS of volunteers have been put on standby for a possible snap general election, the Daily Echo can reveal. Potential polling stations in Bournemouth borough have been given standby notices by the council staff who look after elections, after rumours
THE parting shot of the travellers who have been parked in Kings Park was to empty their chemical toilets in bushes on the edge of the field. The waste was dumped on the side of the field towards Avonbourne School and Harewood Avenue. John Harrington
"WE'RE from Bournemouth, sunny, sunny Bournemouth!" This is how the famous Cherries football chant goes at Dean Court. However, a study out today shows that while this may be true of the weather, AFC Bournemouth fans are certainly not of a sunny disposition
DR RONALD Fisher, founder of the Macmillan cancer care unit at Christchurch hospital and a pioneer of NHS palliative care, has died at the age of 90. His philosophy that people could and should be helped to live with cancer rather than just die from
A POOLE bungalow once the home of JRR Tolkien is to be demolished. The bungalow in Lakeside Road was where Tolkien retired with his wife Edith in 1968 after his two best-known works, The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, had already made him
Record-breaking Hillclimb driver Rob Barksfield from Corfe Mullen has died after a motorcycle accident in France. The 46-year-old telecommunications specialist was returning with a friend from a three-day BMW Motorcycle training course at the Nurburgring
PEOPLE living close to the river and railway line at Lymington will have their homes surveyed before the Environment Agency begins using vibrating piledrivers on a £3.4m flood defence scheme. The piledrivers, mounted on railway wagons, will be used to
A Kind of Magic will descend over Bournemouth's leafy Meyrick Park on Friday, August 3, as it explodes into an electrifying evening of fully orchestrated anthetic rock. In a mesmerising mixture of music, fireworks and lights the Bournemouth Symphony
THE spot where an elderly woman was crushed to death under the wheels of a refuse truck in Wimborne Square has now been marked with two poignant bunches of flowers. The woman has still not formally been identified by the coroner's office but is believed
IT'S probably the last place on earth you'd expect to find a part-time glamour model, but Sasha Gardner seems quite at home living on Britain's biggest rubbish tip. The 25-year-old former Bournemouth schoolgirl is one of ten contestants in a new reality
A YEAR ago doubts surrounded the future of Matchams Leisure Park near Hurn after the gates were sealed by its owners and site operators locked out. Twelve months on and there is a more positive attitude, with existing and new operators confident about
A MECHANIC was presented with a Ford Fiesta as his retirement present - only to see it trashed by a scrap metal dealer's truck. Colin Stevens, 65, was given the brand new £8,000 Fiesta by boss Ron Saunders as recognition of his 25 years with Pottery
KEVIN Bond hailed Lee Bradbury as "just the type" of player Cherries need after the forward's stay at Dean Court became permanent on Friday. Bradbury's contract with Southend has been taken over by Cherries and he is now contracted to the club until
This is Thomas, the Einstein of cats. He talks in whole sentences, and always says thank you when I put his food down or open the door for him! Sent in by Allyson.
Introducing Tabitha, she's a very 'girly' cat, and loves shopping and make up - she'll sort through my shopping bags with her paw, and likes to play with the contents of my make-up bag! Sent in by Allyson
NEXT week Hyundai begins a new chapter in its history with the launch in the UK of the first of its i' generation of cars designed especially for Europe - a designation that will eventually range from the i10 to the i50. Given the privilege of being
WE'VE seen it in celuloid, now's the chance to view Aston Martin's new two plus two DBS in the metal - and composite materials. Having been given a short and very destructive drive-on role in the latest James Bond movie Casino Royale, the 190mph DBS
THE FIRST grown-up magazine I ever bought was Company, dated March 1982. I was 16 and the reason I bought it was because it had Princess Diana's face on the front. Like most people in the known universe, or so it seemed then, I was curious about this
VISITORS to the Ideal Home Show Exhibition got a taste of television nostalgia with a performance of Steptoe and Son. Performers from hit show That'll be the Day recreated a scene based on the hit BBC show which featured the battling father and son duo
ESSENTIAL round-up of Shane Meadows' best work - in other words, his entire feature film output minus Once Upon a Time in the Midlands. TwentyFourSeven, his 1997 debut is a bold and eloquent denouncement of Thatcherism's social legacy. A Room For Romeo
FROM '60s teen sensation to semi-reclusive genius of the avant-garde, Scott Walker has held music fans in thrall for more than 40 years. Except that's not really true. As the focal point of The Walker Brothers, Scott was far more than a bubblegum pop
OH no! Beauty has fallen down a mine-shaft, been stolen by gypsies, may have rabies (no really). In the 1970s that well-known theme tune (da-da dah, dada dada dah-da) heralded another adventure for the black horse and girl-in-a-smock Vicky. Little horse-mad
A WIMBORNE group is awaiting the outcome of a national challenge that could help to keep areas around the town as green fields. Sheila Bourton, chairman of Keep Wimborne Green, said the organisation was interested in a debate revolving around the number
FROM the archive reels of Roland Rat to the bloodied stumps of injured soldiers in the Falklands War, Shane Meadows' best film yet pays unsentimental homage to life in the 1980s. Shaun is 11 years old, his dad has been killed in the Falklands and the
THERE'S something about the way Matt Hales crafts a song - the slow starts, the major chord build ups, the wounded vocal style a la Thom Yorke, the hopeful pay-off - that's almost impossible to resist. It's a bit like one of those movies that no matter
THERE'S a lot riding on this boy. There must be, or why else would they get the legendary Dennis Bovell - producer of Lee Perry, The Slits and I-Roy - to steer this debut? What's more, toasting pioneer Eek-A-Mouse has come out of retirement to add vocals
WHEN mixologist DJ Food found The Dragons' Food For My Soul on an ultra-rare '60s surf compilation, he embarked on a trail that lead to the band's unreleased 1970 album. The Dragons were three brothers who worked in the Beach Boys' backing band and recorded
YOU may have read the Super Furries have lost their way on the road to excess and dropped their shining baton of the bizarre, but don't believe a word of it. Instead, rest assured that Hey Venus! is every bit as tangled, new-fangled, bemusing and amusing
SCOTT Hicks' romantic drama serves up a tantalising New York twist on the award-winning German film Mostly Martha. Hicks garnishes his version with a stellar cast including Catherine Zeta-Jones, making her welcome return to the big screen after embracing
THE conventions of the horror genre have shifted immeasurably in the past five years, moving increasingly into the godforsaken realms of sadism and torture. When some poor victim screams, it's not from the shock of a boogeyman leaping out of the shadows
FOR the first hour, Death Sentence is a thoroughly gripping thriller, updating Brian Garfield's 1975 novel (the sequel to Death Wish) to present day America riddled with drugs and gun-related gang violence. Director James Wan and screenwriter Ian Mackenzie
ON February 18, 2001, Special Agent Robert Hanssen was arrested by fellow FBI operatives, accused of treason against the country he vowed to protect. Hanssen was charged with selling classified, top secret documents to the former Soviet Union, jeopardising
A WOMAN in her 80s died after being crushed under the wheels of a refuse lorry in Wimborne Square on Thursday lunchtime. More than a dozen emergency vehicles were at the scene and police officers taped off the whole of the Square, barring vehicles and
THE Borough of Poole and Bournemouth Borough Council are to be at the forefront of a new nation-wide campaign aimed at tackling cigarette litter. The news has been welcomed by smokers and non-smokers alike who say it is time to get tough on thoughtless
AN UNKNOWN hero is believed to have pulled an elderly man out of the path of an oncoming bus when an accident happened at Poole's bus station on Thursday. The elderly man was injured when a double-decker hit a railing at the bus station at around 4.05pm
AN ELDERLY man was injured when a bus collided with railings at Poole bus station on Thursday. The incident, involving a Yellow Buses double-decker, happened at around 4.05pm. A spokesman for South Western Ambulance Service confirmed a rapid response
POOLE Town boss Tom Killick has tried to "drum into" his players the importance of remaining fully motivated if they are to maintain their Wessex League unbeaten record. Dolphins are second in the Premier Division after four wins and a draw from their
STEVE Riley insists his Bashley troops have the "togetherness" to mount a serious BGB Southern League Premier Divison challenge. Riley, whose side travel to Clevedon Town tomorrow (3pm), says the spirit among his players is good as Bashley go in search
CHRISTER Warren expects his Wimborne Town side to bounce back from their "slight blip" with a good performance in the FA Cup tomorrow. Wimborne were beaten 2-0 by Poole Town on Monday and Warren hopes to see a positive response from his charges at Brislington
WARREN Cummings believes Cherries' new-look defence has the potential to become "one of the best, if not the best," in his time at the club. Cummings has forged a formidable alliance with Josh Gowling and summer recruits Ryan Garry and Jason Pearce in
CHERRIES boss Kevin Bond is hoping for a case of once bitten, twice shy' as he bids to avoid a repeat of the lowest point of his brief managerial career. Bond was smarting after seeing Cherries follow up one of their best displays of last season - victory
ROB Newman insists Cherries must be "ready" to contain Port Vale's new-look strike force despite the absence of dangermen Akpo Sodje and Leon Constantine. Sodje and Constantine both netted twice as the Valiants recorded a League One double over Cherries
YOUNG gun Troy Batchelor returned to his old stomping ground at King's Lynn and finished a creditable seventh on his Elite League Riders' Championship debut. Then the 20-year-old Poole Pirates ace, who had celebrated his latest birthday on Wednesday,
BJARNE Pedersen admitted he ran out of steam after he'd finished fifth in the Elite League Riders' Championship at King's Lynn. The Pirates star was fourth in the qualifying heats in front of a bumper 4,000 crowd at the Norfolk Arena. But despite having
FOR nigh on 10 years, Princess Diana lived with the knowledge that there was a third person in her marriage. Her distress at this situation was evident to anyone who saw her and to all those who knew her, years before she made it public in that interview
