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Dorset | Archive | 2004 | August

Stories for 20 August 2004

Bournemouth Cherries

DAD'S THE WAY TO DO IT!

DEOGO Andrade is on his way back to Dean Court - with help from his dad, Jose. more...

Bournemouth Columnist

Gold for Britain!

EVERY four years, we put our sporting hopes in the hands of a few Britons in the expectation that their exploits will bring reflected glory to our nation. more...

Bournemouth Leisure

GREASE is the word at the Bournemouth Pavilion as Jonathan Wilkes continues to star as love-struck High School gangleader Danny Zuko in the latest touring production of the perennially popular American musical at the Pavilion. The show - most famously remembered for its 1970s film version with John Travolta and Olivia Newton John - plays the Pavilion from until Saturday August 28. Telephone 0870 111 3000. more...

The Dictators - Hitler's Germany; Stalin's Russia

ALTHOUGH the dictators are integral to the narrative, Richard Overy, who is professor of history at King's College, London, has not produced a twin biography. Nor is it a straightforward history of Nazism and Communism. more...

Do you remember the first time?

FOR 32-year-old Flora, adult life is not proving as thrilling as she might have wished, with a stable but dull job and a stable but dull boyfriend. As her friend slices into her wedding cake, she wishes for her 16-year-old world once more, and wakes up to find the dream a reality. more...

From Oslo to Iraq and the Roadmap

THE cultural critic and Palestinian advocate Edward Said died last September aged 67. But as this posthumous collection of his essays shows, he was keenly engaged with Middle Eastern politics to the end. more...

Anyone for Pennis?

THAT Dennis Pennis has come a long way, hasn't he? more...

The Cooler (15)

IF luck is a lady then whatever you do, don't take her for granted, otherwise she'll make you wish you were never born. more...

Wonderland (18)

DIRECTOR James Cox chronicles one of the seedier and more lurid episodes in recent Hollywood history in this dramatisation of the so-called Wonderland Murders. more...

Film Club (20 August)

THE Daily Echo Film Club in conjunction with UCI offers Echo readers the chance to enjoy top movies at a cut price every week at UCI. more...

A Cinderella Story (PG)

SINCE making her debut as plucky high school misfit Lizzie McGuire on TV in January 2001, life has been one long fairy-tale for Hilary Duff. more...

Bournemouth News

`Take steps over flooding danger'

HOUSEHOLDERS and companies in this area are being warned to review their flood prevention strategies and reassess their insurance cover after the flooding in Cornwall. more...

NEW FOREST PLANS (17 Aug - 17 Sept)

20 Woodlands Road, Ashurst; 82322, 2 detached houses, detached garages (demolition of existing); Quayside Architects, Quayside House, Central Road, Eastern Docks, Southampton (for D Cornick). more...

Auction sites hit charities

THE internet could be costing Dorset's charity shops dearly as more people opt to sell their possessions online than donate them to worthy causes. more...

It's hats off to the A-team!

SLIPS of innocuous-looking paper held in nervous hands had the power yesterday (August 20) to make or break dreams. more...

ATTACK OF THE GIANT MOSQUITO

HUGE mosquitoes that are twice the size of normal insects and bite through clothing have invaded the South Coast. more...

999 staff get right to refuse call-outs

BEING too drunk to get home... needing furniture moved... wanting a hand getting into an electric scooter for a trip to B&Q. more...

We're prepared to try another way

FOR months the lives of those regularly attending the Fourways Centre hung in the balance. more...

Bournemouth Sport

Defender is priority for Bash

BASHLEY manager Geoff Butler's quest for a new central defender has so far led him down a blind alley but he insists the hunt remains his top priority. more...

Moore's `friendly chat' gets Brock boss angry

THE Wessex League season is barely a week old and already old foes Pete Moore and Graham Kemp are at each other's throats. more...

Bridport Bridport

Developers get green light to build flats at West Bay

BUILDERS Wyatt Homes have finally got the go- ahead to construct a modern flats complex at West Bay. more...

Accidents trigger call for speed limit on A35

CALLS have been made for speed restrictions on the A35 at Bridport after a spate of serious accidents. more...

All ready for the carnival

FINAL preparations are being made for Bridport Carnival this weekend. more...

Families' bid to live off the land is sunk by planners

TWO young families who put up homes on farmland at Wootton Fitzpaine to run an organic food business have been ordered to move out. more...

A-level cheer for students

STUDENTS from across West Dorset are celebrating after achieving `outstanding' A-level results. more...

Christchurch News

Town saddled with title of bike theft `capital'

A DISTURBING police report has revealed Christchurch as the epicentre of a bicycle theft epidemic in the east of the county. more...

East Dorset News

Safety fears lead to cattle grid rethink

PLANS to install cattle grids to introduce grazing at Holt Heath have been amended following fears that wildlife will be put at risk and public access restricted. more...

Lyme Regis Lyme

Mast can remain in position for longer

COUNCILLORS have granted permission for a temporary police communications mast to remain at Lyme Regis Golf Club until the end of this month. more...

Seas pounded yacht

TWO sailors were plucked to safety from their sinking yacht as it pounded against the Cobb harbour wall in Lyme Regis in the early hours of Wednesday morning. more...

Students celebrate top A-level results

A-LEVEL students at Woodroffe School, Lyme Regis were yesterday celebrating an impressive set of results, with 40 per cent of them achieving A or B grades. more...

Joint rescue centre opens

THE FIRST joint emergency services centre in Dorset opens today in Lyme Regis. more...

Joint rescue centre opens

THE FIRST ever joint emergency services centre in Dorset opens today in Lyme Regis. Officials from police, fire and rescue and ambulance services will declare the new centre in Hill Road open at 10.30am, heralding a new era in the provision of emergency services in Lyme Regis. Police officers have left their old sta tion across the road - which looks set to be demolished to make way for housing - and will now share their premises with fire and rescue crew and visiting ambu lance crew. A police employee will now man the front desk at Lyme Regis six days a week, from 9am until 1pm - although police cannot yet say when the new post will begin. Police inspector Alan Jenkins said: "We are all extremely pleased to be moving to a new joint emergency centre that will better meet the needs of the community and our officers and promote even closer working with other emergency services." Fire and rescue crew have been using the new centre since April, after a long cold winter spent in the old wooden ambulance station at the back of the new centre - also set for demolition after being condemned. The centre now provides a home not only for the fire pump but the co-respon ders' car, which is forming a growing part of the fire and rescue team's service. Having been specially trained to use life saving techniques and de-fibrillating equipment, fire and rescue crew now attend life threatening shouts in Lyme Regis, if an ambulance will take longer than the standard ten minute call-out time. Sub officer in charge Virgil Turner said the six crew members who were trained co-responders had already been out on 61 shouts in 18 weeks, saving at least ten lives. The new centre provides Lyme's 11 fire and rescue crew members with new training equipment, showers and kitchen which visiting ambulance crew can use whenever they are in Lyme Regis. A shared rest room will enable officers from all three services to meet and relax together, but police offices - containing confidential information - will remain out of bounds to everyone except autho rised police personnel. Mr Turner said he and his colleagues were pleased with the new station. He said: "We're learning all the time from the ambulance crew that come in. We get to know the local police and understand more about what they do. It's great. We've got everything we need now." Chief executive of the Dorset ambu lance NHS trust Ken Wenman said: "The new centre has provided a great oppor tunity for us to replace the very basic standby building to one that is adequate for today's needs. "Joining the police and fire services under a single roof has also strength ened joint working at a local level, including the very successful trial of fire and co-responders to life threatening incidents. "We believe that this example of joint provision might well provide a blueprint for future co-location services." more...

Students celebrate top A level results

A-LEVEL students at Woodroffe School, Lyme Regis were yesterday cele brating an impressive set of results, with 40 per cent of them achieving A or B grades. The overall pass rate for A-lev els at the school was 97 percent, up one per cent from last year and above the national average of 96 percent. Dr Richard Steward, principal, said: "I am delighted with these results. "All our students worked incredibly hard this year and it is a pleasure to see them achieve the results they deserve." Outstanding individual per formances came from Richard Bugler, who secured himself a place at Cambridge studying medicine, with three As and two Bs. Jenna Waugh will be joining Richard at Cambridge to study History of Art, having bagged four straight As, while others including Rosie Wiscombe, Tom McCoy, Karolyn Mandy and Abigail Jenkin all scored highly with As and Bs. Dr Steward said it had become fashionable to bemoan the decline in standards at A-level, but todays examinations were very different to those of the past and the demands were signifi cantly greater. He said students sat more exams and had to work consis tently throughout the two year period to gain higher grades. He said: "I have great admira tion for those young people who are able to navigate such a com plex and demanding examina tions system successfully." He added: "Such high stan dards not only reflect the work of the students but highlight the dedication and commitment of the staff at Woodroffe who work tirelessly to ensure that the stu dents in their calls fulfil their potential." more...

Sports scheme revisited

LYME Regis town council wants to look again at opening sports facilities at the Woodroffe School to the public. Councillors decided at Wednesday's town council meeting to set up a working group and explore the possibilities sur rounding the school's gym, tennis courts and drama studio. Coun Nigel Clarke said he found it frus trating that in Chard and Bridport their school's facilities were available to the public throughout the summer, but in Lyme Regis the only people using equip ment was the school. But not all councillors agreed that the school was the way forward for sport in Lyme Regis. District councillors Owen Lovell and Ken Meech were quick to point out that the district council was not in a position to fund or manage the opening up of school's facilities, because of council tax cutbacks. Coun Lovell said there had been some progress at the school with some fitness classes taking place this summer. He said it was up to the school to move forward and to make statement about what it's intentions were. Coun Stan Williams said the future of sport in Lyme lay with the untapped potential of the Strawberry Field. Councillors agreed to set up a working group and include the Lyme Regis devel opment trust. more...

Seas pounded yacht

TWO sailors were plucked to safety from their sinking yacht as it pounded against the Cobb harbour wall in Lyme Regis in the early hours of Wednesday morn ing. Around 50 bottles of red wine thought to be on board and other personal posses sions were lost to the sea as the pair were lifted to dry land in a dramatic rescue opera tion. The owner of the 26-foot sail ing cruiser Scoobydoo, who was with a friend on his way back from France, put out a may-day call after the rudder was broken and gusting winds and heavy seas were pushing the yacht towards the Cobb. The Lyme Regis lifeboat crew was called out but deputy launching authority Michael Dixon decided that because of the sea conditions, it would be safer to lift the men from the harbour wall. Coastguards and lifeboat crew threw a line out to the yacht and secured it before hauling the men one-by-one up the face of the harbour wall. Mr Dixon said: "We are delighted everything worked well and both men were pulled to safety. The co-opera tion between lifeboat crew ashore and the coastguards was really excellent." The two men were given blankets and checked out by members of the fire and res cue service's co-responders team before being taken to the lifeboat station for show ers and hot drinks. By Wednesday afternoon the boat had disintegrated almost entirely, after taking a pound ing from the large swell and breaking seas coming in from the south west. Fire and rescue's sub officer in charge Virgil Turner said special rope crews from Weymouth and Poole had been on their way to help in the operation but turned back when it became clear the res cue was under control. He said he and his crew had been out on Wednesday morn ing, trying to retrieve some of the yachtsmen's belongings, and had so far managed to find a laptop computer and a wash bag. more...

Mast can stay a bit longer

COUNCILLORS have granted permission for a temporary police communications mast to remain at Lyme Regis Golf Club until the end of this month. Planning permission for the 22-metre high TETRA antenna expired at the end of May. Last week operators Airwave MHO2 made a retrospective application to the district council to extend the operat ing period by three months until August 31. Members of the develop ment control west committee were told that Lyme Town Council opposed the applica tion as did local residents. Even the golf club wanted it moved. And chairman Owen Lovell said the company was "mak ing a meal" of its being allowed temporary use of the site. "I feel badly let down - but this is for the police," he added. Development Services Manager John Greenslade said because the additional period had already nearly expired it was really only a paper exercise. In fact, by granting the extension the committee could impose conditions requiring its removal and achieve a tactical advantage. Coun Ron Coatsworth agreed. "I think you might get rid of it more quickly if you approve this," he said. The committee granted the extension imposing a condi tion that the mast must be removed within one month of the planning permission expiring. more...

New Forest News

Brother's shock over desecrated cemetery

THE brother of a teenager killed in a World War Two bombing was distraught to see her grave desecrated by vandals. more...

North Dorset News

Post offices' cash relief

RURAL post offices in Dorset under threat of closure face a brighter future after reports the government has agreed to extend a £150 million national subsidy to 2008. more...

Poole News

Police appeal after landmark store fire

A MAN has been arrested and released as investigations continue into a suspicious fire that destroyed a Poole landmark motoring shop and garage. more...

Officers to leave council

THREE of the Borough of Poole's most experienced officers, all of whom have worked their way up from the bottom rung, leave the council at the end of the year. more...

Purbeck News

Tank museum is on track for a facelift

FEW people ever experience first-hand the true horrors of war. The Tank Museum at Bovington has unveiled plans to recreate the reality as closely as it can without live ammunition being fired. more...

Auction bid with £300,000

AN EMERGENCY appeal to save land near Wareham from development has raised £300,000 in just two weeks. more...

Weymouth News

We're the A team

TWINS Phoebe and Harriet Shaw were overjoyed when they scooped matching grades in identical subjects. more...

Success will be sweet for songwriter Bruce

LIFE is sweet for songwriter Bruce Hammond as his tune Chocolate is set to soar up the charts. more...

Stefan returning to see supporters

LITTLE Stefan Savic is returning to Weymouth for the first time since life-changing surgery on his face. more...

Royal approval for the borough

MIDDLE Eastern royalty gave their regal seal of approval to Weymouth and Portland after a whistle-stop tour. more...

Sarah brings first Olympic gold to Weymouth

GOLDEN girl Sarah Ayton is the toast of Weymouth after clinching Britain's first gold medal of the Olympics. more...

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