News, sport and entertainment from the Bournemouth Echo and Dorset Echo.

Stories for 31 July 2004

Bournemouth Columnist

Game over...

OF COURSE retailers Dixons and Game have banned Manhunt, the Playstation "game" blamed for inspiring 17-year-old Warren Le Blanc to slaughter 14-year-old Stefan Pakeerah.  more...

Bournemouth Health

Five reasons to carry an organ donor card

LATE on a rainy summer's night nearly four years ago, Gwyneth Prestidge and her husband Phil were at their home in Poole when there was a knock on the door from the police.   more...

Bournemouth News

Keep a lid on it

WASTE not, want not is what an old proverb advises. But one look at our growing rubbish mountain proves that far too few of us have taken the message to heart.  more...

`Careless' Royal Mail apologises

THE Royal Mail has apologised after mail for eight different addresses - none of which bore any resemblance to the right one - was delivered to a woman in Bournemouth.  more...

Public image

Family resort or Britain's Ibiza? Faith Eckersall finds out what people think of Bournemouth  more...

The cat's whiskers

IF it's good enough for John Prescott, it's good enough for the Mayor of Bournemouth - say hello to One Jag Emily Morrell-Cross.  more...

Shopkeeper is jailed for viewing child porn

A SHOPKEEPER who downloaded photographs and films of children as young as four being sexually abused by adults has been jailed by a judge at Bournemouth Crown Court.  more...

Hot-spot resort for 80,000 sun lovers

BOURNEMOUTH is set for high temperature fever this weekend and up to 80,000 sun worshippers are expected to descend on the town.  more...

Police are barred from joining BNP

POLICE officers in Dorset have been banned from being members of the British National Party under a countrywide policy.  more...

Rise in offenders after child porn clampdown

THE number of registered sex offenders living in Dorset has risen by 22 per cent in the last year to 333.  more...

SPLASH 'N' GRAB

WHEN a boy got into difficulties in the sea off Poole, 85-year-old Leonard Griffiths didn't hesitate to go to the rescue.  more...

Bournemouth Pirates

Roll up, roll up! Get your tickets now!

PIRATES promoter Matt Ford is urging fans not to miss a "once in a lifetime opportunity" and snap up their tickets for the imminent Speedway World Cup.  more...

RYAN GETS THAT WINNING FEELING

RYAN Sullivan believes there is no better feeling than hoisting the World Team Cup above your head in celebration after helping your country to win it.  more...

Bournemouth Sport

Home help to my advantage says Dann

SCOTT Dann, Steve Bendall's opponent for the British middleweight crown, believes fighting on his home patch will hand him a huge advantage when the pair square up for their title fight in September.   more...

Christchurch News

A stall order for buses at market

THE wheels on the bus will no longer go round and round through Christchurch's Monday street market, which is now finally traffic-free.  more...

Hot-spot resort for 80,000 sun lovers

BOURNEMOUTH is set for high temperature fever this weekend and up to 80,000 sun worshippers are expected to descend on the town.  more...