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

Stories for 24 August 2004

Bournemouth Cherries

HOWE RULED OUT OF CUP CLASH

PORTSMOUTH have put the block on Eddie Howe lining up in Cherries' Carling Cup first round clash at Leyton Orient tonight.  more...

Howe ruled out of O's clash

PORTSMOUTH have put the block on loan star Eddie Howe lining up in Cherries' Carling Cup first round clash at Leyton Orient tonight (August 24).  more...

Bournemouth Columnist

Budget blunder has cost town its sanity

WOULDN'T it be great to live in a world where common sense prevailed?  more...

Bournemouth Leisure

Explosive situation?

CONSIDERING a gang of terrorists once tried to blow her up when she was playing Bournemouth's Pier Theatre, actress Vicki Michelle seems remarkably fond of the place.  more...

Bournemouth News

Taxman puts benefit trusts in firing line

EMPLOYEE benefit trusts set up to help workers across the South are the latest target for an Inland Revenue crackdown.  more...

New businesses set to move into facility

THE first business units are being allocated at the new Enterprise Pavilion currently under construction at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth's Talbot Campus.  more...

Poor practice of late payers

THERE are few things in business more maddening than having a customer who will not pay on time.  more...

On target to show Sven how it's done

ENGLAND'S football team may not have been lucky in Portugal this year but Poole accountants Mazars are hoping for more success.   more...

Hunt after indecent assault on girl, six

POLICE are hunting a man who indecently assaulted a little girl as she played on a footpath near her home in the middle of the day.  more...

Scout camp on target thanks to Red Arrows

BOURNEMOUTH Scouts' ambitious million-pound fund-raising appeal has got off to a flying start thanks to support from the Red Arrows.  more...

Hunt after indecent assault on girl, six

POLICE are hunting a man who indecently assaulted a little girl as she played on a footpath near her home in the middle of the day.  more...

Council blasted on road delays agony

ONE of Bournemouth's most influential businessmen has hit out at council officers for the chaos already being caused by the closure of the busy A338.  more...

CRUEL THUGS TORTURE PIGEONS

CALLOUS yobs have been targeting pigeons in the centre of Bournemouth, with stricken birds found with their legs cruelly stapled together and tied up with wire.  more...

Glassing sentence is slammed by readers

THE mother who glassed her son in the face and received a community rehabilitation order should have been jailed.  more...

Buyers beware!

IT'S a typically grey British day and a stream of incessant drizzle is the unappealing view from your window.  more...

A natural disaster

YOU can buy them, own them and eat them - even sell them - quite legally; and yet they contain controlled substances which could land you in jail for seven years if found in your possession. Supply carries a life sentence.  more...

Bournemouth Sport

Emo's popular tour de force!

GARY Emerson has been showered with congratulations since he became the latest European Tour champion with a stunning victory in the Russian Open in Moscow.  more...

Christchurch News

Village play area given a reprieve

BOYS and girls can stay out to play for at least a little longer after Hurn parish councillors granted a stay of execution to a threatened woodland play area in the village.  more...

East Dorset News

Back to basics for intrepid volunteers

ELEVEN intrepid volunteers will be living rough in East Dorset in a bid to raise cash for the I'm NOT a Celebrity and I've Got to Stay Here Challenge next month.  more...

New Forest News

Pony round-up fails as commoners row

A LEGAL battle between the New Forest Verderers and a group of commoners led to the cancellation of the first pony round-up of the summer.  more...

North Dorset News

Tarrants off TV...

PARTS of Dorset are an "electronic desert" living in the Dark Ages as far as communications is concerned, it has been claimed.  more...

Triathlon triumph for inspirational Jane

TERMINAL cancer sufferer Jane Tomlinson ran, swam and cycled her way through a Dorset triathlon and then admitted: "It was the toughest challenge I've ever done."  more...

Poole News

Pot luck as divers take a lucky dip

ARTEFACTS covering every century from the 16th to the present have been discovered by divers at a single site in Poole Harbour.  more...

Echo complaint could close loophole in law

A LOOPHOLE in the law, which can stop the public from knowing the identity of young delinquents who break antisocial behaviour orders, could be closed after The Daily Echo brought the issue to light.  more...

Purbeck News

Round-Britain postie rides in

THERE was a rousing welcome for local postie Will Blight as villagers greeted him on his return from a mammoth round-Britain bike ride.  more...

Round-Britain postie rides in

THERE was a rousing welcome for local postie Will Blight as villagers greeted him on his return from a mammoth round-Britain bike ride.  more...

Weymouth News

Sail of the century

DORSET'S contribution to Britain's maritime heritage is to be celebrated with a series of events.  more...

Paying fans outraged by tickets giveaway

FANS who paid out hundreds of pounds for concert tickets were furious to find out that they were being given away free to people in the street.  more...

Cops to use Act to remove yobs

ROWDY gangs are being targeted under new powers given to police from today.  more...

HOUSE PRICES FINALLY EASE

HOUSE prices are finally stalling across Dorset.  more...

Weymouth Sport

WILDE'S NIGHTMARE

Adam Wilde today admitted his short Terras career so far has been a nightmare.  more...

WILDCATS SWOOP FOR EXETER ACE SIMMONS

NEW signing Nick Simmons is set for his Haven Wildcats debut tonight.  more...

HUNGRY HAWKS HAND MAGPIES A DRUBBING

DORCHESTER'S inability to defend saw them crash to a 4-0 defeat against highly-fancied Havant & Waterlooville at Westleigh Park in the Conference South last night.   more...