FIRMS are vying to snap up the last few places on offer at this month's Daily Echo Recruitment Exhibition. A dozen companies and organisations have signed up for the September 27 and 28 Recruitment Exhibition, which has this year expanded to a new venue
TIME was you could buy a knackered Morris Marina for 35 quid, fill it with just enough petrol to get you to Somerset, park it in a hedge and stumble out of the passenger door into the Glastonbury festival. Three days of drastically altering your chemical
ANOTHER Prague spring is uprising from Bournemouth Airport where more than 10,000 passengers have booked for this winter's flights to the Czech capital has prompted low-cost operator Thomsonfly to continue the service into next year. Since the winter
A DORSET MP is urging residents to sign a petition calling for the government to safeguard the future of Blandford Camp. Technological training for the armed services is set to be farmed out to the private sector as part of a major shake-up by the government
DOCTORS in Swanage say the new GPs' Choose and Book system is actually giving patients less choice and restricting access to their local hospital. Patients are frequently being forced to travel at least 20 miles to hospitals in Poole and Bournemouth
PEOPLE can air their views about the trial closures of seven of the New Forest's 134 car parks at a series of surgeries this month. The Forestry Commission says no definite decisions have been made, but three of the seven car parks could be shut permanently
SAFETY fears have been sparked following "improvements" to an historic East Dorset bridge. Motorists using the Heath Pullett bridge on the Edmondsham Road at Verwood say it is now even more dangerous and they are worried someone will be killed unless
IT was a case of "those were the days" for That'll Be The Day cast member Julia Greenham as she reminisced with Poole dance school principal Janne Carrington this week. Julia and Janne first met when they worked at the Winter Gardens back in 1972. They
SOUTHBOURNE scored a stunning victory at Bournemouth to cheat relegation and send Poole Park tumbling out of the elite division. A shock 12-2 (81-65) triumph at Meyrick Park over the runners-up enabled Southbourne to leapfrog Poole Park thanks chiefly
WIMBORNE are determined to jump straight back up this season after beginning the new campaign with an impressive 29-8 home win over Dorchester. Dorset's All Blacks, relegated from South West Division Two East after only four league wins last term, had
"WE will fight for our jobs." That's the message from anxious staff at Bournemouth's Portman headquarters after hearing they will merge with financial giant Nationwide. Fears that hundreds of posts will be lost or relocated prompted a series of meetings
A DORSET company has set up a new division to market an eco-cube' which can prevent businesses flushing thousands of pounds worth of profits down the drain. Business Evolution Group is best known for selling office products and furniture through its
THE body of Bournemouth airman Leigh Mitchelmore was among those flown home to Britain yesterday following last week's aircraft tragedy in Afghanistan. Flight Lieutenant Mitchelmore, a father with a young family, died along with 13 others when their
HOUSEHOLDERS could soon be charged for having their rubbish collected under controversial new proposals being considered by ministers. The government has given strong hints it is considering introducing variable charges for waste collection as a way
PASSERS-by ignored an injured pensioner's calls for help after he fell down a manhole in a busy shoppers' car park and lay there trapped for 45 minutes. Clive Collins, 65, was trying to get into the boot of his car in Hawkwood Road car park in Boscombe
POLICE are now investigating a possible murder and suicide after the discovery of the bodies of a man and a woman at a house in North Dorset. A post-mortem examination carried out on Tuesday at Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester by a Home Office pathologist
DRUGS runners are targeting Bournemouth as a lucrative market at a time when the price of cocaine, ecstasy, heroin and other drugs is at an all-time low. Police believe Bournemouth is being targeted by London gangs who see the town as a "huge revenue
BRIGHTON 2 CHERRIES 2 CHERRIES shrugged off the first-half dismissal of Marcus Browning to come away from Brighton with decent point in the first game of the post-Sean O'Driscoll era. Browning's red card, for an alleged stamping offence on Tommy Fraser
STUART Murdoch will review the video of the incident before he and Joe Roach decide whether to appeal against Marcus Browning's red card in last night's 2-2 draw at Brighton. The veteran midfielder was sent off in first-half stoppage time for an alleged
THE head of Dorset Police's road policing unit has defended the decision to keep the A338 closed during rush hour following the fatal crash. Chief Inspector Rick Dowell said the nine-hour closure of the southbound carriageway was necessary for police
A DRIVER has been arrested following the death of his passenger when their car collided with a works lorry parked at the side of the A338 Spur Road on Monday night. The blue Peugeot coupe was in collision with a stationary Iveco lorry, which was then
A DELUGE of calls to BBC's Crimewatch has given Dorset detectives fresh hope in their hunt for the killer of Bournemouth mother-of-two Heather Barnett. A reconstruction of events leading to her gruesome and ritualistic murder prompted 250 calls to detectives
