THE news the fashion industry has been anticipating for months has finally been made public - Kate Moss WILL be designing a range of clothes for Top Shop. If your reaction is "Why should I care?" then listen up. Because What Katie Wears Next is what
INGRID Tarrant isn't the sort to mince her words although, going by her recent utterances, I bet she's certainly considered mincing something else. As her husband confessed to an affair with a blonde deputy headmistress, and announced the end of their
PIANO-PLAYING variety star Bobby Crush isn't exactly backwards in coming forwards. The actor, musician and comedian, who is playing the Dame in panto at Lighthouse in Poole this year, positively lit up a photocall for the show with his charisma this
KNOCKOUT specialist Julian Hamilton-Taylor has reclaimed his Bill Goff/Daily Echo Sunshine Challenge match play crown at Remedy Oak. The 31-year-old 2004 champion landed his decisive blows against Tony Wood and Paul Steel on the finals day to win his
YET again the RIAS Pirates team continuity has been blighted by Antonio Lindback's decision to cut short his 2006 commitments following the knee injury he sustained in the first leg of the cup match at Belle Vue 11 days ago. What surprises me is that
DARREN Anderton says Cherries will be looking for continuity from a new manager. Anderton, who has been named in Cherries' 18-man squad for the visit of Scunthorpe today, has spoken following a players' meeting with chairman Abdul Jaffer. The former
ASSURANCES have been given that town hall chiefs are doing all they can to end the stalemate which has left Bournemouth's Imax cinema closed. At a meeting of the council's political leaders, chief executive Pam Donnellan said the authority had carefully
YOU really won't believe your mince pies. Christmas may still be 93 shopping days away, and temperatures still in the 70s, but shoppers in Christchurch are already tucking into their festive treats. Since their Christmas ranges went on sale seven days
PRINCE William's bodyguards will shadow the second-in-line to the throne when he comes to Purbeck next year to train in armoured warfare. The 24-year-old has announced he will follow his brother Prince Harry into the Household Cavalry's Blues and Royals
TWO burglars broke into a Bournemouth flat and threatened a terrified 17-year-old girl with a knife and a handgun, police have revealed. The men, wearing balaclava helmets, forced the door of the flat in East Howe Lane, near its junction with Kinson
HALF of all working households in the south cannot afford to buy even the cheapest property, a report has warned. First-time buyers are also being increasingly stretched to as they try to get a foothold on the property ladder, says the report from the
A PET owner who blames rat poison for the death of two cats in the past year has called for safer and more humane methods of pest control. Natalie Castle, 24, from Purewell, says the slow-acting poison used by rat catchers allowed contaminated rats to
RESIDENTS of a New Forest town were today being urged to help stop the scourge of drugs dealing blighting their community. Following a series of pre-dawn raids across the town of Fordingbridge police were today seeking to reassure residents that organised
IMAGINE a gas and electricity bill of £4 million landing on your doorstep - that's the prospect facing Bournemouth council after a year of energy price hikes. Shocked councillors have been told that the council's overall energy costs, including street
DORSET'S chief constable has spoken of his relief that plans to merge forces were abandoned, calling the idea a "no-brainer". Martin Baker said merging Dorset with other police forces in the south west would have cost £71 million but bring no discernible
A TEACHER who stabbed a dog walker repeatedly in an attack so frenzied that he broke the knife has been jailed for six-and-a-half years. Ronald Smallshire, 56, went into his kitchen to get a steak knife after victim Michael Oakley's German Shepherd bit
