AFTER the floodgates had failed to open, Cherries then saw their survival hopes trapped in a Weir. Seeking a fourth successive league victory, David McGoldrick's second-half goal should have paved the way for three easy points and safety. But Kevin
CHERRIES chief executive Laurence Jones is urging the Football League to give "more consideration" to Bank Holiday fixture planning. His comments come as Cherries supporters prepared to embark on their longest journey of the season - a 700-mile round
LUCKLESS goalkeeper Neil Moss believes Cherries still need "one more win" to retain their League One status after the safety net was pulled from beneath them. Moss was beaten for the first time in more than six hours when Spencer Weir-Daley popped up
BJARNE Pedersen paid tribute to Jason Crump's motivational powers after they swept to the Elite League Best Pairs' title at King's Lynn. Pirates' skipper was on a low after his engine blew up on the start line of their first race when they conceded a
IT was, perhaps, poetic justice that Bjarne Pedersen shot from behind in the final to secure Pirates their first victory in the Elite League Best Pairs' Championship on Saturday. There looked to be no way through from the back for Poole Castle Cover's
PIRATES chief Matt Ford has confirmed their number eight Ritchie Hawkins will replace injured Jason Doyle at home to Oxford on Wednesday. Doyle broke his ankle in a ugly track spill during Poole's 52-36 Elite League win over Eastbourne at Wimborne Road
IN A spectacular u-turn plans to charge people with disabilities double to use special buses tasked with taking them to day centres in Poole have been scrapped. Just last month the Daily Echo revealed how Borough of Poole planned to increase the cost
TWENTY-five years ago this week, Sheila Donovan of Wimborne was told that her son, Tim, a corporal with Royal Marines 45 Commando, had been dispatched to the Falk-lands to help out with a "crisis" that had developed there. Within days he was embroiled
A POOLE woman who has spent the last 12 months fund-raising to help her Filipino nephew, who has cancer, says he is now able to go outside and enjoy some quality of life for the first time in four years. Ariel Aboga, 19, who is from one of the poorest
A MAN who subjected a woman to violent and sadistic treatment has been jailed for four-and-a-half years. Michael Bargent, 40, trapped the 19-year-old in a flat before sex-ually assaulting her and forcing her to strip naked while in a "violent drunken
ECO warriors from across Dorset are being recruited to help combat pollution that threatens to blight the county's spectacular coastline. As many volunteers as possible are needed to help tidy up 25 beaches, stretching from Lyme Bay to Christchurch,
BUILDING a replacement twice the size of the present Druitt hall would only be half of what the public wants for a planned new community centre in Christchurch. Compromised by its sensitive setting in the Druitt Gardens and the estimated £1 million cost
A GROUP set up to stop incidents of antisocial behaviour spiralling out of control on school buses in Purbeck last year has received a national award. In 2006 the Purbeck Bus Forum was set up amid safety fears following a series of complaints from bus
IF you thought running a marathon is tough, think again. Bournemouth couple Claire Dashwood and Tony Lockyer have just completed the Marathon Des Sables - the equivalent of almost six marathons back to back through the Sahara. The pair from Bodorgan
SEVEN founder members have now signed up for Dorset and Hampshire's new dedicated family business club - one of just a few of its kind in the UK. Chartered accountants Princecroft Willis (PcW) joined forces with the International Centre for Families
IMAGINE a British summer without butterflies and bees. Well, if we carry on the way we are, that nightmare could become a reality, a conservation charity has warned. Buglife says that a staggering 4,500 of our native insect species are in danger of dying
EXTENSIVE tests have failed to reveal the mystery source of benzene contaminating an empty home in Poole's eco-village. A gassy smell detected in an unsold home in Hornbeam Square, Seldown Park, led to tests being carried out which identified higher
MPs in Dorset say it is time to take action over the growing menace of knife crime after another teenager was knifed to death. Fourteen-year-old Paul Erhahon was stabbed to death in a gang attack in East London on Good Friday which also left another
THE mother of a seven-year-old girl who died in a road accident last year has paid tribute to the way the local community has rallied round to support her family. Debbie Stoner spoke out after she and her husband John were presented with a cheque for
Kate Rusby, Tivoli, Wimborne KATE Rusby is a rarity - a folk performer who has crossed the invisible boundary to appeal to a mainstream audience. The "sold out" signs outside the Tivoli on Friday night testified to that. You may not think you've ever
Ken Dodd, Pavilion, Bournemouth CELEBRATING 50 years in show business - and quietly brushing aside any acknowledgment of his impending 80th birthday, Ken Dodd continues to hold back the years with his Happiness Show. Having made the Guinness Book of
The Jamm, Mr Kyps, Lower Parkstone SUITED and booted tribute band The Jamm certainly looked the part. Varied ages of the audience were testimony to the power of Weller and Buckler and Foxton's enduring musical legacy. The band stuck to mainly B sides
A FORMER Bournemouth mayoress was shocked to be charged a sky-high £1.70 for a cup of hot water on board a budget airline. Complementary therapist Vicky Millward and her councillor husband John were flying back from Majorca to Gatwick from Majorca with
