IT'S official. The Wimborne Road faithful have an unlikely new Polish hero in Piotr Swist. His electrifying heat 11 win over double points man Scott Nicholls confirmed Twisty as the latest Pole to captivate the hearts of the Pirates crowd. And he could
BOSS Kevin Bond admits Cherries could have been in deep relegation trouble had it not been for the goalscoring exploits of David McGoldrick. Cherries were rocked yesterday when neighbours Southampton recalled the teenage striker from his fruitful loan
GRAHAM Kemp is set to be named as the new manager of Christchurch, the Echo website can exclusively reveal. Kemp, the current manager of Priory's Wessex League rivals Brockenhurst, will be officially named as the Hurn Bridge side's new boss on April
GOALKEEPER Neil Moss faces an anxious wait to discover whether he will be given the green light to rejoin Cherries' battle for survival. Moss withdrew from the starting line-up ahead of Cherries' 3-0 loss at Nottingham Forest on Saturday after aggravating
NEIL Young's red card woe has been compounded after the defender discovered he had been hit by a three-match ban for his sending off at Nottingham Forest on Saturday. Young, who was punished for serious foul play after his lunging first-half tackle on
MEMBERS of Shaftesbury and District Chamber of Commerce have voted overwhelmingly to oppose any further expansion of the Tesco supermarket in the town. The debate and vote was carried at their 52nd AGM on Thursday. As the Daily Echo has reported, the
IT just isn't cricket. Members of the MCC - Mudeford Cricket Club - are stumped after repeatedly being targeted by vandals, causing thousands of pounds worth of damage to their ground. In the last 18 months, the pavilion has been trashed, windows broken
ARE you a member of the hoi-polloi - or could you hold your end up among the aristocracy? If it's true that Prince William's ex Kate Middleton got the big heave-ho because her air hostess mum didn't know how to behave or what to say in the Queen's company
A MAMMOTH three-year fund-raising effort to restore the roof of an historic church has reached the milestone of £80,000 and work could start as early as August. Villagers in Colehill, near Wimborne, have dug deep and helped raise enough cash to restore
TRIBUTES have been paid to a remarkable Bournemouth woman who offered her love and her home to 96 foster babies during the 1960s and 70s. Beryl Simpson, who died last month, was a foster mother for Bournemouth social services for over a decade. At her
AS novelist Jodi Picoult prepared to tour the UK to promote her latest bestseller, she could never have guessed the book would prove to be so eerily and tragically topical. In Nineteen Minutes, Picoult, who will be at Bournemouth University tomorrow
IN THE week that Iraqi insurgents were reported to be plotting to kidnap Prince Harry when he begins service as a troop leader in Iraq, residents living close to his Bovington training base have supported his deployment. Paramilitary factions in southern
SHOCKED parents have been told that a 100-year-old independent school is to close due to a sharp drop in pupil numbers. A letter has gone out from governors at the Old Malthouse School in Langton Matravers saying that both the main school and pre-prep
THE first major demolition work has begun at Boscombe Pier marking the start of a six month renovation. Yesterday morning, workmen began ripping down the Mermaid building at the end of the pier. They are using an excavator on a floating barge to carry
THE father of a man shot in Bournemouth has refuted claims the incident was drug-related. Police have said that the shooting of 23-year-old Danny Sherwood in Kinson on Monday "believe that the incident may have been drugs-related" but Danny's father
ARE people driving too fast through your village? That is the question being asked of 1,650 Hampshire residents by a survey team on behalf of the county council. The random telephone survey by ICM this week will discover whether people want lower speed
Edward Hall's critically acclaimed all-male theatre company, Propeller, make their Dorset debut with a week-long residency at Lighthouse in Poole (starting Tuesday, April 24). Their visit, which runs until Saturday, features the Shakespearian double
CONMAN Christopher Poulton regularly took expensive foreign holidays, gambled thousands of pounds away at the casino and had at least four luxury penthouses around Dorset. But he funded his millionaire lifestyle by posing as a representative of companies
FOR a man who spends much of his time thinking about people being axed to death, dying of plague or meeting a variety of grizzly ends, Martin Brown seems like a remarkably cheery kind of fellow. When I spoke to him at his home in the depths of the Dorset
AHHH The toyboy. Once regarded as something of an illicit treat, as portrayed in the 1967 film The Graduate, statistics show that a growing number of women are now marrying younger men. More than a quarter of marriages take place between couples where
MORE than 23,000 banking jobs are threatened by Barclays' proposed £45 billion takeover of Dutch counterpart ABN Amro. Barclays said it would look to cut 12,800 jobs from the combined workforce. Another 10,800 positions are likely to be transferred
MORE than 23,000 banking jobs are threatened by Barclays' proposed £45 billion takeover of Dutch counterpart ABN Amro. Barclays said it would look to cut 12,800 jobs from the combined workforce. Another 10,800 positions are likely to be transferred
CHERRIES have been rocked by Southampton's decision to recall striker David McGoldrick. Saints today invoked a 24-hour recall clause in the teenager's loan agreement with Cherries. He has returned to St Mary's and will not be available for Cherries
THERE are many things to look forward to when planning a family day out in the Purbecks. A bracing walk at Studland, perhaps, dolphin-watching at Durlston or clambering over the rock pools at Kimmeridge. But best of all, whatever we do and wherever we
A MAN died after the car he was driving crashed through the front of a building on Ferndown industrial estate, throwing the car's engine through the window. The 50-year-old was in a red Hyundai that collided with the building at 4.30pm on Sunday. The
WE might all grumble about the British weather sometimes, but it does have its advantages - British asparagus. Hailed by leading chefs as the best in the world, the UK climate allows the stems to develop slowly producing a full, sweet flavour and a fine
COMPROMISE agreements designed to protect firms from legal action by their workers may fail if they are not absolutely watertight, warn solicitors. In theory, compromise agreements are designed to give bosses peace of mind. They are meant to help settle
Grange Choral Society, Christchurch Priory IN 1846 Mendelssohn conducted the first performance of his oratorio Elijah with an ensemble of around 400. Here the Grange Choral Society and Orchestra mustered about half that number, but under the encouraging
EMINENT Food Historian Caroline Yeldham encourages the revival of extinct English recipes using English fresh produce and calls on people to learn how to cook them. The comments come as England celebrates St. George's Day, which was declared an English
SID will be flashing at roadsides across Christchurch during the next six months under a pilot scheme to encourage drivers to slow down. Community services bosses have agreed to trial the use of a movable speed indicator device - a SID - at speeding
A MUSEUM service is being given help to buy three oil paintings by a renowned 18th century artist, to ensure they are kept in the country. Dorset County Councillors on Wednesday agreed to help Dorset County Museum to buy portraits of the Rackett family
CALLS for a £1 levy on all New Forest campers have been rejected by the Court of Verderers. New Forest Commoners' Defence Association (CDA) spokesman Mike Cooper suggested the levy at the March meeting of the Verderers. The idea was that visitors who
A TEALIGHT candle started a blaze in a caravan that left a trail of destruction in its wake. The blaze spread to a hedge, another caravan, a shed, a 4x4, and melted the side of two houses, causing tens of thousands of pounds worth of damage. Twenty
A 50-year-old man is fighting for his life after a car crashed into a building on the Ferndown Industrial Estate on Sunday. The red Hyundai Lantra he was driving was travelling along Cobham Road when it failed to negotiate a bend and struck the premises
The decision to close Bournemouth and Poole's historic town centre post offices after more than a century of service has come under fire from Daily Echo readers. We revealed on Saturday how the Victorian building in Post Office Road, Bournemouth and
