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Dunn defends decision to pull out of cup
DAVID Dunn has insisted Bournemouth Lions were left with "no alternative" after they conceded the Dorset and Wiltshire Cup semi-final to Swanage and Wareham. The Lions, who face Henley on Saturday in a re-arranged league clash, were ordered to play two
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German student victim of race attack
German student, 20, victim of race attack A GERMAN student was horrified when she returned home to find vandals had caused £2,000 worth of damage to her car and sprayed the vehicle with Nazi symbols. Daniela Breitinger, 20, from Dusseldorf said: "There
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RNLI of the storm
LAST year the Royal National Lifeboat Institution helped to rescue over 8,000 people and save 63 lives. That's quite something. When you hear the story of a young boy saved from drowning, because a crew of volunteers from Mude-ford managed to be at
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250 jobs could go if takeover goes ahead
AROUND 250 jobs will be lost in Bournemouth if Nationwide's planned takeover of Portman Building Society goes ahead. Ten Portman and Nationwide branches across Dorset and the New Forest will also close if the merger takes place. Bournemouth- headquartered
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The baby brain drain…
THOUSANDS of people in Dorset could be unknowingly walking around with brain damage because their mothers drank alcohol during pregnancy. Dr Nick Moffat, a Dorset clinical psychologist specialising in brain injury, estimates that 750 people in Dorset
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'I was a fool'
HE has been central to the debate on Iraq, but kidnap victim Norman Kember is more comfortable labelling himself a "fool" than he is proclaiming his credentials as a peace activist. Mr Kember, who spent 118 days as a captive of the Swords of Righteousness
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Founder of Macmillan unit gains top award
PALLIATIVE care pioneer Dr Ronald Fisher, founder of the Macmillan unit at Christchurch Hospital more than 30 years ago, has been awarded the cancer charity's gold medal. Dr Fisher, now 89, and living in Poole, introduced hospice medicine into the NHS
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Beware the pitfalls of helping home buyers
PARENTS keen to help their children onto the property ladder risk a number of tax and investment pitfalls, warn accountants. First-time buyers across the South now need deposits of around £14,000, "unrealistic for many young people starting their careers
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Board of the rings
While regulars at the Queen Vic and Rovers Return are often seen enjoying a good game of darts, a new report published today claims that this beloved pub institution faces the threat of extinction. The study, commissioned by the online bookmaker Blue
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Firms look abroad to recruit taxi drivers
TAXI companies in Dorset are actively recruiting drivers from overseas because of a shortage of suitable British applicants. Foreigners now make up around a fifth of the taxi driving workforce in Bournemouth and six per cent in Poole. Ashley Miller,
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Shop assistant gave chase
A BRAVE shop assistant gave chase to a robber who threatened him with a gun while trying to grab cash from the till. Jamie Townshend, 20, has been working at Dillon's One Stop in Castle Lane West, Bournemouth, for less than a month. He was behind the
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Hang up!
DRIVERS are still ignoring tough new penalties and putting lives at risk by using mobile phones at the wheel. New measures were brought in to crack down hard on drivers who use their handsets, including a £60 fine and three penalty points. But despite
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On the scrapheap!
COULD you find everything you need to live on in the next three weeks from the council's municipal dump? Everything from shelter, bedding, entertainment to - gulp - food? Ten brave souls are about to find out. They've agreed to take part in the new
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Food for thought
EAT your way to health is the message from the Daily Echo-backed Christchurch Food and Wine Festival which was previewed at the Grange School in Somerford. Food education is high on the organisers' menu at this year's festival, the eighth to take place
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Residents slam planning policy
FURIOUS residents have begged Bournemouth council to call a halt to new developments in a prestigious part of town. Dozens of new flats have sprung up in a small area near the cliff-top at Fisherman's Walk. And one block is so big that it has destroyed
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Judge spares stab attack woman jail
A WOMAN who carried out a frenzied attack on her partner with a 12-inch-long kitchen knife was spared jail by a judge. Kathleen Chamberlain, 62, went for partner John Balgalvis with the knife during an altercation at his home in Christchurch Road, Bournemouth
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Four deaths in NHS care investigated
INVESTIGATIONS are being carried out into four incidents in which patients died while under the care of the NHS, Bournemouth and Poole Primary Care Trust's board was told. One case involved a patient who collapsed and died while receiving foot treatment
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The drugs don't work!
SOMETHING calling itself the Royal Society of Arts has decided that illegal drugs can be "harmless" and shouldn't be "demonised". There should be no classification but, rather, an "Index of harm". This report, which is being touted as "really important
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Coming to terms with the school holidays
THE holiday headache facing local parents with children attending schools in more than one local authority could finally be given some welcome relief. Parents may no longer be forced to take one of their youngsters out of school during term time so that
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Young mum’s victory to be part-time pilot
A PILOT from Dorset has won her three-year battle with BA to be allowed to work part-time. Jessica Starmer, from Wareham, has been fighting to work 50 per cent of a full-time week so she could look after her young daughter. She won an employment tribunal
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Do you remember Falklands conflict?
THIS year is the 25th anniversary of the Falklands conflict in which 255 British servicemen and 655 Argentines lost their lives. The Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Poole-based Special Boat Service were all involved in the three months of bloody fighting
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Compulsory purchases...
AS Bournemouth was recently ranked fourth in the UK's bankruptcy league, people like Sarah (not her real name) know more about the flip side of the coin than most. She's conquering unhealthy relationships with food, drink and drugs one day at a time,
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Impress with your CV
WHETHER you are looking for a career move or a short-term assignment, Fresh Recruits says the key to success lies in your ability to sell yourself to potential buyers'. For candidates the job application process usually begins with a written application
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Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux (Exempt) Liberation ****
TAKE a guitar virtuoso (Carlos Santana), add a sax superstar (Wayne Shorter) and bass supremo Alphonso Johnson, stir in some of the finest percussion players around, plus keyboard wizards Patrice Rushen and Chester Thompson. Put them all together, at
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Lewis (12) ITVDVD ****
MORSE may be no more but a glimpse of a red Jag in the pilot episode of this respectful spin-off suggests that he's still here in spirit. On a more practical level, trusty Sergeant Lewis has been promoted to fill his old boss's shoes in the city where
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Pan’s Labyrinth (15) Optimum ****
THE ever-challenging imagination of director Guillermo del Toro is writ large across this enchanting, if macabre, fantasy. Set in the wake of the Spanish Civil War, young Ofelia is taken to a mountain army camp by her pregnant mother who has remarried
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The Queen (12) Fox Home Entertainment ****
HELEN Mirren not only plays Elizabeth II in this high-quality exploration of the week following Princess Diana's death, she wound up being crowned Queen of the Oscars, too. And very deserved it was, for a performance that often feels like you're actually
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Idlewild - Make Another World (Sequel) ***
ALTHOUGH it's hard to make a case for Idlewild changing your life, once you've fallen for their fervent endeavours you can't help but will them to succeed. Which is why the fiddly, folky frills of their previous outing, Warnings/Promises, came as something
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Various - Ballads of the Book (Chemikal Underground) ***
THIS is what happens when one of those "what if..." pub conversations becomes reality. Idlewild singer Roddy Woomble has collated the cream of Scotland's contemporary writers and musicians for an Arts Council-supported project that does well to come
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Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position (Loog) ***
TAKING leaves from the books of Scissor Sisters and Rufus Wainwright has done master Wolf very little harm at all. What could have been a Mika-esque cacophony of high camp and no substance has actually turned out three albums of deft, piano-lead singer-songwritery
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CSS - Cansei de Ser Sexy (Sire/Sub Pop) ***
WITH a musical blender packed to the gunwales with great big squelchy dollops of punk, pop, hip-hop, ska and several Sao Paulo hybrids not even they know about, CSS have been planting sloppy smackers on the dazzled faces of indie UK for months now. Hence
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Clean machines
FACED with growing environmental pressure, car manufacturers are investing heavily in alternative fuels for the short, medium and long term. SAAB, for example, confirmed in Geneva that its entire model range is now capable of running on bio-fuels following
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Super Coupe
SAY hello to the next Vauxhall Vectra. Honestly, we haven't got the photographs mixed up, this super-coupe brings with it the essential ingredients of the next generation Vectra. Unveiled this week at the Geneva Motor Show, the General Motors GTC (Grand
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250 jobs uncertain at Portman
AROUND 250 jobs will be lost in Bournemouth if Nationwide's planned takeover of Portman Building Society goes ahead. Ten Portman and Nationwide branches across Dorset and the New Forest will also close if the merger takes place. Bournemouth-headquartered
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Radio 1 live from Bournemouth
RADIO 1's breakfast show was live from Bournemouth this morning. Daytime producer of the show Aled Hayden Jones was in the square giving away tickets for the show's Rallyoke, karaoke event, which is being held at the Old Firestation tonight to raise
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Kidnapped Britons may be safe
THE Foreign Office is looking in to reports that the five Britons kidnapped in Ethiopia are safe but in the hands of Afar separatist rebels. The embassy staff and their relatives and eight Ethiopians are being held over the border in Eritrea, a community
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Becoming Jane (PG) ****
GROWING up in the late 18th century, a patriarchal society ruled by strict convention, Jane Austen knew only too well that young women were expected to marry for financial security, not love. In the opening to Pride And Prejudice, one of her most famous
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Norbit (12A) *
IN Hollywood, you can be on top of the world one minute and in the gutter the next. Look at Eddie Murphy. Before the Academy Awards, he was the red-hot favourite to win Best Supporting Actor for his heart-rending portrayal of a drug-addicted singer
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Black Book (15) Preview
AFTER a string of Hollywood blockbusters - Robocop, Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers, em, Showgirls - director Paul Verhoeven returns to his native Holland for this acclaimed war story. Based on real events, Carice Van Houten stars as Rachel Stein,
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Outlaw (18) **
MARTIN Luther King Jr famously decreed. "Hate begets hate. Violence begets violence. Toughness begets a greater toughness." His words strike a chord in Outlaw, Nick Love's film set in a lawless present-day Britain, in which citizens of London take
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Happiest spot in the country... by smiles
Bournemouth is the happiest town in the United Kingdom, according to a new survey. Research by First Direct bank, which polled 6,000 people across the country, cites the resort's golden beaches, buzzing town centre and award-winning gardens as the recipe
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Roadworks warning to passengers
BOURNEMOUTH Airport is urging passengers to leave enough time to make their flight with the ongoing delays caused by the A338 roadworks. A group of holidaymakers were left fuming on Tuesday night when they missed their Thomsonfly flight to Amsterdam
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ROAD RAGE
POLICE launching a New Forest road safety campaign clocked one driver travelling at 78mph - almost double the area's speed limit. The driver on the B3078 Brook to Fordingbridge road, was one of 24 speeders caught in the first hour of the Stay Under 40
