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‘Supporters should be treated with respect’
STEVE Sly has vowed to put the fans first in the new Dean Court regime, starting with a cut in season ticket prices. Sly and Jeff Mostyn will take control of the club following a board meeting on Monday after their proposals were unanimously approved
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Mostyn: Fans have shown confidence
JEFF Mostyn has guaranteed football at Dean Court come the start of the 2007-08 season. Mostyn, along with fellow consortium member Steve Sly, received an overwhelming vote of confidence from Cherries shareholders at the extraordinary general meeting
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Consortium gets the go-ahead
THE consortium of Jeff Mostyn and Steve Sly has been given the go-ahead to take control of AFC Bournemouth. Club shareholders have been voting this evening at the club's EGM - and Mostyn and Sly have secured enough of the vote to take control. SEE TOMORROW'S
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Ford backing confident trio
MATT Ford believes that his three "cocky lads" will rise to the occasion as Poole Castle Cover Pirates get their season under way in Saturday night's challenge match at Eastbourne (7.30pm). Concerns have been raised that the inexperienced trio of Edward
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Double injury blow for Bond
KARL Broadhurst and David McGoldrick have been added to Cherries' lengthening casualty list after going down in training on Thursday. The pair both pulled out of the session at Canford School and look certain to miss Saturday's crucial League One showdown
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Pete will take no liberties at BIC gig
LITTLE more than a year since they played a semi-secret show at Bournemouth's tiny Twisters nightclub, Babyshambles are due back in town to play the BIC on November 26. Unless you've been on the remotest part of planet Mars for the last four years, you
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Parents’ celebration as nursery is saved
DELIGHTED parents in Christchurch are claiming people power victory after hearing that their campaign to save a popular Somerford nursery from closure has been successful. Mums and dads have learned Little Explorers at the Draper Road community school
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Coach toilets stench angers passengers
A WOMAN says she and other passengers on a National Express coach were forced to endure a stench from toilets during a nightmare journey. Carol Rose of Jewell Road Bournemouth says that during the two and-a-half-hour ordeal passengers stuffed T-shirts
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Gloves off in Gardens site debate
WITH elections only a couple of months away, the battle over the new Winter Gardens complex descended into political mud-slinging at a Town hall meeting. Councillors on Bournemouth's economy scrutiny committee voted 10 to eight in favour of the £20 million
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Weather set to spring a surprise on us...
IF you thought the recent warm weather meant it was time to dig out the bucket and spade and buy some new shorts, the next few days will be a rude awakening. Temperatures in the region are set to drop below zero from Sunday evening, bringing snow and
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'Matty's death was entirely avoidable'
THE killing of friendly fire victim Matty Hull in Iraq four years ago was a "criminal, unlawful act" tantamount to manslaughter, a coroner ruled yesterday. The coroner delivered a damning verdict that the US A-10 pilot who swooped on Lance Corporal Hull's
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Better off out of Brazil
WITH a shotgun pointed at her head, Beatriz took a deep breath and tried to remain calm. She'd driven to the outskirts of Sao Paulo in search of her missing brother. A gang of men wielding knives and carrying guns surrounded her car chanting: "Poor
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Time is running out if you want to Race for Life
MASSIVE support for the Race for Life in Dorset means time is running out to register for the 5km charity event. All 1,750 places have been taken for the Poole Park race in May and there are only a handful of spaces left for the first of two events between
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Restoration for art deco hotel
ONE of the finest art deco hotels in the country is being restored to its former glory. A £2.5 million refurbishment of the Hotel Cumberland on Bournemouth's East Overcliff is already under way, transforming what was once considered Europe's leading
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I should cocoa!
MY name is Jo and I'm a chocoholic. But I am also a reporter, and over the years my job has given me some great opportunities to indulge my habit. Visiting chocolate factories, spending a chocolate weekend in Brussels, sampling Easter eggs and dark chocolate
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'We only wanted to talk'
FIRST it was Poole pensioners Jill and Dennis Shaw. Left without a telephone service for seven weeks, and frustrated by the lack of action from their service supplier, TalkTalk, they turned to the Daily Echo for help. The result? Phone restored; apology
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Hey, big spenders!
WARNING: Some of our male readers may find the following report distressing and should look away now! For a new study of female shopping habits has thrown open the wardrobe door to reveal the full extent of a woman's passion for fashion. In Style magazine
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Parents’ celebration as nursery is saved
DELIGHTED parents in Christchurch are claiming people power victory after hearing that their campaign to save a popular Somerford nursery from closure has been successful. Mums and dads have learned Little Explorers at the Draper Road community school
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Dog-walker's anger at nocturnal fly-tipper
WALKING his dogs late at night in Talbot Woods, Poole, the last thing Les Powell expected to see was a woman dumping rubbish in the street. "I turned the corner and there was a woman just throwing the last bit of cardboard out. Then she got into her
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Soft option is criminal
HAVING interviewed Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips I can tell you now, he isn't a fuddy-duddy, he DOES have a giant brain (sitting next to him, I have never felt so thick in my life) and he IS a decent guy. So decent, in fact, that I suspect he simply
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Borat (15)- Fox Home Entertainment ****
JAGSHEMASH! This is the first "moviefilm" of Kazakhstani journalist Borat Sagdiyev as he travels the "US and A", plumbing the depths of a cultural chasm. The road movie structure allows plenty of opportunity for Borat to mingle with real people. The
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Mulholland Drive – Special Edition (18)- Optimum ****
AH, the mind of David Lynch. A man for whom the Gordian Knot is insufficiently tangled, and who would no doubt regard Spaghetti Junction as a bit too straight. At least, that's the impression his movie plots leave you with. So, what's this film all
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Idiocracy (12) - Fox Home Entertainment ***
GREAT idea for a film, this. Private Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson), Joe Average in every sense, is picked to be the guinea pig for a Pentagon hibernation project. But things go so wrong his pod' is undisturbed for 500 years. Joe wakes in 2505, in a USA so
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Primeval (PG) - 2Entertain ***
THE first series finishes tomorrow but now you can relive those moments when dinosaurs roam the earth again and Hannah Spearritt gets down to her underwear. The idea is okay: a series of "anomalies" rip holes in the fabric of time allowing the long extinct
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Willy Mason - If The Ocean Gets Rough (Virgin)***
IT'S a long way from the small town working community of top Yank tourist spot Martha's Vineyard to the back street pubs and clubs of Europe, but Willy Mason had barely come of age when he swept all before him touring on the back of his superb debut,
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The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (Sonovox) *****
FOLLOWING the unremittingly bleak debut, Funeral, which spun on the band members' various personal tragedies, The Arcade Fire have conjured a brutally honest snapshot of these troubled times. Clearly, Neon Bible was never going to be a happy record -
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Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly, Angry Mob (B Unique) ****
WITH multi-platinum sales of their debut, Employment, in the bank some expected Kaiser Chiefs to knock out another set of the same and retire. But this is a much less obvious set than Employment. The big choruses, baggy stomp and Stephen Street production
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Feeder - Picture of Perfect Youth (Echo) **
ORIGINALLY available as a limited download a couple of years ago, Feeder's odds and sods make for a surprisingly compelling listen. Detractors point to the band's tiresome reliance on old-fashioned values like melody, hooks and choruses - hardly the most
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Roadster roars in
HAVING taken a deep breath and completed the delicate re-interpretation of its original iconic TT Coupe, Audi has faced a different dilemma with its sibling soft-top. Should they retain the retractable cloth hood for the Roadster (which was first seen
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Factory Girl (15) ***
THE life and times of '60s "It" girl Edie Sedgwick, the blue-blood American princess with a Harvard education and startling beauty, comes into focus in George Hickenlooper's controversial biopic. Factory Girl chronicles the meteoric rise and fall of
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Stomp The Yard ***
THE high-energy dance drama Stomp the Yard ends with a pertinent quotation from Martin Luther King Jr. "Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education." Surely, it is also the goal of any half decent film and regrettably, there's very
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Premonition (12A) ***
AFTER an engrossing and unsettling first 30 minutes, I had a spooky premonition about Mennan Yapo's time-bending psychological thriller: that all of the intriguing questions about the immutability of fate posed by screenwriter Bill Kelly would amount
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CAT’S GOT THE CREAM
JAGUAR is adding even more big cat appeal to the must-have' XKR range with the unveiling of the all-new special limited edition Portfolio model. The XKR's already powerful sporting styling cues such as the enhanced front bumper, bonnet louvres and aluminium-finish
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Time for a change in the season
AS SPRING draws near, do you feel you need to change with the seasons and look for a new exciting, challenging career opportunity? SOS Recruitment is able to help you find the perfect job. With over 300 active positions, it has something for everyone
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Calling up
MORE than 50,000 jobs were created in call centres last year, shrugging off fears that recruitment would be hit because of work being out sourced abroad, according to a recent report. The industry remained on course to employ a million workers by the
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Restaurateurs’ French bid
THE 18th century Wayfarers restaurant at Sherborne Causeway near Shaftesbury has been sold through Christie & Co off an asking price of £475,000. Proprietors Mark and Clare Newton had owned the restaurant for 13 years and are moving to France. During
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Property tax
WAREHAM-based E3 Consulting's managing director Alun Oliver will be speaking on property taxation at MIPIM, Europe's leading property conference, in Cannes, attracting more than 20,000 registered attendees and up to 15,000 other property professionals
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Airport jets into top-10 growth list
BOURNEMOUTH Airport earned itself a top-10 position in the league table of fastest-growing airports during 2006. Annual figures just published by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) show Bournemouth ninth in the table, increasing its passenger numbers
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BANISH THE BOY RACERS
A TRADER is under investigation by police after threatening to take action against boy racers in a car park. Steve Kemp, who runs Dazzle in the Royal Arcade, Boscombe, says he and other traders and residents are desperate to stop boy racers using the
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Drunk man who bottled student is sent to prison
A STUDENT suffered life-threatening injuries after he was bottled in the face by a drunken stranger. A judge told homeless Ruben Burns, who was convicted of the attack at Bournemouth Crown Court yesterday: "It is thugs like you that give this country
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‘I was violated by lap dancer’
POLICE are investigating complaints of an alleged sexual assault in a Bournemouth lap dancing club. A businesswoman says she felt violated after she was licked and touched by one of the female dancers. Georgina Allibone, 22, a business development manager
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Clergy at risk
THE brutal murder of a popular country vicar has prompted local clergy to speak out about the risks they face on a daily basis. Father Paul Bennett was stabbed to death on the doorstep of his South Wales vicarage and police believe his killer may have
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‘Small blip’ as Darkin refused entry
THE mystery surrounding Russian Sergey Darkin took another strange twist yesterday when he failed to appear for the Poole Castle Cover Pirates press day after being refused entry to the UK. Darkin has been detained in Moscow following some red tape concerning
