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New boss could shadow Arnold
WIMBORNE Town are keen to take the unusual step of recruiting their next manager to come in and work alongside outgoing boss Paul Arnold for the remainder of the season. The Magpies, who saw this season's last chance of silverware disappear with the
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Swans finish on a real high
SWANAGE and Wareham Ladies completed a hugely successful campaign with a 5-1 win at Sturminster to remain unbeaten for the season. Kate Black's side romped into a 3-0 half-time lead thanks to strikes from Julie Coslett and a brace from Becky Scroggie
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Harlow shines for Wimborne
WIMBORNE Wayfarers ladies completed their Channel Division One season with a 2-0 win over Poole. Rachel Harlow's goals confirmed a second-place finish in the table with the side amassing 40 points but just falling short of the divisional title. The second
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Parkstone picked for Festival finale
PARKSTONE'S outstanding course overlooking Poole Harbour has been chosen as one of the three venues for this year's West Region PGA Bournemouth Festival in September. The presentation after the final round in the 54-hole festival will be held in the
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Club reveals season ticket prices
CHERRIES' new owners have announced the first of their plans to revolutionise the club by slashing season ticket prices for next season. Just days after assuming control at Dean Court, Jeff Mostyn and Steve Sly have revealed that ticket prices have been
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Call to clean-up coast
VOLUNTEERS are being encouraged to enlist in a massive clean-up of Dorset's spectacular coastline next month. Every year tonnes of rubbish washes up on Dorset's shores from waste disposed at sea, but this year debris from the MSC Napoli has made the
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How young is the age of innocence?
AIN'T life easier when you're nearly two years old? All you want to do is read books, do jigsaw puzzles and eat chocolate. To add some variety to this non-stop routine you might suggest that you put on your boots and go for a walk, or look for cats
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Ape expert adds her tribute to Jim Cronin
WORLD-famous primate expert Dr Jane Goodall DBE has added her tribute to the many which have flooded in since the death of Monkey World founder Jim Cronin. Dr Goodall is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, a global leader in the effort to protect
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Green customers are seeing red on panels
SCORES of customers could lose out as a company specialising in green energy technology is wound up. Solar Technik, whose registered address was in Christchurch, has taken deposits from people for solar panel installation in their homes. The Daily Echo
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Debate on reasons for lack of male teachers
CLAIMS that paedophile hysteria is prompting male graduates to shun teaching in primary schools have stirred up a debate in Bournemouth. Boris Johnson, the Conservatives' higher education spokesman, said on Wednesday that men's fear of being branded
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Spur road work to end by next week?
A FOREST of traffic cones clogging a main artery in and out of Bournemouth for the past month could soon start disappearing. The section of the northbound carriageway of the A338 Bournemouth, which has been closed for major repairs since mid-February
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'Working together to stop knife culture'
VIGILANCE and agencies working together are the only way to tackle the growing knife culture in schools, says the head of a Bournemouth school that successfully dealt with two blade-related assaults during the past few months. Ingrid Masters, head teacher
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Like a needle pulling thread?
A PREGNANT woman has hit out at a top fashion chain after discovering a needle and thread in a pair of trousers. Daily Echo journalist Emma Joseph, 29, bought the black maternity trousers at Topshop's Castlepoint store in Bournemouth on Tuesday and discovered
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Black Magic
EXPECT lengthy queues in Bournemouth and Poole on Friday. It's not roadworks on the A338, or another Next sale. It's the release of the new Sony Playstation 3, which is available from midnight tonight. It's taken four months longer than expected to get
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'I was mistaken for a murder suspect'
A MAN celebrating a friend's birthday was mistaken for a suspected killer and detained by police. Door staff at a Swanage nightclub told the police they had seen the man wanted for the killings of a 49-year-old disabled woman and her carer in Southampton
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We're coming around to recycling
IT is just after 8am and the Bournemouth recycling trucks have already been out on the road for more than an hour. They negotiate their way carefully but swiftly through the car-lined streets as impatient commuters try to squeeze past. Behind the wheel
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Dispute over village's post office
A NORTH Dorset councillor is threatening to take a complaint about Post Office Counters to the industry watchdog if a service is not reinstated. District councillor David Fox said that post office officials are dragging their feet in reinstating a basic
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Hidden depths of 'tax-cutting' Budget
DON'T believe the hype - Chancellor Gordon Brown's Budget income tax cuts' will in reality raise an extra £500 million for the Treasury, warn experts. Headline- grabbing moves such as cutting the basic rate of income tax by 2p to 20p will be funded by
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Ham is top man in cross country league meeting
SAM Ham was Poole AC's only race winner (Under-13 Boys) as the club hosted the final Wessex League meeting of the season at Avon Heath Country Park. Melissa Courtney took League under-15 individual and team gold without running this event. Rob McTaggart
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Wessex delight
WESSEX'S Under-18 men excelled at the weekend as they stormed through their semi-final in the National Volleyball Cup to reach the final, which will be held in Sheffield on April 22. Solid performances from Oli Kimber, Jamie Hanratty and captain Dan
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Beat officers raise presence on estate
PEOPLE living on a Ferndown estate are being given extra support and encouragement to work with the police to tackle the area's problems. Residents at the Heatherlands Estate, formerly known as Trickett's Cross, will now be able to call in and see their
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Launderette is hit by theft
POLICE are scanning CCTV images of two men who carried out a raid at Highcliffe Launderette and escaped with a large quantity of cash. The thieves broke open the washing machines' coin boxes in the latest in a spate of crimes in the village. Undeterred
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Brown cuts basic rate of tax
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown has cut basic rate income tax by 2p to 20p in his 11th and probably final Budget. "It is the lowest basic rate of income tax for 75 years," he told the Commons today. But Mr Brown is abolishing the 10p rate of income tax. By
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Firm succeeds in bid to Rok DJ’s
ROK Development is celebrating after securing a substantial sale at its £15 million Concept Park office and industrial development in Poole. It has sold an 11,000 sq ft distribution warehouse on an acre of land to DJ Wrights Dairies for £1.6 million
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Industrial estate benefits from a touch of Sunlight
NETTLESHIP Sawyer has assigned the lease of a 5,825 sq ft unit on Fleets Lane Industrial Estate, Poole, to laundry firm Sunlight Service Group. Unit 16 in Willis Way is an end-of-terrace building measuring 4,975 sq ft gross internally with an additional
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Priory perform
CHRISTCHURCH made light of the fact they are without a manager as they earned a 3-1 Sydenhams Premier Division success over Alton Town. Despite falling behind, Reza Sotoudeh, Dan Crutchley and Lloyd Jenvey scored the goals as director of football Mick
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Shoot-out ends semi-final derby duel
PENALTY shoot-out defeats are hard to accept at the best of times. Just ask England fans. But in what was undoubtedly a subdued dressing room after Wimborne's exit at the hands of local rivals Bournemouth Poppies, boss Paul Arnold then broke the news
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Six of the Best as Ed’s side crushed
EDDIE Howe is hoping a Southampton masterclass may have done his Cherries young guns "the power of good". Reserve boss Howe looked on as slick Saints handed his side a footballing lesson in the Pontin's Holidays Combination clash at Staplewood. Brett
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Arnold's set to quit Wimborne
PAUL Arnold has shocked Wimborne Town by announcing he will step down as manager - and that could pave the way for Alex Pike to make a remarkable return to Cuthbury. Arnold, who saw his side beaten on penalties by Bournemouth Poppies in the Wessex League
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ADD YOUR TRIBUTE TO JIM CRONIN
JIM Cronin, the founder of Monkey World ape rescue centre, has lost his battle against liver cancer. The world- renowned primate expert died in Cabrini Medical Center, Manhattan in his native New York at the weekend, his wife and fellow conservationist
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YOUR WORK WILL LIVE ON
MONKEY World founder Jim Cronin's heart-broken wife made him a pledge before he tragically died of liver cancer on Saturday... our work will live on. And Dr Alison Cronin's vow to carry on his 20 years of remarkable work at the ape rescue centre will
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Dynamic and dedicated
THE death of Monkey World founder Jim Cronin has sent shock waves through the conservation world of which he was so much a part. His contemporaries in the field have paid tribute to a man of "energy and dynamism", who, for the last 20 years, devoted
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‘Jim was full of energy and passion’
BUSINESS continued as usual at Monkey World while shocked staff paid tribute to its founder Jim Cronin. Subdued staff went about their work caring for the animals as usual yesterday while visitors braved the cold to admire the animals. Senior keeper
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Kidney care campaigners devastated by refusal plan
CAMPAIGNERS fighting for better care for patients with renal failure in Poole say they are devastated that plans to build a special care centre have been recommended for refusal. More than 200 people in Dorset require treatment on kidney dialysis machines
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Slow burner has plenty of a-peel
Comfort Me With Apples, Lighthouse, Poole Award-winning Bourne-mouth playwright Nell Leyshon brought her brilliant but bleak play about the death of the English countryside to Lighthouse last night. This revival of Comfort Me With Apples, which won
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No mould-breaker – class all the way
Russian Classical Ballet, Coppelia, Pavilion, Bournemouth Ellen Kent has presented some outstanding operas and ballets in Bournemouth in recent years and Coppelia doesn't break the mould: it is another first-class production. It brings together a company
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GET A GLOSSY PIRATES POSTER!
CASTLE Cover Pirates fans can pick up a huge glossy team poster with the Echo at tonight's Challenge Match against Eastbourne. The poster is available with your copy of today's newspaper on sale at Poole Stadium - all for just 50p!
