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Sporting drama that should be top of the bill
THE Craig Boyce-Nicki Pedersen on-track bust-up this week has got me thinking why isn't speedway considered a major world sport any more?' That's because for pure sporting drama, you couldn't have wished for more if you were present at Arlington Stadium
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Kevin praises fans' passion
KEVIN Bond has called on Cherries fans to spur the side to League One safety. The Cherries boss believes the fervent support from the Dean Court crowd played a huge role in the victory over Millwall last weekend and is hoping for more of the same for
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SUMMER SHAKE-UP ON THE CARDS
KEVIN Bond has predicted that there will be some "major changes" to the Cherries squad this summer. The Cherries boss, who will discuss his own future with the club's new owners Jeff Mostyn and Steve Sly next week, has already worked out which players
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Darkin debut's joint worst on Poole records
SERGEY Darkin has apologised to Poole fans for what could be the joint worst club debut display and promised them it won't happen again. The 33-year-old Russian suffered an on-track nightmare as he failed to score from four rides in Castle Cover Pirates
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Plea to save Fun Factory
MUMS and dads are fighting plans to call time on children at their local pub. Whitbread, which owns the Bailey Bridge Brewers Fayre at the Premier Travel Inn in Barrack Road, Christchurch, is to do away with its children's Fun Factory to make room for
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Family's fear for missing dog
A DEVASTATED Poole family told of their heartbreak after they returned home from a dream holiday to discover their beloved dogs were gone. Stunned Jane Harris, 53, of Methuen Road, in Canford Heath, told how the family left their inseparable crossbreeds
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Chain reaction
FOR Bill Drayton from Christchurch, slavery isn't a black and white issue. As we mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade, Bill invites descendants of slaves to Dorset to help raise awareness. For Bill, it's not about being politically
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Thyme to turn to herbs
AFTER years of living with an ongoing health problem, Luzia Barclay was at the end of her tether. Suspecting she had become immune to the antibiotics she'd taken for so long, she decided something had to change. She turned to herbal medicine and was
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Forard thinking
SATURDAY is that one day of the year we simultaneously love and hate. We can jump for joy that British Summer Time has begun, but cry at the thought of losing a precious hour's sleep as the clocks move forward. Yes, it's that bi-annual occasion when
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Youth gets two years
A youth who robbed a foreign student and threatened to stab a man has been sent to a young offenders' institution for two years. The 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted two counts of robbery and one of attempted robbery. The
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Let us Play...
GAMERS have at last picked up their long awaited PlayStation 3 consoles. Shops in Dorset opened at midnight so gaming fanatics could collect their consoles and not waste a moment of playing time. More than 100 people attended the midnight opening at
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Student spared jail over attack
A "TALENTED" Bourne-mouth University student who left another man scarred after a nightclub attack has escaped a jail sentence. Mevlan Eminaj, 23, of Capstone Road, Charminster, admitted causing actual bodily harm to Christopher Rankin at Censo in Hinton
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MP demands pledge over Arrows' future
A BOURNEMOUTH MP will seek reassurances from the government about the future of the Red Arrows on Monday amid fears they could be disbanded. Every year thousands of onlookers crowd the town's clifftops and pack the beaches to watch the world-famous Reds
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Charities fear cut in income after Budget
A LOCAL charity says it stands to lose a "significant" amount of money as a result of chancellor Gordon Brown's budget this week. Money given to UK charities is treated as if it has already had the basic rate of income tax deducted. Providing the donor
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We've lost the plot over drinking
ELSIE Flintoff says there's nothing wrong with grandson Freddie's notorious booze binge, which saw him being rescued from the sea at 4am, roaring drunk on a pedalo. Says Granny Flintoff: "If they can't go on a binge now and again it's a poor do. How
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Mother’s day ruined by postal 'Scrooges'
THE Royal Mail left an 84-year-old without her Mothers' Day card because it was 5p short on postage. Martyn Stuart, of Upper Parkstone, Poole, has made sure his mum Marjorie Thompson received a card in the post every year. But this Mothers' Day she
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WILLIAM GOES CLUBBING
REVELLERS were astonished when the future King of England walked into a Bournemouth club. Prince William, who recently arrived in Purbeck to begin a specialist training course in how to command reconnaissance units, was spotted partying at Elements in
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New Look sale possible
THE private equity owners of Dorset-headquartered fashion chain New Look were today said to be preparing for the possible £2 billion sale of the business. It was reported today that such a takeover price would produce an overall return of up to £1.3
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Mansfield Park (PG) ITVDVD **
WHO on earth came up with the idea of casting Billie Piper as Fanny Price in this made-for-TV adaption? With her '80s-style bad perm and toothy grin she looks like she's just stepped out of a night-shift in a packing warehouse rather than out of the
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Silver City (15) Prism **
THIS plodding US political satire pulls few punches but picks on too many targets to land any knockout blows. Silver City's shaky foundations straddle an uneasy fault line between comedy and thriller and ultimately the whole edifice comes crashing down
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Fallen Angel (15) ITVDVD ****
THIS classy adaptation of Andrew Taylor's Roth trilogy charts the progress of a serial killer in three self-contained sections. But, intriguingly, rather than following on chronologically, each succeeding chapter takes a step backwards in time - from
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Have you got the write stuff?
ALTHOUGH there is always an underlying fear of a return to recession times, the employment market is a very different one from that of the heady days of the mid and late 1980s. Ccompetition for all types of jobs is still intense. Whether you are looking
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Sixty Six (12) Universal ***
WUH-OH, little Jewish lad Bernie is planning the mother of all bar mitzvah parties, but pesky England have performed admirably in the World Cup, and the final against Germany falls on the same day - disaster! Sixty Six is loosely based on director Paul
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Notorious B.I.G. - Greatest Hits (Bad Boy/Atlantic) ***
WHICH ever way you slice it, Biggie's massive body of work remains one of the most significant in rap history. Ten years after he was shot and killed, a casualty of the bloody east coast-west coast war, label boss and close friend Sean Diddy' Combs rounds
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Tracey Thorn - Out Of The Woods (Virgin) ****
IT'S a mighty long way from 1982's A Distant Shore - hell, it's five years since mum-of-three Tracey Thorn has sung at all - but Out Of The Woods is brim full of brio. Picking up the baton from Everything But The Girl's electro-crossover hits like Missing
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The Aliens - Astronomy For Dogs (Pet Rock) ***
SPARKY, spritely space pop rising from the ashes of the much-missed Beta Band as John Maclean and Robin Jones are back in harness with original Beta boy Gordon Anderson (aka Lone Pigeon) following his adventure in psychosis. The Aliens' first outing
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LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (DFA/EMI) ****
IT'S been a while since dance music could muster anyone but the wide-eyed and stupified, so far had it descended into the creative doldrums, but things are looking up. Not only do we have the likes of Klaxons confronting our preconceptions, there's the
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Jaguar’s got more bite
MORE technology and a fresh family look are the highlights of the revised flagship Jaguar XJ 2008 model range. The main evolution is its new exterior design with changes to the front, sides and rear of every model giving the XJ a sportier, more muscular
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Sun beamer
AS the season for convertibles arrives (snow permitting), its time for one of the main players in the executive class to break cover. First introduced in 1986, the new fourth generation BMW 3 Series Convertible goes on sale in the UK this weekend (exactly
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300 (15) ***
"FREEDOM isn't free at all. It comes at the highest of costs - the cost of blood." Based on Frank Miller's celebrated graphic novel, 300 recounts the epic Battle of Thermopylae, at which the 300-strong Spartan army fought to the bloody death against
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Meet The Robinsons Competition
THOSE generous souls at Disney have teamed up with Empire Poole to offer Echo readers some special Meet the Robinsons-branded goody bags. We've got ten bags and ten pairs of tickets to see the film, which opens next Friday, at Empire Poole to give away
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Amazing Grace (PG) ***
RELEASED to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the passing of the bill which outlawed the slave trade in the British Empire, Amazing Grace is an impassioned history lesson painting crusading reformer William Wilberforce as nothing short of a saint
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TMNT (PG) ***
ABBREVIATED to TMNT (presumably because the lead characters must now be Twenty-Something Mutant Ninja Turtles), Kevin Munroe's computer-animated romp drags the heroes in a half-shell kicking and "dude"-ing into the 21st century. Fans of the original
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Catch And Release (12A) Preview
GRAY Wheeler (Jennifer Garner) struggles to cling onto her sanity when her perfect fiance passes away. Her emotional refuge becomes his friends, including quick-witted comedian Sam (Kevin Smith), level headed Dennis (Sam Jaeger) and sexy yet irresponsible
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Keeping teens in education
IT'S not just about children staying in school longer - they desperately need the training and skills to improve their life chances and strengthen Britain's economic clout. Those are the views of schools minister and Dorset South MP Jim Knight, speaking
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Anger as goats put down after grazing trial fails
SHOCKED neighbours say they are disgusted that a herd of goats in Purbeck was put down when a grazing trial failed. The National Trust rescued 18 British feral goats from the abattoir to see if it could use them as part of its heathland restoration scheme
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Keeping teens in education
IT'S not just about children staying in school longer - they desperately need the training and skills to improve their life chances and strengthen Britain's economic clout. Those are the views of schools minister and Dorset South MP Jim Knight, speaking
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Savage attack by dog of ‘junk’ man
A TINY West Highland terrier suffered horrific injuries when it was savaged by another dog during a walk, a court heard. Little Douglas needed emergency surgery and dozens of stitches after the terrifying incident at St Catherine's Hill in Christchurch
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ROAD MISERY
CALM down and concentrate! That is the message to motorists after a day of drama on the A338 Spur Road yesterday. Rush-hour drivers were dealt yet another dose of traffic misery in the morning as a series of incidents combined to cause extensive tailbacks
