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Armed raid at Castle Lane Tesco
ARMED raiders attacked Securicor guards and their vehicle at one of the area's busiest superstores last night. The incident took place at Tesco in Riverside Avenue, Bournemouth, just before midnight. One of the guards suffered minor injuries according
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Cricket-mad island scene of a murder?
ST PATRICK'S DAY, Sabina Park, Jamaica. It was always going to be a colossal match. But none of the 15,000 revellers could have predicted the tragic events that would unfold after the Ireland v Pakistan game. Irish cricket fans flew in to celebrate
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WILLS’ NIGHT ON THE TOWN!
THE future King of England astonished revellers with his down-to-earth attitude when he arrived unannounced among the revellers at a Bournemouth nightclub. Prince William, who recently moved into the officers' mess at Bovington Army Camp, was spotted
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Death Nell sounds for lightweights
Nell Leyshon was so unsure of the quality of her first two novels that she threw the manuscripts on a bonfire in her Bournemouth back garden. "I knew that if I burnt everything, every trace, there could be no going back and that I'd have to start again
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Daddy long legs on acid
John Otway, Centre Stage, Westbourne JOHN Otway is not your typical musician - his act rests on the premise that he is not particularly good. He's had two hits in a career spanning 30 years, so to judge the performance on musical merits somehow misses
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Spot of Yorkshire’s proof of the pudding
When We Are Married, Churchill Productions, Tivoli Theatre, Wimborne J B PRIESTLEY'S 1938 play has stood the test of time well, and the issues with which it deals are as relevant today as they were seventy-odd years ago. It is set around 1910 in the
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‘I drank from same cup as poisoned spy’
A POOLE businessman has told of his shock at discovering he was poisoned by drinking from the same cup as Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. Steve Atkins, 41, was exposed to a year's worth of radiation in a single dose when he used a cup thought to have
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Fierce debate over smoking
THE revelation that Bournemouth Borough Council was banning employees from taking smoking breaks has sparked a heated discussion. Dozens of readers visited the Daily Echo's website to leave their comments on our message board. Have your say below. Click
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Bulldozer madness
IF you thought the housing market had gone mad, does this take the biscuit? A house worth well over £1 million in an affluent part of Poole is being knocked down for redevelopment - just seven years after it was built. Residents have nicknamed the property
