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Young misses Millmoor visit
KEVIN Bond's diminishing defensive resources reached breaking point on Friday when Neil Young withdrew from the Cherries squad due to a chest infection. Young's absence leaves boss Bond with just one recognised central defender ahead of Cherries' crucial
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Form revival puts Bond in driving seat
WILL he stay or will he go? - Will he be given his cards or will another club come calling? These are two questions which should be answered over the coming months, if not weeks, as Kevin Bond's future as Cherries boss is crystallised. Just five weeks
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Customers’ fears as card details stolen
SHOPPERS in Bournemouth expressed concern about card fraud after a major fashion retailer announced millions of customers' details had been stolen. Cut-price designer clothes retailer TK Maxx, which has stores in Castlepoint, Bournemouth town centre
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Respect to Sharon for Taking a Stand
Respect to Sharon for Taking a Stand DRUG dealing and anti-social behaviour was part of every day life in Sharon Barter's neighbourhood. Neighbours' lives were made a misery by a family from hell who would verbally abuse and threaten people, throw stones
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This rolling stone gathers no moss
"DO you know any good exercises for flattening your stomach?" asks Vera Copp. "It's just that I go to the gym and do exercises every day and it's still like this," she says, patting what looks like a pretty trim midriff to me. Vera likes the gym. That's
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Woman, 63, admits wedding gifts theft
A WOMAN has admitted stealing wedding presents from a hotel in Bournemouth. She was caught on camera leaving the Royal Bath Hotel with bags full of presents she had picked up at the wedding reception of Helen and Paul Woods. The 63-year-old woman was
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Protest man will not face prosecution over threats
A TRADER will not face charges after he threatened to take action over boy racers. Boscombe trader Steve Kemp said he would put tin tacks down in the Sovereign Centre car park because he claims police, car park owners Britannia Parking and the council
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Anger at new flats overlooking garden
A DOCTOR has hit out at Bournemouth council in the latest of a series of planning rows in the town. Nigel Graham is furious that a three-storey block of flats has sprung up at the bottom of his garden, with windows overlooking numerous homes and gardens
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Dentists free to see new NHS patients
FIFTEEN dental practices in Poole and Bournemouth are accepting new NHS patients, despite fears that the new national contract has backfired. Government figures show that the number of adults with an NHS dentist fell by 69,000 last year. There were
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Portrait of the artist
A YELLOW eye gazing dangerously from a depth of green, scaly skin; a tiger prowling moodily through plump, wet leaves; a downy-haired lynx stretching lazily - walking into Chérie Wheatcroft's bungalow, you might be forgiven for thinking she lives in an
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Plan for ‘slums of future’ rejected
CIVIC planners have branded a proposed major new flat scheme in Boscombe "a slum of the future" and told developers to go back to the drawing board. The 40-flat development, at the junction of Christchurch Road and Adeline Road, was thrown out following
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Action to be taken on troublesome trolleys
TROLLEY trouble could soon be a thing of the past in the New Forest as the district council moves to clamp down on supermarkets. New legislation means the council has the powers to round up any trolleys that have gone astray and then keep them for six
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Delay to decision on bridge over railway
RESIDENTS have raised concerns over a "missing" pedestrian bridge over the railway line at Hamworthy, Poole. With people moving into the Harbour Reach development at Shapwick Road, residents were expecting to see the bridge being built to allow families
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Spanish owners for Oceanarium
BOURNEMOUTH'S Oceanarium has been sold in a £10.4 million deal. Owner Mice Group has sold the Oceanarium on the seafront and its two sister attractions to Spanish leisure operator Parques Reunidos. Parques Reunidos is paying cash for the Oceanarium,
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MP’s call for bronze statue of a monster
A BOURNEMOUTH MP plans to apply for National Lottery funding to put up a bronze statue of Frankenstein's monster in Boscombe. Tobias Ellwood, who represents Bournemouth East, is hoping the council will agree to the statue being sited on the roundabout
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Material girls
SHE can carry anything from a charity tote from Superdrug worth £2.99 to a designer Balenciaga bag and sales will go through the roof. Love her or loathe her, the style and selling power of Kate Moss cannot be disputed. Some even feel the supermodel
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Yes it was terrible slavery happened, but time does heal
ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury Rowan Williams says the Church of England should consider re-paying the money it was given in compensation for having its slaves taken away. Two hundred years ago. If he ever does that it will be the last time the C of E gets
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Women at war
WHEN news reached Britain that 15 sailors had been captured in Iran, grave concerns were immediately raised. Those concerns increased, however, when it was revealed that mother-of-one Leading Seaman Faye Turney was among them. But while efforts to get
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Man ‘suitable for sex offender programme’ had assaulted before
A sex offender was arrested a month after being released from prison after a woman he had abused as a child finally broke her ten-year silence. Bournemouth Crown Court heard how Anthony Shearing, 66, of Bourne Lane, Woodlands, Hants, had been jailed
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Doc of the bay
GET your trainers on, it's time for the annual Bournemouth Bay Run. This year you've a chance to race GMTV's Dr Hilary Jones to the finish line. He's written six books, is a regular columnist for the News of The World, has been the medical advisor for
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Hope for gas lights is fading due to vandals
Bournemouth's last surviving gas lamps could be lost to future generations following a spate of attacks by vandals. In a desperate bid to save the atmospheric lamps, which still light up parts of Throop and Holdenhurst, one concerned civic leader is
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Razor played
Razorlight strut into Bournemouth on Sunday - a band at the top of their game. Not only do they have a genuine rock star in the making in Jaggeresque frontman Johnny Borrell, but they have all the right connections too. They count Noel Gallagher and
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Ryanair welcomes referral
EUROPE'S largest low fares airline Ryanair has welcomed the decision to refer airports operator BAA to the Competition Commission. BAA operates Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Southampton airports. Its referral by the Office of Fair Trading to the Competition
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Graphic posters backed in poll
MOST voters in a Daily Echo web poll gave their backing to a graphic poster, which aims to stop people letting their dogs foul Boscombe pavements. Eighty-eight per cent of people, who voted, said they thought the posters weren't too graphic. 205 people
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Excellent deal for temporary workers
THE introduction of the anti- discrimination laws and the Working Time Regulations goes a long way in giving temporary workers comparable rights and protection as their permanent colleagues. Now, temporary employees can start accruing paid annual leave
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Along came a Spider
THE latest in a long line of sumptuous, open-topped, Alfa Romeo convertibles, has just gone on sale in the UK. Derived from Giorgetto Giugiaro's multiple award-winning Alfa Brera design, the new Alfa Spider was developed by Pininfarina in collaboration
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Here's the future
MEET the future of the motor industry... On sale from this month, Mitsubishi's new Outlander is in many respects the most significant new development in car making since the introduction of the production line. In itself the Outlander breaks no new ground
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Northanger Abbey (PG) ITVDVD ****
JANE Austen with bondage? We always suspected there was a bit of pent-up sexuality going on behind all those ruffled shirts and laced-up corsets, but by golly, this ITV bodice-ripping adaptation is really rather naughty. It was a bit like finding Mr
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Aaagh! It's the Mr Hell Show!!! (15) MVM ****
SO APPARENTLY Bob Monkhouse provided the voice of Lucifer in a cult cartoon in 2001. Who knew? He is the Mr Hell after which this strangely watchable 13-episode adult animated comedy skit collection is named. While seldom on-the-floor-in-tears funny
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Taggart: Volume 6 (15) Clear Vision ****
IT'S a tribute to the teamwork behind TV's longest-running police drama that it continues to attract huge audiences years after the death of the actor who was its anchor, and after whose character it was named. DCI Jardine is still calling the shots
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Night at the Museum (PG) Fox Home Entertainment ****
BY thunder, doesn't Hollywood love failed marriages! No film is complete these days without its tale spilling forth through a child torn between its parents. And Night at the Museum disappointingly follows suit as young Nick is forced to endure his parents
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The Rakes - Ten New Messages (V2) **
EVER since Christian Dior hijacked The Rakes for a catwalk caper, they've struggled to cut the mustard on the believability front - good looks, no substance. Never mind, all could have been saved by a blistering second album, but the tartrazine-laced
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Kings of Leon - Because of the Times (Sony) ****
CLEVER critters, them Followills. Youth and Young Manhood hit like a rabbit punch at a prayer meeting and many expected the follow-up, A-ha Shake Heartbreak, to tread water and milk the formula. It didn't. And neither does their third outing. Bigger and
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The Draytones - Forever On (1965 Records) ***
IF Dave Davies' corduroy cap and suede jean jacket had a sound - this is it! Accurate appraisals of early 60s R&B and the playful end of Dixie jazz, coupled with a keen appreciation of Whitechapel music hall cheeky chappiness, render The Draytones' debut
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David Gray - Shine: The Best of the Early Years (Hut) ***
WHITE Ladder catapulted David Gray from way wide on the fringes to slap bang in the middle of the mainstream. Pub and club gigs were swapped for stadiums, a little critical cred happily traded in for bona fide stardom. Those that queue up in supermarkets
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Blaze at Milton Abbas
A BLAZE in the thatched roof of a cottage in the Street, Milton Abbas, was put out by firefighters on Thursday. Crews from Dorchester, Blandford and Sturminster Newton went to the scene just after 4pm and firefighters remained on the scene for two hours
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Mr Bean’s Holiday (PG) ***
WITH an obvious nod to the 1953 classic Monsieur Hulot's Holiday starring Jacques Tati, Mr Bean's Holiday reacquaints us with the bumbling everyman (Rowan Atkinson) some 10 years after his first cinematic escapade. Nothing much seems to have changed
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Mr Bean Competition
WE'VE got some fabulous Bean prizes for readers to win in our special competition. Up for grabs is a top prize of a Mr Bean teddy bear, T-shirt, beach ball and watch, a second prize of a teddy bear and a T-shirt, and three T-shirts for runners up.
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The Last Mimzy (PG) ***
ADAPTED from a science fiction short story written more than 60 years ago, The Last Mimzy is a bemusing, whimsical but ultimately charming children's fantasy that makes perfect sense to its pint-sized protagonists, if not us. The film rests entirely
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The Hills Have Eyes 2 (18) ***
WRITER-director Wes Craven has taken the pulse of the horror genre - and sent it racing - for more than 30 years. Firstly, with his controversial, low-budget shocker The Last House of the Left and the cult 1977 version of The Hills Have Eyes, and then
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Meet the Robinsons (U) ***
BASED on the book A Day With Wilbur Robinson by William Joyce, Disney's latest state-of-the-art, computer animated feature is a triumph of style over substance, and technical might over emotional subtlety. To say that Stephen Anderson's film is madcap
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Order book shipshape at Hamworthy
FLEETSBRIDGE-BASED marine and offshore fluid handling systems Hamworthy has seen its order book grow to £254 million for the next three years. Orders as at February 28 were 8.5 per cent up on August 31 2006, the group reported today in a trading statement
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Woman fought off her phone attackers
A WOMAN attacked by three hooded teenagers trying to steal her mobile phone managed to fight them off and hold on to the phone. Tesco worker Louise Rae, 25, was walking towards the Ferndown store on March 19 when the three youths, thought to be about
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IMAX FOR SALE
FOR sale: One Imax cinema, hardly used. The organisations embroiled in a dispute over Bournemouth's defunct giant-screen cinema are looking to sell their interest in the site. It seems certain that the Imax - which never reopened following a "temporary
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'Water cheek' as prices go up 9.4%
WATER companies are facing tough criticism after they announced widespread price increases despite industry profits last year of £2.6 billion. Customers of Wessex Water will see their bills for water and sewage go up by an average of £31 a year. At
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UNDER ATTACK
BOURNEMOUTH and Poole hospitals are among the worst in England for physical attacks on staff. The 2006 national NHS staff survey revealed both Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and Poole Hospital NHS Trust were in the
