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MOSS SET FOR RETURN
NEIL Moss could be ready to hand Cherries boss Kevin Bond a timely boost by hitting the comeback trail next week. The Cherries goalkeeper has been sidelined for seven weeks after suffering knee and facial injuries in unrelated incidents in November.
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Highway to the safety zone
"Calling sierra echo two seven, we have a report of two reindeer and a sleigh in difficulties - please investigate..." No, not a hoax call or part of a comedy script but a real life message sent to traffic officers on patrol in Hampshire earlier this
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Hope shines eternal
THE Millennium candle, which was snuffed out despite becoming a focal point, may return. The flame in Bournemouth Square became the spot where people gathered or laid floral tributes at times of national unity, such as the September 11 attacks. But it
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Can you help save coastline?
VOLUNTEERS are being sought to help protect the marine environment and the world heritage Jurassic Coast. Dorset Wildlife Trust is appealing for volunteer marine wardens to join the team at the Purbeck Marine Wildlife Reserve at Kimmeridge, which is
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Council says no to shopping centre plan
NEW Forest councillors have bowed to people power and rejected controversial plans to build a new shopping facility in Ringwood town centre. The proposal for a new shopping development as well as a 300-seat theatre-style building, a new public square
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No laughing matter
A CAMPAIGNER against a cancer which kills 15,000 men a year is furious that politicians won't heed his call for a screening programme. Derek Hartley-Brown, Poole-based chairman of the Prostate Cancer Awareness Association, claims men are being treated
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Young mum’s home despair
A HOMELESS mum is hoping the new year will bring her better luck, and a place of her own to bring up her three children. Leanne Andrews, 23, became homeless after her benefits were not paid out for nearly a year. She was not entitled to help with her
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Thousands helped by debt advice project
MORE than 66,000 people have been helped by a government project to provide consumers with face-to-face debt advice, a report has said. The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform said its £47.5 million debt advice project, which was
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Location, location, location! (for lichens)
CORFE Castle is home to some of the country's rarest species of lichen including a variety found at only one other UK location. A conservation survey carried out this autumn revealed 102 different lichen species have colonised the castle, including four
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Plans unveiled to replace flats
PLANS to redevelop the Cheviot Court flats and adjoining open space at Somerford have been unveiled by Twynham Housing Association. First mooted in September, the scheme to demolish the three-storey block of 18 flats and build 39 new homes on the site
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Council to replace half its vehicle fleet
Poole Council operates a fleet of around 250 vehicles, of which more than half needs replacing in the next three financial years. The Borough of Poole has approved the replacement schedule, which will cost an estimated £6.97 million. Financial services
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Game on for a golden future
IT'S the beginning of 2008 and I reckon this could be Britain's year for sporting success. Forget about our absence from the European Football Championship - this summer will be full of Eastern promise with the Olympic Games in Beijing. As well as the
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Devoted Mary helped many
A BOURNEMOUTH woman awarded the MBE for her dedication to people with learning disabilities has died. Mary Waller, 79, was taken ill while carrying out her job as a bus escort to children who attend Linwood School in Winton and died from an aneurism
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Nimrod crash chief ‘doesn’t deserve OBE’
FAMILIES of RAF servicemen killed in a plane crash, whose victims included a Christchurch man, have criticised the decision to award an OBE to the man in charge. Wing commander Martin Cannard was named in the new years honours list. He was head of 120
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'New HQ could cost lives'
FIRE union bosses say government plans to build a regional control centre in Taunton is part of a project three years late and 14 times over budget, which could end up costing lives in Dorset. The government wants to transfer the county's fire control
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'Straight' bouncer harassed at gay club
A BOUNCER won £3,000 for injured feelings after she was harassed for being "straight" while working at a gay club. Sharon Legg from Bournemouth was called "breeder" and "straight"- derogatory terms used in the gay community. The 33-year-old mum-of-four
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Extra work means centre will stay shut
SHAFTESBURY Leisure Centre will remain closed until further notice while extensive work is carried out to modify the pipework for the water system. When contractors started the scheduled repair and replacement work of pipes last month, they had originally
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Council says no to shopping centre plan
NEW Forest councillors have bowed to people power and rejected controversial plans to build a new shopping facility in Ringwood town centre. The proposal for a new shopping development as well as a 300-seat theatre-style building, a new public square
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Pier operator can drop entry tolls
AN EXPERIMENT to try and remove the unpopular toll fee at Bournemouth Pier will begin this year, with Easter earmarked as the first stage. Openwide International, which operates the Pier Theatre, cafe and kiosks, will pay Bournemouth council more than
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A capital year for culture
CULTURE vultures are expected to flock to Britain in 2008. Tourism chiefs are hoping that visitors attracted to the UK because Liverpool is the European Capital of Culture this year will also spend time perusing some of the other cultural delights that
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The good, the bad and the nasty
WHAT do top newspaper columnist Lynda Lee-Potter - who had a home in Dorset - and mass murderer Harold Shipman have in common? They have both been added to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - along with broadcasters John Peel and Alistair Cooke
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PART SET FOR PREMIER LEAGUE
NEWLY-crowned PDC World Darts Champion John Part is expected to have his place in the 2008 Premier Darts League confirmed tomorrow, the Echo understands. The Premier League, which visits the Bournemouth International Centre on February 28, already features
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Dorset council taxpayers may face £8.5m bill
DORSET taxpayers may need to find £8.5m for people with learning disabilities because the government is closing down care units based at hospitals. Councils and health services covering Dorset face the bill to re-home 143 people, some of whom have been
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Union in call over widening pay gulf
A STUDY has revealed the gap between the average wages of directors compared with the lowest-paid workers in the UK is widening. Research by the GMB union showed that directors and chief executives earned an average of £214,000, almost 20 times as much
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HOLDER WINS AGAIN IN AUSTRALIA
PIRATES' wonder from Down Under Chris Holder is "blown away" after he won at Gillman yesterday to extend his Australian Championship lead. The 20-year-old reigned supreme in the second round near Adelaide and is favourite to claim his first national
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Dec is Poole's top man
DECLAN Callahan has been named as Poole SC's Swimmer of the Year for 2007. It follows a year which has seen the 13-year-old make rapid progress in both pool swimming for Poole and open water competitions for his other club, East Dorset Open Water SC.
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‘No appetite for State-run health drive’
THE FIVE a Day' campaign to eat fruit and vegetables has come in for criticism after it was revealed it has flopped. A Government report will this week say most people are still ignoring the advice despite the increased health risks, it was reported.
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Third year lucky for the Imax?
FRUSTRATED members of Bournemouth's tourism trade are hoping 2008 might be the year something finally happens on the site of the town's defunct IMAX. The giant-screen cinema in the Waterfront building was supposed to be a big wet-weather attraction for
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A Viennese whirl
Event: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Venue: Lighthouse, Poole THE eagerly anticipated escape to Old World Vienna in the New Year Viennese Gala, delayed by a fifteen-minute technical' hitch on the afternoon performance, soon fell under the spell
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Goodbye Gordon
A LITTLE more than six years since Dorset singer-songwriter Gordon Haskell came within a whisker of topping the charts with his single How Wonderful You Are, he is leaving his home county for the tranquillity of a Greek island. He hasn't spoken to the
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String of pearls
CRUISING should come with a health warning. It's seriously addictive! Two years ago I'd never been on a cruise. Now, having just returned from my second, I'm already planning a third. I suppose part of the appeal is it's a bit like the lazy man's backpacking
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Holder's Crump disappointment
PIRATES hotshot Chris Holder has slammed the new reduced point limit, which has cost him his chance of riding with Jason Crump at Poole. The Wimborne Road side were forced to choose between last season's stars Crump and Bjarne Pedersen, as they built
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Ford's regret over Watson loan
PIRATES co-promoter Matt Ford regrets Craig Watson's loan move to Glasgow last season, which he claims has left the club in a "very vulnerable position". Having signed the Australian from Newport last March on a full transfer, Ford loaned Watson to the
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BOND SLAMS 'DISGRACEFUL' PLAYERS
FURIOUS Cherries boss Kevin Bond pulled no punches after seeing his side suffer an almighty New Year hangover. Bond slammed his players for conceding a "diabolical" late winner during their agonising 3-2 defeat by south coast rivals Brighton yesterday
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First on the 1st!
Poole 7 Bournemouth 0 There's a New Year's Day morning scoreline with a difference. For the scores tallied aren't goals, but babies. Seven tiny teammates joined the roster at Poole Hospital's maternity unit yesterday, giving proud parents the best
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Woman and pets flee fire started by candle
A DOG lover and her eight pets were "extraordinarily lucky" to escape a serious house fire in Verwood. Jill Sanford was in the bath when a candle set fire to a wicker table in her living room just before 11pm on New Year's Eve. She tried to get the
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DRINKING EPIDEMIC HITS WARDS
A BINGE drinking epidemic has fuelled a rise of almost a third in the number of people being taken to hospital due to alcohol. Royal Bournemouth Hospital admitted 394 people for alcohol-related conditions between January and November 2007 - compared
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Do late-night fireworks get up your nose?
THERE are people I know who often go out of their homes at night to stare at a dark sky going "Ooooh!" They listen to a cacophony of bangs reminiscent of Del Boy Trotter's van backfiring or a drunk on drums. I know, I know. I mix with a strange crowd
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Bang goes another New Year
THE best things in life are free, but there are times when you might think folks' assumptions about their local council's largesse could be stretching the point. Take the annual' New Year fireworks that didn't take place down at Bournemouth seafront
