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Get your Disney gift free with the Echo
AN EXCITING learning opportunity will open up on Saturday, July 2 with a fantastic free gift in the Daily Echo. We will be giving away the first edition of a series of colourful Disney encyclopaedias with every copy of the newspaper. Packed with fascinating
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There's so much more to British Beach Polo Championships...
IT’S not just world class polo that will be enthralling audiences on Sandbanks beach in July, but international volleyball as well. The British Beach Polo Championships will pit the England team against Australia for the first time on Poole’s premier
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Small steps for Rhys
SIX-YEAR-OLD Carys King will be stepping onto Bournemouth seafront on Sunday to raise funds for a cause very close to her heart. The Stourfield School pupil will be walking the 5km Race for Life with her mother Carolyn Owen-King and grandmother Jean
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Helping Bournemouth's unemployed get on their bikes
IT was politician Norman Tebbit who infamously suggested the unemployed should ‘get on their bike’ to look for work. In Bournemouth the BCHA care and support organisation has gone one better. Not only are they training unemployed people to work as
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Petition against swimming pool boom to be presented
A PETITION signed by 661 swimmers will be presented to Poole councillors on Tuesday calling for the “monstrous” boom to be removed from the town’s pool. Outraged Dolphin Swimming Pool users flocked to sign the petition after the £100,000 boom appeared
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Unique Bournemouth hotel offers getaway for cancer patients
“IT’S not like an ordinary hotel. Complaints are very, very rare. They are just so pleased that something has been done for them.” Macmillan Caring Locally is opening what it thinks is a unique hotel – one for people who have cancer or life-threatening
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Crowd-pleasing Hunter Jet returns to Bournemouth Air Festival
A MULTI-coloured crowd-pleaser is making a return to Bournemouth Air Festival in August. The Hunter Jet Miss Demeanour was one of the highlights of last year’s weather-hit event as it was still able to display when other aircraft were grounded
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Sticky Chinese Ribs
Sticky Chinese Ribs Serves 4 adult portions Time to Cook: 1 hour Time to cook: Gas Mark 5, 190oC, 375oF 900g (2lb) Lean pork spare ribs 75ml (5tbsp) Hoisin sauce 45ml (3tbsp) Orange juice Line roasting pan with foil or non-stick mat. Place
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Countdown to Wimbledon tennis championships is nearly over
THE countdown to the 125th All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, 2011 championships is very nearly over. Just after lunch on Monday the first players will head onto the hallowed turf at Centre Court. But as the tennis-loving world claps its eyes
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Fears: ‘A child would die without crossing’
THE battle to save lollipop patrols facing the axe in Dorset has been hit by a new threat. More than half of the Dorset schools affected say they will not be able to pay for crossing patrols when council funding is cut next year. Thirty
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Young thugs sent to YOI for 10 months
TWO teenagers caught on camera during a “cowardly” early morning attack in Bournemouth town centre have been sent to a young offender institution for 10 months. Following a trial at Bournemouth Crown Court Thomas Leyshon, 19, from Kelly Close, Poole
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Decision to cure or not in God's hands
ANDY Hanley (Echo letters, 14th June) seems to have misread the article in Faith Matters (Saturday June 11) as nowhere did the article claim that faith healers were on the streets. It said that a group of Christians had offered to pray with people. They
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God's power called on by healers
I FEEL that Andy Hanley may not be very well informed (No Faith in Street Healers – June 14). There have been several instances of people being healed by faith, (as there were in Bible times). I once had a work colleague whose husband was cured of cancer
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Criticism over library meeting unfounded
Re: ‘Poor response to library rescue’ AdLib’s criticism that friends of unaffected libraries did not attend the second meeting is not entirely correct. Wimborne’s public library is not one of those threatened with closure, but I did stay on for the second
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Losing heathland is like a bereavement
LAST week in church we gave prayers for our beautiful coast and heathland. It is very ironic that the week will be remembered for a heathland conflagration as destructive as any in recent years. On driving to Broadstone on Thursday evening to visit
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Find the lolly and keep the lollipops
I CAN definitely remember falling in love with our school’s lollipop lady. I can’t remember her name, but I virtually bankrupt myself at the age of six by investing most of my pocket money on wooing her with sweets. I do remember that she took no prisoners
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Dignified display at Wootton Basset shames our wretched breed of politicians
IN WHAT was described as his ‘fightback’ speech, Ed Miliband said that people in work, volunteers and foster-carers will be able to jump council housing queues if he gets into power. No, they won’t. Just like nothing will be done either about greedy
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Is religion political?
THE Archbishop of Canterbury made the headlines again last week with his wide-ranging criticism of Coalition policies. No stranger to controversy, some may question whether airing his political views is wise. I spoke to some politicians
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RSPB should reveal fatal cost of blaze
WITH the long school holidays fast approaching and the possibility of more hot dry weather, I feel a concerted effort must be made to prevent another tragedy such as the fire at Upton Heath. Only a small minority of young people think it fun to set light
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Stereotyping has to be stopped
I AM tired of hearing about people stereotyping young people and teenagers. I am a 13-year-old boy, and over the last few weeks I have read numerous letters about teenagers vandalising people’s property and being generally unpleasant. A letter in
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Police confirm dead pensioner was stabbed
THE pensioner who was critically injured at his Poole home earlier this week died of stab wounds, it has been confirmed. Police named the victim, yesterday, as 70-year-old Peter Richard Jordan. Police are no longer treating the incident
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Cherries: Mitchell counts financial cost as League One goes northern
CHAIRMAN Eddie Mitchell admits Cherries are facing a financial hit because of the make-up of next season’s third tier – but he remains a fan of the national league structure. The Dean Court chairman says he believes reverting to a regional set-up of
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Pirates: Ford slashes ticket prices for a 'celebration'
MATT Ford has slashed ticket prices for Wednesday’s Elite Knockout Cup second leg as a “celebration” of Pirates’ incredible victory at Swindon. Poole Castle Cover turned in a barnstorming performance to triumph 62-28 in Thursday’s first leg at Blunsdon
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Winchester Crown Court hears seven years of police surveillance
THE extent of police surveillance of Danilo Restivo over several years was revealed to the jury at Winchester Crown Court yesterday. On the final day of the five-week prosecution case, the court heard how officers conducted a number of covert operations
