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Non-league: Browne aiming to continue form
MANAGER Simon Browne is targeting two more victories as his Hamworthy United team aim to continue their strong end to the season. In-form Hammers made it seven wins in their past nine Wessex League matches by beating Downton 3-1 at the County Ground
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A guide to our enhanced recovery scheme
FOR the last ten months, the Trust has been piloting a scheme to help bowel and bladder surgery patients to get better sooner after major surgery. Known as 'Enhanced Recovery', the new programme is based on ten years of international evidence
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Bournemouth adoptions hit record levels
MORE Bournemouth children were placed for adoption last year than at any time in the past 15 years, a report reveals. At the same time, the number of children in care waiting to be adopted has quadrupled in the past four years – from just nine at the
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Il Divo: simply spellbinding at the BIC
THERE were no special effects, no gimmicks and no fancy scenery at the BIC on Tuesday night – it was all about the voices. And what voices they were. Il Divo is made up of four of the most powerful vocalists you’ll ever hear.
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Campsite girl Isabelle Harris suffered cardiac arrest, inquest told
AN inquest into the death of a six-year-old girl at a New Forest campsite has today been opened and adjourned. Isabelle Harris died in the early hours of Good Friday at Southampton General Hospital after suffering cardiac arrest in the ambulance
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Bournemouth Pier2Pier 2012 swim launched
IT’S time to dust off the swimming trunks and costumes – the Bournemouth Pier2Pier 2012 swim has been launched. Organisers from the British Heart Foundation are hoping 2,400 people will join in the 1.4mile swim and make around £200,000.
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Green family fair comes to Dorset
ETHICAL products and environmentally-friendly family entertainment come to Dorset as the Green Family Fair pays a visit. The event, which takes place at Moors Valley Country Park near Ringwood on Friday and Saturday will include an ethical
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Poole reverend's mercy mission to help rural Zimbabwe
A POOLE reverend was back home for Easter following a mercy mission to beleaguered rural Zimbabwe. The Revd Alan Clarredge distributed than one-and-a-half tonnes of medicine and water purification systems to Zimbabwean hospitals, clinics and orphanages
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Messing about in boats at Hengistbury Head
WET weather proved perfect for a day of Olympic watersports at Hengistbury Head on Monday. Hengistbury Head Outdoor Education Centre was inundated with people wanting to try out different activities on the water for just £1 on Bank Holiday
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Bournemouth college students show who they are
TEENAGERS from Arts University College at Bournemouth (AUCB) have been named among 10 winners of a design competition. Teodora Kirova, 18, from Poole, Tannaz Falahatzadeh, 16, from Bournemouth, and Kate Sturney, 16, from Bearwood, took part in ‘Who Are
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Garden offers respite for leukaemia patients
GREEN-FINGERED youngsters Billy and Charlotte helped to sow the first seeds in a new garden donated to blood cancer patients in the county. Five-year-old Billy from Swanage and four-year-old Charlotte from West Moors, who are both battling leukaemia,
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Stunning sunrise will make it into Echo book
THIS breathtaking shot, captured early one morning, has seen off hundreds of ent-ries to win the Daily Echo photo contest. The stunning entry, taken by Ian Alcock, won a public vote to earn its place in our eagerly-awaited Dorset: A Photographic Journey
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Bournemouth domestic abuse charity receives grant
A BOURNEMOUTH-based charity which works with people who have suffered domestic violence abuse has received a two-year £20,000 grant from Lloyds TSB. The money will go towards core costs at the charity and came from the Lloyds TBS Foundation. Julie Johns
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Hamworthy Hill mum of autistic child trains for marathon
A WOMAN whose son has been diagnosed with autism is training hard to raise funds for a Christchurch charity. Natasha Cook from Hamworthy will run the Edinburgh marathon in May following the diagnosis of her son Mason, two, with autism. She will be raising
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AFC Bournemouth fans targeted by traffic warden
ANGRY football fans say their cars were targeted by a traffic warden during AFC Bournemouth’s Easter Monday game. While supporters cheered Cherries on to a 2-0 win against Huddersfield, cars parked in Littledown Drive were receiving tickets
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Dorchester man accused of child sex assaults
A WOMAN reported being sexually abused as a child when she allegedly saw the man involved driving a nursery minibus more than 20 years later, a court heard. The woman told Bournemouth Crown Court how she kept the alleged abuse by Adrian Strong
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Inquest opens into six-year-old's death at New Forest campsite
THE inquest into the death of six-year-old Isabelle Harris, who died at a New Forest campsite on Good Friday, will be opened today. It will be held at the Coroner’s Court in Southampton. The inquest will formally identify Isabelle and record that there
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Poole entrepreneurs selling innovative aprons
YOUNG entrepreneurs in Poole are selling clever aprons that come with oven gloves, a timer and barbeque tongs attached. Team Azure, set up under the Young Enterprise challenge, will be pitching their innovative product to visitors at Moors Valley Country
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Fishermen protest outside authority's offices in Poole
Skippers and anglers gathered for a protest outside the offices of the Southern Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (IFCA) in Poole yesterday. The protest coincided with a Southern IFCA meeting where members agreed an emergency bylaw that would
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Police appeal for snake's owner
A MAN called the police when he found a snake in West Moors. The man rang in to say he had spotted a white snake ‘with orange blobs on’ on a footpath off Glenwood Road at 3.30pm on Sunday. The pinkish white corn snake, measuring around a metre long
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Future rock stars audition for Bournemouth music course
ROCK stars of the future have been called up for an audition for a new college course in Bournemouth. Bournemouth’s Academy of Contemporary Music, which recently opened on Wimborne Road, Kinson, offers young musicians aged 16-18 the opportunity to study
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Occupy protestors WILL be evicted from Bournemouth Centre for Community Arts
BOURNEMOUTH Council won an order to evict Occupy protesters from Bournemouth Centre for Community Arts despite claims they were protecting it for the public good. District Judge Ivor Weintroub made the ruling at Bournemouth County Court
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Laughter never stops with the Chuckle Brothers
IT seemed like pantomime once again. This was my first live acquaintance with Paul and Barry Chuckle and I found them to be highly amusing and entertaining. Entitled the Return of the Pirates of the River Rother 2, our two heroes are shipwrecked off
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New TV not needed for the switchover
I’M sorry to hear Mike Roberts-Butler is having problems with his TV reception and would like to reassure him and other readers that switchover does not require people to buy a new digital television (‘Digital switch over is not plain sailing’, April
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Wildlife wonder from Bill Oddie and Stephen Moss at Regent Centre
POPULAR naturalist Bill Oddie is winging his way to Dorset next month as part of his nationwide Unplucked tour. He will be joined on stage by Stephen Moss for an evening of anecdotes charting their 15 years of wildlife television fame – and
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Circus Wonderland is a class act
DENIS Remner as Tarzan, is probably the most stunning act in the circus. He performs aerial gymnastics landing every time into a bath of warm water. He then rises dripping wet for more aerial swings. He is just one of the international stars in this
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The benefits of PSA testing for cancer
REGARDING Mike Chalkley’s rather negative view of PSA screening for possible prostate cancer (Letters, April 9) I would like point out the benefits. Three years ago, aged 66, I had no indications of any problems, but my routine annual blood test showed
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Think about future not just the present
THE Parties are NOT united! How can they be? (‘Parties united on Imax’, Have Your Say, April 7) Cllr John Beesley seems to forget that he has a Tory majority of 46 compared to the opposition of nine councillors so how can this be a cross-party decision
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Don’t let society become history
ONE downside to the Christchurch Library development that you did not mention in last week’s article is that the Christchurch Local History Society has effectively been evicted from the Library. The Society, in the upstairs History Room, has for many
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Gate design is clever and beautiful
Despite the many disparaging remarks about the proposed gates for Kings Park, I personally can see further than pieces of metal bike frames and four hinges on posts. They are indeed a beautiful and very clever design reflecting this UK milestone Olympic
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Was there a point in issuing tickets?
IT can’t be easy being a traffic warden who do a crucial job. And we don’t know what instructions they were given by higher-ups on any given day. But you do sometimes wonder if a turn was missed when common sense was handed out. AFC Bournemouth, with
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Tuckton Bridge closures cause long delays for drivers
DRIVERS reported long delays around yesterday as Tuckton Bridge closed for four days of repairs. Traffic along Barrack Road in Christchurch was slow in the morning with the same situation at Iford and Pokesdown. Traffic was reportedly queuing from the
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Hotel would ‘dumb down’ tourism spot
YOUR correspondent from the leafy lanes of Burley, (Richard Grant, Tuesday, April 10) is suggesting that the Imax be turned into a “low budget” hotel. Whilst I agree that such a plan can only enhance the surrounding attraction of the merry-go-round,
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Inquest into death of Isabelle Harris to open today
THE inquest into the death of six-year-old Isabelle Harris, who died at a New Forest campsite on Good Friday, will be opened today. It will be held at the Coroner’s Court in Southampton. The inquest will formally identify Isabelle and record that there
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Accountant Stephen Parker reinstated at Bournemouth Council after Mouchel dispute
BOURNEMOUTH Council’s chief accountant, who was suspended for speaking out about a controversial outsourcing deal, has been reinstated. Stephen Parker was suspended and escorted from the town hall last October after emailing concerns about
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Travellers move onto prominent Bournemouth car park
TRAVELLERS have moved on to a prominent Bournemouth town centre car park, to the concern of shoppers and residents. The camp of 10 caravans, four vans and two cars took up much of Terrace Mount car park yesterday, with only a few other drivers choosing
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Condor celebrates 25 years of crossing the Channel
CONDOR ferry staff and passengers have celebrated a milestone 25 years of Channel Islands sailings. They marked their quarter century in Poole Harbour yesterday, as the ferry Condor Vitesse travelled back to port flanked by harbour tugs and
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Alaska windfarm planning appeal set to start
DEVELOPERS are launching a last ditch attempt to gain planning permission for a £14m wind farm at East Stoke today. A planning inquiry into Purbeck District Council's refusal of the scheme, for four turbines at Master's Quarry, starts at Furzebrook
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Wines of the Times: raise a toast to Thai New Year
YOU might be glad to hear that Thai New Year is being celebrated this week, starting on Thursday. So, after a weekend of sickly sweet chocolate a bit of oriental spice might be a welcome release from those cocoa and sugar-based highs. Authentic Thai
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Armed raider jailed for "terrifying" attack on Bournemouth shop
A TERRIFIED shopkeeper was bound, blindfolded and threatened at gunpoint by an armed gang during an early morning robbery in his own store. Turkish Mehmet Bulbul, 45, was set upon by three men as he opened the Premier store in Bennett Road, Bournemouth
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Rugby: Title would be reward for inspirational Manning
DAVID Dunn believes leading Bournemouth to promotion would be a fitting reward for inspirational captain Alan Manning. Manning will be hoping to help Lions clinch the National League Three South West title when they host Weston-super-Mare on
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Cricket: Winton could be relegated without bowling a ball
NEWLY-promoted Winton could earn an unwanted entry into Wisden should they be relegated by the Dorset League without a ball being bowled. The club is facing the prospect of playing the new season in the top flight – before dropping back into Division
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Non-League: Davies plays two games in one day
CALLUM Davies drew on all his powers of recovery to make his Southern League debut for AFC Totton – just minutes after he had finished playing in the Wessex League for New Milton. The 19-year-old defender had an eventful Easter Monday when he lined up
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Olympics: Hunter hails Wessex grounding
LONDON 2012 contender Dan Hunter insists Wessex Volleyball Club deserve more credit for putting eight hopefuls on the road to the Olympics. Hunter is one of eight potential Games competitors to have emerged from the successful Dorset-based outfit. And
