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Council's chief executive slammed for snub to Christchurch mayor
A leading Christchurch historian fears for the future of the borough’s ancient mayoralty after what called a ‘snub’ to the new mayor. None of council’s top officers, including chief executive David McIntosh, attended the mayor-making lunch
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Former drug dealer wins award for helping vulnerable people
THE “angels of Bournemouth” have been honoured for their work – and winner Darren Bradley used to be anything but an angel. The 43-year-old was a drug addict and dealer who ran crack houses in London until he turned his life around. However this week
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Historic Bournemouth hotel, rated worst in town, to become flats
A HISTORIC Bournemouth hotel, rated the worst in town on the TripAdvisor website, is now being turned into flats. The Midland Hotel was bought by developer Philip Oram in a deal worth several million pounds and will be converted into 31 single bedroom
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£50k repair bill as vandals hit golf course
ONE of the county’s leading golf clubs is facing a £50,000 repair bill after vandals ran amok overnight on its course. Staff at Broadstone Golf Club – ranked among the top 100 courses in the UK and Ireland – were stunned to discover damage
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Bournemouth youngsters bid to break Guinness World Record for largest dance routine
BREAKING out into spontaneous dance is usually something people only do in the movies. But forget Glee and Mary Poppins – life itself became very much like a West End musical yesterday in the Bournemouth Lower Gardens. The terraces of
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Only Fools and Horses' Boycie woos fans at Bournemouth book signing
HE is known and loved as the wily Boycie in Only Fools and Horses – a thorn in Del Boy’s side and purveyor of ‘that’ laugh. And in Bournemouth yesterday fans of John Challis queued as he signed copies of his autobiography, Being Boycie, at
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Girl accusing Poole Pirate Darcy Ward of sex assault could have stopped encounter, says barrister
THE girl accusing speedway star Darcy Ward of sexual assault could easily have put a stop to their encounter in a Poole hotel, a court heard. That was the claim of defence barrister Stewart Jones QC in his closing speech to a jury at Bournemouth
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Women's beach volleyball player Zara Dampney: 'I'm so excited to represent my country'
WOMEN’S beach volleyball is set to become one of the most popular spectator sports at the Olympics this summer. Former Parkstone Grammar School pupil, Zara Dampney, 25, of Poole is part of the British Olympic squad. She took a break from her tour of
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David Clark-Wheeler: So honoured to be given the role of Olympic torchbearer
My name is David Clark-Wheeler but most people know me as Dave Wheeler. I’ll be carrying the Olympic flame though Boscombe on Saturday, July 14. You’ll have to get up early to see me as my ‘slot’ is shortly after 8am where the route of the torch
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Seeing the fruit of interfaith dialogue
A BOURNEMOUTH man says he felt privileged to be present when a spiritual leader became the first Sikh to be awarded a knighthood by Pope Benedict, for his work towards peace among people of all faiths. Jyotveer Gill was among more than 100 Sikhs to attend
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Life is a Cabaret for Will Young as singer stars at The Mayflower
HOUSEWIVES favourite Will Young is to make his musical theatre debut in Cabaret on the south coast this summer. The production will open at The Mayflower Theatre on September 3 for a week as part of an exclusive four-week tour prior to a West End run
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Faith on the 'useful' stuff we buy but never use...
EVERY year it’s the same. Some company takes it upon themselves to try and find out how much we spend on useless gadgets. And every year the answers are always ‘thousands’, and ‘fondue sets’. According to the latest survey 56 per cent of fondue set owners
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Funding boost will help restore Upton Heath after arson attack
Wildlife lovers are celebrating a £119,778 funding boost to help restore a Poole heath devastated by an arson attack last year. The SITA Trust has handed over the funds to Dorset Wildlife Trust, which has already raised more than £50,000
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Match Race Girls: United we stand for medal claim
LUCY Macgregor believes that togetherness and unity will boost the strong medal claims of Team GB’s sailing squad this summer. The British sailing line-up for London 2012 was this month confirmed and Poole’s Macgregor is confident the host nation is
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Accountant right to have Mouchel worry
I AGREE with Cllr Anne Rey (Echo May 17). Stephen Parker was suspended as a result of expressing his concerns about the proposed takeover of his department by a services company, Mouchel. After his suspension was lifted he was invited to resume his duties
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Words that touch strangers' hearts
THERE are few things as hard to do as giving a tribute at a funeral. You steel yourself at the start, determined to speak clearly, but then the poignancy of the occasion can overtake you... and you start welling up. It doesn’t matter. What matters
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Getting on with business in Weymouth
Our team has a great set-up here in Weymouth and we can now really focus our attention on training and building towards the Games. We have just completed our third week back on home waters and it is always easy when we are here. We have got everything
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Mourners pay tribute to teenage sailor Michael Walker - the heart of Poole Yacht Club
TEENAGE sailor Michael Walker, killed in an accident as he cycled along Poole’s Holes Bay Road, has departed on his final voyage. Hundreds of mourners packed out Corfe Mullen’s St Nicholas Church, yesterday, to pay their last respects to the
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Police federation should be ashamed
THE behaviour of the Police Federation representatives at the BIC towards the Home Secretary was a display of crass rudeness and ignorance, acting like ostriches with their heads in the sand when confronted with the unpalatable truth. They should be
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All pupils need to face the teacher
ONE aspect of teaching that I feel could be partly responsible for bad behaviour is the present day lay-out of classrooms where the children are sat in small groups on separate tables placed around the room. Some children have their backs to the teacher
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Whole country has place woe
‘SCHOOLS Struggle’ (Daily Echo, May 16) to meet the aspiration of parents when choosing an appropriate school for their young children. The specified difficulties are not only an issue for Poole and Dorset but also for the country as a whole. It has
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Sailor Ben Ainslie starts Olympic torch relay
Three-time Olympic sailing champion Ben Ainslie has kicked off the London 2012 Olympic torch relay from Land's End. Ainslie, 35, from Lymington, is the first of 8,000 torchbearers who will carry the Olympic Flame 8,000 miles over 70 days to
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UPDATED WITH VIDEO: Drunken man threatens to leap from Asda roof
SHOPPERS were trapped inside a Poole supermarket as a man threatened to throw himself off the roof yesterday. Police launched the force helicopter and set up two cordons around Asda, at Culliford Crescent, on Canford Heath, following 999 calls
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Cherries: Strugnell keen to seize his chance
TEENAGE defender Dan Strugnell is keen to continue his rise from the Dean Court terraces to the Cherries first team after being rewarded with a new contract. The Bournemouth-born 19-year-old, who earned a 12-month deal, was one of only two
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Dorset star Hall suffers agonising play-off defeat
IN-FORM Dorset star Georgia Hall came within a whisker of claiming another Curtis Cup scalp in the English Women’s Amateur Championship at Royal Birkdale. Hall, overlooked for the Great Britain and Ireland team to face the USA next month, lost a sudden-death
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Cherries: Cooper looks to future after 'transitional' season
SHAUN Cooper believes Cherries must learn the lessons from a “transitional” season as they look to the future. The 28-year-old – in common with the team – experienced fluctuating fortunes during what will be remembered as a campaign of underachievement
