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BSO anniversary concert delayed by faulty chandelier
THE Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's 120th anniversary concert was delayed this evening because of a faulty chandelier. Doors at The Pavilion had been due to open at 6.30pm, with the first act starting at 7pm. But guests were left waiting outside
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150 hours unpaid work for roofer who charged disabled man £6,000 for repairs that should have cost £2,263
A ROOFER who charged a disabled man almost £6,000 for repairs which should have cost £2,263 has been ordered to carry out unpaid community work. Bournemouth Crown Court heard how Jonathan Ball had visited the Verwood home of David Bryan in July
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Help Pokesdown boutique bag national vintage award
THE owner of a Pokesdown vintage shop is calling for local support after being nominated for a prestigious national award. Nicki Grainger, who owns What Alice Found in Christchurch Road, is in the running for the Best Regional Fashion Shop in the
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Recreating history: The replica Iron Age log boat that took two weeks to build
HISTORY has been recreated with a replica of the Poole Harbour Iron Age log boat built on Brownsea Island. The original was dredged from the deep and is on display at Poole Museum and National Trust rangers decided to copy it from an oak tree blown
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Visiting Auschwitz
The ease with which visitors come and go through the gates of the Auschwitz concentration camps is ironic. No longer do people stand at the cast iron entrance, beckoning in more people to be enclosed behind the barbed wire, never to see the outside
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Teaching assistants simply the best
A DEDICATED Poole teaching assistant has been named best in the south west for her work at Sylvan First School. Hilda Beddard has been announced winner of the Pearson Teaching Award for Teaching Assistant of the Year 2013 for the south west region
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VIDEO: Thousands flock to Christchurch Bake Weekend
THOUSANDS of people have been indulging their sweet tooth at the Great Christchurch Bake Weekend. Christchurch Quay, transformed into a typical English fete scene, is playing host to the popular event, part of the Christchurch Food and Wine Festival
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Dispute over number on Bournemouth council’s ‘rich list’
A “TOWN Hall rich list” published this week claims that Bournemouth council has more high earners on at least £100,000 than neighbouring Poole or Dorset. According to the Taxpayers’ Alliance, 17 members of staff at Bournemouth council received
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UPDATED: Road reopened after tree falls in Christchurch
A FALLEN tree led to a road closure in Christchurch this morning. The Grove at Jumpers Common was shut at 9.45 am after part of an oak tree ended up blocking the road. It has now reopened. A Dorset police spokeswoman said no-one had been hurt
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UPDATED WITH VIDEO: Turn out and cheer on team in 26-mile truck pull across Bournemouth
EIGHT men have begun a mammoth challenge which will see them pull a two-and-a-half-tonne truck for a whopping 26 miles through Poole and Bournemouth today. The team are hoping to pull - and push - the Nissan Cabstar from Boscombe Pier and finish
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Firefighters release trapped toddler
FIREFIGHTERS used a crowbar this morning (Sat) to release a mischievous toddler trapped between a washing machine and kitchen cabinet. The alarm was raised at 10.08 am after the two-year-old boy's arm got stuck at his family's home in Columbia
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Thieves steal Bob Wilson’s bike that raised £330,000 for charity
HEARTLESS thieves have stolen the road bike used by former goalkeeper Bob Wilson to raise £330,000 in his late daughter’s memory. Two years ago, the former Arsenal and Scotland goalkeeper cycled more than 500 miles on his Shorter road bike, visiting
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Sophie, seven, cuts locks for sick children
BRAVE seven-year-old Sophia Gray astonished her mum after asking to have her hair chopped off to help children with cancer. Kind-hearted Sophia, who attends St Mary & St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School in Wool, had 14 inches of her beloved
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Eddie Izzard: Comedian, marathon runner, 'Lost Python' - and Mayor of London in 2020?
Just who does Eddie Izzard think he is? Going on what we know so far, it’s a bit hard to tell. Depending on your views, age and even memory, he’s either ‘that transvestite comedian’, ‘the bloke who ran all those marathons for Sport Relief’ (43
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Row over memorial for Metropole bombing victims
CAMPAIGNERS have welcomed plans to commemorate those who died in Bournemouth’s worst wartime bombing raid – but questioned why people are being discouraged from attending. A memorial plaque at the site of the former Metropole Hotel at the Lansdowne
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Disabled man’s £6k charge from roofer
A ROOFER who charged a disabled man almost £6,000 for repairs which should have cost £2,263 has been ordered to carry out unpaid community work. Bournemouth Crown Court heard how Jonathan Ball had visited the Verwood home of David Bryan in July
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Leona Lewis: BIC
SEVEN years ago, the nation took Leona Lewis to their hearts due to her weekly winning performances on talent show The X Factor, and the audience tonight showed that their love is still just as strong. Early in the show, Leona treated us to her
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Cow rescued from Corfe Mullen bog
A COW was rescued from boggy ground in Corfe Mullen on Friday night. Firefighters from Ferndown and the animal rescue team from Poole were called to the muddy marsh land at Barrow Hill off Blandford Road North in Corfe Mullen just before 8.30pm
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Fundraisers set off on walk in memory of Harry and Cody Churchill
THE sun shone on more than 60 big-hearted walkers who set off in fancy dress from the Cockleshell pub in Poole on Saturday morning to raise funds for a good cause. The 26-mile walk in aid of Julia’s House was organised in memory of inspirational
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The Bloomsbury revival
From Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex to Studland Beach in Dorset to their spiritual home in London, the Bloomsbury artists are synonymous with a painterly, avant-garde style and cocking a snook at the conventions of society. In February 1910 they
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Training the town's staff
T was highly encouraging to read that Mandy Payne, the Bournemouth Chamber of Trade and Commerce’s new president, plans to focus on training and apprenticeships during her tenure (Daily Echo, May 14). Training is at the very core of the new National
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Concerned by police sponsors
IT is six months ago (November 15th- 2012) that a mere 15 per cent of the public elected the first Police Commissioners. The reasons given for this new Office was to create greater transparency and accountability without interfering with the day
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Mark Knopfler: “The older I get, the more I want to write”
MARK Knopfler’s popularity shows no signs of waning as the rock legend arrives in Bournemouth. The former Dire Straits frontman and his eight-piece band may treat fans to some classics like Sultans of Swing and Money for Nothing. But most of
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Bookseller’s choice of the week: The Green Road into the Trees
IT IS nearly impossible to choose one book to review from the hundreds of great titles published every month. But one which captures the history, geography and spirit of the local area and continues on into the heart of the English landscape is
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Release of the week: Inferno by Dan Brown
IT’S been almost four years since Professor Robert Langdon, the renowned Harvard symbologist, last embarked on a mystery. In 2009, Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, which was set in Washington, was met with a lukewarm reception. Perhaps the winning
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Prayers answered with a new priest at St Francis of Assisi Church
A BOURNEMOUTH church has a priest again after a three-year interregnum. The development marks a new era for St Francis of Assisi Church in Bournemouth. At a special service recently, Father Adrian Pearce from Jersey was licensed as Priest in
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God bless, Neal, and thanks for everything
BY NOW most of you will have heard the devastating news that our former editor, Neal Butterworth, has died of cancer. At this point it would be so easy to take the coward’s way out and say there are no words. What can anyone say at a time like
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Porn is good for business
BUSINESS is business as they say. The economic downturn has had a devastating effect on the high street since 2008 and in most towns and cities there’s an alarming number of empty shops. So filling even one of these should cause for unalloyed celebration
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Imax and surf reef money could have been used to save Winter Gardens
It was once so beautiful SO, the Imax building has finally gone, no doubt to the great delight of many Bournemouth residents who missed that wonderful view of the bay from Bath Hill. However, I feel extremely upset that the enormous amount of money
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Donald Trump gets into crowdfunding
CROWDFUNDING is all about communities getting together to pay for things people couldn’t afford on their own. And though American celebrity businessman Donald Trump is far too rich and powerful to need a whip round he has come up with a website
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Art stars showing off for gallery’s birthday
METROPOLIS Art is celebrating its third birthday with some more eye-catching exhibitions. The gallery in Westbourne is showing off work by renowned artists like Banksy and Stuart Semple – and Tom Lewis is among the latest to have his work included
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The Threepenny Opera gets futuristic new look
AN OPERA originally set in the nineteenth century is being transformed within a futuristic setting. The Threepenny Opera will see Mack the Knife and the show’s other songs performed live on stage by a nine-piece band from Kokoro – the Bournemouth
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Put the kettle on and help support breast cancer patients
Gill Neale’s daughter Rebecca was just 26 years old when she was diagnosed with breast cancer at Christmas in 2006. “It really shook our world,” says Gill who lives in Lower Parkstone. “As a mother you never expect your daughter to be diagnosed
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Art of glass - one woman's talent for making lampwork bead jewellery
They number Kirstie Allsop and Miriam Margolyes among their fans and have been admired in one of the world’s leading glass factories. Later this month, Jane Sherwood’s fabulous lampwork bead jewellery will be on show and for sale when Weymouth’
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Climbing Shaftesbury’s Holy Trinity Tower
On a clear day you can see what looks like forever... miles upon miles of fields, woodlands, roads, hedgerows and people going about their daily business, like figures on a model trainset. You can also see Hampshire and Wiltshire and Devon and,
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Speedway: Holder's 'got his mojo back' claims Middlo
PIRATES boss Neil Middleditch has warned the Speedway World Championship front-runners that reigning champion and Wimborne Road favourite Chris Holder “has got his mojo back”. Speaking ahead of this weekend’s Prague Grand Prix, Poole’s team boss
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Golf: Challenge Tour star James back on the British beat
FORMER British amateur champion Lee James has shelved his full-time department store job to concentrate on his European Tour ambitions. Six-time Challenge Tour champion James, who won his last event four years ago in France, is competing on the British-based
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New Hampshire: it's a shoppers' paradise
Sometimes there has to be an incentive to get him to go shopping. At some malls, it’s the lure of a decent sports bar; in the case of Merrimack Premium Outlets in New Hampshire, it just happens to be a whole brewery. Let’s face it, you can’t get
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Pan Fried Asparagus Spears on Chargrilled Ciabatta with Garlic Aioli and a Tomato & Basil Salad
Celebrating its seventh anniversary this year, Patrick’s Restaurant, Bar and Event Catering is based in the heart of Ashley Cross in Poole. Head chef Chris Howard has been with the restaurant since it first opened its doors in 2006. He creates
