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The Feeling and Blue round off a great party on the Night Air at the Piers stage at Boscombe

A TOP night was had by all at the Night Air At the Piers stage at Boscombe on Friday night. The Feeling were fantastic and were the highlight for many despite being second on the bill. They have been away working on their new album and going

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Singers couldn't be better

THE standing ovation given to the four professional singers at the end of this popular show was truly merited. Under the direction of Andy Reiss, his co-singers were David Fawcett, Rebecca Vere and Katie Leeming. All four have played leading

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Damon Wright in court over body found in alleyway

THE BOURNEMOUTH man charged with the murder of Southampton dad Kevin Wyeth made his first crown court appearance Friday afternoon. Damon Wright appeared at Winchester Crown Court via video link to hear how his case was going to progress through

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Former SAS hero to give talk at Tank Museum

SAS veteran and author Chris Ryan will speak about his latest novel, which is set in war-torn Syria, at Bovington’s Tank Museum. The former special forces soldier will also sign copies of the book, Masters Of War, during this evening’s event.

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Trio fined nearly £450 each for dropping cigarette butts in Christchurch

THREE people were taken to court and fined nearly £450 each for dropping cigarette butts in Christchurch. The trio – Marcus Eaton, Bethany Sims and Siobham Sims – were caught littering in April this year. Eaton, from Yew Tree Court in Newlands

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Immerse yourself in the madness of Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience

PREPARE for madness, mayhem and a dollop of fully immersive fun as Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience delivers a pitch-perfect tribute to the classic British sitcom. The improvised show is based on the legendary BBC series starring John Cleese

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Get down to Arts by the Sea for dance, theatre and vintage mobile cinema

MORE incredible and fun acts have been announced for Bournemouth’s third Arts by the Sea Festival. More colour will be provided by Ash Mukerjee’s worldwide.margam.alt, being performed at Pavilion Dance on October 10. Ash Dance Theatre’s work blends

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Night Air at the Piers: Saturday's line-up

MULTI-platinum selling guitar virtuoso, Newton Faulkner, is joining the star-studded line-up on Saturday’s Night Air at the Piers. His fourth album, Studio Zoo, which was released on August 26, will be making history as the recording will be streamed

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A fly-past and 268 classic cars on display: Verwood’s Rustic Fayre one of the 'best ever'

THOUSANDS of people flocked to Verwood at the weekend for an annual fundraising event. The Rotary Club’s Rustic Fayre, which takes place at Potterne Park, has been hailed as one of the “best ever” by organisers. And for the first time ever,

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Night Air at the Piers: Tonight's line-up

BRIT-award winning boy band, Blue, will be headlining the opening concert of Bournemouth Air Festival’s Night Air at The Piers event tonight. They may look a little different from their boy band glory days– bigger biceps and more facial hair- but

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Inquest due to open into death of man found in West Cliff public toilets

An inquest into the death of a man discovered in public toilets at West Cliff, Bournemouth will open on Tuesday September 3. The grim discovery was made around 6pm on Friday August 23. The cause of death has not yet been revealed, although

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Mum’s fundraiser for cancer fund after brave Charlotte’s two-year battle

THE mum of a little girl finally in remission after a gruelling battle with cancer is raising money for other children with the disease. Charlotte Jackson, six, was diagnosed with an acute form of leukaemia just before her fourth birthday.

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VIDEO: Night Air dazzles under a pink sky

THOUSANDS stood underneath a pink sky to watch the dazzling Night Air display at the close of the air festival’s first day yesterday. The evening began in fine style as the Rolls Royce Spitfire thundered above the crowds, performing daring loops

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Shopkeeper who sold dangerous illegal booze ordered to carry out unpaid work

A SHOPKEEPER who swindled customers with potentially dangerous counterfeit booze has been ordered to carry out unpaid work in the community. Salman Isbir, of Wimborne Road, was found guilty along with his wife Elif Gunduz of six charges of selling

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UPDATED: Richard Drax only Dorset MP to vote against government on Syria

South Dorset MP Richard Drax was the only county MP to vote against military action in Syria last night. Bournemouth MPs Tobias Ellwood and Conor Burns, and Poole and North Dorset MPs Robert Syms and Bob Walter all voted with David Cameron. Annette

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Travellers move from Branksome recreation ground

TRAVELLERS who moved on to Branksome Recreation Ground last week left the site yesterday after Borough of Poole secured a court order. The nine caravans and two motorhomes left the area at around 5pm. They moved on to the popular Poole recreation

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£1.5m visitor centre is planned for Christchurch Priory

A NEW visitor centre costing £1.5million could be built at the historic Priory Church in Christchurch. The centre is planned to include a museum, relocated shop, new church hall and refectory to accommodate the 100,000 visitors the 900-year-old

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Give up the office space

DISABILITY Wessex, the Advice Team of Dorset-based charity Diverse Abilities Plus, urgently needs to locate unused office space to hold appointments with disabled clients, and their families, in the Bournemouth area. If you have a spare office,

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Conference for charity

OVER 700 delegates and exhibitors will return to Bournemouth for three days during October when Help the Hospices – the UK’s leading hospice care charity – returns to the Bournemouth International Centre for their biennial National Conference and Exhibition

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Stationery partner

With the closure of the transfer window imminent, off the field AFC Bournemouth has made another new signing with Speedy Marquee becoming the club’s official stationery partner. Boasting a catalogue of over 21,500 products, Speedy Marquee will

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Computer security at risk for companies

WITH only eight months before Microsoft withdraws support on its still widely-used operating systems Windows XP and Office 2003, companies must have a plan to switch operating systems or face security issues, warns Poole-based IT firm Innovate.

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Hotel teams up with Cherries

AFC Bournemouth and the Norfolk Hotel are looking forward to welcoming players and supporters to the town after extending their commercial partnership. The town centre hotel has hosted a number of the Cherries’ new signings over the last few seasons

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Norah Roberts

BORN in Ilford, Essex, in January 1909, Norah was the youngest of five children. Her family later moved to Wallington in Surrey, then Worthing in Sussex. She trained as a nurse at The London Hospital when she was 21 and after marrying her first

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Barrie Chappell

CLASSIC and vintage cars were master craftsman coach trimmer Barrie’s life and passion – to the extent that he carried on working on them until he was 81. Born in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Boscombe, he was apprenticed to GA Paulding Trimmers

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Mick Tanner

POPULAR Mick worked for Flight Refuelling/Cobham for 40 years, and his achievements as an expert on chemical and paint treatments of metal were recognised with an MBE in 1996. Born in West Sussex in 1935, he was educated at grammar school in Bognor

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News round-up

THE newest member of the expanding ŠKODA family, the Rapid Spaceback, has officially joined the line-up. The first customer cars have left the production line at the brand’s main factory in Mladá Boleslav in the Czech Republic. The Rapid Spaceback

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Vandals spray paint names on Old Harry Rocks

POLICE are investigating after two men on a boat were spotted spray painting their names on chalk cliffs near Studland. Onlookers reported the vandalism of the Jurassic Coast’s iconic cliffs to police following the incident at Old Harry Rocks on

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Merc unveils latest hybrid

MERCEDES says the third hybrid model of the new S-Class, the S 500 Plug-in Hybrid, “sets new benchmarks with regard to efficiency as well as drive-system and climate comfort”. With CO2 emissions of 69 g/km and returning 94.2 mpg the S-Class looks

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Milk drinkers accomplices

THE government’s misguided culling of badgers to protect dairy herds from TB is very upsetting. Why destroy our beautiful native wildlife in this brutal way? I can’t stop the government but what I can do is to cut out dairy products from my diet

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Family pays tribute to Poole mum Rosemary Evans killed in A35 crash

TRIBUTES have been paid to a woman who died in a caravan accident over the bank holiday weekend. Rosemary Evans sustained serious injuries when the Landrover Discovery she was travelling in overturned on Saturday August 24 on the A35 at Askerswell

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Cooking caused house fire which killed Poole Tesco driver

THE fire in Poole that caused the death of a Tesco home delivery driver is thought to have been started by cooking. John Applebee, 68, who worked from the store’s Tower Park branch, was rescued from his blazing house in Beamish Road, Canford Heath

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Bournemouth Air Festival: Day Two Live!

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VUHL set to go into production

FOLLOWING its successful world public debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, where a complete car and separate chassis were displayed and a further example was demonstrated on the hill by Mexican F1 rookie Esteban Gutierrez, the VŪHL 05 is due to

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Tested - Toyota Auris Hyrbid Touring Sports

I THINK I might be finally warming to the hybrid idea. When I drove the hatchback Auris Hybrid, I wasn’t particularly bowled over by the economy, aside from the fact that using mostly electric power in town means good figures even in an urban setting

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Thank you for extra million

ON Thursday, September 5 CLIC Sargent, the UK’s leading cancer charity for children and young people, is holding its first ‘Thanks a Million’ day. We’d like to say a huge thank you to you and your readers. In 2012/13 you, our supporters, helped

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Send idiots bill for clean-up

YESTERDAY it felt like the temperatures were soaring. But as the weather got warmer, so the mindless idiots came out to torch Ham Common in Hamworthy once again. This time more than 70 firefighters were called into action. People enjoying

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Sweep up your gravel

Property owners who have gravel and stones as a frontage, it would only take five minutes to sweep up the overflow that ends up on the pavement that is used by walkers, disabled and the elderly. In Parkstone it is terrible. Please have some

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Bring back Imax cinema

HAVE readers noticed the increasing number of movies now being made in IMAX format? All this year the sides of Yellow Buses have advertised the latest films at the rate of one or two a month. They may not be masterpieces of cinematographic

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Hammers boss Browne thinks FA Cup giant-killing could be a big ask

BOSS Simon Browne is adamant Hamworthy United’s chances of springing a surprise in the FA Cup are remote and admits: “If I were a betting man, my money would be on Wimborne.” Browne’s Hammers lock horns with the Magpies in an all-Dorset preliminary

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AFC Bournemouth: You never stop learning says goalkeeper Allsop

FRESHER Ryan 'Rocky' Allsop has experienced more ups and downs than a lift engineer in his first year at the coal face. When he reported back for the start of last season, little did Leyton Orient’s third-choice goalkeeper know what the following

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AFC Bournemouth: Unpredictable start no surprise to Howe

MANAGER Eddie Howe assessed Cherries’ unpredictable start to their Championship campaign and then admitted: “It has not come as a huge surprise to us.” Howe’s men have experienced fluctuating fortunes in their first four games – with impressive

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Concerns will be addressed

I READ Cllr Howell’s letter regarding the approved development at Terrace Row with great concern. As Cllr Howell was present at the planning committee that granted the scheme for 17 desperately needed affordable units of housing in Poole’s town

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Waders clash as big a test as Terras for Poole

BOSS Tom Killick insists Poole’s clash with newly-promoted Biggleswade Town will be as big a test of his managerial credentials as Monday’s derby with Weymouth. The Dolphins host their fellow Southern Premier newcomers on the back of an incident-packed

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Bournemouth hoping for a miracle

BOURNEMOUTH have made two changes ahead of tomorrow’s Southern Premier League Great Escape mission at Bashley (12.30pm). Alex Allum and Pete Smith have been drafted in as replacements for unavailable duo Curtis Watton and Gurpreet Singh. To

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AFC Bournemouth: Cherries bid for another fruitful trip to Keepmoat

CHERRIES will face one of their more familiar tests when they travel to the Keepmoat Stadium tomorrow – arguably the place where the club’s renaissance under Eddie Howe really got going last season. Harry Arter’s solitary strike handed Cherries

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Doncaster boss Dickov upbeat about team's start to the season

PAUL Dickov insists Doncaster's controversial rain-off at Charlton six days ago has failed to put a dampener on their start to the season. Doncaster, promoted ahead of Cherries as League One champions, were leading 3-1 when the clash at the Valley