Stories for 29 October 2002

Bournemouth Cherries

You got to catch 'em young

A FOOTBALL signed by the entire Cherries team is now being treasured by one of the team's youngest fans - one-year-old Lewis Hope.  more...

Fletch wary of wounded Gulls' plight

STEVE Fletcher has warned his Cherries team-mates to be wary of a backlash on the English Riviera.  more...

Bournemouth News

Schools fear slump over Iraq war threat

LUCRATIVE English language schools in Bournemouth fear a disastrous slump in business if war is declared on Iraq.  more...

Playgrounds saved in planned new scheme

CONTROVERSIAL plans to close 26 Bournemouth playgrounds have been scrapped in favour of a scheme which would shut only 10.  more...

Bank staff's good account of themselves

NEARLY 600 volunteers from J P Morgan were involved in 30 projects in Bournemouth and Poole to mark the company's Global Days of Service.  more...

Child migration on centre stage

A SENIOR academic from Bournemouth University has flown to the USA to give a talk at the first ever National Congress of Child Migration on Wednesday.  more...

Hamiltons to club together for night out

NEIL and Christine Hamilton - the formidable Tory couple who became surprise TV celebrities - are the guests of a Bournemouth nightclub's student night.  more...

Residents' four year battle over `eyesore'

RESIDENTS have spent more than four years and £10,000 fighting an unauthorised extension which is blighting their homes.  more...

New low-cost flight launch

A NEW low-cost airline service 12 times a week between Bournemouth and Glasgow is to be launched in December.  more...

Wards closed by outbreak

A TOTAL of six wards are closed in local hospitals as they struggle to contain the latest outbreak of a Norwalk-type virus.  more...

Bournemouth Sport

Barnes upstages the boss

WEST of England strokeplay champion Dean Barnes earns his keep by working in Parkstone professional Martyn Thompson's shop, reports Peter Godsiff.  more...

Dorset Business

Marine company has the wind in its sails

POOLE-based Marine Sales (UK) of Lake Shipyard, Hamworthy, has expanded its operations in two areas - on a personnel level and by way of location.  more...

Investor fees U-turn welcomed as menu idea is introduced

INVESTORS no longer face the threat of compulsory fees for independent financial advice after a U-turn by the City regulator.  more...

Poole News

MADD aim to make a difference

IT WAS a MADD world in Poole and Purbeck at the weekend as groups of volunteers strove to make a difference.  more...

Planners tired of marathon late meetings

BLEARY eyes and tired yawns were on the agenda at a marathon meeting of Poole's planning committee after residents were forced to wait six hours to air their views.  more...

Back in the real world again

HE'S spent a fortnight waking up next to television cameras, sung live in front of an audience of millions and watched nervously as his peers voted on his future.  more...

Wellmeetagain Snapshot

Did you go to Henry Harbin in the late 50s?

GIRLS who went to the former Henry Harbin Girls' School in the late 1950s are being sought for a reunion of old schoolmates later this year.  more...

THE GHOST OF TYNEHAM

WHEN prolific Dorset author Rodney Legg sat down to write his 60th book, he knew the subject would have to be extra special.  more...

An industry that was worn out

WHO would have thought that in 1750 Poole was famous for its manufacture of silk stockings or that in the late 16th century woad (which produced a rich blue dye) was extensively grown around Cranborne?   more...

Fascinating real women

THE recent Snapshots of the Past article on Diana Trenchard's out-of-print book, Women In Dorset, provoked a fine response from local author Elizabeth Edwards.  more...

Hidden treasures

AMAZING hand-painted wall murals dating from the late 19th century have been discovered on the staircase of a Bournemouth hotel.  more...

All stand together

AS working people from all over the country celebrated Dorset's contribution to the Labour Movement at the summer's Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, another landmark of the Left is about to pass almost unnoticed.   more...

It's a family affair

THEY are to the manor born and have made their mark on the history of Dorset over many a century.   more...

Search for a friend

HE was shot down over France, helped by the French Resistance and took on the identity of a Spanish farm labourer to foil the Nazis in occupied France.  more...

Recalling a tragic day

IT was one of the worst tram accidents in the country and shocked the young town of Bournemouth to its core.  more...

An artist's inspiration

FAMOUS war artist and Britain's leading surrealist painter of the 1930s, Paul Nash, fell in love with Dorset on a visit to Swanage as a boy of 11.  more...

Take a book

A LITTLE book of photographs of Bournemouth was given to schoolchildren in 1938 by the Mayor of Bournemouth, John Bennett Cole Beale.   more...

Father and naturalist

HE was a son of Poole who achieved fame in his own lifetime as a brilliant naturalist but his reputation was tarnished when his son wrote a famous memoir.  more...

Poem's top Marc

FOR years it was just a scrap of paper that unlocked the doors of some fond memories, but when Linda Walton rediscovered a poem hand-written for her by pop legend Marc Bolan, it occurred to her it might have some value beyond the sentimental.  more...

A ferry good tale

THE flotilla of little ships that sailed from South Coast ports played a starring role in the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk in the Second World War.  more...

Weymouth News

Still in step and perfect harmony

A MUSICAL couple celebrated 65 years of singing from the same hymn sheet at a party in Dorchester.  more...

An award for Gran's helper

YOUNG Penny Jones is a granddaughter in a million.  more...

Motorists `add to traffic hold-ups'

CONTRACTORS claim motorists are adding to the traffic chaos in Weymouth by ignoring diversions.  more...

Raising council tax option backed in funding survey

HOUSEHOLDERS have come out in support for an increase in council tax following a public consultation.  more...

Julian's star a-peel

CORE! Oscar winner Julian Fellowes gave Dorchester's Apple Day star appeal with an appearance at Kingston Maurward College.  more...

New post office gets stamp of approval

VILLAGERS bucked the trend of countryside closures when they celebrated the opening of a new post office and shop at Ansty.  more...

Full tax on second homes welcomed

CAMPAIGNERS today welcomed news that local authorities may soon be able to charge second homeowners the full council tax.  more...

Armed raiders target garage

THREE masked men held a woman at knifepoint and demanded cash during a petrol station robbery.  more...

Lucky to be alive

BRIGHT spark Aidan Glengarrick got the shock of his life after a bid to watch his favourite TV programme backfired  more...