CAMPAIGNERS are to make a last ditch attempt to have a Castle Lane relief road officially deleted from council plans. They say the road proposal is blighting properties even though there is no realistic chance of it being built. Opponents of the road
A GROUP of beach hut owners will have the ground pulled from under them if re-development plans for Boscombe seafront go ahead. Eleven beach huts at Honeycombe Chine will have to be moved under plans to build 169 Barratt homes on the seafront to pay for
ORGANISERS of one of the biggest summer festivals in Swanage are already facing concerns over lack of hotel accommodation. Fred Lindop, who is organising the 15th annual Swanage Jazz festival this July, is appealing for people to come forward who can
WHILE most Dorset eyes will be on hot prospects Rooster Booster and Kingscliff at the Cheltenham Festival next week, there are other county runners worth considering at National Hunt racing's premier meeting. One such challenger is old stager Woodlands
WITH more than 80 per cent of women diagnosed with breast cancer being over 50, younger women with the disease often feel isolated. But new standards of care for younger women with breast cancer aim to change all that. Emma Joseph reports WHEN Wendy Harrington
A BOURNEMOUTH man who pleaded with a judge to jail him for life has been sent to prison for 18 months. Schizophrenic Frank Money, 52, of Grantley Road, admitted affray on November 26 last year. Bournemouth Crown Court heard how Money had entered the HSBC
NEW Dorset police figures show that 59 per cent of violent crime in Bournemouth town centre during the past year has been alcohol-related. The vast majority takes place between 10pm and 3am on Friday and Saturday nights. Last week the Daily Echo revealed
MORE than 80 per cent of people who responded to a Daily Echo poll believe smoking should be banned in public places. Last month we kicked off a week-long debate about whether Poole should follow the example set by California and New York to introduce
THE Borough of Poole has embarked on seven weeks of consultation as it invites people to have their say on a major step towards a new bridge. As the skyline begins to change with the development of town centre sites, the £14 million Twin Sails bridge
WHILE most Dorset eyes will be on hot prospects Rooster Booster and Kingscliff at the Cheltenham Festival next week, there are other county runners worth considering at National Hunt racing's premier meeting. One such challenger is old stager Woodlands
Women are hitting the bottle like never before, but are they dying for a drink? Nicky Findley reports on the health and social consequences of a ladette lifestyle RADIO One may have axed Sara Cox from her morning slot and Zoe Ball may have swapped pubs
EARLIER this week, the government quietly slipped out a bunch of statistics revealing the end result of its Teenage Pregnancy Strategy. They show that months of handing out condoms, sex advice and morning after pills to young girls have unsurprisingly
WITH more than 80 per cent of women diagnosed with breast cancer being over 50, younger women with the disease often feel isolated. But new standards of care for younger women with breast cancer aim to change all that Emma Joseph reports. WHEN Wendy Harrington
NEW DORSET police figures show that 59 per cent of violent crime in Bournemouth town centre during the past year has been alcohol-related. The vast majority takes place between 10pm and 3am on Friday and Saturday nights. Earlier this week the Daily Echo
GETTING involved in a playground fight usually earns schoolchildren a detention. Not so for 14-year-old Adam Smith, who was given detention for NOT getting involved. Winton School pupil Adam was among a group who stood and watched two other pupils fighting
BOURNEMOUTH'S booming pub and club scene attracts tens of thousands of young people to the South Coast every weekend. With a nightly capacity for 35,000 tipplers and more licensed premises per square mile than Soho, the resort has well and truly ridded
A BOURNEMOUTH man who pleaded with a judge to jail him for life was yesterday sent to prison for 18 months. Schizophrenic Frank Money, 52, of Grantley Road, admitted affray on November 26 last year. Bournemouth Crown Court heard how Money had entered
BEWARE! Putting your trousers on can be dangerous. That's the latest government warning after a recent survey revealed how people are really hurting themselves during home and leisure time. The wince-inducing study, conducted by the Royal Society for
BOURNEMOUTH MP David Atkinson says he stands ready to help jailed backpacker Daisy Angus by encouraging the Indian Authorities to speed up her trial. It has been just over 14 months since the 23-year-old Bournemouth girl was arrested by customs officials
The 1984-85 miners' strike caused deeper divisions than any industrial conflict in recent memory. Twenty years on, Darren Slade finds the scars have yet to fully heal IT was a conflict that split the nation, destroying friendships and causing rifts in
A FORMER SAS officer from Hampshire faces execution after being accused of plotting a coup in an oil-rich African state. Simon Mann, who is reported to have a home in the New Forest, is locked up in a notorious prison outside the Zimbabwean capital Harare
AIR accident investigators are working hard to get to the bottom of events that led to last week's horrific helicopter crash. From looking at the debris on the ground, examining the wreckage, talking to Air Traffic Control and considering the weather
AS flames tore through a car, brave passer-by Ollie Broughton risked his life to rescue a semi-conscious casualty trapped inside. Courageous Ollie, 23, star of GMTV's Weight Loss Island, who lives in Broadstone, spotted a car well alight, crossed the
A DORSET pub landlady is experiencing not so much bump in the night as miaow in the bar. Spooky goings-on at the White Hart pub in Wimborne have left licensee Amanda Bodenham convinced she has a ghost cat living on the premises. And she claims it has
BOURNEMOUTH'S play-off hopes were kept simmering at Blundell Park where Paul Warhurst's own goal salvaged them a point. Cherries opened brightly with both Stephen Purches and Steve Fletcher letting fly with shots which both missed the target. Fletcher
EX-CHERRIES star John Bailey and his fellow Wembley heroes of 1998 are reforming for one final run-out. The Auto Windscreens Shield finalists, who made club history as the only Cherries side to play at Wembley, will take on the current AFC Bournemouth
THE latest information from those in the know is that the world will end in the year 2012. I'm only sorry that I have to bring this matter up - newspapers are so often accused of preoccupation with bad news that it's the last thing I should write about
