A MENTALLY-ill asylum seeker who ran over a teenager and her mother after a campaign of harassment has been jailed for 12 years. Azad Abdullah drove into Uzbekistanis Nilufar Sadikova, 17, and her mother Oidin, 40, as they walked home from work along
A MOTHER-of-two has told how she and her children are virtual prisoners in their own home after being regularly shot at by yobs with BB guns on a Bournemouth housing estate. The single mum, who is too afraid to be named, said the gang have shot at both
MATERIAL girl Madonna and her film director hubby take an active role in their North Dorset community, according to a local publican. The pop icon and husband Guy Ritchie regularly enjoy a tipple in their village pub and Madge is often seen out jogging
BOSSES at Bournemouth and Poole College say they intend to crack on with a controversial scheme giving unemployed youngsters free iPods - despite criticism from education campaigners and intense media attention. As revealed in the Daily Echo on Wednesday
IT was another romance between a handsome American and a young English woman. Sixty years later, it forms the centrepiece of an exhibition recalling what life was like in Bournemouth during the Second World War. The Imperial War Museum has released pictures
IT'S the end of the world as Royston Vasey knows it. There's a storm a-brewing over this deeply dysfunctional community and the omens are not good. Reverend Bernice (Reece Shearsmith) confides in restart officer Pauline (Steve Pemberton) of an ancient
AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL dig on Brownsea Island, desperately needed in order to preserve 400 years of history from being eroded away, is taking place this week. The dig was organised amid concerns about the speed of erosion on part of the island. The Brownsea
BECKY Brown was Bournemouth Dolphins' golden girl when the club hosted its open meet for novices at Littledown. The 14-year-old won five events in three strokes in her age group - the 50m breaststroke (40.93), 50m and 100m butterfly (35.50 and 1:23.65
POOLE middleweight Steve Bendall will try to resurrect his career against Frenchman Asmael Kerzazi in an international contest over eight rounds in the Coventry SkyDome later this month. The 31-year-old southpaw returns to his home city on Saturday, June
WEYMOUTH triathlete star Abi Bayley has been picked to compete for Britain in what is probably the world's toughest sporting event this summer. The tall and slender 27-year-old professional athlete, who races for the Bath-based Total Fitness team, will
NEARLY three-quarters of all business are not promoting health and wellbeing in the workplace, which is resulting in low productivity. Research released by Business in the Community and HR Magazine shows that while a healthy workplace is rated in the
THE sun shone, a brass band played and volunteers in Edwardian outfits served Earl Grey tea and home-made cakes for visitors at the formal opening of the restored Japanese Gardens at Kingston Lacy. Counsellor Futao Motai, director of the Japan Information
UP TO 13 phone antennas could be installed on Dorchester's listed water tower, nearby residents fear. Four antennas are already up on the Bridport Road landmark and mobile phone company O2UK was granted permission earlier this year for another three.
NEW boat trips are giving passengers a different view of the Jurassic Coast - from under the water. Businessman Geoff Pegler has launched the maritime voyages off Weymouth and Portland on a custom-built vessel. His Discoverer boat has viewing windows
A CONTROVERSIAL bypass plan will be reconsidered after protests at a council meeting. Dorset County Council officers had recommended that the Sandford bypass on the A351 be removed from Purbeck District Council's transport plan after opposition from the
AN EXPERIENCED snowboarder died after falling and tumbling 100 metres down a crevasse an inquest heard. Daniel Ramage, 24 was snowboarding off piste near the popular French Alps ski resort of Chamonix when he fell in April this year. But despite efforts
WORRIED Ringwood councillors want Hampshire County Council to take a long hard look at controversial plans for a review of ambulance services. Hampshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust board members have recently ratified its Estates Strategy which could
THE illegal storage of waste has earned a Blandford skip hire company a bill of £3,708 in fines and costs. Officers from the Environment Agency visited Poole Patio Skips, Wareham Road, in December last year where they found four skips containing household
SEAN O'Driscoll is meeting Joe Keith about a potential move to Dean Court. The left-sided star was released by Colchester at the end of the season after falling out of favour with U's boss Phil Parkinson. But the Cherries manager has confirmed he will
PIRATES chief Matt Ford has re-iterated he wants a world record fee for Hans Andersen if Ipswich or any other Elite League club want to buy him. But Ford has also alerted the Witches that Poole RIAS might be open to a cash and rider swap deal with Ipswich's
FOLK legends John Renbourn and Jacqui McShee - founder members of the 60s band Pentangle - are among the major attractions at Wimborne Folk Festival this weekend (June 11, 12). Renbourn and McShee, who along with Bert Jansch, Danny Thompson and Terry
A WIDOW has clashed with property developers who planned to give their new flats the same name as her house. Lake View has been home to Evelyn Burt for 43 years, so it came as a shock to find out that APC Homes was intending to call its new block of flats
WARTIME sweethearts Tom and Rose Martin are to celebrate 60 years of marriage with a family meal. The couple are enjoying a quiet day together for their diamond anniversary today and plan to toast their long-standing union with about 25 people at Weymouth's
PLANS for a waste processing plant near Winfrith could hamper recycling efforts for years to come, it has been claimed. Dr Peter Reid, a consultant working for Winfrith, Broadmayne, Owermoigne and Affpuddle parish councils said a mechanical-biological
TIME has been no healer for Dave Berry's family - on the anniversary of his death they feel no closer to justice or peace than the day he died. On June 9 a year ago the 16-year-old non-swimmer was thrown to his death into the River Stour at Sturminster
MATERIAL girl Madonna and her film director hubby take an active role in their North Dorset community, according to a local publican. The pop icon and husband Guy Ritchie regularly enjoy a tipple in their village pub and Madge is often seen out jogging
BOSSES at Bournemouth and Poole College say they intend to crack on with a controversial scheme giving unemployed youngsters free iPods - despite criticism from education campaigners and intense media attention. As revealed yesterday in the Daily Echo
BEDDING plants rather than housing are set to spring up on a former council nursery site at Roeshot Hill after neighbouring Stewarts GardenLands revealed its plans to expand the garden centre complex. The two-acre site has lain fallow since the end of
'THE Big Five' - that's what I've been told to look out for on my trip of a lifetime on safari in Tanzania. But I'm on a mission for them not to see me! My Bournemouth wardrobe of pink and turquoise would surely scare off a pride of lions and send the
POLICE have raided a suspected brothel which has been allegedly operating under the noses of shoppers in Poole High Street for around two months - but members of the public say they should have acted sooner. Officers arrested four women aged between 19
A CLUBBER needed 51 stitches after being slashed in the face in a horrifying late-night assault. Father-of-three Richard Barclay, 29, had gone to Elements in Bournemouth to celebrate a friend's birthday and decided to walk home to Boscombe in the early
A CRACKDOWN on fly tipping and litter is under way across Dorset. Those caught dumping waste could face a maximum fine of £50,000 or five years in prison under the new Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act, which came into effect this week. Offenders
YOUNG children and teenagers are spending more money on sweets and treats than anything else because they are addicted to sugar, warn local health experts. The claim follows a new report published by The Office of National Statistics that showed how children
SOUTH Dorset MP and biodiversity minister Jim Knight will be asking for the public's views on keeping monkeys and other primates as pets in a review of government policy. A new report from the International Fund for Animal Welfare warns of a catalogue
