NEGLIGENT pet owners in Dorset have been slammed for their appalling treatment of rabbits. A shocking survey by the RSPCA has revealed nearly nine out of 10 have no company, three quarters have no food available and a shocking 69 per cent have no clean
STREET pedlars are "living on borrowed time" as a long-awaited crackdown gets under way, it has been claimed. After years of fielding complaints about the number of pedlars, Bournemouth council plans to join forces with the police to stamp out the problem
TEACHING bosses in Bournemouth have added their voices to national calls for a revamp of the A-level system, after it was claimed that this year's marks would probably be the best ever. Education experts are predicting that the results out on Thursday
PLANS to transform Shelley Manor were turned down by councillors on Monday, August 15 despite impassioned pleas from colleagues and residents. Ten members of Bournemouth Borough Council's planning board supported a recommendation to reject the scheme
THE tragic death of a three-year-old girl who suffocated as she played in the sand has brought the issue of beach safety into the spotlight. Soaring temperatures are certain to attract tens of thousands of people to Dorset's beaches over the next few
STREET pedlars are "living on borrowed time" as a long-awaited crackdown gets under way, it has been claimed. After years of fielding complaints about the number of pedlars, Bournemouth council plans to join forces with the police to stamp out the problem
RESIDENTS at the Silent Woman Park near Bere Regis fear they will be trapped in unsaleable properties if councillors approve proposals that would require a six-metre safety gap between their park homes. Residents thought a solution had been found when
POOLE Park took a major step towards Section One safety when completing a double over high-riding Wessex. On a day when 17 matches in the Premier League and Combination were lost to rain Poole Park emerged soggy but triumphant at Broadstone with a dashing
THE £800 million sale of Poole-based Fitness First - the world's second largest gym operator - has taken another step forward. The largest gym operator in UK and Europe is now officially listed as up for sale by the City's Takeover Panel which regulates
EMPTY offices on the outskirts of Lymington could provide a temporary home for the New Forest National Park Authority. The NPA, headed by chief executive Lindsay Cornish, has just submitted a planning application to New Forest District Council asking
DESPITE a shortage of money and staffing which has forced cuts in its service, Christchurch Citizens Advice Bureau has been rated among the best in the country. The bureau dealt with some 8,000 enquiries last year, handled by a dozen volunteer advisors
HE was known as a loner and an "introvert". Those who noticed Peter Mason at all knew him as a homeless man who carried his worldly goods in plastic bags. His links with the world were so few his body is thought to have lain undis-covered for an astonishing
THE tragic death of a three-year-old girl who suffocated as she played in the sand has brought the issue of beach safety into the spotlight. Soaring temperatures are certain to attract tens of thousands of people to Dorset's beaches over the next few
IT may not have the same drama as becoming hopelessly lost in a tropical rain forest, but for pensioner Derek Gritten spending three hours trapped in a gorse thicket was adventure enough. The 71-year-old, from Arne Avenue, in Poole, was walking home from
ALCOHOL-related deaths have soared thanks to Britain's burgeoning binge-drinking culture, with health specialists warning that young people are drinking themselves to death. The number of people dying from alcohol-related diseases has spiralled out of
THE mysterious death of a man who plunged from a cliff in the West Indies may be referred back to police there following concerns voiced by a Daily Echo reader. Poole-born Peter Beament died more than four years ago in Antigua. Last week an inquest in
A TRAINEE PR man is collecting colouring books, crayons and money to help children in Thailand affected by the Boxing Day tsunami. Ben Sewell, 28, of Ashley, near Ringwood, plans to fly out to Khao Lak, one of the worst-hit coastal areas, on September
LIKE his old mate Les Dennis, comedian Roy Walker is doing a fair bit of straight acting these days. He'll soon be seen in the movie The Jealous God playing a priest. "I know," he says. "It's type-casting for Irish men of a certain age. They want someone
VILLAGERS who feared a "nightclub" in their quiet community would make their lives unbearable have won a partial victory at an historic meeting. Eric and Tina Pope are the first landlords to apply for a variation of their Winterborne Kingston pub licence
