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  • New website launched for neurodivergent people in Dorset

    A NEW website will launch in Neurodiversity Celebration Week (18-24 March) to support Dorset’s neurodivergent community.  The new Dorset Neurodiversity Hub (www.nhsdorset.nhs.uk/neurodiversity) will provide an accessible, credible source of information

  • Satisfaction for Morebus passengers among highest in UK

    PASSENGER satisfaction on Morebus’ buses is among the highest in the country, according to independent watchdog Transport Focus.  Ninety per cent of those travelling on buses in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole – mostly made up of Morebus buses

  • 'Concerns over illegal electric scooters'

    THREE years ago when the currant Dorset PCC was elected , he made us aware that one of his top priorities was , and I assume still is “road safety”. At that time I was becoming increasingly concerned at what appeared to be an increasing number

  • 'I feel gutted for Dom Solanke'

    IN FORM Dom Solanke has been omitted by Gareth Southgate from the latest England squad to face Belgium and Brazil. Despite having a stellar season, despite scoring 15 premiership goals and despite being in the form of his life. Solanke has

  • 'BCP should adopt same recycling scheme as Malta'

    IN this day and age of trying to recycle everything. Why does our great councils of Dorset not adopt a scheme that Malta has adopted. The residents there take their plastic and glass waste to recycling hubs at every village or town. They

  • This was one of Bournemouth's earliest houses

    It was one of the earliest houses built in Bournemouth, later demolished to make way for the Bournemouth International Centre (BIC) In approximately 1860, the Russian intellectual Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen rented the residence along with Malwida

  • Poole company grows 1,500 per cent in four years

    AWARD-WINNING Poole-based finance software platform iplicit has been named among the UK’s top 20 fastest-growing companies.  iplicit was launched in 2019 to cater for organisations that were struggling with outdated on-premise accounting software

  • Flight to Barbados takes off from Bournemouth Airport

    SOME 300 passengers flew to Barbados directly from Bournemouth Airport on an exclusively chartered flight.  Travel agent Hays Travel took the holidaymakers to their tropical cruise in the Caribbean on the ‘door to door’ flight.  Hays Travel

  • BCP move seasonal charge date in Highcliffe car park

    HIGHCLIFFE residents have been left annoyed by a decision to bring forward seasonal charges in a car park.  BCP Council has initiated seasonal charges at Highcliffe cliff top car park from April 1 to March 14.  The car park is free during certain

  • Hand-built 'bug city' repeatedly vandalised in gardens

    A HANDMADE 'bug city' is being repeatedly vandalised at a pond and gardens in Bournemouth. In the quiet oasis of Coy Pond Garden, a miniature 'Bug City' skyline has been constructed on a couple of large tree stumps. The coy pond and gardens

  • Tacos on the quay: Dancing Moose partners open Mexican kiosk

    A new Mexican food kiosk has opened on Poole Quay run by the former chef and manager of Wimborne's Dancing Moose.  Chefs Sam Ogden, 34, and Molly Horwood, 29, have opened a new Mexican food business 'The Other Guy's Kitchen' in the kiosks at Poole

  • Former Echo employee celebrates 70th wedding anniversary

    A BOURNEMOUTH couple are set to celebrate more than seven decades of happiness together. Michael Le Brocq, 91, will celebrate his 70th wedding anniversary with his wife, Merle Le Brocq, 90, on March 27.  The couple married in 1954 while Michael