A BOURNEMOUTH company has been issued with a £150,000 fine after making hundreds of thousands of unlawful nuisance marketing calls.

A BOURNEMOUTH University student has appeared in court after obstructing a police constable who was dealing with a party which breached Covid regulations.

A MAN who abandoned his pet birds has been given a suspended prison sentence and banned from keeping animals for five years.

FIRE crews were called to West Howe on Saturday morning to a fire in the ground floor kitchen of a property.

FERNDOWN Post Office will remain closed for another week after a further coronavirus case.

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A MAN has appeared in court in relation to an alleged robbery of a boy.

A BOY suffered a 'potentially broken nose' after he was punched in the face in "unpleasant and unprovoked" assault.

A DRIVER on her phone at a set of traffic lights told police it was “important” before driving away with her phone still in her hand.

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A PHYSIOTHERAPIST from Westbourne has been helping stand-up legend Eddie Izzard with her most demanding challenge to date – running 32 marathons in 31 days.

COUNCIL chiefs in the New Forest have angered beach hut owners by drawing up proposals to bulldoze public toilets.

A RESOLUTION has been applied by BCP Council to regulate sex establishments throughout the whole conurbation.

COASTGUARD were alerted to a landslide in Purbeck involving a section of a garden.

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A MAN is due to appear in court in connection with an alleged assault and criminal damage incident in Bournemouth.

UNDER pressure staff at the critical care unit in Poole Hospital have had 'unbelievable support' from the military.

While we wait for pubs and nightclubs to reopen, the Echo looks back at the opening of nightclub Cameo.

DURING the pandemic, people have rediscovered the simple act of walking – the oldest, cheapest and greenest transport there is.

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AROUND a fifth of households identified as homeless across Dorset last summer were in work, figures reveal.

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Echo Camera Club member Amanda Jane Norfolk captured this very frosty sunrise during her walk at Godshill in the New Forest.

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FOLLOWING on from the letter last week concerning litter on the A31 either side of Canford Bottom, some of this unsightly litter has been lying there since before December 2020.

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MANY of us miss pubs more than ever right now – but there are some watering holes we've missed for a while longer.

THE leader of BCP Council said he would not let the town be “overwhelmed” this summer as it was last year.

FIREFIGHTERS are reported to have been called to a large fire on heathland in the New Forest.

Poole yachtswoman Pip Hare says she has “no regrets” after completing the Vendée Globe solo non-stop round the world race.

COVID cases and hospitalisations are continuing to fall in Dorset – but case rates are still higher than when the county entered the second national lockdown in November.

THREE people have been fined £200 each for a breach of Covid rules after they had been socialising at an address in North Dorset.

TRIBUTES have been paid to the man fatally stabbed in Westbourne in June last year.

A PRIMARY school with just 48 pupils is facing closure after a decline in pupil numbers.

A SQUIRREL suffered horror injuries and had to be euthanised after it was shot out of a tree in Poole by two youths using a catapult.