YOU can buy them, own them and eat them - even sell them - quite legally; and yet they contain controlled substances which could land you in jail for seven years if found in your possession. Supply carries a life sentence. Confusion reigns over the legal
IT'S a typically grey British day and a stream of incessant drizzle is the unappealing view from your window. Close your eyes and where do you escape to? Sunny Spain? Florida's Gulf Coast? The French countryside? Or maybe you dream of a new life Down
THE mother who glassed her son in the face and received a community rehabilitation order should have been jailed. That is the response from more than 130 readers who called the Daily Echo hotline in disgust after reading Saturday's front page. The 38-
ONE of Bournemouth's most influential businessmen has hit out at council officers for the chaos already being caused by the closure of the busy A338. Richard Carr, chairman of Future 3000 Plc, says he was caught up in the tailbacks for two-and-a-half
BOURNEMOUTH Scouts' ambitious million-pound fund-raising appeal has got off to a flying start thanks to support from the Red Arrows. The Daily Echo-backed Target 2007 appeal has been boosted by the announcement that it is the charity chosen to benefit
THERE was a rousing welcome for local postie Will Blight as villagers greeted him on his return from a mammoth round-Britain bike ride. Since May the 34-year-old postman has been peddling his way around the UK coastline at a rate of 36 miles a day. With
GARY Emerson has been showered with congratulations since he became the latest European Tour champion with a stunning victory in the Russian Open in Moscow. "I have had over 100 messages by phone and text from so many people who really wanted me to win
A LOOPHOLE in the law, which can stop the public from knowing the identity of young delinquents who break antisocial behaviour orders, could be closed after The Daily Echo brought the issue to light. The Echo asked Dorset Police for their support after
ARTEFACTS covering every century from the 16th to the present have been discovered by divers at a single site in Poole Harbour. Mike Markey believes the area inside the harbour entrance was probably used throughout the centuries by ships seeking shelter
DORCHESTER'S inability to defend saw them crash to a 4-0 defeat against highly-fancied Havant & Waterlooville at Westleigh Park in the Conference South last night. If it hadn't been for some excellent saves from goalkeeper Craig Bradshaw, including
NEW signing Nick Simmons is set for his Haven Wildcats debut tonight. The Exeter Falcons asset will line-up at the Wessex Stadium against Oxford Silver Dream Academy in a rearranged Conference League fixture (tapes up 7.30pm). Simmons, 23, comes in to
Adam Wilde today admitted his short Terras career so far has been a nightmare. The winger has missed Weymouth's dismal start to the Nationwide South season after suffering a groin injury on his debut. The former Worcester City star is set to undergo a
ENGLAND'S football team may not have been lucky in Portugal this year but Poole accountants Mazars are hoping for more success. Mazars' finest will be flying out to Portugal's Club Med de Balaia next month to compete in an international sporting tournament
THERE are few things in business more maddening than having a customer who will not pay on time. Late payment destroys trust and poisons the personal relationships that small businesses like to develop with clients. If cash flow is already tight it sometimes
THE first business units are being allocated at the new Enterprise Pavilion currently under construction at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth's Talbot Campus. The Enterprise Pavilion has been designed specifically to help young graduates in the creative
ELEVEN intrepid volunteers will be living rough in East Dorset in a bid to raise cash for the I'm NOT a Celebrity and I've Got to Stay Here Challenge next month. They will be hunting for their food and building shelters in Moors Valley Country Park -
HOUSE prices are finally stalling across Dorset. And many homes in Dorset are being sold for slightly less than the original asking price, estate agents said today. They say house prices are at a standstill and offers lower than the full advertised price
DORSET'S contribution to Britain's maritime heritage is to be celebrated with a series of events. Plans are underway for a series of sea-themed events across the county in 2005, which will range from memorial services to sailing celebrations. Weymouth
TERMINAL cancer sufferer Jane Tomlinson ran, swam and cycled her way through a Dorset triathlon and then admitted: "It was the toughest challenge I've ever done." The inspirational mother-of-three was one of 1,750 athletes taking part in the Gatorade
PARTS of Dorset are an "electronic desert" living in the Dark Ages as far as communications is concerned, it has been claimed. Only one third of North Dorset can get broadband, there's no channel Five and Mongolia gets better mobile reception, it is claimed
BOYS and girls can stay out to play for at least a little longer after Hurn parish councillors granted a stay of execution to a threatened woodland play area in the village. Play equipment installed on the edge of the Moors Close estate only four years
WOULDN'T it be great to live in a world where common sense prevailed? A world without speed cameras, so we could all drive as fast as we liked, because, naturally, we know best. And a world without traffic wardens, so we could stop on the zebra crossing
PORTSMOUTH have put the block on loan star Eddie Howe lining up in Cherries' Carling Cup first round clash at Leyton Orient tonight (August 24). Howe will be forced to sit out the trip to Brisbane Road after Pompey boss Harry Redknapp turned down Cherries
CALLOUS yobs have been targeting pigeons in the centre of Bournemouth, with stricken birds found with their legs cruelly stapled together and tied up with wire. Two young girls from Ensbury Park made the sickening discovery in the resort's Lower Gardens
POLICE are hunting a man who indecently assaulted a little girl as she played on a footpath near her home in the middle of the day. The six-year-old was playing in Old Farm Close, Oakdale, Poole, at 12.30pm when the stranger approached her and carried
POLICE are hunting a man who indecently assaulted a little girl as she played on a footpath near her home in the middle of the day. The six-year-old was playing in Old School Close, Ashley Cross, Poole, at 12.30pm when the stranger approached her and
THERE was a rousing welcome for local postie Will Blight as villagers greeted him on his return from a mammoth round-Britain bike ride. Since May the 34-year-old postman has been peddling his way around the UK coastline at a rate of 36 miles a day. With
EMPLOYEE benefit trusts set up to help workers across the South are the latest target for an Inland Revenue crackdown. Many employers across this region who have set up employee benefit trusts have been receiving Inland Revenue demands for PAYE and/or
CONSIDERING a gang of terrorists once tried to blow her up when she was playing Bournemouth's Pier Theatre, actress Vicki Michelle seems remarkably fond of the place. Eleven years ago, when she was appearing there with Lionel Blair, Su Pollard and Les
ROWDY gangs are being targeted under new powers given to police from today. Dorchester police chiefs have joined forces with West Dorset District Council to introduce a law enabling them to control public behaviour in the town's historic Borough Gardens
FANS who paid out hundreds of pounds for concert tickets were furious to find out that they were being given away free to people in the street. Hundreds of tickets for Pop4Weymouth were being given away in the run up to the concert. Event organisers refused
A LEGAL battle between the New Forest Verderers and a group of commoners led to the cancellation of the first pony round-up of the summer. The Northern Commoners whose cattle and ponies graze on National Trust owned commons in the Bramshaw area are facing
PORTSMOUTH have put the block on Eddie Howe lining up in Cherries' Carling Cup first round clash at Leyton Orient tonight. The Premiership outfit have declined Cherries' request to field the 26-year-old on-loan defender at Brisbane Road. Howe's place
