CCTV footage obtained by the Bournemouth Daily Echo shows an individual brandish a machete and swing it in the direction of another person COUNCIL staff have been finding what every parent knows – teenagers can often be tricky to engage with. While providing community-run activities for younger children is generally successful, finding something to divert 14-17 year olds during the summer holidays is proving more difficult. The result has been large groups gathering in Bournemouth’s Lower Gardens, at Sandbanks and in some other spots around Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, causing concern for some adults. A council committee heard on Tuesday evening there are worried about some, as young as 12, mixing with older groups, and the potential trouble they could get into with drugs, drinking and anti-social behaviour.
A CGI of the proposed Kingland House development off the George Roundabout in Poole PLANS to build an 11-storey block of flats in the centre of Poole have been approved, despite criticism of a lack of any ‘affordable’ housing within them. BCP Council’s planning committee approved the scheme for Arndale House, off The George roundabout, which would see 128 flats and commercial units replace the existing building. Councillors said they were “incredulous” that no affordable housing was included but agreed to grant planning permission, saying it complied with council policy. Poole Property Investments submitted its application for the site, also known as Kingland House, in 2018, originally proposing 225 flats be built.
How we moved from convict brutality to songs around the piano
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How we moved from convict brutality to songs around the piano
As The Sydney Morning Herald celebrates its 190th birthday, three leading Australian writers consider the stepping stones to the development of Sydneyâs artistic culture.
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On June 4, 1789 a theatrical cast made up of young convict performers performed a play in Sydney. It was George Farquharâs
The Recruiting Officer, a play full of humour and melodrama, both of which would become the fortes of the Australian shore and hinterland. The convict cast, young performers rejected and ejected from Europe, yet felt driven to reproduce the great European ritual of the play even as, along the harbour at Mosman and up the ascent of North Head, an epidemic of smallpox was striking the Eora people and killing them unceremoniously.
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I’ve been thinking lately about the pervasive decline in reading, a phenomenon I noticed as a college prof over many years of teaching, and which now seems to have become even more prevalent. These reflections were spurred by two films which I’ve recently re-watched, the rather gruesome three-part Hannibal series starring the inimitable Anthony Hopkins, and the ever-delightful six-episode
Oliver’s Travels featuring a charming performance from Alan Bates.
What struck me about the Hannibal trilogy was the surname Lecter, a homonym for the word “lector” from the Latin for “reader,” and which gives us the common word “lecture.” Hannibal the Cannibal is a reader of sorts, a rather voracious one. A forensic psychotherapist by profession, he is deeply educated, can lecture on Renaissance art and history and recite Dante in the original, loves and understands music, knows precisely how to detect life histories from a modicum of cues and de
Bournemouth Town Hall. THE budget drawn up by BCP Council has passed its penultimate hurdle after being given unanimous approval by its cabinet on Wednesday. Conservative councillors said the proposals would be “transformative” and that it would keep money in people’s pockets. It will now go before the full council later this month where it is expected that opposition groups will challenge the budget by putting forward alternatives. Unveiling his budget last month, council leader Drew Mellor said it allowed “significant” investment in services while also increasing council tax by a sum, he said, was one of the lowest in the country.