2011-06-11 15:46
It was all looking so promising a few days ago as my balance soared to an upwardly mobile £9.03. It appeared I was set to break even on my £10 deposit and possibly advance into a… Read More
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2011-06-11 15:46
It was all looking so promising a few days ago as my balance soared to an upwardly mobile £9.03. It appeared I was set to break even on my £10 deposit and possibly advance into a… Read More
2011-06-07 08:18
I should have perhaps explained the nature of the challenge in a more lucid way in my previous blog. Just to recap, on the weekend of the Champions League final, I bet £25 of my own ha… Read More
2011-06-07 08:18
I should have perhaps explained the nature of the challenge in a more lucid way in my previous blog. Just to recap, on the weekend of the Champions League final, I bet £25 of my own ha… Read More
2011-06-03 22:27
OK, I'll keep this as brief as possible. Last Saturday, to celebrate a rendevous with some old friends and the Champions League final between Manchester United and Barcelona, I opened an onl… Read More
2011-06-03 22:27
OK, I'll keep this as brief as possible. Last Saturday, to celebrate a rendevous with some old friends and the Champions League final between Manchester United and Barcelona, I opened an onl… Read More
2011-04-20 21:57
Two weeks, two successive recoveries from two goal deficits and Wycombe Wanderers continue to desperately cling to the one remaining automatic promotion place in npower League Two.Arguably… Read More
2011-03-02 00:34
Two years ago, police chiefs warned of an impending 'summer of rage' in response to the repercussions of the economic collapse during 2008. Superintendent David Hartshorn, head of Scotland Y… Read More
2011-02-25 00:30
The last few months have witnessed an alarming increase in violent attacks throughout Bournemouth.A vicious assault on a taxi driver, grandfather Thomas Newton, during an altercation with tw… Read More
2011-02-23 17:29
Wycombe Wanderers thrashed Burton Albion 4-1 on Tuesday evening to avoid the ignominy of losing four League Two games in a row for the first time since 2007. The win has seen the Blues clamb… Read More
2011-02-05 17:53
Fatal stabbings, sex games gone wrong, citizens involved with armed robbery and pot-smoking students. These are the stories hitting the local headlines in Bournemouth. They may even be simil… Read More
2011-01-08 01:01
Although the title header, "build it and they will come" is probably a tenet unlikely to hold much sway in the business world, it is one pertinent in relation to the forthcoming opening of a… Read More
2011-01-07 17:41
Football players these days don't tend to hang around at a club much longer than a Wycombe Wanderers finance director. That aside, we'll be hoping that our new charges stick and are in it fo… Read More
2011-01-02 19:50
Wycombe Wanderers ushered in 2011 with a New Year's Day victory against Cheltenham Town. The Blues recorded a 2-1 win courtesy of two stunning goals from Stuart Beavon and Gareth Ainsworth… Read More
2010-12-28 23:24
As a key component of Bournemouth Borough Council's strategy to revitalise Boscombe, the controversial surf reef has thus far largely proved to be divisive.The construction of Europe's large… Read More
2010-12-25 11:49
Another year has flown by and we are now preparing to usher in 2011! Merry Christmas and a happy New Year from Arm Chairs & Deck Chairs, the blog that covers news and opinion relating to… Read More
2010-12-25 11:49
Another year has flown by and we are now preparing to usher in 2011! Merry Christmas and a happy New Year from Arm Chairs & Deck Chairs, the blog that covers news and opinion relating to… Read More
2010-12-05 00:56
Bournemouth's image changed dramatically throughout the noughties. Once supposedly the favoured retreat of the 'blue rinse brigade', a term used to describe right-leaning pensioners, the sea… Read More
2010-11-28 22:45
It is not often that I will write a personal blog however I feel impelled to following a weekend break in Brockenhurst, located in the beautiful New Forest. My intrepid companions, my partne… Read More
2010-11-22 22:03
There is no doubt that the way we consume news has transformed the media landscape, even at a local level. Improvements in access to news and journalism mean that even the more obscure stori… Read More
2010-11-02 20:10
As darkness falls and sometimes even the ball changes colour, Wycombe Wanderers enter the winter months illuminated by consecutive victories.It has been the week manager Gary Waddock's playe… Read More
2010-10-31 08:59
I don't get Halloween. Well, I understand its premise and existence but as some kind of night of revellry, I only see the tills of retailers and licenced establishments ringing loudest to it… Read More
2010-09-27 23:57
Hats off to the Recessionairs for taking on those ghastly banks. A very British rebellion against corporate greed has taken place in Westbourne, Bournemouth this past weekend. As reported th… Read More
2010-09-13 11:25
"There ain't nuthin' more powerful than the smell of mendacity!", so said Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt during the 1958 film Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. It's an obscure reference but perhaps a perti… Read More
2010-09-09 06:11
It's the Council, the pubs, the clubs, the take-aways, the cheap booze, those lascivious hens, those haughty stags. Everyone's pointing the finger of blame at all and sundry apart from thems… Read More
2010-08-19 17:03
Take flight fellow Bournemouthians! The third annual More Bus Bournemouth Air Festival sponsored by, affiliated with blah blah, is back.From today (Thursday 19th August) until Sunday we can… Read More
2010-08-08 22:23
I wasn't very happy about being woken up at 2am. Language schools are now the heartbeat of the Bournemouth economy and students from all over the globe converge on the town each summer. Hear… Read More
2010-08-03 23:28
Willi's WycombeThe new English Football League season is set to begin this Saturday (7th August) with Wycombe kicking off their 2010/2011 Npower League Two campaign at home to Morecambe. The… Read More
2010-07-07 11:36
Love it or loathe it, Irish airline, Ryanair, the budget way to fly with no frills. has become synonymous with Bournemouth Airport.Thousands take advantage of cheap flights locally to get aw… Read More
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