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NEWSTuesday February 11, 2014 / 3fb.com/bournemouthdailyecho
bournemouthecho.co.uk/news
Oh buoy, look what’s washed upA BRIGHT yellow buoywashed up from the sea atBranksome Beach is nowheading back ‘home’.
Dorset residents flocked totake a look at the one-tonbuoy, usually found furtherout to sea, before it wasattended to by Wessex Water.
Workmen used a flatbedand crane to lift it off the
sands of the beach, ready tomove it and reinstate it intothe sea today.
It comes just days after ared buoy was washed up onSandbanks Beach due to thehigh tides brought to theSouth coast last week.
Borough of Poole took totheir Facebook pageyesterday to say that work is
being carried out to clear theprom along BranksomeBeach of sand, to make itpassable following therecent storms.
However, they said thatwith more storms forecast,they asked for residents’patience as the sand may getblown back up onto theprom.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Flasher’sguilty pleaBOURNEMOUTH: A flasher haspleaded guilty to deliberatelyexposing himself in Poole lastJune, and possessing indecentimages of children.
Bournemouth Crown Courtheard Mark Lemon, 56,admitted one count ofexposure dated June 6, andfour counts of possessingindecent photographs,although he denied onefurther charge of exposure,which was accepted by theprosecution.
Lemon, of ChesildeneAvenue, Bournemouth, wasreleased on bail and will besentenced on March 10.
Pensionerstill criticalBOURNEMOUTH: An 85-year-oldwoman remains in a criticalbut stable condition after aroad accident in Boscombe.
The woman was crossingPalmerston Road outside Aldiwhen she was involved in acollision with a blackVauxhall Corsa on Fridaymorning.
Actor truly fangfulfor his starring rolePLAYING Dracula in the West End isa dream come true for formerBournemouth schoolboy Doug Child.
His career has completelytransformed from his days working asa call advisor at First Assist inBournemouth to wowing thousandsof people on stage as part of thecult collective The Circus ofHorrors.
The dream startedwhen Doug, aged 36, sawan advert looking for asomeone to playNosferatu – The CampDracula in the newspectacular for its WestEnd debut.
He said: “I was busyworking in a call centre forFirst Assist and saw the ad inthe Stage and before I knew it I wasperforming with The Circus ofHorrors in a packed theatre inLondon’s West End.”
The actor went to PokesdownSchool and then Porchester School
and first saw stardom when he playedthe Mad Hatter in Adventure
Wonderland.Doug, who still lives inBournemouth, is on the
road most of the timewith the travellingshow but still calls theseaside town his home.
After leavingAdventure Wonderland
Doug worked as aperformer at children’s
parties for four years and atthe First Assist call centre.
Doug is accompanied on stage byStephanie Mercury, who is anotherlocal actress from Corfe Mullen.
He added: “I have always been a fanof horror and Nosferatu was my hero.
“I studied his every move so when I
went for the audition I had it prettywell nailed. Nevertheless, I was stillshocked to be given the job.”
The Circus of Horrors showstormed into the finals of Britain’sGot Talent with their eclecticcollection of the macabre inspired bythe streets of Victorian London.
Ever since its conception atGlastonbury Festival in 1995 the tourhas achieved world cult status,shocking audiences with daredevilacts, from a pickled person tooutstanding aerial acrobatics.
Tickets are now on sale at theBournemouth Pavilion Ticket officefor the performance on Monday,March 17 at 7.30pm.
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MiriamPhillips
VAMPING IT UP: Douglas Child willbe playing Nosferatu in the Circus
of Horrors’ new production and,inset, at the call centre