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The company was founded in the early 20th century by dairy farmer Spencer Milton Cottee (ca.1864 – 8 June 1944) from Lismore.Cottee was a champion of the dairy industry and began processing and marketing the milk by-product casein.
The Bournemouth Daily Echo, commonly known as the Daily Echo (a.k.a. the Bournemouth Echo), is a local newspaper that covers the area of southeast Dorset, England, including the towns Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch.
It was Cottee's father, Spencer Milton Cottee, who developed the drink Passiona on which the business was based. In 1924, Harold Cottee gave up the study of law to marry an English nurse, Lois Spencer, who persuaded him to move to Sydney and try to make a success of the company registered by him and his father in 1927 (The Bulletin 30 July 1968).
Poole F.C. was unable to complete season 1929–30 in the Southern League due to financial difficulties [4] and left four games unfulfilled. [5] In May 1930 a deficit of £4261 was reported and the club went into voluntary liquidation. [6] Two weeks later a new club under the name of Poole Town FC was created. [7]
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council is a unitary authority in Dorset, England.It was formed in April 2019, with the inaugural elections held in May of that year. The council is made up of 76 councillors from 33 wards, elected for a four-year term, with the next elections due take place in 2027.
The Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (S&DJR, also known as the S&D, S&DR or SDJR), was an English railway line jointly owned by the Midland Railway (MR) and the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) that grew to connect Bath (in north-east Somerset) and Bournemouth (then in Hampshire; now in south-east Dorset), with a branch in Somerset from Evercreech Junction to Burnham-on-Sea and Bridgwater.
The first version of the Poole constituency existed from 1455 until 1885. During this period its exact status was a parliamentary borough, sending two burgesses to Westminster per year, except during its last 17 years when its representation was reduced to one member.
It has been reported that the Port of Poole is a target for Illegal immigration to the United Kingdom. [16] In 2017, 18 migrants were found including children in a lorry. [17] In 2019, the then local MP for Poole, Robert Syms called on the government and the Minister of State for Immigration to provide more resources to deal with the issue. [18]