Daisy Boman’s sculptures displayed in Westover Gallery

Sculptures loaded with philosophy of life by Daisy Boman are displayed in Bournemouth Westover Gallery.

In her sculptures figures climb, interact with each other, fall, crawl and run mostly in groups, making people see what we have to live through to survive in a cruel world.

As you see them you can’t escape thoughts about all the challenges and traps that we have to overcome if we want to achieve something.

On one of her wall sculptures “Imagine” there are figures crawling from left bottom corner towards right top corner pushing each other to make their way up.

As you see this sculpture you feel small, as if you imagine yourself between these figures. You think over and over again whether you had such a struggle in your life to achieve your goals.

And lucky you if you see that you have found your way up without pushing someone down. Or unlucky you who have not achieved anything and you have all of this challenging way ahead.

Boman’s figures are all the same colour and the same shape. You realize that for her the colours and races doesn’t matter. She tries to make us see that we are “from the same mould” conditioned by the society we live in.

Her figures might make you laugh when you first see them, but look closer and you will quickly discover how serious they are.

Boman’s another wall sculpture is “Time To Go Higher”, which again shows figures crawling up, but this time there is more optimism in it.

There is a rope ladder on it and figures are trying to push themselves up, but at the top there is one figure that is looking back and reaching out its hand to help another figure.

This sculpture makes you feel that not everything is so bad and there are people in this world who still care about others and who are trying to make the world a better place to live.

There is one more sculpture by Boman in Westover gallery that attracts lots of attention. It was a brick of marble with two figures on top of it. They have their arms around each other’s shoulders and you see that they are having a heart to heart conversation.

It’s not possible to identify their sex and the reason is quite obvious. For Boman sex doesn’t matter either.

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Will Europe become a green energy centre?

Bournemouth will host MEP Graham Watson later today, who encourages making the green energy switch at a time of crisis.

He will speak at Bournemouth Adult Learning Centre in Slades Farm at 7pm about the European initiative on a proposed new supergrid, using high voltage direct current (HVDC), to bring together all the various renewable energy resources within Europe.

European Parliament wants to create a whole system of green energy supplies throughout the world.

Its project includes building solar, wind and hydro stations in different regions of the world and transmitting it by HVDC cables.

Members of European Parliament sent an official letter to Nicolas Sarkozy on 18th July 2008, encouraging him urgently to begin work on creating the new infrastructure Europe needed if they were to make a rapid shift to clean energy.

Emily Bullock from Dorset Energy Advice Centre says: "The UK and EU have ambitious renewable energy targets.

"These are important as a response to climate change and to reduce our dependence on current fuels such as nuclear, coal, gas and oil, for environmental and energy security reasons."

Bournemouth Liberal democrat Councillor Roger West: says: "We must move towards stopping burning fossil fuels. The Council has signed up to the Earth Charter and our major 2026 conference at the BIC I believe endorsed it."

Emily Bullock says: "Bournemouth and Poole's Energy Efficiency Strategy will aim to reduce carbon emissions by 30% by 2025 based on a 2005 baseline by saving energy."


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Boscombe has to wait for flats

A Boscombe area renovation project is paused, as Bournemouth planning board can't get the height of the proposed development right.

Bournemouth planning board discussed a planning application of a developer Dave Wells on Monday.

It sought planning permission for the demolition of the existing buildings and their replacement with a four storey block of 46 flats on the Christchurch street frontage, extending into Gloucester Road and the erection of a separate 3 storey block of 5 flats in Wolverton Road.

After the meeting Chairman John Beesley said: "Members agreed with the Planning Officer (Stephen Clark) that in terms of height massive bulk, it was inappropriate development and it didn't respect the neighboring properties which were domestic in scale."

However, developer Dave Wells said: "We will go back and talk to the Officer. We will explain to him that he was very wrong.The buildings are the same height as the ones around it."

He said if the Officer doesn't agree he would appeal. "We'll go to the government. In the government we will come and decide the application, which they are all so frightened of."

But Chairman said that he suspects Mr Wells will come forward and do as he suggested, which was to have further pre-application advice with officers and come forward with a more appropriate scheme that they will be able to support.

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Speed driver avoids disqualification

A woman driving over 64 mph in Bournemouth was able to avoid disqualification from driving today.

Ms Julie Fiona Bateman, 38, of Connaught Crescent, Parkstone pleaded guilty to speed driving, Bournemouth Magistrate’s Court heard today.

Prosecuting Paul Griffin said Ms Bateman was driving over 64 miles an hour on Wessex Way on January 15 at 6am.

Defending Justine Gayfors said Ms Bateman had exceptional hardship pointing that her father was very ill and she was transporting him. If she would be disqualified from driving, he would have grave problems being unable to walk on long distance.

Ms Bateman gave evidence trying to point out another problem. “I have a £28 000 debt that I am paying of working on two jobs. I’m also paying a fixed mortgage for my house in Southsea.’’
She also provided character references from both jobs.

District Judge (MC) Roger House said: “I want you to know that neither your debt problem nor your jobs cut the ice. The thing that I take into account deciding the case is your father’s case.” He warned Ms Bateman that if she breaks the law within next 3 years she would not have any opportunity of providing mitigation.

Ms Bateman got 3 point on the licence and was conditionally disqualified from driving. Besides she will have to pay £35.

Psychic holistic event

Ferndown village hall will become a home of psychics, mediums, palmists and others on Sunday.

Psychic holistic event will union different kinds of spiritualists on February 15 who will give lectures and demonstrations as well as tell your fortune, heal and put a spell on people.

An organiser Robert Broadhurst-Browne says: “Twelve years ago I went to a psychic fair and I’ve looked how they were running it. I saw that they were trying to make money out of it. As far as I’m concerned, I’m trying to help the public. You’ve got to make business as well, but you’ve got to help people.”

He says he works in this field for a while and this year it is his second event of this kind. He claims this business to have much success. The admission to the event costs £1, but the service fees vary.

Chaplain at Bournemouth University Sharon Hartwell thinks there can be a danger in such things. She fears that people believing in the things that are not real may harm themselves without even realising it.

“Say for example they were very ill and instead of going to a doctor, they decided that some spell or crystals could make them better.

“If you are dealing with anything in spiritual nature, at best it could be something you will be deceived by or it could be something quite dangerous. So we have to think carefully before we get involved in spiritual things and what we’re actually looking for.”