Hedgehog numbers in Britain are declining by three to five per cent each year in towns and in the rural landscape, with the loss most apparent in the South West, South East and Eastern regions of England, according to the results of a 10-year trend analysis by the People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES). Between 2001 and…
This year’s annual fund raising concert for the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s benevolent fund will take place at Lighthouse, Poole on Sunday, 26 May, at 3pm. Dynamic Welsh conductor Owain Arwel Hughes will unite the orchestra and Bournemouth Symphony Chorus. The programme will include the rarely performed choral version of Brahms’s ‘Academic Festival Overture’ and the…
Annette Brooke, MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole, welcomed the announcement this week by the Health Minister, Dr Dan Poulter MP, that Poole Hospital would be one of 100 hospitals around the country to benefit from a new £25million maternity unit fund. Poole Hospital will receive a £40,000 grant to fund for additional birthing…
