Hundreds of Sherborne business owners and residents took to the streets of the picturesque Dorset market town this week to fight proposals for an out of town Tesco superstore on the site of The Sherborne Hotel on the A30. Led by local celebrity Valerie Singleton, protestors carried placards denouncing the plans as they marched from…
Members of the Bournemouth Gilbert & Sullivan Society went carol singing in December at various functions in Bournemouth and Poole. They do this every year to support Macmillan caring locally, and particularly the Macmillan Unit at Christchurch Hospital. Their most recent efforts raised £4270, making a total over the last 20 years in excess of £60,000. The money, which was presented recently, will be used for ongoing refurbishments at the unit.
Martyn Underhill, the newly elected Dorset Police and Crime Commissioner, will be the guest speaker at the East Dorset Crime Prevention Panel’s 2013 AGM. The meeting will take place at the council chamber, East Dorset District Council, Furzehill, Wimborne at 11.15am on Friday 15 March. The meeting is open to all East Dorset residents.
Last year’s entries in the mags4dorset Creative Writing Awards were so outstanding that as well as the winner of the short story competition, the judges, Carol Rivers and Martin Baum, chose two highly commended stories. Here is one of them: ‘In Sickness and in Health’ by Phyllis Higgins from Frome. In Sickness and in Health…
INDIANA JONES wants a prestigious estate car to whisk his priceless antiques away from glory hunters and into museums – but which one? I suspect he goes weak at the knees for the top of the range Volkswagen Passat Alltrack. Why? Because its cargo capacity is 603-litres rising to 1,731-litres when the rear seats are…
Flagship store raises standard Costa Coffee in Wimborne was opened in February 2007 and has just undergone a major refurbishment. The Wimborne store was opened by local Costa franchisees Mark and Jane Brown. At the time it was their third Costa store and the business has now grown to 11 locations throughout the area, from…
mags4dorset Charity of the year – The Osborne Centre Dear Readers, Hi again from the Osborne Centre and our branch at West Parley. Last month I told you about the facilities available to people whose lives are affected by MS, and also about our eight wheelchair adapted vehicles that transport our members to and from…
East Dorset District Council is warning residents to be aware of a potential scam where people are being asked to pay for parking fines that they don’t owe. The warning comes after a local woman received a telephone call from a person claiming to be from East Dorset District Council and asking her to pay…
Police investigating the tragic accident which took the life of Ringwood teenager Jade Clark, are appealing for the driver of a Volvo XC90 motor car that was involved in the collision to get in touch. Traffic Inspector Matt Butler said, “We know from our investigation so far that a number of vehicles were involved in…
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) has condemned a potential badger cull in the county, announced by Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson MP, as a reserve pilot cull area in case of problems with either of the proposed cull areas in Gloucestershire and Somerset. DWT is keen to find an effective, long term solution to the problem of Bovine TB (bTB), but urges the Government to put more effort into an effective vaccine instead of a cull.
