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Can you give Blue a loving home?

Can you give Blue a loving home?

Hi, I’m Blue, a one-year-old small scruffy terrier, who needs a new home after being abandoned.  I would prefer a family with older children as I am a lively friendly boy who will need lots of stimulation and training and at the moment I need to be the only dog as I’m not used to…

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Meridian TV’s Kerry Swain gets a driving lesson

Yellow Buses, driving ladies to work

Yellow Buses is to conduct two further pre-employment training courses targeted especially at women.
They are following on from the successful Ladies’ Recruitment Open Day, which was covered on TV and saw a surge of interest – one woman who turned up at the open day has now been offered a full-time position at the company.

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Martha Searle, second left, with volunteers and residents of West Howe

How now, West Howe?

West Howe is to mark the end of a decade of lottery funding with a community celebration on March 15.
The area in Bournemouth was one of just over 80 places in the country that was picked in 2003 by the Fair Share Trust to be financially supported in a ten year programme.

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Dog Cafe

Dog Café

A new Dog Café service for pampered pooches who fancy a snack and drink whilst out with their owners has been launched by pet store chain PamPurredPets. Staff at the company’s high street and retail park stores in southern England and south wales, including Poole, Bournemouth, Ferndown and Ringwood will offer free samples of food and treats to visiting dogs as well as offer a bowl of water.

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New softer mats for minis

Ferndown Jitsu Club is using new softer mats, which are proving popular with the members of the ‘Mini Jitsu’ session. The mats were purchased with a grant from the Dorset County Community Fund. John Hanrahan Chairman said, “They have made a great difference to our youngsters and have given them the confidence to try out…

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Annette and Councillor Susan Jefferies with Andrew Jones, Chairman of the Governors and an iron Age instructor from the Ancient Technology Centre at Rushcombe First School

MP Questions Minister for Schools on Pupil Premium

MP Annette Brooke visited Rushcombe First School in Corfe Mullen early this week to see the excellent work being done by the staff and pupils. She was particularly impressed with an Iron Age project, which incorporated the efforts of all age groups, and said that she thought the school was a “very impressive learning environment.”

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Bluebird

Campbell’s K3 Bluebird is the star

It’s not long to go now until crowds will be flooding into Beaulieu for the annual Boatjumble on Sunday, 28 April 2013, and as a special, last-minute surprise, Beaulieu can now announce that Sir Malcolm Campbell’s famous world water speed record breaker, the K3 Bluebird, will be a star attraction at the event. Following his success…

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