Day: March 13, 2013

Will the admittance of garden gnomes into the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower show for the first time in 100 years make them the number one garden ornament this year?

When Alan Thompson first got into swimming after a back operation in the 1980s, he might not have known what he was getting himself into! He celebrated his seventieth birthday last month and is still working as a swimming instructor at Ferndown Leisure Centre, having started work there in November 1986. For Alan, it seems,…

The Marine Conservation Society (MCS), the UK’s leading marine charity, is hoping to encourage communities to think again before organising balloon and sky lantern releases. From charity releases to memorial events, letting hundreds, sometimes thousands of balloons and lanterns into the sky has become common practice up and down the country. But stunning as these…

A campaign has been started in Dorset to revolutionise end-of-life veterinary care for pets. Anna Wood from Vets2You explains: “‘Once upon a time’ there was a dog called Douglas.  He was a ‘perfect’ boy in all ways (well, so his owner thought anyway) and as he was approaching his seventeenth birthday, Karen dearly wanted whatever…