Christchurch household recycling centre (HRC) will close shortly for essential cleaning and maintenance. The Wilverley Road site will be shut on Tuesday 30 April until Thursday 2 May inclusive and will re-open as usual at 9am on Friday 3 May. During this time local residents can use any of the Dorset Waste Partnership’s 10 other HRCs or hang on…
Relay for Life organisers and supporters gathered to promote the next 24-hour event to raise money for Cancer Research UK which will take place locally at Ferndown Leisure Centre on Saturday 29 June from 12 noon.
Police are stepping up their appeal for witnesses and information after a man was assaulted during a Dorset hunt. The incident happened last December on Wednesday, 19 December at around 3.25pm during a Portman Hunt in the Crate Hill area in Fifehead St. Quintin. A 63-year-old Somerset man was watching the event when he was…
The coroner for Dorset is seeking the public’s assistance in finding the next of kin of a man who died in Bournemouth. Neil Bethune, 50, died at his home in Princess Road, Westbourne on 21 April. The coroner is making enquiries into the death, but it is not being treated as suspicious. Coroner’s Officer Andy Lord said:…
