Month: April 2013

Students from The Grange, Highcliffe and Twynham schools cooked up a storm to decide the finalists for the Junior Cook of the Year competition, held as part of Christchurch Food & Wine Festival.

Be active, be healthy, be happy, that’s the message from Life Education Wessex as it invites everyone to rise to Harold’s Challenge and help raise £50,000. Today the charity launched its fundraising programme to encourage anyone to join in and raise vital funds to help make a real difference to children’s health and well-being. The…

More in the spirit of Whacky Races than Grand Prix racing, a motley assortment of traders and friends lined up on Spill the Beans corner in Wimborne to celebrate the West Street Bunny Run finish.  Courtesy of the Formula 1 Display in Wimborne Square being held at the same time, Stig met up with his…

West Street took the opportunity to use their Community Window to inform people of the history of The Rifles as well as a programme showing the timings of the whole event.

In the early hours of Monday 22nd April 2013, a commercial premise was broken into on Wimborne Road West in the Ferndown area. Offenders smashed their way through a side gate and gained entry to the rear of the property. An untidy search then took place and a safe was removed. If any residents witness…

It has cost the Dorset Waste Partnership (DWP) around £10,000 to clear nearly two tonnes of rubbish dumped along the A338 Spur Road.The DWP coordinated the work together with Bournemouth Borough Council.  They took five nights – two more than expected – to clear the five-mile stretch between Ashley Heath roundabout and Blackwater junction. Among the…

Work to protect Christchurch’s coastline will begin on Monday 29 April. The work forms part of Christchurch Borough Council’s annual programme of maintenance to coastal structures. The work will include a local sand recycling exercise, where excess windfall material will be removed from in front of Mudeford Quay and Gundimore Beach and delivered to depleted…

Manager of Bournemouth AFC, Eddie Howe, spoke of his pride after leading the club back to the Championship for the second time in its 114 year history. The Cherries sealed promotion on the 21 April, with a 3-1 win over Carlisle, while Doncaster and Brentford dropped points to confirm the club’s place in the second…

Autism Wessex is looking for local people celebrating their 45th wedding anniversary in 2013 to come and celebrate with them on 29 June. Hosting their inaugural Ball to mark the 45th anniversary of the regional charity, a Sapphire themed occasion, the charity would like to gift two VIP tickets to attend the Ball to a local couple…

An army regiment paraded through Wimborne on Sunday, 21 April. The Rifles were exercising their freedom of Wimborne Minster, granted to them by the Mayor Cllr John Burden in 2010. The Freedom Parade, led by the Rifles band, started in Allenview Road car park and proceeded to the square where the mayor, by coincidence – Cllr…