After a seamless performance and with all of the soloists executing their pieces with flare and precision, Verwood Concert Brass’ A Band scooped 3rd place in the 1st section of the West of England Regional Finals in Torquay. The band came from behind having not scored well in the last two regional finals and there…
Mel Sellings AKA “The Jammy Bodger” from Swanage is celebrating after winning gold for her Seville Orange Marmalade at The World’s Original Marmalade Awards. Over 1000 jars of marmalade from as far afield as Australia and the Philippines were judged by -amongst others- Pam Corbin of River Cottage fame, Tim Came, MD of Thursday Cottage,…
A Bournemouth man who robbed a woman in her own home is behind bars after being found guilty. Christopher Sims, 36, forced entry to a house on Browning Avenue in Bournemouth while the occupant was asleep inside during the early hours of Christmas Eve 2012. The victim, a 57-year-old Bournemouth woman, awoke to find Sims rifling through her handbag in her bedroom. He then…
The spectacular Solent Dog Display Team will be appearing at the Friends of the Strays of Greece annual family fun dog show this year. As well as the Solent dogs, there will be 20 classes to enter including Best 6 Legs, Best Rescue, Best Trick, Fastest Dog and Fancy Dress combining dog and handler, Best…
The annual folk festival in the Dorset town of Wimborne Minster will be held over the weekend of 7, 8, 9 June 2013. It promises three days of ‘folk, family and fun’, with the much-loved mix of dance displays, family activities, workshops and stalls returning to the historic minster town’s streets.
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…
Police in Bournemouth are becoming increasingly concerned for the welfare of a missing 76-year-old woman. Klara Davis, also known as Christine Davis, is a 76-year-old woman from Southbourne. She was last seen at Trinity Methodist Church in Southbourne Road at around 1.30pm today, Tuesday 12 March 2013. Sergeant Gillian Searle said: “I understand that Christine…
