Dorset Police’s Traffic Unit joined forces with staff from partner agencies to check vehicles travelling through Dorset. On Wednesday 22 January , officers from Dorset Police, the Environment Agency, VOSA (Vehicle Operating Standards Agency), the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Department for Work and Pensions stopped a total of 37 vehicles…
‘No excuse’ officers caught numerous motorists still flouting the law during two targeted Surround a Town operations in North Dorset. Enforcement officers carried out patrols in Blandford, Gillingham and Shaftesbury on Monday 20 January and Blandford, Pimperne and Gillingham on Wednesday 22 January to remind motorists of the importance of road safety. The two days…
Team Funnelling 4 Fuel from Avonbourne College in Bournemouth has been selected as one of the finalists of the countrywide enterprise challenge Tycoon in Schools, run by the Peter Jones Foundation. After competing alongside hundreds of school children across the country, Team Funnelling 4 Fuel is just one of four teams to be selected by…
The next About Face Support Group Meeting will be held on Monday 3 February at The About Face Centre, 111 Longfleet Road, Poole, BH15 2HP. Patients and those who support them are extremely welcome to join us. If you would value the opportunity to share, listen and be in the company of those who can…
Poetry lovers rejoiced as some of the best loved poems in the country came to life at Dorset County Council’s chambers earlier this week. The event was part of the regional championship for the national ‘Poetry by Heart’ competition, designed to encourage young people to get passionate about poetry. The seven contestants, all aged between…
Luscombe Valley Railway has just presented a fundraising cheque to Lewis-Manning Hospice in Poole for £10,500. Richard and Connie Knott, who run Luscombe Valley Railway, nominated to support Lewis-Manning in 2013, having done so previously three years ago, and opened up their meticulously assembled railway collection, set in the grounds of their home in Brudenell…
History was made in Verwood on Sunday, 12 January 2014 with the formation of the new Verwood Youth Band (VYB). Set up as part of Verwood Concert Brass it has already won trophies.
Annette Brooke, MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole, joined Breast Cancer Care in Parliament this week to call for breast cancer patients’ voices to be central to decisions about the availability of new medicines on the NHS in England. Patients affected by breast cancer were on hand to share their experiences with MPs and…
Trustee of Autism Wessex, Joan Dampney, is taking on an abseiling challenge to raise funds for the charity. Joan is a long term supporter of the charity and is taking this opportunity to do something she has always wanted to do whilst raising money. Joan Dampney comments, “I’ve always wanted to abseil so I’m taking…
A specialist unit of Dorset Police detectives have successfully convicted a paedophile following an investigation in conjunction with US Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in London, the National Crime Agency (NCA) and Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP). Mark Luscombe a 29-year-old man from Verwood was sentenced to a total of five years imprisonment on…
