The annual Haskins Garden Centre’s Christmas Kids’ Evening at Ferndown raised over £455.88 for the Alzheimer’s Society. Over 110 children visited Santa in his grotto and enjoyed activities including face painting, storytelling, competitions a charity raffle whilst tasty food and drink tasting demos were held. Special seasonal meals were also served by the restaurant.
Bournemouth airport based pilot training centre Airways Aviation has announced its first charity of the year. The choice is the successful John Thornton Young Achievers Foundation (JTYAF), founded by parents Peter and Linda Thornton, in memory of their son Lt John ‘JT’ Thornton RM, from Ferndown, who was killed in southern Afghanistan on 30 March 2008.
Major works to repair the Shopping Centre roof-top car park, located near Poole railway station, have now been completed. Repairs have been carried out to the car park in Serpentine Lane to provide a permanent solution to a long standing problem of rainwater leaking into the shops below. The leaks were mainly caused by the deterioration…
Poole’s beaches will soon benefit from a range of brand new beach huts to help reduce the waiting list and extend the range of huts available. The huts, which will cost £1.35m to build, will be at three locations: Branksome Chine (East), Branksome Chine (West) and Flaghead Chine. In total 88 new beach huts will…
Heartless thieves have stolen the Christmas lights from the front garden of Julia’s House children’s hospice. Care staff arriving at the hospice were devastated to discover that lights that had been set up for the enjoyment of the poorly children attending sessions this week and staying over this weekend, had gone. Two men pulled up…
The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch hospitals’ Sunshine Midwifery Team has been highly commended for providing excellent care for parents and babies in their first 1,000 days. The Sunshine midwives are employed by the hospital Trust and have a base at the Providence Surgery in Boscombe. They provide care to vulnerable women, including victims of domestic…
Police investigating a fatal fail to stop collision in Poole have renewed their appeal for witnesses 12 months after the incident.
Scouts, guides and brownies from groups in Christchurch helped the Mayor of Christchurch, Cllr Denise Jones, to distribute her goodwill parcels to nominated recipients around the Borough. Parcels of foodstuffs or plants and chocolates were handed out to 49 people thanks to the generosity of local businesses and groups who donated money or goods to…
A contemporary take on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic horror Jekyll and Hyde is showing at the Shelly Theatre in Boscombe this week
Nearly 100 pupils from two Bournemouth schools got together to celebrate Christmas in a subway this year. Lowther Road subway, which passes under Wessex Way to connect Lowther Road with Lowther Gardens, was host to Malmesbury Park Primary School (MPPS) and Bethany School’s annual Christmas carol service, where students celebrated the work that has gone…
