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…
The family and friends of a former patient at Lewis-Manning have raised over £4000 for the hospice following his death last year.
Tyrone ‘Ty’ Mills, who was 47 and had cancer, had been a regular patient at the hospice in the months leading up to his death in December.
Students studying design, illustration, interior design or CAD specialists, as well as budding artists from the BH Postcode and Dorset area, are being called to take part in a very special competition in association with THAT Group. THAT Group are the developers of the new £85 million Hilton Hotel in Bournemouth and they have partnered…
Police officers in Dorchester are appealing for the help of the public after a selection of valuable poems were recovered in the town.
Approximately 50 representations of Thomas Hardy poems were seized by police in Dorchester on 2 January 2014 – the owner has not been identified.
The Board of Directors of the Regent Centre in Christchurch are pleased to announce the appointment of a new Manager, Greg Rawlings, who has grown up in the area and now lives in Ensbury Park. Greg Rawlings comes from the LifeCentre in Winton near Bournemouth, where he oversaw the conversion of the former Moderne cinema…
