Year: 2014

“I must give thanks to the very generous people of Ringwood,” said Caroline Millman of the Rotary Club of Ringwood, “For despite all the other calls and charity appeals this time of the year they donated not far short of £500 to our Emergency Appeal towards setting up an Ebola isolation unit in Bo, Sierra Leone.”

The St Albans Head station of the National Coastwatch Institution (NCI) today paid the annual rent for its base in a former coastguard lookout that is now owned by the Encombe Estate. When Mr James Gaggero, who bought the estate for £20m five years ago, renewed the lease in 2012, he said that he would be content with rent of one crab a year.

Handbell ringers struck the right notes to enchant residents at a family-owned Dorset care home.
The afternoon concert at Colten Care’s Avon Cliff home in Bournemouth featured six ladies from Fordingbridge Handbell Ringers playing a tuned set of 12 bells.

Another person has been sentenced for drug offences following Operation Moped, one of the biggest operations in the county in recent years. Dorset Police pro-actively targeted street level drug dealers in the Boscombe area of Bournemouth where there was a suspicion that drugs offences were being committed.

Get into the yuletide spirit at the Christmas fayre on Saturday 6 December at Holy Angels Church, Lilliput. Santa will be making an early appearance in his grotto. There will be a variety of stalls selling cards, gifts, seasonal items, books, cakes, plants and much more. Teas, coffees and mince pies will all be available, and…

Wimborne Rotary’s sixth annual Great Santa Fun Run will again be held at Badbury Rings point-to-point course on Sunday 14 December, sponsored by the Rotary club’s Business Partners. The £10 entry fee (£6 for children aged 8-14) includes a Santa suit to keep, and a donation to Julia’s House. On this fun event you can…