Year: 2014

Wimborne Model Town’s Sensory Garden Project has received a £6000 grant from The Talbot Village Trust to enable the completion of the tactile Courtyard area and Good Life vegetable plot.

Now in its 31st year, Allenbourn Middle School pupils recently took part in the school’s annual French Exchange trip to Normandy. During a packed week, the 24 pupils, plus teachers Jane Smith and Christine Russell, spent time in a French school, visited Le Mont St Michel (pictured), and spent time at a goat farm and…

Iconic star of stage and screen, Dame Julie Andrews, will be returning to the UK in May and June for a tour of speaking engagements, where lucky fans will enjoy a special evening with the much loved legend from the world of entertainment. “An Evening with Julie Andrews,” will be hosted by multi-platinum selling singer and popular…

A team of over 20 apprentices from Siemens and the South West Trains-Network Rail Alliance took part in a two-day team-building event at Swanage Railway, dismantling a Class 101 DMU (diesel multiple unit) before it is scrapped.

The BPCSU Summer Games have become an annual fun filled charity day, with last year’s successful fundraiser seeing £265.21 taken in donations for the foundation

Last week Colehill Evening WI Walking Group enjoyed a walk through the wonderful bluebells at Pamphill. The weather was sunny after all the rain, but it was certainly very wet and slippery underfoot. Wellies at the ready and with much laughter they squidged through the woods with only one slip up which resulted in muddy…

The fourth CashUnity prize draw for £1,000 was carried out in Ringwood by the Mayor of Ringwood Cllr Steve Rippon-Swaine in the presence of the MP for New Forest West, the Rt Hon Desmond Swayne, on Friday 9 May

Bournemouth police officers are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward following an attempted robbery on Friday 2 May at 9.20pm in Pokesdown, Bournemouth.  A man entered One Stop on Seabourne Road and waited at the counter. A female member of staff approached the man and he demanded that she opened the…

The FitSteppers of Wimborne and Verwood are once again raising funds for their two local charities, Julia’s House Children’s Hospice and the Bournemouth Multiple Sclerosis Centre. The Wimborne event is on Tuesday 13 May, 6.15pm, at the Community Learning Centre, (opposite the Model Village). The Verwood event is on Monday 19 May, 7.30pm, at Hillside…