Year: 2014

Dorset police have reported that missing Bournemouth teenager Rebecca Brady has been found safe and well.

Students from three Christchurch schools cooked up a storm in the semi-finals of the Christchurch Food Festival Junior Cook of the Year competition.
The competition, organised by Christchurch Food Festival Education Trust and sponsored by Christchurch Rotary, requires students to prepare a main course and dessert capable of being served at a special occasion.

A team of 20 local volunteers has helped turn the tide on litter. Volunteers filled 49 refuse sacks with waste collected from Holes Bay shore and cycle path on 27 April as part of the 26th annual Great Dorset Beach Clean. Items found included a bathtub, a boat door, bottles, sweet wrappers, bits of polystyrene,…

A farm worker was rescued by fire fighters after becoming trapped in a grain silo on Monday morning. Quick thinking workers at the farm near Shapwick attached a strop underneath the man’s arms and secured it to a ladder, to prevent him from sinking further into the grain. He was approximately 4m inside the silo…

Firefighters from Poole trained in large animal rescue were called out on Monday just before 11am after a horse became trapped and suspended over a bar inside a horse box on the B3165 Birdsmoor Gate north of Drimpton, West Dorset. Retained firefighters from Charmouth joined them and worked with the owners and a vet. The…