Month: July 2015

The management at Bournemouth’s Castlepoint Shopping Park have set themselves challenges in a bid to boost funds for Autism Wessex.
General Manager Peter Matthews, 65, will tackle a gruelling 30 mile route starting at Castlepoint.

The public vote for the Dorset Venus Awards 2015 opened today (13 of July). Dubbed by Channel 4 as the “Working Women’s Oscars”, the Dorset Venus Awards are calling members of the public to vote for their favourite working women in the Business Mother of the Year, Employee of the Year and Customer Service categories.…

“The auction of the items entered by vendors from the BBC Flog It! valuation day at Highcliffe Castle was extremely successful,” said auctioneer John Condie from Cottees. Stars of the show were a small selection of ten film posters which included a rare ‘Dracula’ poster that sold for £5,500 and a Star Wars poster that…

A former Dorset Police officer has been jailed for nine months for harassment and data protection offences.
Former Police Constable Allan Christopher Smith, of Bovington, was sentenced at Dorchester Crown Court today, 10 July, for multiple harassment with fear of violence offences and obtaining and disclosing confidential police information.

A crew from Ballard School, an independent co-educational school in New Milton, Hampshire, proved their sea legs in this year’s ‘Round the Island’ boat race around the Isle Of Wight, when they came second in their class. In the annual 50 nautical mile one-day yacht race, where 1,584 boats set sail from Cowes, the team…

Y9 & Y12 Ferndown Upper School students were challenged out of their comfort zone on a fabulous community day during the week commencing 6 July.

The beginning of July saw Ferndown Upper School’s second week-long Summer Show, where a comprehensive range of students’ work from Fine Art, Photography and Textiles, at both GCSE and A Level, went on display to the public.

Bere Regis II XI were named the Dorset Funeral Plan team of the month for June – after going unbeaten.
They are now top of division six having gained maximum points in all their games during the month.

The children of a woman who tragically died in a collision near Wimborne have paid tribute to her. Whilst driving home after her sister’s funeral on 10 June, 49-year-old Tereasa Cutler from Ringwood was involved in a head-on collision with a black BMW 3 Series on the A31 between the Lake Gates and Merley Bird…