Month: August 2015

Setting out on 27 August, a team of steam enthusiasts will attempt the 189-mile journey from Cornwall to the Great Dorset Steam Fair in a Burrell 3257 Steam Locomotive called ‘Clinker’ to raise money for Cancer Research UK. They expect to arrive on Saturday, 29 August. When Jon Eastman and Rob Wing got together for…

Competition has been fierce this year for the Dorset Venus Awards with a record-breaking number of nominations and applications across the 15 award categories in Dorset and with 5,862 votes cast in the three Public Vote categories. Dubbed the ‘Working Women’s Oscars’ by Channel 4 and now in its sixth year, the Venus Awards goes…

A rare picture of a 53lb salmon caught 135 years ago at Mudeford has taken pride of place at a fishery museum. The cock fish, which was 4ft 4in long with a 2ft 4in girth, was the largest ever salmon recorded from the Hampshire Avon and Dorset Stour estuary. It was caught in the nets…

The winners of the spring poetry competition held at Kingston Lacy earlier this year have just been announced at a prize-giving ceremony.

Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline, has celebrated its first major milestone at Bournemouth Airport with its 50,000th passenger travelling through the airport today (19 August 2015) on a flight to Paris Charles de Gaulle.

A seahorse sighting has been made in Studland Bay by a Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) marine awareness officer. The sighting confirms that seahorses are alive, well and breeding in Studland Bay this summer.