West Moors Parish Council has declared the refurbished Oakhurst play area in Shaftesbury Road, West Moors, officially open.
A £40,000 facelift, funded fully by West Moors Parish Council, has seen the installation of new, state-of-the-art play equipment, some of which is fully inclusive, and has been designed to appeal to children under 12 years of age.
Local, family run bakery, Reeve the Baker, whose 11 shops include Ringwood, has won a national bakery industry award for its multi-seed sourdough loaves. The loaves, which were introduced to the bakery’s range earlier this year, were named Speciality Bread of the Year at the Baking Industry Awards. Now in their 28th year, the awards…
St Giles House in Dorset, the ancestral seat of the Earls of Shaftesbury, has been announced as the winner of the 2015 Historic Houses Association (HHA) & Sotheby’s Restoration Award. The house, which has remained in the family since the 14th century, had been abandoned and left derelict for over 50 years.
Detectives investigating the death of Elliot Handley in Dorchester have charged a man with his murder. At around 9.50pm on 26 May, police were called to a flat in The Grove and discovered the body of the 46-year-old from Eastleigh. A post mortem examination revealed Elliot had died from multiple blunt force head injuries. Today,…
