Children at Oakhurst Community First School in West Moors had a successful afternoon of swapping their toys and books. This was organised by the school’s Eco-Pirates to help remind children about ways to reuse as a way of recycling.
More than 1,000 people from across the UK have booked a place on Safer Poole Partnership’s Tackling Sexual Violence Conference, which will take place at Poole Lighthouse on Thursday 5 March. The conference – which will be the biggest of its kind in the area – will raise awareness of the impact of sexual violence…
Wild animals will find that Allenbourn Middle School is a good place to nest and roost from now on. Children and staff at the school have developed the wildlife garden by improving the pond and putting up boxes for bats, birds, hedgehogs and voles.
Five people have been arrested for alleged money laundering after an ongoing Dorset Police investigation into alleged drugs supply in Blandford Forum. Officers executed a warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act at an address in the town on Wednesday 25 February. Four men and a woman, all from the Blandford Forum area, were arrested…
A Bournemouth man was jailed for life on, 27 February 2015, for the murder of Poole nurse Rui Li.
In a moving ceremony, a holocaust memorial was unveiled at Christchurch Quay and a tree planted to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the terrible events of World War II.
Councillors in Poole have voted to provide an additional £250,000 to help deliver a new rail crossing in Lower Hamworthy. Borough of Poole can now enter into an agreement with DB Schenker, freight train operator who have been granted a 125 year lease of the Hamworthy Branch Line, and appoint a civil engineering contractor. The…
Police have issued CCTV images of a suspect after a number of arson attacks in Boscombe. At 2.13am on Thursday 19 February 2015, police were called to reports of a wheelie bin being set alight inside a wooden shed in Boscombe Spa Road. Approximately 20 minutes later, two more bins were set alight in Manor…
The Friends of the Priest’s House Museum invite you to a talk on the ‘Caves of the Thousand Buddhas: Archaeology on the Eastern Silk Road’ by Dr Alastair Morrison on Thursday 12 March, 7.30pm in the Hilda Coles Open Learning Centre at the Priest’s House Museum & Garden in Wimborne Minster. The cultures along the…
Royal Marine John Thornton was sadly killed in Afghanistan in 2008 and would have been 30 years old on 12 April. Here at the John Thornton Young Achievers Foundation we thought that it would be a fitting tribute to take on a 30 mile challenge in his memory. The final test on the Royal Marine…