With a great reputation for their interpretations of contemporary 20th century music, the Vocal Fusion Choir is performing its main fundraising concert of the year for the Wimborne Stroke Support Group (formerly the Phoenix Stroke Survivors Support Group). David Saxton, events and topics co-ordinator of the group says, “This choir of which I am so…
A woman who died from stab wounds in Bournemouth over the weekend has today been named by her family.
At 4.12pm on Saturday 20 June, officers were called to an address in Colehill Crescent after 25-year-old Jennifer Williams, of Bournemouth, sustained serious stab wounds.
A new flag is flying over Christchurch splashpark courtesy of a six-year-old student from St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School. Bethany Westlake was the winner of a competition organised by Christchurch Borough Council to find a new flag to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the opening of the facility at Christchurch Quay. Primary school pupils in…
Almost 70 dogs and cats in Somerford, Christchurch benefited from free services provided by the RSPCA, Bournemouth Cats Protection, Christchurch & East Dorset Councils and Sovereign Housing. The services, which included micro-chipping, neutering, worm and flea treatments, were carried out by experts at a Dog and Cat Action Day held at Somerford ARC in Southey…
Christchurch Culture and Learning Arena (CAL), whose activities focus on the heritage of the ancient borough of Christchurch, have commemorated the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta thanks to a grant of £7,388 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). King John was a frequent visitor to Christchurch Priory and the celebrations included a…
The Environment Agency has completed works to improve flood defences at Wick near Christchurch.
Contractors were busy over winter, raising and extending existing flood embankments at Wick Farm. Improvements to earlier defences, built in the 1990s, will protect properties from tidal flooding from the nearby River Stour say the Environment Agency.
Parley Cricket Club 1st XI won the Dorset Funeral Plan Team of the Month award for May – after victories in all five games.
The team, which plays its home games at Dean Park, the former county ground in Bournemouth, is exceptionally young.
Nearly 900 people flocked to Highcliffe Castle to get their antiques valued by the BBC One antiques programme ‘Flog It!’ in the hope of finding out the real value of their treasures
Jake Cross 8, from Ferndown has won the Ferndown In Bloom poster competition in which there was over 300 entries from pupils from the areas’ first and junior schools. Jane Glover, Ferndown In Bloom’s schools liaison volunteer and Matt Hill, general manager of Haskins Garden Centre, presented the Haskins £100 gift card prize to Jake and environment/science coordinator Varsha Roche at Parley First School.
The Navitus Bay project will ‘desecrate’ Dorset’s Jurassic Coast and do ‘irreparable’ damage to an economy dependent on tourism.
