The Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA) welcomed children from the Isle of Portland Aldridge Community Academy (IPACA) to enjoy front row action at the recent ISAF Sailing World Cup Weymouth and Portland. Year 2 pupils from the West Base class on the Osprey Quay campus were allowed onto the main spectator stand to…
Viridor has secured the purchase of Commercial Recycling Ltd’s Waste Collection Division in Dorset (and Somerset) for an undisclosed amount. As part of the agreement, Commercial Recycling Ltd (CRL) retains its waste transfer and recycling business, and transfered its collection division to Viridor on 1 June. The hand over includes the acquisition of a 1,000-strong…
Eat your greens – and your blues, yellows and reds too – was the message of the week for students at The Arnewood School, New Milton recently.
As Britain gets ready for Wimbledon, a Bournemouth nursery could be serving up the tennis ace of the future.
Officers investigating a fatal road traffic collision near Wimborne are renewing their appeal for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward – with officers trying to trace vital witnesses.At around 4.13pm on Wednesday 10 June 2015 a two vehicle head-on collision between a black BMW 3 Series and a blue Ford Fiesta took place…
Staff in the Dorset Heart Centre have been celebrating 10 years since it first opened its doors – with an impressive 60,000 patients treated by the dedicated team over the last decade. The centre, based at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital, serves a population of more than one million people from Dorset and beyond and is…
A former pilot has been jailed for 12 and a half years for a string of child sex offences. Bartle Frere, 51, of Shipton Gorge, was handed the prison term at Bournemouth Crown Court today, Wednesday 17 June 2015, after being convicted the previous day for 16 sex offences. These included eight charges of sexually assaulting…
Broadstone Community Concert Band returns to Lighthouse, Poole’s centre for the arts on 27 June. The 50-strong band’s Summer Concert will feature a varied programme with pieces from composers as diverse as Holst and Lloyd Webber, representing the classical repertoire as well as the world of stage musicals in a concert bill that will also…
The management at Bournemouth’s Castlepoint Shopping Park have set themselves challenges in a bid to boost funds for Autism Wessex. Whilst other members of the team will keep their challenges at ground level, Castlepoint’s management suite administrator Tanya Hatcher has selected to Wing Walk at Compton Abbas airfield on Sunday 5 July.
Father’s Day is a great opportunity to celebrate the special bond between father and child, and this collection of images by Karen Wiltshire of KW Photography does exactly that. Released ahead of Father’s Day on 21 June, Karen’s portraits show a number of doting dads – mostly first time parents – carefully cradling their newborn child.
