Year: 2015

Verwood Organ and Keyboard Society recently received a cheque for £250 under the Waitrose ‘Community Matters’ scheme.

Following last year’s flop, Verwood Carnival is back on its feet and celebrating one of the best events for a number of years. Returning to its bank holiday slot in May, it attracted a huge crowd. A procession around the town, organised by committee member Shelley Morris, kick-started the event and though there were not…

Councillors elected Michael Thierry as the new Mayor at Ringwood Town Council’s Annual Meeting on 20th May . Councillor Thierry, who was last year’s Deputy Mayor, also served as Mayor from 2003-2005. There are seven new councillors will sit on a variety of sub committees and as members on outside bodies. The Mayor welcomed the new…

Councillors at East Dorset District Council voted unanimously to elect Steven Lugg as the council’s new chairman on 18 May. The chairman’s charity objectives for his year in office are to help support the homeless and to offer assistance to local young adults transitioning into work. He will be supporting PASHA who run three homeless…

Businesses, chefs and barmen from Christchurch were recently honoured at the Christchurch Food & Wine Festival’s Awards for Excellence ceremony.

Hundreds of cyclists assembled at Watchet Harbour on the Somerset coast to take part in the 5th annual Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance Coast to Coast (C2C) Cycle Challenge on 17 May.

A startling display of open-air sculpture is being featured at the award-winning Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum near Corfe Castle – to celebrate the volunteer-run attraction’s third year of public opening – as part of this year’s popular Purbeck Arts Weeks.

Diverse Abilities, the only charity in Dorset that supports children and adults with disabilities throughout their lifetime, is holding a festival for the people it supports and their families as part of the charity’s 60thanniversary celebrations, and is looking for bands to play at the event on a voluntary basis.

Three items of exceptional interest from Australasia attracted keen bidding at Lawrences in Crewkerne on 21 May 21. A ceremonial paddle from Austral Islands in French Polynesia (South Pacific) with an elongated leaf shaped blade with intricate geometric carved decoration made £630.