Year: 2015

New Forest and local health organisations working within the inspiring landscapes of the National Park are looking at how closer collaboration could help improve people’s health and wellbeing.

If you’re going to the folk festival in Wimborne on 13 and 14 June and you think you might feel a bit puffed out, you’ll be able to catch a land train to transport you around. A first for the festival, it will run on the Saturday and Sunday. The festival itself starts the day…

Detectives are asking the public if they recognise these items recently recovered by police in Bournemouth. Police are appealing to the owner of a suspected stolen tool bag to come forward. The bag contained a number of items, including the photographed mugs and Makita electric screwdriver. Detective Sergeant Simon Cramp, of Bournemouth CID, said: “I…

The PHC Poole Harbour Boat Show will be celebrated with a fireworks extravaganza sponsored by property developers Excellare at 10pm on Saturday May 9, the eve of its inaugural opening weekend (Saturday May 9 to Sunday May 10).

Police are appealing for anyone with information to come forward after almost 34,000 cigarettes were recovered from a layby near Wareham. The haul, which was reported to police by a dog walker at 9.10am today (7 May), was collected by officers and will be referred to HM Revenue and Customs for further investigation. The consignment…

The inaugural Dorset Festival of Cricket has been hailed a great success by organisers as some 2,500 spectators dodged the showers and visited Bournemouth’s historic Dean Park Cricket Ground over the bank holiday weekend. A few spots of rain failed to dampen the spirits as cricket fans caught the wave of euphoria that swept over…

Young thrill seekers will love the new play structure at Moors Valley Country Park and Forest, near Ringwood. Designed by award-winning landscape architects Davies White it will capture the imagination of children of all ages. Crocodile Crossing II is a timely addition to the park’s play trail which now includes 12 unique sculptures and the…

Ferndown based, Queens Park Athletic AFC recently held a benefit match to raise awareness of leukaemia and show support for assistant manager Mark ‘Sammo’ Samson who is courageously battling the cancer.

Musician Matt Park is fundraising for local music charity, Coda, by running the Bournemouth half marathon.
Matt plays guitar and synthesiser in Empire Affair, a Bournemouth-based band that recently played their biggest gig to date at the Scala in London for Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’ aftershow party and have also been confirmed as support for Toploader in Brixton this month.