The Priest’s House Museum & Garden in Wimborne Minster is holding a day school on ‘The People of Bronze Age Wessex: Death and Burial’ with Dr Wendelin Morrison on Saturday 9 April, from 9.30am to 4pm.
One of Britain’s first female harbour masters has been appointed to run the Beaulieu River, taking over from Mike Nicholls who retired at the end of March after 42 years working for the estate.
Patients on the Stroke Unit at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital have built 10 bird boxes to encourage wild birds to nest in the grounds.
Primary school pupils across Christchurch have been visited by representatives of Christchurch Food Festival Education Trust and have tried their hand at cooking healthy recipes from the countries they’ve been studying. All seven primary schools in the borough were included. Children at St Joseph’s School and Somerford School got a chance to cook some healthy…
An unusual, free, outdoor yoga walk will take place at Knoll Gardens near Wimborne on 14 April.
Hot cross buns were discovered hanging from the trees in Pamphill on Good Friday to the delight of youngsters who had walked to the green from Wimborne. A tradition has grown up over the last 40 years that following the three hour service in the Minster on Good Friday, members of Wimborne Minster Sunday School…
Great grandmother Lydia Georgina Bennett celebrated her landmark 100th birthday with 1940s’ singing duo, The Land Girls.
Officers are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward after a pit bike was stolen from a property in Burton Close, Shaftesbury at around 11.20pm on Friday, 20 March. The bike (pictured) is a white DemonX pit bike with black handlebars and Rockstar energy drink logos. Police Constable Stuart Loudwell, of Shaftesbury…
The phoenix is again taking flight as Highcliffe Castle celebrates receiving a Heritage Lottery Fund Award of £2.8 Million Highcliffe Castle, ravaged by fires in the 1960s and abandoned for over two decades, was saved from certain destruction by an initial grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) in 1995 which led to the repair and…
A team from B & Q at Castlepoint Shopping Park have given a free makeover for a lounge at the specialist Cambian Wing College in Southbourne.
