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Children are being encouraged to read over the holidays with the launch of the Summer Reading Challenge 2026.

Mr Kelloggs the pony was a hit with mental health patients at the Dorset Healthcare-run Alderney Hospital, giving them a chance to stroke him.

The event on Saturday 20 June was hailed a great success by the organisers, Ferndown and Parley Rotary Club.

For the first time since it was formed seven years ago, Dorset Council hasn’t spent its entire budget.

Kyeron Wheeler, 18, was found with stab wound injuries in Longfleet Road. He died a short time later in hospital.

Dorset Cancer Care Foundation presented the award to Rotarian Gordon Lewis at a special presentation in Merley House.

The chief executive criticised Keir Starmer’s tenure at Number 10 and said the business community wouldn’t be disappointed.

The Museum of East Dorset’s new exhibition is titled ‘Home: Gypsy and Traveller Lives in Dorset’.

Kings Park Nursery closed more than two years ago, and local people are to have the chance to comment on plans for a community hub.

A sculpture has been unveiled to honour the author who wrote ‘Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’, who moved to Westbourne in 1884.