Police in Devon, Cornwall and Dorset are to embark on a six-month trial of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), more commonly known as drones, to aid officers in a number of policing matters including missing people searches and crime scene photography. Dorset Police is currently undertaking final preparations and is due to begin trialling two drones…
A by-election for two council seats in the Kinson South ward will be held on Thursday 10 December. This follows a ruling made on 30 October by the High Court after the result of 7 May poll was challenged. The challenge came about because an error at the printers meant that the ballot paper books…
On Sunday 8 November, a parade of ex-service men and women, pre-service and youth organisations will be marching through the Bournemouth town centre and the central gardens to the War Memorial for the service starting at 10.57am. The service holds a special significance this year, being the 70th anniversary of VJ Day. The Mayor of…
With 33 finalists now selected, the award-winning commercials team at Light Side Productions are on the road again to film with each and every one, ahead of the glittering Dorset Business Awards gala dinner on Thursday November 26.
A programme of work to protect Bournemouth’s coastline will begin on Monday 2 November. Bournemouth Council’s beach management programme includes replacing and adding groyne defences, together with three separate beach replenishments over the next 17 years. The start of the project will see the removal and replacement of ten timber groynes to the east of…
Police have received reports of three males driving a white van touting for gardening work in the Ferndown area. Two of the males were wearing long sleeve green sweatshirts with a logo ‘OAK LODGE’ embroidered on the tops. The other male was wearing a blue top and flat cap. Officers have warned “Please do not…
Ferndown Upper School sixth formers dressed up as heroes on Friday 23 October to raise money for the John Thornton Young Achievers Foundation, a charity set up in memory of Lt John Thornton RM who was tragically killed in southern Afghanistan in 2008, and who was a much-loved and admired student at the school. Year…
Wimborne Stroke Support Group organised two ‘Round the Islands’ boat trips in Poole Harbour for its members and a great time was had by all. “I am sure the coffee, cakes and biscuits had something to do with it,’ one member commented.
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) was saddened to see a critically endangered porbeagle shark (Lamna nasus) landed on Chesil Beach recently by a local fisherman. The two metre shark, a mature female, was accidently caught in a trammel net 300 yards off Chesil Cove.
The south coast is soon set to benefit from a vibrant new Hilton hotel in the cosmopolitan seaside town of Bournemouth.