Remember a loved one with hospital’s Tree of Lights
With the festive season almost upon us, visitors to the Royal Bournemouth Hospital (RBH) will have the opportunity to remember a loved one by sponsoring a light on the Tree of Lights.
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Police Tweetathon highlights variety of demands
From 9am on Friday 20 November, Dorset Police held a live 24-hour Tweetathon which showed a typical day in the Force. The @dorsetpolice account tweeted basic details of every enquiry and issue received into the Force via 999, 101, online contact methods, enquiry offices or referred by partner agencies. The event gave the public an…
Ballard School pays tribute to Jonah Lumo
Alastair Reid, headmaster of Ballard School has paid tribute to Jonah Lumo who died on 18 November aged 40. He said, “Ballard School was devastated to hear of the death of rugby star, Jonah Lumo. We flew the New Zealand flag at half-mast out of respect and also remembered him in our Senior Assembly on…
Hats on for Anneyce
The Christchurch and District Concert Band, arranged for a show of solidarity when they heard that a member, flautist Anneyce Knight, had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Shortly after starting chemotherapy, Anneyce’s hair began to fall out and she decided to have it all shaved off. Steff Emmett, Director of Music said, “Anneyce told me her hair had started to come out in clumps and had made the decision to have the rest of it shaved off.
Dorchester woman missing for a month
Officers are becoming increasingly concerned for the welfare of a missing Dorchester woman and are appealing for the public’s help to find her. Anna Szewczyk, 40 and originally from Poland, was last seen on Tuesday 20 October 2015 by neighbours in Meadow View, in the Charminster area of Dorchester. She is described as white, five…
Mobile dentist for homeless people
Health and social care consumer champions, Healthwatch Dorset, along with Routes to Roots, recently held an event which gave homeless people in Poole the opportunity to see a dentist for a check-up and receive some useful advice and information. Routes to Roots, a homeless support group in Poole, spoke to Healthwatch Dorset several months ago…
Youth conference tackles issues head on
Child sexual exploitation, drugs & alcohol, youth empowerment and knife crime were explored as part of the Dorset Police and Crime Commissioners youth conference. The event attracted over 140 secondary school students, teachers and youth groups from across the county. The annual event which this year took place at Kingston Maurward College in Dorchester was…
Twynham students taught cookery for life
A group of eight Year 10 students from Twynham School in Christchurch are being taught new skills thanks to a course organised by Christchurch Food Festival Education Trust and funded by Dorset Community Foundation. The students are participating in a ‘Cookery for Life Skills’ course taking place over seven weeks with a series of two-hour…
Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance win prestigious award
Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance came out winners at the 2015 Health Service Journal (HSJ) Awards.
The HSJ Awards is the largest celebration of excellence in UK healthcare, highlighting the most innovative and successful people and projects in the sector.
Young sisters help women celebrate life
Megan and Leah Hastings were special guest speakers at Lewis-Manning Hospice’s third annual Celebrating Women Lunch which raised nearly £5,000 during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The sisters, aged 9 and 10 respectively, gave a short talk before the lunch about their Mum, Nikki, who died from cancer last year aged 40. Nikki was a patient…