Author: Dorset View

With just over a week to go until the launch of the fifth Bournemouth Food & Drink Festival, its organisers are promising more than ever to tantalise your tastebuds.

Police have released a CCTV image of a woman they wish to speak to in connection with a shoplifting offence in Bournemouth. At around 4.42pm on Saturday 30 May, a woman accompanied by a boy entered the Maplin store in Commercial Road in the town and picked up a CCTV kit. They left without paying…

Clouds Hill, Lawrence of Arabia’s tiny cottage hideaway near Bovington, Dorset, is gearing up for the anniversary of the 1916-18 Arab Revolt with a recruitment day for new volunteers on 23 June.

Members of the Carers Group at Lewis-Manning Hospice have been celebrating National Carers Week, which aims to recognise and highlight the contribution of all of the UK’s 6.5 million unpaid carers. As part of the celebrations there will be a patient and carer tea party on Friday (12 June) which coincides with the birthday of…

A record breaking 500 people registered for Bournemouth Hospital Charity’s Twilight Walk for Women that took place on Friday evening (5 June).

A Verwood man has been jailed for six months after offences, including assault by beating, in the Verwood area. Jonathan Edwin Michael Griffiths, 20 and of Verwood, pleaded guilty at Bournemouth Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday 19 May to assault by beating and breach of an anti-social behaviour order (ASBO). He was sentenced on the same…

Following on from last month’s Dementia Awareness Week the Priest’s House Museum & Garden in Wimborne Minster is holding another Forget-Me-Not craft session on Friday 19 June, 10am to 12 noon. Join an informal and fun session knitting or crocheting forget-me-nots which will be made into bouquets to be displayed in the museum and other…

A Ferndown care home brushed up on its ‘owl-gebra’ for a flying visit by three birds of prey.
Residents at Colten Care’s Amberwood House were introduced to a barn owl called Luna; Gizmo, a white faced African scops owl, and Misty, a 12-week-old Chaco owl.