In a joint initiative with Queen Elizabeth’s School in Wimborne, the town’s Rotary Club and its business partners have launched a workplace awards scheme. Under the scheme four young people aged 16-17 who are in their A-level year are being given a week’s practical work experience this summer through placements with a selection of the business partners.
Dozens of giant colourful balls will roll into Ferndown when the Big Bounce, a playful outdoor performance for children under five, arrives at Fete on the Fields on 28 June. A humorous story of learning how to play is told with acrobatics, dozens of large coloured balls and one GIANT ball. This fun and visually…
Feathers and scales featured at Bournemouth’s Bishop of Winchester Academy during a science innovation day. From Jonathan Cleverly’s Jungle Roadshow, students were able to handle a 15-year-old African royal python called Rafiki and a giant millipede, and get a close up view of a tarantula. From Ringwood’s Liberty’s Owl, Raptor and Reptile Centre, birds including a peregrine falcon, kestrel, tawny owl and baby Asian wood owl called Cookie, also fascinated the year 9 students.
Warwickshire Police are concerned for the welfare of 70-year-old William Haines who has been reported missing by his family. Mr Haines was last seen leaving his home in Warwickshire on Sunday 15 June and may have travelled to the Dorset area driving a grey coloured Skoda Octavia car with the vehicle registration BT62 ZZH. He…
The Dorset Lupus Group is aiming to reach Lupus patients throughout the county by holding a series of coffee afternoons across Dorset. A new coffee group will meet at Haskins Garden Centre, Ferndown, on Wednesday 18 June, and thereafter, on the third Wednesday every month. Representatives Debbie and Tamsin will be there at the main…
Autism Wessex is looking for volunteers to help out at the Summer Solstice 10K at Moors Valley Country Park at 7pm on Friday 20t June.
Beach volleyball stars from across Europe will be serving up their skills in an Olympic qualifying competition to be held at and run by Bournemouth’s LeAF Academy.
Police in Christchurch are appealing for help after an alleged assault and theft in a car park off Bridge Street. At approximately 1.30pm on Friday 6 June 2014 an altercation occurred between several people – who know each other – in the civic offices’ car park. The group which consisted of three women, two men…
Bournemouth and Poole have pledged their support to the national campaign ‘don’t wash raw chicken’ as part of Food Safety week (16-22 June). The campaign, spearheaded by the Food Standards agency, is focused on raising awareness of the potential risk of spreading Campylobacter as a result of washing raw chicken. Campylobacter is the most common…
Staff members at Lewis-Manning Hospice in Poole were among a group of brave fundraisers who abseiled down Portsmouth’s iconic Spinnaker Tower last week to help raise money for the charity which supports local people with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses.
