This year’s Christchurch Food & Wine Festival with around 120 stalls selling a variety of food and drink will be held on the weekend of 10 and 11 May. The celebrated Indian chef, Cyrus Todiwala, who recently appeared in the BBC2 series ‘The Incredible Spice Men’, is to return to this year following his successful…
Police in Christchurch are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward after a woman was bitten by a dog on St Catherine’s Hill. The incident happened at approximately 8.05am on Thursday 13 April 2014. The victim and her friend were walking their dogs at St Catherine’s Hill and saw a man walking…
Wimborne Model Town is joining the county wide Dorset Residents Week scheme which runs from 28th April to 4th May offering concession rates to local people at many of Dorset’s attractions and services. Vouchers are contained in the County Council’s newsletter and online at visit-dorset.com Model Town development manager Greg Hoar comments “in addition to…
The first in a number of events during 2014 planned to commemorate the centenary of the start of World War I has taken place in Christchurch on St George’s Day. The Mayor of Christchurch, Cllr John Lofts, opened a new Memorial Rose Garden at Church Hatch Gardens at Christchurch Priory. He was joined by members…
Police in Dorset will remove images of victims from a sex offender’s laptop, ensuring that the victims’ needs continue to be put first.
Detectives in Bournemouth are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward following an armed robbery at a bookmaker in Winton. The incident happened at approximately 5.25pm on Tuesday 22 April at Coral on Wimborne Road. A man entered the shop with his face and head covered and approached a member of staff…
Samantha Hetreed from Oxley Sports Centre in Sherborne and a team of Master Swimmers from Wincanton Swim Club (WSC) have completed a five-kilometre relay in one hour and three minutes and raised £1,235 for Sport Relief. Samantha, along with Philippa O’Grady, Adele Parham, Julia Hendrie and Caroline Law, challenged themselves to raise £1,000 for the…
Dominic Keeley is undertaking four challenges for four charities.
There’s a clutch of new arrivals at Moors Valley Country Park and Forest near Ringwood this spring with birds flocking for attention across the park. Thirteen ducklings were sighted on Moors Lake as the first raft took to the water – the highest single hatching figure recorded at Moors Valley. Chiffchaffs (Phylloscopus collybita) are being…
Football manager Harry Redknapp took time out from coaching duties at promotion-chasing Championship club QPR, to launch a 5-A-Side World Cup Tournament charity fundraiser, organised by local estate agent Leader & Co in aid of Lewis-Manning Hospice. The tournament is the brainchild of Ryan Woolfenden, owner of independent estate agents Leader & Co in Ashley…
