The Royal Yachting Association (RYA) has selected the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA) as the venue for their upcoming ‘RYA Zone and Home Country Championships’. This annual event will run over the weekend 28/29 September.
Police in Weymouth are becoming increasingly concerned for the welfare of a missing 61-year-old man from the town. Geoffrey Jack Henville Cole was last seen in Weymouth Bay on the sailing boat ‘Palamina’ at around 7am on Saturday 21 September. He planned to sail to Swanage to meet friends – a journey he has done…
Pride Mobility Products will be officially launching The Apex Rapid at Batricar Mobility’s new ‘Centre Of Excellence’ on Tuesday 1st October 2013. Kinetic Mobility in Wimborne is the UK’s first Pride Mobility ‘Centre of Excellence’ and was conceived by Batricar Mobility Ltd as the first ever Pride Mobility Exclusive Dealership. It is the only mobility…
Police are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward after a local woman was robbed yesterday (23 September) on Ducking Stool Lane near The Olde George Inn on Millhams Street, Christchurch. The victim was approached from behind at around 12.40pm by an unknown man who pushed her to the ground and made off…
Wimborne in Bloom’s annual prize-giving took place on Saturday (21 September) at Allenbourn Middle School.
A committed and determined Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) member has completed the challenge of a lifetime in the gruelling Islandbank Reykjavik Marathon
Wimborne Minster is celebrating two successes in the regional In Bloom competition.
This weekend saw Bournemouth’s open spaces come alive with the opening weekend of Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival, introducing three weeks of arts events in the town. In true festival fashion the headline act was something astonishing and spectacular – Joe Rush’s Mutoid Waste – a parade of giant articulated vehicles and machines and a…
The AONB Cranborne Chase Woodfair is coming to Breamore in Hampshire next weekend 5 and 6 October. Organised by the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty team the event features a fantastic line up of central arena events plus steam-driven saw mills, dog displays, medieval falconry, axe-wielding lumber jacks, tree-climbing, local history…
The Hampshire market town of Ringwood was brought to a standstill on Saturday 21 September. Roads were closed and crowds lined the streets in anticipation of a spectacular procession as the carnival got underway. Starting at 2pm, the colourful parade was still wending its way through the town an hour later. Led by the carnival…
