The RYA Easter Windsurf Easter Camp started on Wednesday at Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA) and ends on Friday, 12 April. The 2012 London Olympic Sailing and Windsurfing venue will see 65 budding windsurfers staying the National and Regional Zone Squad Camp. The 2012 Games gave Weymouth Bay and Portland Harbour worldwide exposure…
Parley Golf Centre has been granted permission to develop farmland to extend the popular course to a full 18 holes – 19 if you count the bar. The £250,000 investment will mark the completion of the project that began in 1991 when the centre began life as a 27 bay, floodlit driving range. The project…
A man convicted of drugs and firearms offences has been issued with a £11,558.21 confiscation order. Dorset Police was called to a hotel in Bournemouth on 20 October 2012 following reports that a gun and drugs had been seen in a guest’s room. A handgun, ammunition, cash, cocaine, benzocaine, amphetamine, two mobile phones and a…
Management at popular Castlepoint Shopping Park receive over 25 requests a month from businesses and charities in the region to promote their products or fundraise for their good cause. To make life easier for the promoters, a dedicated Pod, has been installed by the top entrance of Marks and Spencer where the East and West…
The John Thornton Young Achievers Foundation (JTYAF) presented awards to ten pupils at Ferndown First School. The JTYAF supports young people from a number of youth organisations providing them with scholarships and bursaries, which give them access to opportunities that they wouldn’t otherwise have had. Ferndown First School chose to use their allocated funding to…
An e-fit of a man wanted in connection with a crime in Ashley Heath has been released by Ferndown police. It follows the theft of a wallet from an elderly man at his home in Lions Lane between 4pm on Sunday, 17 March and 3.15pm on 18 March. The victim allowed an unknown man into his house…
Local rider, Theodore Scott-Munden (2), from Chandlers Ford is in training for the biggest ride of his life at the first qualifying event of the STRIDER™ British Balance Bike Championships in Merton early next month. He will be joining hundreds of other riders vying for the sought-after qualifying spots for the British championship finals later…
Detectives in Bournemouth are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward after a man was assaulted inside a nightclub in the town centre. The incident happened at around 2.30am on Saturday 6 April at The Walkabout Inn on Old Christchurch Road. The victim, a 21-year-old man from Bournemouth, was approached by an…
‘Wildlife in the garden’ is the theme for a series of new events at Knoll Gardens near Wimborne. Early birds can catch the dawn chorus at Knoll Gardens on Saturday 1 May at 4.30am. Night owls can go newt lamping, bat spotting and moth hunting on Saturday 25 May from 9pm; or stroll on the…
Yesterday, the staff at Veloce Publishing in Dorchester got ‘Brewered’ and were proud to celebrate publication of Mike Brewer’s ‘The Wheeler Dealer Know How!’ This brand new book by Mike Brewer, cheeky chappie and TVs’ best-known car dealing expert – provides everything you need to know about buying, preparing, and selling collectable cars. During the…
