Author: Dorset View

There was no grousing about this bird, which was spotted in West Moors as the snow fell at lunchtime today.

Sycamore Base children from Verwood CE First School performed their own version of the favourite children’s classic “The Three Little Pigs” at their class assemblies this week. Miss Clare Murphy’s class performed theirs first to an audience of delighted parents

A Dorset train service is to be reinstated thanks to a £1.47M government grant.

Whilst British Farmers have bent over backwards to ensure compliance with EU rules on the conditions in which pigs are kept, a large proportion of EU countries are still flouting the rules.

The Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA) – the Olympic and Paralympic sailing venue in Weymouth – is holding an open day on 30 March 2013, when visitors can take a look around the facilities.

1st Wimborne Girls’ Brigade Company enjoyed a huge balloon launch and a ‘Great Big Party’ to kick start the organisation’s 120th year and to make it one to truly remember. Girls’ Brigade (GB) was started in 1893 in Dublin, Ireland. GB groups have now grown all over the world, providing rewarding, stretching and positive opportunities through which children and young people, between the ages of 4 and 18, grow and develop in confidence and skills in a Christian environment.

Votwo Events & Adventure has partnered with Kingston Lacy to host a brand new running festival in the spectacular National Trust grounds near Wimborne, Dorset on Sunday, 9 June 2013. The first Kingston Lacy Running Festival, sponsored by Scott Sports, offers something for runners of all levels including a 5k and a 10k run, a half marathon, and…

Thousands of people sail it, hundreds cycle it, now the official charity of the JP Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race, the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust, is looking to recruit up to four crews competing in the race to also row the 50 miles around the Isle of Wight. Starting at 5am on Friday…

Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance has confirmed that the air ambulance attended 615 incidents last year and has now flown over 9,000 missions since its launch in March, 2000.

An importer has been ordered to pay out more than £9,000 for distributing faulty power cable devices, following an investigation by Dorset County Council’s trading standards service.