Ferndown has won two silver awards in this year’s Britain in Bloom competition: one for the town centre and one for facilities around the town. Help is now needed to turn 6,300 bulbs into a host of golden daffodils.
A dedicated housekeeper whose role it is to ensure high standards of infection control are maintained at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital has been named the Trust’s Unsung Hero of 2013.
Magdalena Taranowska was presented with her award during the Trust’s Staff Excellence Awards evening on Thursday 5 September.
The Dorset Road Safe Partnership project ‘no excuse’ team worked with colleagues from the Hampshire Safer Road units last night along the A31. They actively targeted bad and inconsiderate drivers after both counties had received complaints from the public about driving standards on the road. The team, accompanied by representatives from the media, carried out…
Congratulations to Marcus Lovesey aged 14 who has learning difficulties and a +10 eyesight, who won the Category III Championships at Dorset Golf & Country Club on 2 September.
A 33-year-old Bournemouth man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is being held in custody. His arrest follows the sudden death of a man who was found with serious head injuries at a house on Luckham Road, Strouden Park on 7 September. The victim, 42-year-old Rodger Tett, was taken straight to Southampton General…
Officers in Christchurch are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward after a burglary in Christchurch. Offenders forced entry to Place Mill Gallery at the Quay sometime between 7.30am on Sunday, 1 September and 9.20am 2 September, and stole cash and a number of antique firearms including pistols and shotguns, as well…
Despite the announcement that the Priest’s House Museum will take over the running of Wimborne Tourist Information Centre (TIC), the petition launched on 10 August ‘to save the centre in its present form’, will be delivered to the Resources Committee of East Dorset District Council at Furzehill on 25 September at 9.30am. Organised by town crier Chris…
Ruby will be putting her best paw forward in the Strays of Greece annual charity dog walk on Sunday 22 September to raise funds for her needy doggy friends.
Among those joining the Ferndown Twinning Association’s visit to Segré to see the opening of a new pathway named ‘Promenade Ferndown’ was the Ju-Jitsu club run by John Hanrahan at Heatherlands. John said, “Around 60 people saw Ferndown Mayor, Cllr John Lewis open the new pathway on 25 August including several young members of the…
