Author: Dorset View

You are here:
Archives
Categories

LATEST NEWS

Treasures of the human age

Lawrences’ Spring Fine Art auction in Crewkerne will comprise 2200 lots and there are sure to be eye-catching delights for every pocket. The sale begins with 820 lots of Silver and Vertu on Tuesday, 23 April. An Art Deco caddy spoon by the celebrated designer and silversmith Omar Ramsden dates from 1927 and is expected to…

Read more

Risus et eruditione in schola

The Year 3 and 4 pupils at Hillside Community First School in Verwood have been learning about the Celts and Romans this term. Their learning culminated by having a Roman Day in school and by visiting Fishbourne Roman Palace at Chichester. For their Roman Day the children and staff dressed up as citizens, slaves or…

Read more
Dorset news

Three get life sentences for Boscombe murder

Three men who killed a Boscombe man and buried him in a shallow grave have been handed life sentences. Stuart Raymond Wareham of Bournemouth, aged 26, his half brother Lee Raymond Wareham, 33, and 22-year-old Benjamin Henry Walter, both of no fixed abode, killed Geoffrey Reed in his flat on Cecil Road in Boscombe on…

Read more

MUGA on track

The official opening of the new Multi-Use Games Area (MUGA) by the town mayor, Cllr Simon Gibson will take place at Verwood Recreation Ground on Saturday, 4 May at 11am.  Everyone is welcome.  Verwood Concert Brass Training Band will be playing and Rossgarth junior footballers will be using the targets and goals to demonstrate this…

Read more
ROE BUCK

Summer Sculpture Trail

The successful association cemented between the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu and the Surrey Sculpture Society (SSS), sees the famous motor museum’s historic Palace House and gardens hosting the society’s Summer Sculpture Trail for the third year running.

Read more
Christchurch Splash Park

Ready, steady SPLASH!

Following winter closure, the splash park on the Quomps at Christchurch Quay is currently being cleaned and prepared for its reopening on Saturday, 4 May. Carina Gallacher, Senior Technical Officer at Christchurch Council, said: “The splash park has been a very popular addition to the Quomps since it opened in August 2010. All that we…

Read more
Dorset Swan

Horrific attack on swans – witness appeal

Police officers in Bournemouth are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward after two swans were attacked with a crossbow in the Muscliffe area of the town. The incident happened at approximately 6pm on Wednesday 27 March at Throop Mill on Throop Road. The two swans, a male and female pair, were…

Read more

Distinguished diamonds and insects in amber

Some exceptional jewellery is expected to attract international attention in Lawrences’ Spring auction in Crewkerne on 25 April 25. A Victorian diamond necklace of outstanding quality, mounted with graduated diamond clusters and graduated diamond foliate drops set with circular old brilliant-cut diamonds and rose-cut diamonds, was formerly in the collection of Gladys Maud Lascelles (1886-1961),…

Read more

Do your part for Highcliffe Castle

 The public is being asked to donate any materials or papers relating to Highcliffe Castle, which has been owned by the council for 36 years, to help complete a comprehensive archive of historic and modern documents. The council paperwork dates back to long before the compulsory purchase order was placed on the Castle. There are…

Read more
Match action

Easter treat for Wimborne Town FC

Wimborne Town enjoyed a 100% success rate over the Easter Holiday period, winning both their Southern League games. On the Saturday Wimborne won 1-0 at Cinderford Town, thanks to a goal from Matt Kemble. It was the Magpies’ first back-to-back victory this term. Back at their Cuthbury home on Easter Monday Jon Blake’s 62nd minute effort…

Read more