A Poole teenager looks set to see his name in lights after being signed up by the South’s first public stage school and a top talent agency from London. William Hurst will be one of the first intakes at the South’s first ever publically funded stage school, which opens at the LeAF Studio in Bournemouth…
A Bournemouth student has been crowned the national indoor rowing champion for his age group. Lewis Bradbury, from Harewood College, has become the first student from Dorset to win a coveted national champion award at the National Junior Indoor Rowing Championships. Lewis rowed an incredible 541m in just two minutes to make him the Year…
Further work to stabilise the slopes around the stricken Beaminster Tunnel will take place this week with soil nailing starting on 2 April. Since works began in December, contractors have cleared the area above the north end of the tunnel, improved the drainage at the site, tested the soil nails, and worked to make access…
A toadstool for children to jump over has sprouted at Endfield Road play area on Jumpers Common thanks to Fields in Trust and the customers and staff of ASDA Castlepoint.
Following the postponement of the ‘Formula 1’ event that should have taken place in Wimborne’s Square last Saturday an ‘impromptu’ display (or was it a performance-art event?) was organised instead. A large white ‘Stig-bunny’ riding his own shiny bright red child’s racing car promoted the Easter Bunny Run that will see bunnies in West Street…
Christchurch primary school pupils are being encouraged to look at Fair Trade products in a competition being run by the Christchurch Food Festival Education Trust. The competition asks pupils to come up with a healthy recipe using at least three Fair Trade products and then illustrate it on paper or card. Pupils who have produced…
March is National Veggie Month, and Bournemouth artist, Kathy Livick, has produced a series of bold paintings called Songs from a Slaughterhouse, in the hope of raising awareness of the suffering of animals killed for the dinner table. The six canvases, painted in acrylic, depict a hen and her chicks, a pig, calf, goat, lamb and…
Bob Walter MP for North Dorset visited Oakdene Care Home at Three Legged Cross, on Friday 15 March to help celebrate Oakdene’s ‘Beacon’ status Gold Standard award. Oakdene received the Beacon Status award, the highest of three possible levels, in the Gold Standards Framework (GSF) for End of Life Care for Care Homes, on 7 March…
Parley Under 8s football team has a brand new kit, thanks to sponsorship from DWP Housing Partnership. Lee Mountford, father of one of the team, works for the company and asked Managing Director Steve Wells for help. He provided funds that kitted the nine youngsters out during their second season together. Their blue shirts proudly…
Following on from the success of last year’s Bake Day, the Christchurch Food and Wine Festival is launching the ‘Great Christchurch Bake Weekend and Fete’. On Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 May, Christchurch Quay (The Quomps) will be transformed into the scene of a typical English fete, with white marquees, a giant helter-skelter and a…
