A charity party night raised an impressive £3,000 for two local good causes – the John Thornton Young Achievers Foundation and the Luke Woolner Foundation. Debbie Whittle and Lynn Rolls organised a hugely successful party night at Parley Country Club. The popular six piece band, Groovemeister, played to almost 300 party goes and with everyone…
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A CCTV image of a suspect has been released by police following the theft of a bike in Christchurch. At around 2.30pm on Wednesday 21 October 2015, a high-value bike was stolen from Honeywell Aerospace in Enterprise Way on Aviation Park West. It was secured with locks and the suspect was seen to use bolt…
Yesterday’s Armistice Day service held at the cenotaph in Verwood was well attended and included many children. Those in the photographs are from Trinity School and Orchard Day Nursery. The nursery laid three wreaths and paper flowers and the Trinity children laid poppies with poems.
Sadly, the 86-year-old man from Shillingstone, who was traveling in the Peugeot 308, died from his injuries today (12 November). His next of kin have been informed and the coroner notified.
Police were called to a flat on Bath Street at around 8am on Sunday 8 November and discovered the body of a 23-year-old man. A murder investigation was subsequently launched by Dorset Police’s Major Crime Investigation Team. Yesterday, detectives named the man as Abdal Rahman Al-Rabia, from the London area and who is originally from…
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is delighted to announce the discovery of a waxcap fungi which is new to the Kingcombe Meadows Nature Reserve in West Dorset.
Around a hundred people attended the Armistice Day service, with two minute silence, and wreath laying at the Royal British Legion garden in Ferndown yesterday (11 November). It was followed with the blessing of a new bench in the Millennium Park. The specially designed bench was provided by Ferndown Town Council to commemorate the 70th…
Award-winning Bond actor Sir Roger Moore has launched an urgent appeal to the public to help Animal Defenders International fly 33 lions home to Africa. The big cats endured years of brutality and confinement in circuses in Peru and Columbia but now a perfect home has been found for them in their native Africa. Sir…
Police are alerting dog owners to a number of suspicious circumstances. On Saturday 7 November in Swanage, a man described to be in his early 20s with short brown hair and wearing blue tracksuit bottoms, a blue jumper and a body warmer was seen to go into a garden and place a bowl of food…
