Not only did Wimborne scoop gold medal in the Small Town category for the second year running, but Redcotts Recreation Ground was entered for the first time in the Regional Park Competition and came away with a silver gilt award.
It may seem a bit premature, but the UK’s largest woodland conservation charity is already calling on the public to recycle their cards this Christmas to help plant thousands of trees across the UK.
Officers would like to thank the community for their support and patience during an incident in Bournemouth in which one man was arrested. At 3.27am on Saturday 12 September 2015, officers were called to an alleged assault at an address along Mallard Road, in which a woman had sustained an injury to her eye. Officers…
Three new choristers were recently admitted as full members of the Minster Choir at the Patronal Festival Parish Eucharist Service in Wimborne Minster. Finlay Kerr, Jacob Palmer and Isaac Slade received their surplices from the director of music, David Gostick.
Energy Minister Lord Bourne has announced development consent has been refused for the proposed Navitus Bay offshore wind park. This his caused a sigh of relief from campaigners in Dorset against the proposals.
Westbourne-based Simone Thomas Salon and Crowning Glory Hair are set to host a charity coffee morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support’s national fundraising campaign: ‘The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning’. However, not only will they host the event, but all takings the salon make through their services on the day will be donated to the charity while all staff have agreed to donate half of their day’s wages too.
West Moors Parish Council has declared the refurbished Oakhurst play area in Shaftesbury Road, West Moors, officially open.
A £40,000 facelift, funded fully by West Moors Parish Council, has seen the installation of new, state-of-the-art play equipment, some of which is fully inclusive, and has been designed to appeal to children under 12 years of age.
Local, family run bakery, Reeve the Baker, whose 11 shops include Ringwood, has won a national bakery industry award for its multi-seed sourdough loaves. The loaves, which were introduced to the bakery’s range earlier this year, were named Speciality Bread of the Year at the Baking Industry Awards. Now in their 28th year, the awards…
St Giles House in Dorset, the ancestral seat of the Earls of Shaftesbury, has been announced as the winner of the 2015 Historic Houses Association (HHA) & Sotheby’s Restoration Award. The house, which has remained in the family since the 14th century, had been abandoned and left derelict for over 50 years.
Detectives investigating the death of Elliot Handley in Dorchester have charged a man with his murder. At around 9.50pm on 26 May, police were called to a flat in The Grove and discovered the body of the 46-year-old from Eastleigh. A post mortem examination revealed Elliot had died from multiple blunt force head injuries. Today,…
