This year’s Organic September is set to be the biggest ever celebration of all things organic, with chefs, foodies and food writers all lending their support to make it easier for more people to eat and live healthier by making one small change to their shopping habits. With new research from Mintel finding 74% of…
Sue Ryder in West Moors are looking for volunteers with a difference. Can you knit or sew? Do you have a creative mind bursting with ideas? If yes, then Sue needs you! Help up-cycle furniture and make items from spare fabric and bric-a-brac. You can do this from the comfort of your own home and…
One of the Trustees of the Priest’s House Museum & Garden in Wimborne Minster, Rachel Limb, will be walking the full length of the Hadrian’s Wall National Path in aid of the Priest’s House Museum Trust later this month.
Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward following a road traffic collision near Wimborne – with one man being arrested for allegedly failing to stop. At around 10.50pm on Saturday 29 August 2015, a serious injury collision occurred on Julians Road between a car and a pedal bike. The victim, a man in his…
It is with deep sadness that Beaulieu announces the death of Edward, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu. He died peacefully at his home on 31 August, aged 88, after a short illness. He is survived by his wife Fiona, his son and heir Ralph, daughter Mary and second son Jonathan. In accordance with his wishes,…
Bournemouth Hospital Charity has received £4,000 from the Santander Foundation to fund a specialist child-sized trolley for the Emergency Department that will benefit thousands of children each year. The donation from the Santander Foundation will enable the Emergency Department staff to safely assess, treat and monitor two children at the same time in the children’s…
A Bournemouth man has been jailed for four years for burgling a home in the town.
Stacey John Tutt, 43 and of no fixed abode, was sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court on 21 August.
Ringwood Town Centre will be all aglow again this year as the town council puts on its second Christmas Switch On event and promises even more lights than last year. With an additional £4000 obtained in grants from Hampshire County Council and the lottery there will also be lots for the kids to do and…
Timber from a tree planted by the Duke of Wellington has been carved into a special collection of sculptural vessels by wood artist Eleanor Lakelin for a commission celebrating the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo.
The government has today announced the scale of a new round of badger killing as the central plank of its anti-bovine TB campaign. In West Somerset a maximum of 524 badgers can be killed over the coming months under government licence. The figure for West Gloucestershire is 679. In Dorset, which was not part of the slaughter last year, as many as 835 can be destroyed.
