Barrie and Sheila Smith of Mayfield Close have been announced as the winners of the main category for Best Front Garden in the Ferndown In Bloom competition and have received the shield and £100 worth of Haskins vouchers.
The UK’s leading marine charity says 2015 has been another bumper year for jellyfish sightings in UK seas. The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) says the massive barrel jellyfish have appeared in record numbers for a second consecutive year, whilst in July huge numbers of mauve stingers were reported off Guernsey, and the potentially dangerous Portuguese…
Branch Chairman Grant Parrott (left) with Chaplain Ralph Dodds Branch Chairman Grant Parrott (left) with Chaplain Ralph DoddsFollowing the departure of Rev Lawrie Clow to a new parish in Buckinghamshire, Ferndown Royal British Legion have appointed Ralph Dodds, Lt Commander RN (retired) and lay reader at All Saints Church at Hampreston as their new branch chaplain.
Students have achieved a highly impressive set of results in their GCSE examinations at Queen Elizabeth’s School in Wimborne with 85% of all students gaining an A*-C in English, 76% of students gained at least one Science GCSE and 68% gained an A*-C in Maths. Those achieving at least 5 A*- C including English and…
“As the new Headteacher of Ferndown Upper School, I would like to congratulate the students of Year 11 on their excellent GCSE results,” said Philip Jones today (20 August 2015).
The hunt is on for the best games room in the South West, as the UK’s leading supplier of specialist games room equipment launches the first ever Games Room of the Year competition in a bid to establish the nation’s number one games room, with a £3,000 prize on offer for the national winner. Whether…
The family of Barbara Hill-Brown, who tragically died in a head-on collision near Wool have paid tribute to her.
Setting out on 27 August, a team of steam enthusiasts will attempt the 189-mile journey from Cornwall to the Great Dorset Steam Fair in a Burrell 3257 Steam Locomotive called ‘Clinker’ to raise money for Cancer Research UK. They expect to arrive on Saturday, 29 August. When Jon Eastman and Rob Wing got together for…
Competition has been fierce this year for the Dorset Venus Awards with a record-breaking number of nominations and applications across the 15 award categories in Dorset and with 5,862 votes cast in the three Public Vote categories. Dubbed the ‘Working Women’s Oscars’ by Channel 4 and now in its sixth year, the Venus Awards goes…
A rare picture of a 53lb salmon caught 135 years ago at Mudeford has taken pride of place at a fishery museum. The cock fish, which was 4ft 4in long with a 2ft 4in girth, was the largest ever salmon recorded from the Hampshire Avon and Dorset Stour estuary. It was caught in the nets…
