The OFFICIAL GUIDE OF VERWOOD & THREE LEGGED CROSS… Issued with the authority of VERWOOD TOWN COUNCIL, 28 Vicarage Road, Verwood, Dorset, BH31 6DR, Tel: 01202 820880. www.verwood.gov.uk. Published June 2015 (all items were correct at time of going to press).
Eighty lorry journeys on the roads of Dorset and Hampshire have been avoided after a total of 2,400 tonnes of stone track ballast for the Swanage Railway’s link to Wareham was brought in by train – thanks to help from Network Rail.
With just four weeks to go until her world record rowing attempt, Clare Busst is hitting the ergometer every chance she gets and is already breaking records.
Detectives investigating a sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl in Bournemouth have released an e-fit of the suspect. The incident occurred at around 8pm on Monday 22 June in Cuckoo Woods. (Police report was posted on this website on 24 June) The 11-year-old girl was walking home alone when she was approached by a man…
Land Rover BAR (Ben Ainslie Racing) will start their challenge – representing Royal Yacht Squadron Racing – for the America’s Cup at home in Portsmouth in the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series Portsmouth this month. Over 90,000 tickets have already been sold for the four days, 23 to 26 July, as Land Rover BAR start racing for the 35th America’s Cup.
Young readers in Dorset and Hampshire are being encouraged to sign up to the Summer Reading Challenge 2015.
The Challenge has teamed up with Guinness World Records, the global authority in record-breaking achievements to establish a ‘Record Breakers’ themed challenge.
Grooves on the Green takes place on 11 and 12 July and will feature live music on two stages, as well as its own local food and beer festival, a dedicated kids’ zone, literary interventions from the Freeway Poets and a mini film festival. The two-day family-friendly festival at Ashley Cross, Parkstone will once again…
The Cheese and Chilli Festival is a celebration of all things related to Cheese & Chilli The event is designed to be a fun day out for the whole family at an affordable price. This event is in its second year at Christchurch and so still in its infancy. The ambition is to slowly grow…
Detectives in Bournemouth are appealing for witnesses to come forward after a man was blinded in one eye following an assault in the town. At around 2.20am on Sunday 31 May, an altercation took place between a man and a woman at Le Chic bar in Christchurch Road. The woman took off her stiletto shoe…
Following months of campaigning by Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) and over 10,500 letters sent to the Secretary of State, the development of a large solar station on the SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest) Rampisham Down in West Dorset, has been ‘called in’ by the Department of Communities and Local Government.
