The Larmer Tree Festival returns this summer to celebrate its 25th festival (15-19 July) with what promises to be its most exciting year yet. This year’s line up includes some returning stars, with Sir Tom Jones once again topping the bill and opening the festival on Wednesday 15 July. He will be followed on Thursday…
Thanks to a grant from the Dorset Cancer Care Foundation, Lewis-Manning Hospice is currently equipping a new treatment room, which is an important step towards the hospice providing end of life care for patients. The hospice, having provided specialist palliative nursing day care for over 22 years, recently moved into a new facility in Poole…
A Bournemouth eyesore is to be redeveloped by Juno and Bayview Developments in conjunction with Anders Roberts Cheer architects. The former David Lloyed Leisure Centre was demolished years ago after the sports facilty became run down. The site had a chequered planning history with many refusals before this new application was approved. Juno and Bayview…
Among the visitors attending the fundraising coffee morning at Church House, Wimborne on Easter Saturday was the Bishop of Sherborne, The Right Revd Dr Graham Kings who was paying a last visit to the parish before he leaves to take up a new appointment.
The spring concert that was to be performed by Fayrewood Singers on 18 April at Verwood Methodist Church, Verwood, Dorset has been postponed.
A musical extravaganza featuring a wide range of classical and modern songs from the Bournemouth Male Voice Choir, The Orlando Singers, Wessex Harmony, and Fiona Aucott, soprano, and fundraising for Bournemouth & District Samaritans Date: Saturday 16 May 2015 Time: 7.30pm Price: £16, £14, £10 (restricted view) Tickets: From the Regent Centre, Christchurch www.regentcentre.co.uk Venue: Christchurch Priory, Christchurch Telephone:…
462 volunteers helped National Trust teams collect a staggering 533 bags of rubbish during the National Trust’s Big Beach Clean Week (15-22 March) in the South West. The 19 beach cleans kicked off a year-long Coastal Festival of events celebrating the 50th anniversary of Neptune, a campaign created to help protect our coastline from inappropriate…
The biggest change in adult social care for 60 years came into force today, 1 April, bringing big changes to the way people can plan and pay for their care and support. The Care Act will mean clearer financial arrangements, better information and advice, improved support for carers and greater choice of services. A key…
The Friday coffee club in Ferndown recently made a donation of £100 to the East Dorset and New Forest Branch of the Motor Neurone Disease Association (MNDA). The money was raised one morning by club members, who meet in the Theatre Bar at the Barrington Centre every Friday. During the year they hold a number of fundraising…
Scientists have revealed that chickens in Nebraska are pumped with so much corn they no longer have any meat content. This startling fact has turned science on its head as it appears to confirm the saying ‘you are what you eat.’ The sweet tasting pop chicks could soon be available in Britain as a meat…
