Hot, hot, hot!
The cheese and chilli festival at West Parley lived right up to its name.
The Bournemouth Area Defibrillator Group (BAD) has donated a £1,000 Automated External Defibrillator (AED) to the Iford Golf Centre to increase survival rates for people experiencing sudden cardiac arrest (SCA).
The clock was wound back to the 1940s at the recent Theatre 2000 production of musical comedy Betty Blue Eyes at the Regent Centre in Christchurch.
This year the Stewarts Garden Centre in Christchurch has achieved a record number of merit awards from the South Thames Garden Centre Association.
As one of his last acts in office, the Mayor of Christchurch for 2015-16 Cllr Frederick Neale planted a Ginkgo Bilboa tree in Christchurch Priory churchyard as a gesture of peace in memory of the bombings that took place during the Second World War in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Cllr Trish Jamieson has been sworn in as the Mayor of Christchurch. She was first elected as a Conservative councillor for the West Highcliffe ward in 2003 and has served in that ward since then.
Despite strong competition, the winner of this year’s Christchurch Food Festival Cookery Challenge, sponsored by Christchurch Rotary Club, was a student from Highcliffe School, Bailey Jones. Runners up were Amy Evans from Twynham School and Daniel Hearn from the Grange School.
In memory of a local photographer, an inflatable pub at Christchurch Food and Wine Festival has raised over £500 for Macmillan Caring Locally.
Are you interested in finding out more about the wildlife at nature reserves in Christchurch, and helping to identify the species found there? If so then join the ‘Bioblitz’ taking place at Stanpit Marsh Nature Reserve from 10am on Saturday 21 May to 10am on Sunday 22 May.
Food lovers in their thousands flocked to Christchurch Food Festival amid beautiful sunshine. Once again the festival was expanded to include not only the traditional High Street market but also the festival village on the Quomps at Christchurch Quay.