As the BSO approaches an important milestone in the Orchestra’s history, February sees the launch of the 125th Anniversary Appeal to raise the £125,000 needed to purchase a new Steinway Model D grand piano.
NEWS FEED National Trust volunteer, Annette Joyce, at Clouds Hill ©National Trust/Martin Stephen The small cottages near Dorchester where Thomas Hardy and Lawrence of Arabia lived are charming to look at, but it’s the warm welcome of the volunteer guides there that turn them from houses into homes. On 1 March the National Trust will…
Local man Lee Thomas, 32 from Poole, has set a world record by running a half marathon in Antarctica in the fastest time.
NEWS FEED Consider this nightmare scenario – a huge container ship heading down the English Channel is severely damaged in a storm and forced to come ashore on Dorset’s famous Jurassic Coast – a World Heritage Coastline. The major maritime incident put the coastal village of Branscombe firmly on the map and sparked a major…
Bidding for a pair of silver bull elephants, just under 7-inches across, reached £1,000 at Lawrences in Crewkerne recently.
The main speaker at a Holocaust memorial event to be held in Bournemouth will be Mala Tribich MBE. She was one of around 60,000 prisoners freed from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by soldiers of the British 11th Armoured Division, in the closing stages of the Second World War.
A collection of work from the studio of a noted local painter of Somerset and Dorset subjects is coming up for sale in a few days at Lawrences in Crewkerne.
The director of Forest FM, the Verwood-based community radio station, is to receive the British Empire Medal for services to broadcasting and the community in Verwood.
Church singers filled a Poole care home with Christmas spirit recently. The sweet sound of hymns and Christmas carols were sung during a visit by church members.
One of the largest combat vehicles to see action in the Second World War has arrived in Britain more than 70 years after it fell into Allied hands.
