Russell Brand brings tour to Bournemouth International Centre
Celebrated stand-up comedian Russell Brand is to bring his show RE:BIRTH to Bournemouth in March 2018.
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Magnificent Star of the East sells for over £300,000 in the West
A rare Chinese Tibetan temple vase exceeded all expectations when it was offered for auction at Crewkerne last week.
Hadland Green Foundation presents A Plastic Ocean
An award-winning documentary, A Plastic Ocean had a special screening on 18 January hosted by the Hadland Green Foundation.
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra launches its 125th anniversary appeal
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.
Making a house a home – volunteers needed at Max Gate, Hardy’s Cottage, and Clouds Hill, Dorset
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…
POOLE MAN DEDICATES ANTARCTIC HALF MARATHON WORLD RECORD TO LATE CHAMPIONS
Local man Lee Thomas, 32 from Poole, has set a world record by running a half marathon in Antarctica in the fastest time.
Napoli remembered – 10 Years On
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…
Bids at Crewkerne auction reach £1,000 for silver elephants
Bidding for a pair of silver bull elephants, just under 7-inches across, reached £1,000 at Lawrences in Crewkerne recently.
Mala Tribich to speak at Holocaust memorial event in Bournemouth
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.
Noted Dorset artist’s work up for auction
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.