Ferndown Market heralded huge success
With over 20 stalls to browse, residents and visitors descended in strength on the first regular Friday Market in Pennys Walk, and nobody had a bad word to say.
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Dorset’s roadside verges – a fine balance to strike
Dorset Council has a statutory duty to maintain the road network and to make sure it is safe. Striking the balance between protecting road users and encouraging wildlife can be a sensitive issue.
Join GECCO’s Real Nappy campaign and ditch plastic nappies
A Real Nappy campaign promoting reusable, washable nappies to reduce plastic pollution, is providing information, support, and cloth nappies to staff in day nurseries.
Dorset volunteers wanted to help refugee families
Volunteers are needed to help refugee families from Syria get used to life in Dorset. This could be assisting with shopping, playing with children or just being a friendly face.
Ferndown Town Council enter into negotiations to take over the running of the Barrington Centre
Ferndown Town Council has made a “minded to” decision to enter into negotiations to take over the running of the Barrington Centre following an approach from Prama.
The not so fine to flush ‘flushable’ wipes
The Marine Conservation Society says that own-brand ‘flushable’ wipes, available in 10 leading high street retailers and supermarkets, are unsuitable to carry the new Fine to Flush logo.
Dippy on Tour crowned Partnership of the Year at Museums and Heritage Awards 2019
Over a year has passed since Dorset County Museum’s 26-metre-long visitor Dippy the diplodocus delighted the Dorset community, but his stay continues to be a roaring success
Weymouth to receive enhanced town centre patrols as part of ‘100 days of summer’ policing campaign
Weymouth Neighbourhood Policing Team will be providing an improved visible presence in the town centre this summer in a bid to reduce anti-social and criminal behaviour.
Volunteers join Poole BID to tidy the town
Poole’s Business Improvement District (BID) was joined by volunteers during its annual Big Clean, which took place from Monday, May 13, to Friday, May 17.
Council’s new political status causes uproar among Ferndown residents
The new Mayor of Ferndown, Cllr Mrs Robinson, chaired her first meeting on 14 May, which turned into a political hot potato and caused members of the public to walk out.