Students from Ferndown Upper School and Queen Elizabeth’s School, Wimborne have taken part in an exercise to help the Chairman of East Dorset District Council, Cllr Steve Lugg, decide on how to spend £1,000 of a ward budget. The students, four from each school, were given the task of coming up with ideas on how…
All Bournemouth taxi and private hire drivers are receiving free mandatory training in a bid to help protect children and young people in the town from Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) and human trafficking. As National Child Sexual Exploitation Awareness Day (Friday 18 March 2016) approaches, awareness training for taxi drivers is just one of the…
Dorset Wildlife Trust’s (DWT) Great Heath Living Landscape team will be returning to the Bournemouth Natural Science Society’s (BNSS) annual museum open day to give expert advice about wildlife gardening on Saturday 16 April.
Funding to purchase a set of 30 TOCA Djembe drums has been received by Ferndown Middle School. The new drums have already been put to good use with several year groups energising and creating beautiful music and sounds. The school wishes to thank John Thornton Young Achievers Foundation, Ferndown Town Council and Mike Downton for…
A production by Wimborne Community Theatre, based on the theatre’s research about the impact of the Great War on people living in Wimborne, is set to take place in several town centre locations.
At what has now become an annual tradition, Bournemouth East Cliff Rotary club hosted five local charities at one of their regular dinner meeting at the West Hants Tennis Club.
Prior to the raising of the Commonwealth Flag in Verwood on 14 March, the town mayor, Cllr Mrs Sandra Grove read a letter from Kamalesh Sharma, Commonwealth Secretary General explaining to those attending that the theme is ‘An Inclusive Commonwealth’. She then read out the Commonwealth Affirmation. All five schools in the parish were at the ceremony: Emmanuel…
Ferndown Royal British Legion hosted a unique double celebration for long-time member and Royal Navy veteran, Charles Grant, who celebrated his 96th birthday on 14 March.
Bournemouth’s famous golden sands will be replenished over the coming months to replace sand gradually washed away over the years due to coastal erosion. A total of 320,000 cubic metres of new beach material will be pumped onto the beach using specialist equipment with work starting between Bournemouth and Boscombe Piers and then continuing East…
AFC Bournemouth club photographer, Sophie Cook, the first transgender woman to work in the Premier League, has been nominated for the LGBT Role Model Award at The 2016 National Diversity Awards. The ceremony celebrates some of the excellent and inspiring achievements of positive role models and community organisations from across the UK. The awards aim…
