Category: Dorset

Mrs Margaret Firth, chairman of the East Dorset Marks & Spencer Retired Staff Association presented a cheque for £1,000 to Frances Cornelius

Detectives investigating an attempted armed robbery in Boscombe are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward. The incident happened at 10.40pm on Monday (1 February) at the Premier store on Christchurch Road. It was reported that a man entered the shop, threatened staff with a kitchen knife and demanded cash. No money…

Want the chance to nip prostate cancer in the bud? Then you couldn’t do any better than attend for a free check at the ‘clinic’ hosted by Parley Rotary.

Mary Parsons – a volunteer for Hamworthy Neighbourhood Watch, Poole Harbour Watch and, until recently, the Association of Poole Watches – is this year’s winner of the John Jay Shield, thanks to her “unstinting commitment” to her community.

A man who tried to groom girls as young as 12 through Facebook and cover his tracks has been jailed for two and a half years.

The League of Friends charity based at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital (RBH) has donated a mobile mortuary to increase the hospital’s capacity to care for deceased patients.

A club for businessmen from the Bournemouth area raised an astonishing £53,000 for charity – in one night.