Diverse Abilities, Dorset’s disability charity, has been supporting Ian Downton, now age 50, since he was three years old. Without the provision of the charity and its support workers he would not have the fulfilled life that he does now.
Police investigating an attempted robbery in Poole are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward. At around 6.35am on Thursday 14 January, a teenage boy was walking out of the subway footpath which joins Dolbery Road North with St Brelades Avenue in the Alderney area when he was approached by a man…
Two local volunteers have been recognised for their work with a pioneering mental health surf project for young people, at an annual awards ceremony hosted by the UK Pro Surf Association.
Amateur photographers are being asked to submit their best photographs of Dorset to help the county’s cancer sufferers.
Julia’s House, the Dorset and Wiltshire children’s hospice charity is asking for donations of unwanted Christmas presents and good quality clothes, household items, toys and furniture to help raise the funds to run its free service in 2016. The charity is also in need of unwanted, unopened chocolates and bottles of alcohol to use in…
Holocaust Memorial Day 2016 will be marked in Christchurch at the site where a Holocaust Memorial was unveiled in 2015. An event will be held to mark the occasion on 27 January at 10am at the site on Christchurch Quay. The programme will include prayers by the Vicar of Christchurch, The Reverend Canon Charles Stewart…
Following the government’s announcement in December last year regarding the funds to be made to local councils for 2016/17, a large amount of disquiet has been expressed across Dorset.
Bournemouth Hospital Charity’s March for Men event is returning to Bournemouth Seafront on 20 March and aims to raise thousands of pounds for a new piece of imaging equipment that will benefit men with prostate cancer at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital (RBH). Money raised from the event will be used to fund men’s health projects…
AFC Bournemouth has teamed up with the town’s brightest bus company to drive safety lessons into schools.
Police investigating a wallet theft at a store in Weymouth are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward. At around 2.22pm on Sunday 20 December, a man left his wallet on the counter at McColls newsagents in Portland Road. He returned to discover the wallet, which contained a large quantity of cash,…