Category: Dorset

Talented pupils at Oakdale Junior School have won a competition run by Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts entitled ‘Designing Neverland’.

If you’ve hesitated over booking your place on the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance Coast to Coast cycle challenge, it’s now too late as it’s fully booked for 2016. The event, which is not a race involves cycling through some of Dorset and Somerset’s most beautiful countryside and takes place on Sunday 15 May. With…

Hilton Hotels & Resorts announced the opening of its newest property in the UK, Hilton Bournemouth on 16 December. The new hotel joins 67 hotels within the Hilton portfolio across the country. Classic design and quirky innovation are central to the hotel’s aesthetic, with bespoke interiors and furnishings designed exclusively for Hilton Bournemouth by Ray…

Diverse Abilities, Dorset’s disability charity, was pleased to present two lucky raffle winners with a diamond pendant during its 60th anniversary celebrations thanks to Franses Jewellers in Bournemouth. The Diamond Raffle ran throughout the charity’s diamond year and was announced at its Diamond Gala Ball that took place in November. The winning ticket was 27877…

You’d better shape up and get ready to have the time of your life when Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts welcomes Sing-a-long-a Grease and Sing-a-long-a Dirty Dancing on Saturday 16 January. Both of these interactive film screenings begin with a host leading the audience in a vocal warm-up and talking them through the contents…

When Dorset Cancer Care Foundation popped into the Co-op in Lilliput in search of donations, it got more than it had bargained for. Supermarket worker Eugene McQuinn was so impressed by the work of the local charity, he offered to throw himself out of a plane. Eugene, who has worked at Co-op Food in Lilliput…

An overwhelming vote against a pan-Dorset unitary council has been made by East Dorset District councillors. They voted 8 for, and 20 against the proposal to examine the financial implications of the options put forward for the reorganisation of local government in Dorset. Hours before East Dorset made its decision, leader of the council, Ian…