Category: Dorset

Thousands turned out on Saturday 28 November to see the lights switched on in Christchurch. The 2015 Christchurch festival day was packed with activities to entertain families with the highlight for the youngsters being the arrival of Father Christmas. He left Peeks Party Store in a sleigh drawn by reindeer and accompanied by elves and…

Following the Wessex Brass Band Association’s 59th winter contest at the Life Centre in Winton, with 18 bands competing, Verwood Concert Brass came away with five trophies including the title of Wessex Champions. The Concert Brass had entered two bands. Verwood Town Band won the cup for best 4th Section band, and they beat a…

Kings Park Academy has a new outdoor learning area, thanks to its talented site manager, ‘Fantastic’ Mr Fox. Fantastic Mr Fox – real name Nigel Fox – has transformed an area of overgrown woodland into a learning garden, complete with lookout, digging patch, bug hotel, and rope swing. There is also a woodland walk where…

A year ago, Steven Blonstein, from California, contacted the Dorset Cancer Care Foundation (DCCF) and told the charity he wanted to give them a generous donation from his late aunt’s estate.

Crowds filled Penny’s Walk on Saturday (28 November) for Ferndown’s big event of the year, the Christmas lights switch-on, organised by Ferndown Chamber of Commerce. Local performers Jenny Oag, Evelyn Walsh, Catherine Gray and the Studio One student choir were followed by the headline act, Gugge 2000. In their distinctive yellow-and-black costumes, the Gugge band…

Roll up! Roll up! The Ferndown Lights extravaganza with music and Christmas stalls in Penny’s Walk and Santa in his fabulous grotto at the Barrington Centrte, is happening this Saturday, 28 November.

Expecting families and new parents are invited to the Bournemouth Birth Centre’s free first birthday tea party on Monday 30 November, 1-3pm at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital’s Oasis Coffee Lounge.

Officers in Bournemouth are appealing to the public to help identify a woman they would like to speak to in connection with the theft from a shop in the town. The incident happened at around 1pm on Sunday 15 November at Scape Interiors, Westbourne Arcade. A group of three including a man and two women…

Stars from the BIC Panto Snow White pushed the plunger to switch on the festive lights at Bournemouth’s Castlepoint Shopping Park. Crowds cheered as EastEnders Matt Lapinskas and Gillian Wright, and C5 Milkshake presenter Olivia Birchenough and Noel Brodie were joined by Castlepoint General Manager Peter Matthews to perform the ceremony. Santa and his real reindeer were there to thrill the children and the Centrepoint Elim Church choir sang favourite carols whilst festive characters walked amongst the crowd.