Ferndown Rotary Club is delighted to report that long-standing member and past-president Alan Dean has been appointed by the President of France to the rank of Chevalier in the Ordre national de la Legion d’honneur. The award, notified by the French Ambassador in London, acknowledges Alan’s military engagement and steadfast involvement in the liberation of France…
Santa Claus will be reunited with the six reindeer owned by the Stewarts family at Stewarts Garden Centres in time for Christmas. Arriving on a horse-drawn sleigh, Father Christmas will meet the reindeer in Christchurch on Saturday 28 November at 10.30am, and on the same day at Broom Hill in Wimborne at 1.30pm. Button, Comet, Dasher, Jingle, Snowy and Twinkle will be waiting to greet him and will remain at the centres with Santa until Christmas Eve.
Children attending appointments at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital Eye Unit can now wait in the refurbished children’s area, which has a new television to help pass the time during eye assessments.
Officers investigating the theft of three bottles of nitrous oxide from a hospital in Wimborne are warning members of the public not to use the gas. The bottles were taken from a gas storage unit outside the Victoria Hospital on Victoria Road. It is believed that the incident happened between 4pm on Friday 30 October…
Builders and architects in Christchurch and East Dorset are being invited to a free seminar on changes to the BS5534 standard for slating and tiling on Tuesday 24 November from 11.45am to 1.30pm.
Police in Devon, Cornwall and Dorset are to embark on a six-month trial of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), more commonly known as drones, to aid officers in a number of policing matters including missing people searches and crime scene photography. Dorset Police is currently undertaking final preparations and is due to begin trialling two drones…
A by-election for two council seats in the Kinson South ward will be held on Thursday 10 December. This follows a ruling made on 30 October by the High Court after the result of 7 May poll was challenged. The challenge came about because an error at the printers meant that the ballot paper books…
On Sunday 8 November, a parade of ex-service men and women, pre-service and youth organisations will be marching through the Bournemouth town centre and the central gardens to the War Memorial for the service starting at 10.57am. The service holds a special significance this year, being the 70th anniversary of VJ Day. The Mayor of…
With 33 finalists now selected, the award-winning commercials team at Light Side Productions are on the road again to film with each and every one, ahead of the glittering Dorset Business Awards gala dinner on Thursday November 26.
A programme of work to protect Bournemouth’s coastline will begin on Monday 2 November. Bournemouth Council’s beach management programme includes replacing and adding groyne defences, together with three separate beach replenishments over the next 17 years. The start of the project will see the removal and replacement of ten timber groynes to the east of…