Bournemouth Council have taken robust disciplinary action against two taxi drivers after they flouted late-night road closures. At a hearing today of a sub-committee of Bournemouth’s Licensing Board, members heard evidence from officers in relation to two taxi drivers caught driving in the town centre area of Horseshoe Common from which all vehicle traffic is…
Dorset County Council is looking for people to help children get to and from school safely.
And school crossing patrols, or lollipop ladies and men, provide safe crossings for anyone negotiating roads, not just children.
This year’s grand finale of the Venus Awards in Dorset were announced at Lighthouse Theatre in Poole last Friday (18 September). Competition was fierce with a record-breaking number of nominations and applications across 15 award categories in Dorset and with 5,862 votes cast in the three public vote categories. Dubbed the ‘Working Women’s Oscars’ by Channel…
Blind actor Sam Frears, is speaking at Dorset Blind Association’s #tryitblind event at the Elstead Hotel in Bournemouth on 23 September.
Woodlands Church of the Ascension held its annual flower festival on 12 and 13 September. The theme of the festival was ‘Lest We Forget’. As well as flower arrangements there were stalls, a raffle and tombola. On 16 September at 7pm, there was a performance in the church of ‘Lest We Forget’ by the Fireside…
Detectives in Bournemouth are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward following a serious assault in the town. The incident took place sometime between 2.12am and 2.21am on Sunday 20 September 2015, outside the Bournemouth Bedding Centre in Charminster Road. The victim, a 34-year-old man from Bournemouth, was walking along Charminster Road…
Officers are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward after a man died from his injuries following a collision in Lytchett Matravers. At approximately 12.54pm on Friday 18 September, a two vehicle road traffic collision occurred on Huntick Road at the junction with Wareham Road outside the Rose and Crown pub. A…
Tickets are still available for Lewis-Manning’s third annual Celebrating Women Lunch, which will take place in October as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
This year’s event will take place on Friday 2 October at The Sandbanks Hotel and the charity has announced sisters Megan, aged 8, and Leah Hastings, aged 10, as special guests.
Today, on Monday 21st September, the United Nations International Day of Peace, and two days before the Autumn Equinox, Tibetan monks from Tashi Lhunpo monastery in India are building a sand mandala especially for the volunteers of Cherry Tree Nursery. The monks, exiled from their homeland, have visited the charity project before, to bless the…
A Dorset man who committed child sex offences has been sentenced to three years and three months’ imprisonment.
Christopher Anthony Greco, 31 and of Christchurch , pleaded guilty to possessing indecent images of children, inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and breach of his sexual offenders prevention order, on 16 December 2014 at Bournemouth Magistrates Court.