It is with deep sadness that Beaulieu announces the death of Edward, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu. He died peacefully at his home on 31 August, aged 88, after a short illness. He is survived by his wife Fiona, his son and heir Ralph, daughter Mary and second son Jonathan. In accordance with his wishes,…
Bournemouth Hospital Charity has received £4,000 from the Santander Foundation to fund a specialist child-sized trolley for the Emergency Department that will benefit thousands of children each year. The donation from the Santander Foundation will enable the Emergency Department staff to safely assess, treat and monitor two children at the same time in the children’s…
A Bournemouth man has been jailed for four years for burgling a home in the town.
Stacey John Tutt, 43 and of no fixed abode, was sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court on 21 August.
Ringwood Town Centre will be all aglow again this year as the town council puts on its second Christmas Switch On event and promises even more lights than last year. With an additional £4000 obtained in grants from Hampshire County Council and the lottery there will also be lots for the kids to do and…
Timber from a tree planted by the Duke of Wellington has been carved into a special collection of sculptural vessels by wood artist Eleanor Lakelin for a commission celebrating the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo.
The government has today announced the scale of a new round of badger killing as the central plank of its anti-bovine TB campaign. In West Somerset a maximum of 524 badgers can be killed over the coming months under government licence. The figure for West Gloucestershire is 679. In Dorset, which was not part of the slaughter last year, as many as 835 can be destroyed.
Two members of Verwood Afternoon Townswomen’s Guild, Barbara Chisholm and Linda Pearson, met the Princess Royal at the Townswomen’s Guild National AGM in Glasgow recently. They presented a mandate for debate on the long term residential care of people with severe mental or physical disabilities. When care homes close, patients often have to move back…
The demand for emergency food aid continues to increase with growing numbers of adults and children experiencing food poverty. Currently, more than 1,100 people a year are receiving food aid through the Ringwood Foodbank. More than a third of these are children. To meet this growing need, a third distribution centre will shortly be opening…
Residents and wildlife in Milford on Sea are set to benefit from plans to improve wooded areas in the coastal village.
Officers are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward following a fail-to-stop collision on the A31 near Ferndown. At around 1.15pm on Wednesday 26 August 2015 a road traffic collision took place involving a black Renault Clio heading westbound on the A31 near to the Ashley Heath roundabout. It was reported that…