Clouds Hill, Lawrence of Arabia’s tiny cottage hideaway near Bovington, Dorset, is gearing up for the anniversary of the 1916-18 Arab Revolt with a recruitment day for new volunteers on 23 June.
Members of the Carers Group at Lewis-Manning Hospice have been celebrating National Carers Week, which aims to recognise and highlight the contribution of all of the UK’s 6.5 million unpaid carers. As part of the celebrations there will be a patient and carer tea party on Friday (12 June) which coincides with the birthday of…
A record breaking 500 people registered for Bournemouth Hospital Charity’s Twilight Walk for Women that took place on Friday evening (5 June).
A Verwood man has been jailed for six months after offences, including assault by beating, in the Verwood area. Jonathan Edwin Michael Griffiths, 20 and of Verwood, pleaded guilty at Bournemouth Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday 19 May to assault by beating and breach of an anti-social behaviour order (ASBO). He was sentenced on the same…
Following on from last month’s Dementia Awareness Week the Priest’s House Museum & Garden in Wimborne Minster is holding another Forget-Me-Not craft session on Friday 19 June, 10am to 12 noon. Join an informal and fun session knitting or crocheting forget-me-nots which will be made into bouquets to be displayed in the museum and other…
A rare coffer from the Tudor period that was used to keep valuables in has emerged for sale at auction and could fetch £30,000.
A man has been jailed for three years with an extended licence period of a further two years for a vicious Christmas Eve assault on a woman in Lyme Regis. Scott Meyers, 31, of Lyme Regis, was handed the jail term at Dorchester Crown Court today, Monday 8 June 2015. He was convicted on Friday…
A Ferndown care home brushed up on its ‘owl-gebra’ for a flying visit by three birds of prey.
Residents at Colten Care’s Amberwood House were introduced to a barn owl called Luna; Gizmo, a white faced African scops owl, and Misty, a 12-week-old Chaco owl.
Poetry lovers are in for a treat at the Wimborne Folk Festival on Saturday 13 June.
Dorset Library Service has teamed up with two talented young poets, Joe Selby and Mel Oliver, who will be performing in the courtyard outside the library at 11.30am with a repeat performance at 1pm.
A man was attacked in his Bingham Road flat in Verwood last Friday (5 June). At around 9.50am, two men forced their way into his home and attacked him with a hammer and a wooden stick. The man aged in his 50s sustained fractures, cuts and bruises to his head and injuries to his knees.…
