Detectives investigating the death of Phillip Nicholson in Boscombe have charged a man and a woman with his murder. At around midday on Tuesday 26 May police were called to a flat in Mallard Grange on Sea Road and discovered the body of the 22-year-old.
Officers investigating a fatal collision near Horton are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward. At 9.20pm on Sunday 31 May, a serious single vehicle road traffic collision occurred on the B3078 Wimborne to Cranborne road at Didlington. A blue MG car, containing five occupants, was travelling from Horton toward Wimborne when…
A disabled man has been robbed in Bournemouth The local man in his 40s was removing items from a parked car at around 5.45pm on Wednesday 27 May 2015 in a car park on Duck Lane. He felt the car door pushed into his back followed by someone’s hands which pushed him to the ground. A…
Now in its third year, Beaulieu’s family fun event, TRUCKMANIA, a super-sized celebration of all things truck-related, featured hundreds of trucks and a wide variety of trucking activities. Over 10,000 visitors and participants, 2,000 up on 2014, enjoyed the two-day show held in the attraction’s parkland over the May Bank Holiday weekend, with even bigger…
Lawrences’ popular auction in Crewkerne of Militaria, Coins and Medals on the 21 May, attracted a great deal of interest. Within the militaria, an Indian Katar dagger sliced through its estimate to make £1950. A brace of military flintlock pistols with intriguing marks for the Nazim of Hyderabad’s bodyguard shot to £2070; and a Lang…
Matthew Hughes, Public Safety Officer at Bournemouth’s Castlepoint Shopping Park, has received recognition for helping the police arrest two car thieves.
For one day only, Diverse Abilities, Dorset’s disability charity, is celebrating its 60th birthday on 12 June in a town near you! The charity is inviting the local community to come and say hello, find out what the charity does and make a donation to help reach its £600,000 target during its diamond anniversary year.…
Dorset’s Police & Crime Commissioner has announced that round four of the Safer Dorset Fund is open for applications until 6 July. The Safer Dorset Fund has been created to support community projects that make Dorset safer and feel safer in line with the police and crime plan priorities These priorities are: Reduce the number of victims…
One of the largest-scale choral works in the classical concert repertoire, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony was performed by more than 1,000 musicians and singers at its premiere in 1910. Now, 105 years later the combined choirs of the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, the Bath Minerva Choir, the Bournemouth Symphony Youth Chorus and the Amadeus Orchestra, with a…
Police are warning that in the past week there has been a few reported incidents of two young males attempting to use counterfeit £50 notes at shops and businesses in the East Dorset area. The first male is described as white, approximately 16 years old, average build, with black short hair. The second male is…
