Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline, today begins its second month-long on-board collection this year to raise vital research funds for its chosen charity partner, Cancer Research UK. In February, generous passengers raised over £35,000 boosting the total amount raised by Flybe passengers and staff since 2009 to more than £500,000. Passengers on all of the…
Stephen Lamberth’s Schools Tae Kwon Do and Self Defence has just had a record number of new beginners attend their very first grading test. There were 22 boys, girls, men and women aged from 4-65 at the grading and they were tested on beginner level movements that they had practised in class. Stephen said, “To…
Hertfordshire based construction company Willmott Dixon formally handed over an £11m Bournemouth & Poole College extension at North Road, Poole, to principal Lawrence Vincent this week. This completed a new milestone in the 100 year history of the college.
Highcliffe celebrated its first food festival in high style on 16 May. With events for all the family including cake competitions, ice-cream, cakes, hog roasts, bouncy castles, beer, a town crier and locally run businesses showing their wares, as well as those from further afield in Hampshire and the rest of Dorset, the event was deemed…
A 24-hour long BioBlitz will be held on Brownsea Island from midday on Friday 12 June in order to record coastal wildlife at the site. The outdoor event is one of 25 interactive wildlife surveys happening across National Trust coastal sites in England, Wales and Northern Ireland this summer. Over 24 hours, the charity’s wildlife experts…
Police are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward following an assault in West Moors. At around 9.45am on Friday 29 May 2015, a collision took place on Station Road between two cyclists. After the initial collision, the offender grabbed the victim, a 31-year-old man from Three Legged Cross, by the throat…
A Bournemouth man has been jailed for 33 months for selling legal highs that contained controlled drugs.
John Richard Isaacs, 45, was sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court on Tuesday 19 May after pleading guilty the same day to possession with intent to supply class B and C drugs.
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…
