Christchurch Culture and Learning Arena (CAL), whose activities focus on the heritage of the ancient borough of Christchurch, have commemorated the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta thanks to a grant of £7,388 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). King John was a frequent visitor to Christchurch Priory and the celebrations included a…
The Environment Agency has completed works to improve flood defences at Wick near Christchurch.
Contractors were busy over winter, raising and extending existing flood embankments at Wick Farm. Improvements to earlier defences, built in the 1990s, will protect properties from tidal flooding from the nearby River Stour say the Environment Agency.
Parley Cricket Club 1st XI won the Dorset Funeral Plan Team of the Month award for May – after victories in all five games.
The team, which plays its home games at Dean Park, the former county ground in Bournemouth, is exceptionally young.
Nearly 900 people flocked to Highcliffe Castle to get their antiques valued by the BBC One antiques programme ‘Flog It!’ in the hope of finding out the real value of their treasures
Jake Cross 8, from Ferndown has won the Ferndown In Bloom poster competition in which there was over 300 entries from pupils from the areas’ first and junior schools. Jane Glover, Ferndown In Bloom’s schools liaison volunteer and Matt Hill, general manager of Haskins Garden Centre, presented the Haskins £100 gift card prize to Jake and environment/science coordinator Varsha Roche at Parley First School.
The Navitus Bay project will ‘desecrate’ Dorset’s Jurassic Coast and do ‘irreparable’ damage to an economy dependent on tourism.
The Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA) welcomed children from the Isle of Portland Aldridge Community Academy (IPACA) to enjoy front row action at the recent ISAF Sailing World Cup Weymouth and Portland. Year 2 pupils from the West Base class on the Osprey Quay campus were allowed onto the main spectator stand to…
Viridor has secured the purchase of Commercial Recycling Ltd’s Waste Collection Division in Dorset (and Somerset) for an undisclosed amount. As part of the agreement, Commercial Recycling Ltd (CRL) retains its waste transfer and recycling business, and transfered its collection division to Viridor on 1 June. The hand over includes the acquisition of a 1,000-strong…
Eat your greens – and your blues, yellows and reds too – was the message of the week for students at The Arnewood School, New Milton recently.
As Britain gets ready for Wimbledon, a Bournemouth nursery could be serving up the tennis ace of the future.