Category: Dorset

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.

Staff in the Dorset Heart Centre have been celebrating 10 years since it first opened its doors – with an impressive 60,000 patients treated by the dedicated team over the last decade. The centre, based at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital, serves a population of more than one million people from Dorset and beyond and is…

A former pilot has been jailed for 12 and a half years for a string of child sex offences. Bartle Frere, 51, of Shipton Gorge, was handed the prison term at Bournemouth Crown Court today, Wednesday 17 June 2015, after being convicted the previous day for 16 sex offences. These included eight charges of sexually assaulting…