Category: Dorset

A concert performed by the Land Girls, hosted by the Ferndown Haskins Garden Centre, has raised £871.60 for Poole’s Forest Holme Hospice

The Priest’s House Museum & Garden in Wimborne Minster is holding two volunteer open days on Wednesday 27 May, 2-4pm and Saturday 30 May, 11am to 1pm. The museum has been a part of the High Street for over 50 years. Its collections are rich in social history and archaeology, telling the story of East…

Colehill WI celebrated its 50th birthday with a party at Colehill Memorial Hall on 13 May with four members present who were at the inaugural meeting in 1965. Everyone enjoyed the Half Eight barbershop quartet and a beautiful cake made by June Austin.

Police in Poole are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward following a shoplifting offence in the town. The incident took place at approximately 5.22pm on Tuesday 12 May 2015 at John Lewis at Home on Redlands Retail Park. The offender selected a duvet and a pillow and left the store without…

Police investigating a number of recent deer killings in the Purbeck area are urging the public to come forward if they have any information.
The carcasses of nine deer were discovered by members of the public during the last week in April 2015 in two locations.

Improving the awareness and understanding of dementia is the focus of free public information sessions at Colten Care homes.
The ‘Dementia Friends’ meetings feature among a range of activities the family-owned provider is staging in support of Dementia Awareness Week (Monday 18 May to Friday 22 May).

Karen Wiltshire of Poole-based KW Photography, a specialist in newborn portraiture, is aiming to raise awareness among parents across the region of the need to choose a professional, safety-trained photographer following a spate of incidents in which babies, aged just days old, have been put in unnecessary danger during newborn photo shoots.