Category: Dorset

A new mayor of Christchurch is to be chosen due to the original mayor-elect not being available to take up his duties because of a delay in the election in his ward.

The Bishop of Winchester Academy in Bournemouth, welcomed Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal to commemorate the official opening of the £14.5 million facilities which were constructed using government funding secured with the help of MP Tobias Ellwood.

Dorset based PR and event firm P-PR Media Solutions are to be featured in Channel Four’s popular TV show ‘Couples Come Dine with Me’ on Friday 15 May at 5pm.

Ten Hampshire firefighters have now returned from Nepal after being deployed as part of the UK International Search and Rescue (UK-ISAR) team to help the country recover after the devastating earthquake on 25 April.

Well travelled centenarian Phyllis Dawes celebrated her 100th birthday with a party at her Dorset care home. Relatives from as far afield as Wales travelled to Colten Care’s Fernhill home in Longham for the celebrations. They were joined by a seven-strong troupe from the Poole-based Wessex Majorettes who performed three special routines in Phyllis’ honour…

Christchurch Food Festival’s Market was the place to be at the weekend as crowds in their thousands descended on the town to experience the delights of the 16th annual Food Festival. This year the Festival Market was expanded with the addition of a Festival Village at Christchurch Quay which also drew huge crowds eager to…

A West Moors woman couldn’t have won CashUnity at a better time.
Semi retired Elizabeth Allen was working on plans with her husband Tony to refit their bathroom when mags4dorset’s MD Ben Pulford rang to say she had won the April CashUnity prize draw.

A woman who died in a fatal road traffic collision on the A37 near Dorchester has been named by her family.
The collision happened at around 10.16pm on Friday 8 May three miles north of Grimstone on Break Heart Hill.