Category: Dorset

Former Premier League manager Harry Redknapp and CBeebies presenter Chris Jarvis pitched in to help a local charity score big with young footballers.

Dorset Police launched their Junior Police Community Support Officer Scheme in West Howe on 28 April.
The seven week Junior PCSO (Police Community Support Officer) Scheme in West Howe, North Bournemouth includes students from Heathlands Primary School and Elm Academy.

AFC Bournemouth’s Simon Francis has announced the winner of his infection prevention schools project with Nuffield Health Hospital Bournemouth.

Police are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward after a bank robbery in the Bournemouth. At 10.33am yesterday, Tuesday 5 May, police were called to reports of a robbery at Barclays Bank in Wimborne Road. A man entered the branch, threatened staff and demanded money. No weapon was seen. He stole…

What a turnout for AFC Bournemouth’s victory open top bus tour along the seafront on 4 May.
Originally planned to celebrate the Cherries’ promotion to the Premier League, (a first in its 116 year history), it got bumped to a victory tour after they also secured the Sky Bet Championship title on 2 May.

Dorset-based comedy pianist Matt Black and his manager Jon Cox have set off on a three legged bike ride from John O’Groats to Land’s End with a piano. Jon has only got one leg. He lost the other when he was four-years-old after he was run over by a lorry. He got his first bike…

Police officers who saved a man’s life in Bournemouth met the survivor and his family at an emotional gathering last week.

The Taphouse of Wimborne, which opened its doors in December 2013, has been awarded the East Dorset Campaign For Real Ales (CAMRA) ‘Pub of the Year’ 2014.