Category: Dorset

A man has been jailed for three years after being convicted of committing a burglary in Bournemouth.

Bishop Samuel Peni, from Nzara in South Sudan, was recently guest speaker at Wimborne Rotary. He reported on the progress of improving the lives of local people in war-torn South Sudan and the recent formation of a new Rotary club there – only the second in the country.

Community choir Rising Voices Wessex which began as a successful rehabilitation bid from Dorset Cancer Network to aid recovery and support patients with cancer and their carers through singing, will join Russell Watson in concert at Lighthouse, Poole’s centre for the arts on 3 June. The UK’s best selling classical artist with four Classical Brits…

At a service held in Wimborne Minster the Revd Suzie Allen was licensed by the Archdeacon of Sherborne, the Venerable Paul Taylor as Associate Priest of Wimborne Minster and the Northern Villages

Ferndown Upper School’s first Film Festival event was a real success. Students from Years 12 and 13, and from the A Level Media Studies and BTEC in Creative Media Production courses, were involved. Students and staff nominated films for a range of nine categories, from Best Thriller Opening and Best Music Video, to Best Actor…

Meritorious awards have been presented at Christchurch Council to two individuals and a group. One individual award went to Peter Allam, currently the Chief Executive of the Weymouth and Portland Sailing Academy. He is the only Christchurch-born person to achieve an Olympic medal, winning one in 1984 sailing a dinghy which he and Jo Richards…