Category: Dorset

Almost 200 people have signed up to Bournemouth Hospital Charity’s March for Men which will raise money for state-of-the-art prostate cancer diagnosis equipment. The event, taking place from Bournemouth Pier on 22 March, will help buy prostate template biopsy equipment which will reduce waiting times for patients at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital, improve the speed and…

Don’t panic!  Allenbourn children have not been up before the beak, but rather finding books for the school library.  At the end of last year the School Library Service moved from their previous base at Blandford Camp to occupy the former Wimborne Magistrates’ Court.  The Year 6 book group, together with school librarian Rosalind Jensen,…

Boreholes will be drilled into Bournemouth’s beaches this month as part of investigative work for the Bournemouth Beach Management programme of timber groyne replacement. Using a cable percussion drilling rig, each borehole will be drilled to a depth of 15m and is expected to take two days to complete. The purpose of the boreholes is…

Annette Brooke, MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole, gave her support to the NSPCC’s new ‘Share Aware’ campaign earlier this year, which aims to get families talking about socialising safely online.

The Borough of Poole joined more than 730 locations throughout the United Kingdom, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, UK Overseas Territories and Commonwealth countries to raise the Commonwealth flag on Monday 9 March.

The Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has received the Deputy Prime Minister for the official signing of the Dorset Growth Deal 2015–2021.

Jane Stichbury, Chairman of the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch hospitals, is joining 16 other daredevils to wing walk for Bournemouth Hospital Charity (BHC).