Police are appealing for help following a street robbery in Bournemouth. The incident, in which an elderly woman was robbed, happened at around 5.30pm on Thursday 12 February 2015 near Rose Gardens. The 76-year-old Bournemouth victim was walking through the alleyway at the rear of Bloomfield Avenue when she heard running footsteps behind her. She…
A year 8 pupil at Allenbourn Middle School was recently awarded £100 worth of Halfords vouchers because of the improvement she has made in her cycling. Lorna Welton from Wimborne admits she was “pretty wobbly” before she started the course, but made such good progress that she received the prize for being one of the…
Highcliffe Castle in Dorset, is set to receive a grant of £2.9m from the Heritage Lottery Funding (HLF), including an initial development grant of £233,100.
Jeremy Channon has been recruited by MJP Law to start up their new corporate and commercial department. He will be based at the Wimborne office.
Police officers are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward after an assault in the Rising Sun Inn on East Street, Wimborne. The incident happened on Friday, 16 January between 10pm-10.30pm when a 50-year-old female member of staff was attacked by a man. A group of five men had entered the pub…
Fire crews from Hampshire and Dorset battled a fire at Sopley near Christchurch yesterday evening (12 February). A thatch roof was well alight when they arrived and firefighters tackled an intense fire. Officer in charge Station Manager Thompson said, “The firefighters did a fantastic job in salvaging most of the contents of the house whilst fighting the…
Swanage Railway General Manager Richard Jones is to leave the Dorset heritage line and become the new Operating Officer for the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway in Yorkshire.
The Environment Agency is about to start work on the final phase of a flood improvement scheme in the village of Wick near Christchurch that will include some temporary road closures. Contractors have been busy, since December 2014, raising and extending existing flood embankments at Wick Farm. Improvements to earlier defences, built in the 1990s,…
Borough of Poole Cabinet members have agreed to recommend no increase in Council Tax bills for Poole residents in 2015/16. It would mean the annual charge for council services on a Band D property in Poole would remain unchanged at £1,209.60 – the fifth consecutive year that Borough of Poole has not raised Council Tax. The council’s budget for 2015/16, including the…
Foil can now be collected for recycling at the kerbside by Bournemouth Council’s Recycling teams. Residents are being encouraged to put washed foil and foil trays into their Big Bin which will be recycled back into foil packaging or other metal products such as cans Councillor Michael Filer, cabinet member for waste, said: “We’ve been…
