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.
Detectives are appealing for witnesses and anyone with any information to come forward following an attempted sexual assault in Bournemouth. The incident happened along a footpath on heathland between St Brelades Avenue and Scott Road around 3.30pm on Thursday 5 March. A teenage girl was approached by a man, who grabbed hold of her and…
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).
A Somerset enthusiast’s model train collection is to be sold by Lawrences Auctioneers of Crewkerne. It was assembled by a Crewkerne man over several decades and the collection has been consigned for sale by his family. It includes over 50 boxed locomotives by Hornby and Bachmann, mostly in mint condition. Also included are several hundred…
In just three years, the Purbeck Marathon has established itself as one of the best distance races in the UK. In each year it has been rated amongst the top three marathons in the UK by a leading running magazine and the sixth best race of any distance in 2014.
This is an update to the news item posted on this website on 6 March concerning the armed robbery at the Stan James bookmakers in Christchurch when a man threatened a member of staff with a knife on 5 March (approx 8pm) before stealing cash. The man ran from the scene toward Jumpers Road. Police,…