Ball clay mining’s fascinating 2,000 year history is to feature in BBC Radio 4’s popular rural magazine programme ‘Open Country’ this week – following a visit to the dedicated volunteers behind the unique award-winning Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum near Corfe Castle.
Diverse Abilities, the only charity in Dorset that supports children and adults with profound physical and learning disabilities, and their families, is giving the Dorset community the opportunity to start 2015 by making a difference and supporting adults with disabilities in the local area. Supported living allows adults to live as independently as possible in…
The cyclist who died in a fatal collision in Dorchester on Thursday 8 January 2015 has been named by the family.
Volunteers are reviving old forest customs such as charcoal production to care for the New Forest’s first community woodland.
Borough of Poole has sailed through the first round of bidding to receive nearly £3 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund to carry out a range of improvements at Poole Park.
Dorset County Council is encouraging drivers across the county to think more about their journeys this January in a bid to lower fuel costs. This month sees car sharing website carsharedorset.com celebrate its 10th anniversary and is all about giving car sharing a try. You can cut your fuel bills in half by sharing a…
There were celebrations at The Clay Studio in Christchurch at the end of December when Tim White of Christchurch spent a productive few hours one Saturday painting a unique plate featuring the character Jack from the film Nightmare Before Christmas. However, this was far more than just a well-painted plate. It contained a marriage proposal…
2014 saw turnover increase by 12% for Ferndown and Andover based Abacus Vehicle Hire, with trade increasing at their hire centre in Andover which opened in 2011, and the welcome return of many corporate clients who have seen their own businesses increase and so require additional transport.
Residents of one of Dorset’s oldest villages were today celebrating a leap into the future – and a major milestone for the multi million pound Superfast Dorset project. Superfast Dorset’s 100th fibre broadband cabinet to ‘go live’ is in Martinstown, an historic community mentioned in the Domesday Book, which has a church dating from the…
Former nurse Pam Legg was the star of a show when a new top-of-the-range minibus took to the road at her Poole care home.