Vote for Winton Play Garden in the People’s Millions competition on Wednesday 26 November and help turn a disused bowling green at Winton Recreation Ground into a play and activity garden suitable for all children including those with special educational needs. The nature and sensory inspired space will also provide much needed outdoor space for…
Though the cave aged cheddar soon to be arriving in Dorset looks bright, and beautiful, only those who have been lucky enough to undertake a tour of the Wookey Hole Caves in Somerset will be aware of the adventurous journey these cheddars have undertaken on route to our festive cheeseboards.
Police in East Devon are actively looking for Simon Berkowitz, a 68-year-old man who is wanted for recall to prison after breaching his prison licence conditions. Berkowitz (pictured) is described as white, 6ft 1″, of slim build and receding, greying hair. Berkowitz, who was convicted of burglary, is believed to be in East Devon area, possibly…
A company van parked securely in a driveway on St Michael’s Road, Verwood was broken into last night (18 November) or in the early hours of this morning (19 November).
Officers in Weymouth are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward after a puppy was stolen in the town. The theft of Tilly the Staffordshire Bull Terrier happened at around 8.15am on Thursday 30 October from outside the owner’s home in Wyke Road. Tilly is six-months-old and has a white face, a…
The 2015 Christchurch Food & Wine Festival will have a touch of sunshine in it, whatever the weather, as the headline act will be the Jamaican chef famous for his Reggae Reggae products.
“I must give thanks to the very generous people of Ringwood,” said Caroline Millman of the Rotary Club of Ringwood, “For despite all the other calls and charity appeals this time of the year they donated not far short of £500 to our Emergency Appeal towards setting up an Ebola isolation unit in Bo, Sierra Leone.”
The St Albans Head station of the National Coastwatch Institution (NCI) today paid the annual rent for its base in a former coastguard lookout that is now owned by the Encombe Estate. When Mr James Gaggero, who bought the estate for £20m five years ago, renewed the lease in 2012, he said that he would be content with rent of one crab a year.
Handbell ringers struck the right notes to enchant residents at a family-owned Dorset care home.
The afternoon concert at Colten Care’s Avon Cliff home in Bournemouth featured six ladies from Fordingbridge Handbell Ringers playing a tuned set of 12 bells.
Another person has been sentenced for drug offences following Operation Moped, one of the biggest operations in the county in recent years. Dorset Police pro-actively targeted street level drug dealers in the Boscombe area of Bournemouth where there was a suspicion that drugs offences were being committed.
