Category: Dorset

Poole Sports Council was delighted to present a cheque for £500 to Grasshoppers Netball Club at the Sports Awards, held at Magna Academy on 24 September.

Dorset PCC Martyn Underhill has today blogged: We need to make sure that the vulnerable receive the right care, at the right time, in the right place. They need to be looked after by a health care professional, not by a police officer and not in a police cell. As we mark World Mental Health…

Today, 10 October, is World Mental Health Day and Rethink Mental Illness has brought a Red London Bus to Sainsbury’s Ferndown Car Park,  with information about its East Dorset Carer Support Service and other Rethink Services. The bus is there until 4pm. Go along to get information and have the opportunity for a 1-1 chat…

Dorset Prostate Cancer Support Organisation (PCaSO) are inviting men to attend a free PSA testing session at the Memorial Hall, Verwood on Saturday, 1st November between 9.30am and 5pm. The test is given using a finger prick with a result in 15 minutes using the Mediwatch Bioscan. This does not diagnose prostate cancer but can…

Bournemouth’s economy could suffer a £100 million per year hit and around 2,000 jobs could be at risk should the Navitus Bay wind farm go ahead. In a Local Impact Report submitted this week, Bournemouth Borough Council details the significant detrimental impact the proposed wind farm would have on the local economy.  Evidence shows that…

The Regent in Christchurch has just had a new grand piano donated to it by one of its founding members, Janet Townend of Mudeford. Janet has been a volunteer at the centre since 1982 and is a member of the board of directors. This is one of the largest single donations ever to made at…

The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has signed a five-step ‘Sustainable Fish Cities’ pledge to work towards buying, serving and promoting sustainable seafood to both staff and patients.

Changes that will give Dorset families higher priority in securing a place at their catchment junior school have been agreed by a national adjudicator. The Office of the Schools’ Adjudicator has given Dorset County Council the go-ahead to amend its over-subscription criteria, giving priority to children living within a junior school’s catchment area who attend…

Wimborne Minster Churchyard has won a Dorset Wildlife Trust Living Churchyard Scheme award. Margaret Turner receiving the silver award on behalf of the the Minster team, from the Bishop of Salisbury, the Right Rev’d Nicholas Holtam.  The Living Churchyard Scheme is run by the Dorset Wildlife Trust and the prizegivimg was held at the Trust’s…

Landscape photographer Mark Simpson will be presenting an illustrated talk about his photographs at Moors Valley Country Park and Forest, near Ringwood on Friday 10 October from 7pm.