The South West Coast Path Association has been successful in its bid to the Coastal Communities Fund to secure £1 million investment for the route. This project will repair, improve and promote the South West Coast Path (SWCP). Funds will help with 32 urgent repair works to the path, information boards and signage, and marketing.…
Twenty-four staff members of Princecroft Willis (PcW) chartered accountants and business advisers volunteered to donate 100 pints of blood as part of the firm’s centenary celebrations. To hit the target, team members were invited to attend four donor sessions in Poole and New Milton. Despite a hatred of needles, Mark Johns, managing partner of the…
The blueberry crop at Trehane’s PYO Hampreston plantation has already broken records by fruiting two weeks earlier than ever before. It is now also set to be the biggest crop on record.
Owner Jeremy Trehane explains the bumper crop as a combination of great weather and completely natural growing conditions.
To commemorate the centenary of WW1, an exhibition is being held in West Moors Library until the end of August. It is the result of a combined effort of the three schools in West Moors and the Parish Council. The schools have each completed their own interpretation and theme, while the Parish Council has produced…
Christchurch will join the rest of the country to mark the centenary of the start of World War 1 on Monday 4 August with the Christchurch Lights Out event in Saxon Square. The event will complement a candlelit vigil of prayer being held at Westminster Abbey. The organisers of the vigil, 14-18 NOW, are asking…
Cllr Mrs Barbara Woodifield, Town Mayor of Ringwood, held a Pampered Chef lunch on Saturday 26 July to raise money for charity.
Over £600 was raised at a fashion show arranged by M&Co in aid of the charities Cllr Robin Cook, chairman of East Dorset District Council is supporting. The Alzheimer’s Society, Friends of Victoria Hospital Wimborne and Cancer Research UK will all benefit from the event.
Poole residents are being invited to take part in a series of special events to commemorate the centenary of the start of World War One
A charity tea party and three open gardens in Manor Road, Verwood on 28 June raised the incredible amount of £1,300. The funds will be split between New Forest and District Sailability based at Spinnaker Sailing Club, Ringwood and Tom Harper Sailing, which supports a young Wimborne-based quadriplegic sailor who sails competitively and also designs…
A combine harvester was destroyed after catching fire in a field in Witchampton on Wednesday 30 July at around 3.10pm. Crews from Wimborne and Cranborne were joined by two appliances from Poole and Ferndown in tackling the fire which spread to approximately half an acre of cut field. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus brought the fire…