Local MP Annette Brooke is supporting a campaign run by charity The Reading Agency to encourage all primary school children to join their local library and take part in this year’s Summer Reading Challenge – the UK’s largest reading for pleasure promotion for primary school children. Research shows the Summer Reading Challenge increases children’s reading…
Poole Town Cricket Club has been bowled over by a generous donation from accountants Princecroft Willis (PcW).
Derek Radley is the newly installed president of Wimborne Rotary President
Following two exciting race weekends in Germany and Austria, the SEAT Leon Eurocup heads to Silverstone on 18-20 July 2014 for rounds five and six of the 2014 season, with two new drivers set to join the hotly-contested series. Norway’s Stian Paulsen leads the Drivers’ Standings having secured two wins and a third-place finish so…
Students and staff from a New Forest school gathered in their hundreds to pay a very special tribute to the local men who lost their lives during the Great War.
Major works to repair the Shopping Centre roof-top car park, located near Poole railway station, will soon be underway. The car park in Serpentine Lane was closed in May 2012 to enable the cause of water leakage from the car park to be investigated and appropriate long term repairs identified. It also enabled temporary sheeting…
Competitors taking part in this weekend’s Ringwood Brewery Pedal Car Grand Prix were given the opportunity to test run their vehicles in the grounds of Christchurch Hospital. A temporary race circuit was set up at the hospital and was enjoyed by some of the 34 pedal cars that will take part in the event this…
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is urging local communities to work together to help stop the spread of invasive Himalayan balsam, which smothers and destroys native plants such as purple loosestrife and meadowsweet.
Were you on holiday in Crete on 18 June and if so did you visit the Souda Bay Cemetery, to the east of Chania? A visitor’s book shows that missing Denbigh man Robert Arthur Jones visited the World War II cemetery on this date and North Wales Police, who are assisting the Greek authorities, are keen…
The Purbeck Marathon is forging ahead with a number of new initiatives for 2014 and beyond. Safety is a crucial part of any distance race and is especially important at the Purbeck Marathon due the nature and remoteness of much of the course. The Purbeck Marathon is setting up a First Aid course for those…
