Following an Extraordinary General Meeting, Verwood Arts and Leisure Amenities (VALA) has agreed to transfer the management responsibilities for leisure facilities in Verwood to East Dorset District Council. Sports and leisure facilities at Verwood Hub, Verwood Community Sports Hall and Potterne Park will now be managed directly by the council. Christchurch and East Dorset Councils…
Swanage Railway volunteers are celebrating the 35th anniversary of their first passenger trains – an industrial diesel shunter and half-painted coach running on a few hundred yards of hand-laid track back in 1979 – with a special weekend starring the remarkable steam locomotive ‘Tornado’.
Three charity open days offer a rare opportunity to visit Farrs in the market town of Beaminster this summer. Home to internationally renowned furniture designer and maker John Makepeace and his artist wife Jennie, the stunning gardens include yew topiary, sculpture, a colourful potager with a new oak fruit cage, rolling lawns and spectacular grasses.…
Following an outbreak of graffiti in Christchurch, the council has teamed up with local police to devise and produce an anti-graffiti film to be shown at schools in the borough. The film includes interviews with people who have been affected by graffiti. A resident in an older persons housing complex tells how people there are…
A paedophile has been convicted and sentenced to 28 months imprisonment at Bournemouth Crown Court for 20 offences of possessing and distributing indecent images and movies of children
With judging day for the Small Town Category of the Regional South and South East in Bloom Competition being held on Tuesday 8 July, Wimborne in Bloom is holding two litter picks, on Sunday 6 July at 10.00am and on Monday 7 July at 7.30pm. Volunteers should meet at 34 Park Lane, Wimborne. Anthony Oliver, from Wimborne in Bloom…
Bournemouth’s Castlepoint Shopping Park has introduced free Wi-Fi for visitors. Sarah Ryan, marketing manager at the park says that they have kept the registration quick and simple for mobile phone and tablet users to log in fast to take advantage of the facility.
Only 21 months after the launch of Wimborne area Neighbourcar, the chairman and co-ordinator, Eric Burton, has announced that the volunteer car service has completed 1,000 journeys. Launched on 1 September 2012 to take older and vulnerable people to appointments with the doctor, hospital, dentist, optician and more, the 1,000th trip was made by Mrs…
In 2006, Jim Hammett began his career in the Helicopter industry by learning to fly with Bournemouth Helicopters. After years of study and training both in the UK and the USA, Jim’s first job as a flying instructor was offered by Bournemouth Helicopters in 2011 and he has now been appointed as the company’s chief flying instructor.
The search for missing teenager Amy Latham has ended in the heartbreaking discovery of her body in woods near her home in Wimborne. On Tuesday day police had said they were ‘gravely concerned’ about 18 year old Amy who had been missing from her home in since Monday. She had last been seen at her…