Fans enjoying the football World Cup are being urged to remember Dorset Police’s drink and drug drive message. The Force launched its summer campaign on Sunday 1 June and is reminding motorists to ensure they are fit to drive the morning after drinking. This year’s initiative has been extended for the first time to coincide…
Lighthouse, Poole By Liz Turner Every day is a gift, value it as a gift and hope for another Never think of 92 year old Holocaust survivor Zdenka Fantlova as a victim. It’s something she would repudiate with every breath of her body. She emerged barely alive from Bergen-Belsen having been in a total of…
The Carers’ Group at Lewis-Manning Hospice has been celebrating National Carers Week, which aims to recognise and highlight the contribution of all of the UK’s 6.5 million unpaid carers. The charity, which offers free palliative care to local people with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses, has provided carers’ support for a long time at the…
Children in Year 4 at Parley First School are learning vital cycling skills this week as they complete their Bikeability Level 2 training. Instructors Rob and Tom from Ferndown Leisure Centre are teaching them how to carry out several manoeuvres, including turning left and right, from and into major and minor roads, u-turns, and passing…
Children from Parley First School had the wonderful opportunity of practising their cricket skills with Charlotte Edwards, the Captain of the England Ladies’ Team yesterday at Wimborne Cricket Club. Year 3 and 4 pupils batted and fielded with Charlotte, and had fun playing Kwik Cricket. The afternoon was organised by The English Cricket Board and ‘Chance to Shine’, inspiring youngsters to…
Three men have been sent to jail for a total of twenty one years for committing grievous bodily harm during an attack in Bournemouth.
Five men have been sentenced for their part in a drugs ring operating across Dorset.
Dorset Police and Crime Commissioner, Martyn Underhill is today (Thursday 12 June) launching a three month consultation to give people a greater say in how anti-social behaviour and low level crime is dealt with in the county.
Tasers were deployed during the arrest of two men in Bournemouth in the early hours of this morning (Thursday 12 June). A silver VW Passat failed to stop for officers along Wallisdown Road in Bournemouth at 12.42am and immediately after, this vehicle collided with a yellow Skoda in Edgehill Road. The driver of the Skoda and…
A unique award-winning Purbeck ball clay mining museum – planned and built by a small team of dedicated volunteers over more than a decade – was officially opened on 6 June by BBC TV ‘Antiques Roadshow’ ceramics expert and railway author Paul Atterbury.