Category: Dorset

Abacus the Ferndown based vehicle hire specialists have increased their support for the 7th annual Bournemouth 7s Sports Festival and presented the keys to a Ford van sporting a special livery to Craig Mathie, Senior Project Manager at Diamond Sporting Group, the festival organisers. The sponsorship deal will also include discounted rates for other vehicles required including trucks and motorhomes.

Caring Swanage Railway volunteers organising their annual three-day Diesel Gala and Beer Festival (9-11 May) are helping to raise £200,000 towards a new lifeboat house – thanks to a special train from Salisbury, Southampton, Bournemouth and Poole to Corfe Castle and Swanage.

As part of the programme of events for Dorset Art Weeks, Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) has teamed-up with Dorset based outdoors activity company Jurassic Electric to invite visitors to the Kingcombe Centre and nature reserve to enjoy the local landscape and wildlife in west Dorset by electric bike.

Supported by Penguin Books and The Roald Dahl Literary Estate, Sandworld’s festival of sand unveiled 16 life-size sand sculptures at the launch of ‘Literally Sand’. This year’s theme features characters and scenes from famous books and authors. Joey, the War Horse appears proudly in a stand-alone enclosure, followed closely by the Hungry Caterpillar. The sandy…

Police are renewing their appeal for assistance in tracing a missing 54-year-old man from Bury St Edmunds. Ian Young was last seen on Monday 21 April but since then has not turned up for work and has not been heard from. His home address has been checked but there has been no sign of him.…