Five brave D-Day veterans from Swanage – who took part in the largest and most daring maritime invasion in history back in 1944 – have been recognised by volunteers on the town’s award-winning steam railway.
Kind-hearted Swanage Railway volunteers have helped to raise more than £4,000 towards a new lifeboat house for the seaside town – following a fund-raising push at the heritage line’s successful ninth annual Diesel Gala and Dorset Beer Festival.
A successful Comedy Night held recently at the Conservative Club in Ringwood, in aid of the charities for Fanfare for Spring, more than doubled the cash collected for the spring event.
The cable trench could be coming near you! It’s 22 miles long and up to 213 feet wide. Its construction will be a major civil engineering project taking five years to complete. Landfall is between Barton and Milford. The excavation runs through the New Forest National Park, under the River Avon and into Dorset via…
Would you expect the David Rees-Williams Jazz Trio or the BackBeat Percussion Quartet to be performing in Christchurch’s ancient Priory Church? Probably not, but these are just two of the musical delights included in the Priory’s week-long Music and Arts Festival which begins on 15 June. This is the first Festival on this scale staged…
Children, parents and staff at Langside School, an independent, non-maintained, special day school run by Dorset charity Diverse Abilities Plus, celebrated the official opening of a brand new sensory garden this week thanks to the hard work of volunteers. The sensory garden has been a six month project to rejuvenate the outside area at the…
With just one week to go, more than 340 people have signed up for the 2014 Twilight Walk for Women – and there is still time to join them. Walkers can take part in the 1k, 5k or 10k stroll starting from Bournemouth Pier at 8pm on Friday 6 June. Money raised will go towards…
Work is underway to protect six open spaces and parks in Poole against unauthorised encampments. Measures to improve security at Verity Park in Canford Heath, Branksome, Broadstone and Whitecliff Recreation Grounds are scheduled to start before the end of this week. Plans for open space at Baiter are being finalised and will start as soon…
Celebrating her 100th birthday today in style is Freda Adams from St Ives.
Dorset Police has launched a major investigation into the disappearance of 44-year-old nurse Rui Li, who was last seen leaving her workplace at Poole Hospital at around 6pm on Friday 23 May. Rui was reported missing to police yesterday morning (27 May). Following initial investigations, a 60-year-old man from Bournemouth who is known to her…