Students from three Christchurch schools cooked up a storm in the semi-finals of the Christchurch Food Festival Junior Cook of the Year competition.
The competition, organised by Christchurch Food Festival Education Trust and sponsored by Christchurch Rotary, requires students to prepare a main course and dessert capable of being served at a special occasion.
A team of 20 local volunteers has helped turn the tide on litter. Volunteers filled 49 refuse sacks with waste collected from Holes Bay shore and cycle path on 27 April as part of the 26th annual Great Dorset Beach Clean. Items found included a bathtub, a boat door, bottles, sweet wrappers, bits of polystyrene,…
North Dorset MP Bob Walter is visiting Langside School in Poole on Friday. The school is run by disability charity Diverse Abilities Plus and Bob will be finding out more about the programmes they are currently running to support local children with special educational needs. He last visited the charity-run special school, for pupils aged…
A farm worker was rescued by fire fighters after becoming trapped in a grain silo on Monday morning. Quick thinking workers at the farm near Shapwick attached a strop underneath the man’s arms and secured it to a ladder, to prevent him from sinking further into the grain. He was approximately 4m inside the silo…
Dorset’s Lewis-Manning Hospice will be running a ‘Give and Take Swap Shop’ event this weekend on Saturday 3rd May at The Corn Exchange in Blandford Forum between 9am – 12pm, via its town centre shop which is across the road. The hospice, which is based in Poole and supports over 650 people in the area…
Firefighters from Poole trained in large animal rescue were called out on Monday just before 11am after a horse became trapped and suspended over a bar inside a horse box on the B3165 Birdsmoor Gate north of Drimpton, West Dorset. Retained firefighters from Charmouth joined them and worked with the owners and a vet. The…
Detectives in Bournemouth are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward following an attempted robbery at the Co-op store in Bearwood. A man entered the shop on Ringwood Road on Saturday 19 April at around 7.45pm and approached a female member of staff who was behind the counter. He bought a scratch…
Ringwood came alive one May day last year when the town was filled with with music, song, dance, street theatre, jugglers and more. It was such a success that another Fanfare for Spring is planned for this year on Saturday 17 May. In addition to many of last year’s street performers there will be a traditional song…
There’s no better way to say it than with flowers. Which is exactly why NAFAS (The National Association of Flower Arrangement Societies) is using beautiful little bunches to spread some love around the UK on National Flower Arranging Day this Friday (2 May).
Although Beaulieu Boatjumble was dogged with bad weather, it didn’t stop the bargain hunters. Although the numbers of visitors may have been down, those who braved the showers were in the mood for buying.