An appeal has gone out from police after a woman was sexually assaulted in Bournemouth. The victim, a 44-year-old woman from Oxford, was sitting on a bench in the West Overcliff gardens area overlooking the beach on Thursday 17 April at approximately 1.30pm. A man approached her, sat close and inappropriately touched her. PC Daniel…
Dorset County Council’s cabinet has agreed to provide an extra £50,000 to increase the number of roadside verge cuts. Currently in towns, verges are cut six times a year between March and November and in rural areas they are cut twice, between April and October. However the wet and mild summers have encouraged more plant…
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.…
Following consultation on Preliminary Draft Charging Schedules, Christchurch and East Dorset Councils are now consulting on Community Infrastructure Levy Draft Charging Schedules. This consultation will run for a period of 6 weeks from the 7th May to the 18th June 2014.
World-famous violinist, Nigel Kennedy, will be appearing at the Regent Centre in Christchurch on Monday 7 July. His typically maverick musical programme will celebrate the music of Bach as well as other brilliant composers who have influenced him. His world acclaimed concert series, ‘Bach Plus,’ begins with Bach sonatas and partitas for solo violin, after…
Dorset police have reported that missing Bournemouth teenager Rebecca Brady has been found safe and well.
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…