Samantha Hetreed from Oxley Sports Centre in Sherborne and a team of Master Swimmers from Wincanton Swim Club (WSC) have completed a five-kilometre relay in one hour and three minutes and raised £1,235 for Sport Relief. Samantha, along with Philippa O’Grady, Adele Parham, Julia Hendrie and Caroline Law, challenged themselves to raise £1,000 for the…
Dominic Keeley is undertaking four challenges for four charities.
There’s a clutch of new arrivals at Moors Valley Country Park and Forest near Ringwood this spring with birds flocking for attention across the park. Thirteen ducklings were sighted on Moors Lake as the first raft took to the water – the highest single hatching figure recorded at Moors Valley. Chiffchaffs (Phylloscopus collybita) are being…
Football manager Harry Redknapp took time out from coaching duties at promotion-chasing Championship club QPR, to launch a 5-A-Side World Cup Tournament charity fundraiser, organised by local estate agent Leader & Co in aid of Lewis-Manning Hospice. The tournament is the brainchild of Ryan Woolfenden, owner of independent estate agents Leader & Co in Ashley…
The annual Open Day at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital makes a welcome return on Wednesday 11 June, giving members of the public a chance to find out about some of the services on offer at the Trust. This year’s event is themed around improving and making a difference to patient care, and is being held…
An experienced project manager – who also used to control trains running from Hampshire and Surrey into London’s busy Waterloo station – has started work on helping the Swanage Railway deliver an historic trial train service to Wareham.
Detectives in Bournemouth and East Dorset are issuing advice to members of the public after a number of elderly people have been targeted by distraction burglars. So far, Dorset Police have received reports of five similar offences across the Easter weekend – all involving a man stealing, or attempting to steal, money after deceiving his…
Hamworthy Heating is asking local people to come forward with their memories of the company’s history. The national commercial boiler manufacturer, based in Fleetsbridge, Poole, will be celebrating its 100 year old roots in June this year and is gathering stories and photographs about the company’s heritage. Opened in 1914 by founders Percy and Sidney…
A 22-year-old special needs teaching assistant from Ensbury Park has raised over £1100 for Cancer Research UK by having 12 inches of her long hair cut off. Jenni Chohra entrusted her stylist Calum Morrell at A’Courts hair salon at Castlepoint to create two ponytails that will be sent to the the Little Princess Trust.
Fred and Betty Aldred celebrated a right royal 60th wedding anniversary at a Dorset care home.