A great great grandfather who was an active fisherman until five years ago has celebrated his 100th birthday. George Wild, a resident at Colten Care’s Whitecliffe House in Blandford, is the oldest member of the Piscatorial Society. The angling society was founded in 1836 and is one of the oldest in the world. Mr Wild,…
A public meeting to discuss options for the future use of Wimborne Square is to take place at 6pm on Monday, 6 January in Allendale House in Wimborne. It is now 18 months since the completion of the improvements in Wimborne Square to create a pedestrianised area. East Dorset District Council is keen to ensure…
Wimborne Model Town has announced changes to its board of trustees. Iain Stevenson, former Business Link adviser and performance management consultant, takes over as chairman and holds additional responsibility for finance with the position of honorary treasurer currently vacant.
Cllr Terry Cordery, the former mayor of Ferndown, has been honoured with an MBE for his services to the Dorset Fire Fighters Charity, Dorset Schools Football Association and to the community in Ferndown. He and his wife and two of their three children moved to Ferndown in 1978 and he was co-opted onto Ferndown Town…
Police in Weymouth are appealing for help from the public after a large amount of diesel was recovered in the town.
Police are becoming increasingly concerned for the welfare of a missing Poole man.
The Moors Valley Railway and Play Trail have been voted joint first in a poll to discover the public’s favourite activity at the third most visited country park in England.
A charity boxing night raised a knockout £2,000 for the Royal Bournemouth Hospital’s new Jigsaw building. The Bransgore Rotary Club’s fundraising boxing night was held at the Carrington Hotel in December 2013. Guests enjoyed a Bournemouth Amateur Boxing Association inter-county boxing match and three course meal with money raised from ticket sales, a raffle and…
Lewis-Manning Hospice in Poole celebrated smashing its own fundraising record at Luscombe Valley Railway last weekend (21/22 December). The charity, which offers free palliative nursing care to hundreds of local people living with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses, raised over £10,000 over the course of the year at the popular local attraction, beating their 2010…
Possible locations for future mineral extraction in Dorset have been unveiled, as residents are asked to have their say on the suggested sites and also help shape future plans for waste and recycling. Dorset County Council is encouraging people to make comments on two documents, the Mineral Sites Plan and the Waste Plan Issues Paper,…
