Category: Dorset

Parley equestrian centre is now one of the biggest in the region after 16 new stables were built, bringing the total number to almost 70.

Celebrating its 45th anniversary through 2013, Autism Wessex has been supported in many ways by volunteers, corporate ‘sapphire’ supporters and members of the local community, all getting behind the charity’s 45 year campaign to raise £450,000. Andrea Burt, whose daughter Jodie attends the charity’s Wessex Lodge respite service, shares the charity’s birthday year and decided…

Steam Heat, the highly acclaimed Wimborne based a capella singing group, which recently celebrated its 10th birthday, is now seeking new applications from would be members from sopranos, altos, tenors or basses. Under the musical direction of renowned professional composer and choir leader Karen Wimhurst, Steam Heat’s varied repertoire includes jazz, folk, madrigals, pop and indie…

Bournemouth Natural Science Society is to launch a new club for children called ‘Young Explorers’ with help from Dorset’s Wessex Group.

Local Celtic folk rock band, ‘Black Water County’ has teamed up with the quality rock band ‘Walk the Night’ to release a cover of the Pogues’s and Kirsty MacColls’s Christmas classic song ‘Fairytale of New York’. 100% of the net download proceeds are being donated to the fantastic charity – John Thornton Young Achievers Foundation.…

Morebus Driver Robbie Bartle has been honoured by Bournemouth University’s Students’ Union with their annual ‘You’re Brilliant’ award. The awards are usually nominated to staff working within the university so Robbie, from Canford Heath, was delighted that his great personality and customer service skills were appreciated by passengers using the university’s dedicated bus network.

Wimborne Community Theatre (WCT) group is one of 58 community theatre organisations around the UK awarded a grant to develop a new production in 2014.

A dog has been stolen from an enclosure in a garden in Bradford Abbas.