Base Jumpers Sam Hardy and Karlee Ayers are rising to fame as the world’s most daring couple. They say that experiencing death-defying moments together strengthens their relationship. Sam from Dorset and Karlee from California, first met at a skydiving centre in California, and now spend most of their time together jumping off some of the…
The Patient Art Group at Lewis-Manning Hospice have been busy making a number of items for its Christmas Fayre on Saturday 23 November at Church House, Wimborne Minster. The charity, which is celebrating its 21st anniversary this year, currently supports over 650 local people living with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses, and intends to open…
Knoll Gardens is supporting National Tree Week by including a selection of its rare and unusual specimen trees on its garden map for the first time. Best known for its naturalistic planting style, the east Dorset garden also boasts a mini-arboretum. Alongside a woodpecker-friendly English Oak grow a selection of trees from around the world…
‘A Wish for Christmas’ is a collection of twenty stories based around Christmas and New Year from Alfie Dog Fiction. The collection brings together some of the best short stories from 20 authors across the globe including local author Georgie Foord.
Pupils of Hillside Community First School in Verwood, along with Hillside Pre-School, have been collecting shoeboxes for the Samaritan’s Purse Shoebox Appeal. The school supports this charity every year and this year they have collected 83 boxes. These boxes have been filled with a variety of items to make up a Christmas present for a…
Following the astonishing success of their brief reunion at the Royal Albert Hall on the occasion of McFly’s tenth anniversary concert, Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones, Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd have announced that they will join forces with James Bourne and Matt Willis to form supergroup McBusted for a full UK arena tour. They will…
A ‘knockout’ charity dinner to raise money for the Bournemouth Hospital Charity will take place at the Carrington Hotel on 6 December. Organised by the Bransgore Rotary Club in association with Bournemouth Amateur Boxing Club, the charity boxing dinner starts at 6.15pm and aims to generate funds for the Trust’s new Jigsaw Building. Tickets cost…
Ashley Cross-based Patrick’s and Leader and Co estate agents are encouraging people to help make a difference by taking part in their charity pub quiz on Sunday 1 December from 6pm.
Staff and volunteers at Lewis-Manning Hospice in Poole became the first people to stay overnight at 1 Crichel Mount Road since Marjorie Lewis-Manning herself almost 26 years ago. The charity, which is currently celebrating its 21st anniversary, intends to open its first in-patient bedrooms in the first half of 2014 offering respite, rehabilitation and end…
For many blind people it can be a daunting prospect getting out to socialise, the logistics of public transport or taxis can prove difficult or prohibitively expensive leading many to retreat into their own homes with an increased sense of isolation.
