‘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.
Want to make some room in advance for your festive turkey and Christmas pudding, and raise money for your favourite good cause at the same time? Then enter Wimborne Rotary’s fifth Great Santa Fun Run, taking place at Badbury Rings’ point-to-point course on Sunday 15 December, and sponsored by the Rotary Club’s business partners. The…
One of Stephen’s proudest moments was when his son achieved a black belt at the age of nine.
He also taught one of the oldest beginners in the country, an 80-year-old man.
Ferndown Middle School pupils and staff took part in the traditional two minute silence on Armistice Day. The assembly was led by the school council who spoke about the importance of Remembrance Day. Pete Thornton, founder of the John Thornton Young Achievers Foundation (JTYAF) also shared his very emotional story of why the day is…
