Forget Monaco Grand Prix – the smell of burning rubber, screeching tyres and a throaty roar could be heard in Bournemouth’s Lower Gardens yesterday (16 October) as Schumacher’s Benetton Formula One championship car sped through for a demonstration and taster of what’s to come at the new Wheels Festival – May 24-26 May 2014. Launching…
Traffic officers are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward after a red Mercedes estate car mounted the verge on Bournemouth’s Wessex Way and collided with a tree. The incident happened at around 3pm on Tuesday 15 October 2013. The car, driven by a man from the Wareham area, apparently left the…
Barclays Bank plc have been fined £3,500 and ordered to pay £16,000 costs following a roof fall incident at its branch in Lymington Road, Highcliffe. The branch building is a two-storey structure with a one-storey extension to the rear of it. The second storey of the building is a maisonette which has access to it…
A Dorset woman is to receive a special award from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) at the House of Lords, recognising many years of dedication to rescuing and rehabilitating injured or abandoned birds. Bird lover Lynne Parker, from Southbourne, has rescued hundreds of birds, both wild and domestic, over the last 21 years…
A five-a-side football challenge will be held at Hamworthy Recreation Club in Wimborne on Saturday 2 November from 1pm-8pm and Autism Wessex is inviting teams to enter. This corporate event is in association with NWM Solutions Ltd and 12 teams of 8 players are required. Cost is £40 per team. Kim Darbyshire, Corporate Partnerships officer says;…
This week Ferndown Middle School celebrated harvest time. Pupils gathered a vast number of tins of food, which will be donated to the Ferndown food bank. During a harvest assembly led by Reverend Martin Howard and Mr Tony Thornton from St Mary’s Church, Ferndown, pupils learnt about how fortunate they are and how they can…
Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance took delivery of a new Rapid Response Vehicle (RRV) last week. The Skoda Octavia Scout was purchased to replace an older model which has served the charity for the past seven years. The vehicle will enhance the existing service that Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance provide by being able to…
On World Mental Health Day (Thursday 10 October), Annette Brooke, MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole, signed a pledge with Time to Change, the mental health anti-stigma programme The pledge is a commitment by MPs in their roles as small employers to address mental health stigma and discrimination, and support mental health and wellbeing among their staff.
The driver of a vehicle collided with the outside of Wessex Denture Studio in West Moors with such an impact that the outside wall buckled and the interior wall cracked damaging a plug socket. The exterior of the wall abuts the public car park in Park Way and although there were no witnesses, Philip Laws,…
Last year’s very successful calendar collaboration between the Rotary Club of Ringwood and Ringwood School, raised £2500 for local schools and charities including the Orpheus Trust, Epilepsy Action, Ringwood Foodbank. This year, Dr Geoffrey Ridgway OBE,MD, from Rotary, and Ringwood School’s course leader Stuart Fielder wanted to raise the stakes. It was agreed to broaden…
