Nikki Budd, a music teacher from Christchurch and her partner Mark Morley, will be getting on their tandem bike to ride 33 miles for regional charity Autism Wessex’s Bike Ride on Sunday 8 September. Nikki said: “We’ve been riding a tandem for the last eight years. As we both have bad hips, cycling is a…
The family of a woman who died as a result of a collision on the A35 has issued a tribute to the media. The incident, in which a Landrover Discovery towing a caravan overturned, happened at 1pm on Saturday 24 August 2013 on the A35 at Askerswell. The front seat passenger of the Landrover, 48-year-old…
Everyone at SWOP, the registered charity project at Cherry Tree Nursery, in Northbourne is very concerned that their greenhouse shading screens became twisted and broken over the weekend, perhaps due to the wind. The screens are used to shade all the cuttings and seedlings from the sun, and prevent them becoming scorched. The damage is…
Lewis-Manning Hospice has announced a special Autumn Series of workshops and seminars covering a wide rage of areas relating to health and well-being. The Poole-based charity, which offers free specialist palliative nursing care to hundreds of local people living with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses, has organised the programme that will run at the hospice…
Today sees the first day of the Great Dorset Steam Fair and the music festival has a programme packed full with nearly 100 acts over the next five days. Chas Hodges from Chas and Dave will be performing in The Real Ale Tent at 10.30pm on Saturday, and this is a free performance for all…
‘Sense of freedom’ for visually impaired kayakers The chance to mess about on the water made a real splash with members of Dorset Blind Association at Blashford Lakes, near Ringwood recently when some were able to try kayaking for the first time. Under the watchful eye of instructors from Spinnaker Sailing Club, the visually impaired…
Following the Verwood Rustic Fayre on Bank Holiday Monday with a flypast by a Hurricane and a Spitfire that turned heads skywards, plus the Bournemouth air festival about to be unleashed this weekend, (29 August–1 September), the interest in aircraft in the area is running pretty high.
Not content to leave it to others to raise much-needed funds, visually impaired members of Dorset Blind Association put their backs into it to row 10,000 metres on rowing machines in Bournemouth Square earlier this month.
Three people are £459 worse off having been convicted of littering offences in Christchurch. The three – Marcus Eaton from New Milton and Siobhan Sims and Bethany Sims both from Christchurch – were each fined £100 and each ordered to pay costs of £339 and a victim surcharge of £20 at Bournemouth Magistrates Court on…
The Great Dorset Steam Fair is ‘show ready’ in plenty of time for opening day tomorrow, Wednesday 28 August. Visitors are being advised to prepare for warm weather. The day before the Great Dorset Steam Fair opens to the public there are already over 5,000 caravans and tents covering 170 acres of the 600 acre…