Wimborne Minster Bellringers rang a peal on 23 July to celebrate the royal birth. The 505 changes of Cambridge Surprise Major composed by Charles Middleton took almost three hours. Pictured is the rector, the Revd Vanessa Herrick with Flick Warwick, captain of the tower (far left) with other ringers before the peal was rung.
Cecilia Barbosa, aged 43, was last seen at her Abinger Road address at around 11.15am on Wednesday 24 July. She left her home address driving a pea green Renault Clio with the registration number R17 CEE.
Three children from Tops Day Nursery, based in Poole, have presented a ‘royal’ bear to the first baby born at St Mary’s Maternity Hospital three minutes after Prince William and Kate Middleton’s baby boy arrived.
“Don’t dream, girl! Get a job in a call centre” Samantha Stevens remembers being told at school.
AFC Bournemouth took to the pitch at Goldsands Stadium to play Spanish giants Real Madrid on 21 July. The visitors won and put on an excellent show, winning 6-0 during the friendly. Despite the defeat, manager Howe delighted in the occasion that epitomises the remarkable turnaround in Bournemouth’s fortunes.
The Great Dorset Steam Fair, which takes place from Wednesday 28 August to Sunday 1 September in Tarrant Hinton, is celebrating its 45th anniversary!
Detectives in Bournemouth are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward after a woman was robbed in Boscombe.
The football landscape on the south-coast has changed significantly in recent years; it seemed like only yesterday when AFC Bournemouth was fighting to maintain Football League status. Four years on and the Cherries have won promotion to the Championship, and on the back of this, a glamour tie against Spanish giants Real Madrid.
Five local Rotary clubs have combined to provide a fantastic donation of £10,000 to furnish and equip a room in the new £2.8m Lewis-Manning Hospice in Poole.
Adele Parham and Philippa O’Grady, who have been training at Oxley Sports Centre in Sherborne, both won medals in the British Gas Masters and Senior Age Group swimming Championships 2013.