Category: Dorset

The winners of the Young Environmentalist Challenge Competition will have their entries displayed at Haskin’s Garden Centre in Ferndown soon after the award ceremony on 15 June.

Year 4 children at Verwood CE First School have just returned from a fantastic week at The Springhead Trust, Fontmell Magna. They enjoyed a week of brilliant sunshine, visiting the village and taking part in Woodland trails, stream trails and hill walks. During their time there they studied the wildlife both in the woodland and around the…

Wimborne Town FC received a major boost with news that influential midfielder, Jon Blake, is likely be ready for action by the start of the new campaign despite suffering medial ligament damage at the end of last term.

The laws on drink driving have been in existence since 1967 when the legal drink drive limit was introduced, as was the breathalyser. There really is no excuse for anyone to get behind the wheel of a car when they’ve had too much to drink. It comes as a bit of a shock to learn…

Three year contracts to operate Bournemouth’s eight Children’s Centres have been announced following a rigorous tendering process. ·         Barnardo’s will manage Queen’s Park, Townsend, Stokewood and Winton Children’s Centres. ·         The Children’s Society will manage Boscombe, Kingsleigh and Kinson and West Howe Children’s Centres. ·         The YMCA will manage Pokesdown and Southbourne Children’s Centres. Councillor…

Local Mid Dorset and North Poole MP Annette Brooke has joined forces with the Kennel Club for National Microchipping Month to spread the word about the forthcoming compulsory microchipping regulation which is due to come into force in England in April 2016. [divide] Local MP Annette Brook has joined forces with the Kennel Club for…

The Countryside Alliance is asking people to become phone detectives this summer and help it map real phone reception rates across the UK. Bob Walter MP is backing the cause. The organisation is asking people to download the free RootMetrics app onto their smartphone or tablet and use it while they are at home, as…

One of Dorset’s longest established cleaning companies has new owners.

Cranes Cleaning Company, which began trading 20 years ago, has been acquired by Servitek Support Ltd for an undisclosed sum.

The hospital clock turned to Chico time on Thursday 6 June as the former X Factor star and rugby legend Kyran Bracken visited RBH to find out more about the proposed Jigsaw Building.

Dorset Police is appealing for help from the public to find a missing woman from Bournemouth. Karen Seymour-Fairey, 65, was last seen leaving her home address in Boscombe on Monday 27 May 2013, when she left the premises carrying a rucksack. Her flat and car were both left unlocked. Inspector Steve Thorpe, of Bournemouth police,…