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,…
Lewis-Manning Hospice in Poole is inviting locals to join them for special ‘21’ themed Summer Solstice Starlight Stroll. The annual fundraising event takes place on Friday 21 June at 9pm to celebrate the hospice’s 21st birthday and participants can also watch the sunset. The multi-ability 7km Starlight Stroll takes a circular route from Whitecliff Park, along Baiter and…
Professor of Creative Writing and former poet laureate, Sir Andrew Motion, will visit Poole Grammar School to work with the boys on 11 June. The school’s innovative literacy programme encourages students to become regular and enthusiastic readers and creative, confident writers. Headmaster Ian Carter said, ” I believe a literate mind is the way to…
The new Lifestyle Active Gym at Verwood Hub opens tomorrow. It’s bang up to date with new technology and whilst doing your workout, you can watch TV, listen to music, surf the ‘net’, check your emails, check your heart rate and even challenge your mates, or yourself, to see how quickly you can complete the…
The education team at Monkey World – Ape Rescue Centre, Wareham, had an excuse to go bananas this week. Their first ever Monkey Mobile, ape-tly named and sponsored by Westerly Dorchester, arrived at the park on 4 June. PHOTO: ©MonkeyWorld