Anyone interested in finding out about places of interest and events in key market towns and out in the Dorset countryside will discover all the information they need in a colourful new guide, available from Wimborne Tourist Information Centre. ‘Rural Dorset Days Out 2013’ is an attractive free publication celebrating the wonderful selection of attractions…
Dorset residents are being warned not to use a paid-for service to register to vote in the upcoming local elections. On Thursday, 2 May, Dorset County Council will be asking residents to elect the authority’s members for the next four years. It is free to register to vote, but the Electoral Commission has been alerted…
Lawrences’ Spring Fine Art auction in Crewkerne will comprise 2200 lots and there are sure to be eye-catching delights for every pocket. The sale begins with 820 lots of Silver and Vertu on Tuesday, 23 April. An Art Deco caddy spoon by the celebrated designer and silversmith Omar Ramsden dates from 1927 and is expected to…
The Year 3 and 4 pupils at Hillside Community First School in Verwood have been learning about the Celts and Romans this term. Their learning culminated by having a Roman Day in school and by visiting Fishbourne Roman Palace at Chichester. For their Roman Day the children and staff dressed up as citizens, slaves or…
Three men who killed a Boscombe man and buried him in a shallow grave have been handed life sentences. Stuart Raymond Wareham of Bournemouth, aged 26, his half brother Lee Raymond Wareham, 33, and 22-year-old Benjamin Henry Walter, both of no fixed abode, killed Geoffrey Reed in his flat on Cecil Road in Boscombe on…
The official opening of the new Multi-Use Games Area (MUGA) by the town mayor, Cllr Simon Gibson will take place at Verwood Recreation Ground on Saturday, 4 May at 11am. Everyone is welcome. Verwood Concert Brass Training Band will be playing and Rossgarth junior footballers will be using the targets and goals to demonstrate this…
The successful association cemented between the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu and the Surrey Sculpture Society (SSS), sees the famous motor museum’s historic Palace House and gardens hosting the society’s Summer Sculpture Trail for the third year running.
Following winter closure, the splash park on the Quomps at Christchurch Quay is currently being cleaned and prepared for its reopening on Saturday, 4 May. Carina Gallacher, Senior Technical Officer at Christchurch Council, said: “The splash park has been a very popular addition to the Quomps since it opened in August 2010. All that we…
Police officers in Bournemouth are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward after two swans were attacked with a crossbow in the Muscliffe area of the town. The incident happened at approximately 6pm on Wednesday 27 March at Throop Mill on Throop Road. The two swans, a male and female pair, were…
Some exceptional jewellery is expected to attract international attention in Lawrences’ Spring auction in Crewkerne on 25 April 25. A Victorian diamond necklace of outstanding quality, mounted with graduated diamond clusters and graduated diamond foliate drops set with circular old brilliant-cut diamonds and rose-cut diamonds, was formerly in the collection of Gladys Maud Lascelles (1886-1961),…
