Pupils from Verwood CofE First School visited Verwood Town Council this week to see how the council operates, ask the Mayor Cllr Simon Gibson questions and try on the mayoral robes. Simon has invited all the schools in the parish to visit the chambers as he feels it is very important to engage with young…
Work has finally begun for the long awaited multi use games area (MUGA) on Verwood Memorial Recreation Ground. The project which has been the vision of the AGFA group has been over five years in the planning and will see a free facility in a wet and underused part of the ground. Mayor of Verwood,…
A Poole teenager looks set to see his name in lights after being signed up by the South’s first public stage school and a top talent agency from London. William Hurst will be one of the first intakes at the South’s first ever publically funded stage school, which opens at the LeAF Studio in Bournemouth…
A Bournemouth student has been crowned the national indoor rowing champion for his age group. Lewis Bradbury, from Harewood College, has become the first student from Dorset to win a coveted national champion award at the National Junior Indoor Rowing Championships. Lewis rowed an incredible 541m in just two minutes to make him the Year…
Further work to stabilise the slopes around the stricken Beaminster Tunnel will take place this week with soil nailing starting on 2 April. Since works began in December, contractors have cleared the area above the north end of the tunnel, improved the drainage at the site, tested the soil nails, and worked to make access…
A toadstool for children to jump over has sprouted at Endfield Road play area on Jumpers Common thanks to Fields in Trust and the customers and staff of ASDA Castlepoint.
Following the postponement of the ‘Formula 1’ event that should have taken place in Wimborne’s Square last Saturday an ‘impromptu’ display (or was it a performance-art event?) was organised instead. A large white ‘Stig-bunny’ riding his own shiny bright red child’s racing car promoted the Easter Bunny Run that will see bunnies in West Street…
Christchurch primary school pupils are being encouraged to look at Fair Trade products in a competition being run by the Christchurch Food Festival Education Trust. The competition asks pupils to come up with a healthy recipe using at least three Fair Trade products and then illustrate it on paper or card. Pupils who have produced…
March is National Veggie Month, and Bournemouth artist, Kathy Livick, has produced a series of bold paintings called Songs from a Slaughterhouse, in the hope of raising awareness of the suffering of animals killed for the dinner table. The six canvases, painted in acrylic, depict a hen and her chicks, a pig, calf, goat, lamb and…
Bob Walter MP for North Dorset visited Oakdene Care Home at Three Legged Cross, on Friday 15 March to help celebrate Oakdene’s ‘Beacon’ status Gold Standard award. Oakdene received the Beacon Status award, the highest of three possible levels, in the Gold Standards Framework (GSF) for End of Life Care for Care Homes, on 7 March…
