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…
Parley Under 8s football team has a brand new kit, thanks to sponsorship from DWP Housing Partnership. Lee Mountford, father of one of the team, works for the company and asked Managing Director Steve Wells for help. He provided funds that kitted the nine youngsters out during their second season together. Their blue shirts proudly…
Following on from the success of last year’s Bake Day, the Christchurch Food and Wine Festival is launching the ‘Great Christchurch Bake Weekend and Fete’. On Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 May, Christchurch Quay (The Quomps) will be transformed into the scene of a typical English fete, with white marquees, a giant helter-skelter and a…
The Juniper Centre for adults with learning disabilities in Christchurch has benefited from a competition for the best Christmas lights won by Christchurch Council. The Council entered photos of the Christmas lights into the competition, run by South & South East in Bloom, and was declared joint winner with Ash in Surrey. As the prize…
Until Easter, students at Sherborne Girls in Dorset will be able to explore what Lent means to them in their very own ‘God Pod’ – a wooden shed on wheels that mysteriously moves around the school grounds and provides girls of all ages with a quiet place to ponder and pray. Currently decorated as a…
Detectives in Christchurch are appealing for help from the public after two purses were recovered in the town. On Friday 8 March 2013, officers arrested a man on suspicion of theft. Police Constable David Williams, of Christchurch police, said: “As a result of this arrest two women’s purses were recovered. “One of the items is…
Wimborne Town had been struggling to score goals of late as well as secure victories. But all of that changed last Saturday as the Magpies handed out a 5-1 thrashing to promotion hopefuls Yate Town at Cuthbury. Heavy rain had wiped out other local non-league fixtures and swelled the crowd to 264. Wimborne had to…
The 24 new allotment plots at Longham were allocated today by the Ferndown Town Council at Haskins Garden Centre. Photo courtesy of K Browning.
Children at Hillside Community First School in Verwood had great fun raising money for Comic Relief today. The school was awash with red noses and bopper headbands. The school council, made up of representatives from each class, voted to allow children to bring in their favourite games to play at Golden Time and pay a…
Mrs Eaton of Christchurch was presented with a new birdhouse and feeder from Castle Gardens for spotting the most species of bird in her garden, when she took part in the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch back in January.
