Robert Walter MP (North Dorset) visited members of the Home-Start North Dorset team at The Exchange, in Sturminster Newton, to see how the charity is helping to support local families. At the invitation of trustee Claire Macdonald, Bob met with Home-Start North Dorset Chairman Jenny Kretz, Scheme Organiser Jamie Keast and Administrator Ruth Berry. Bob…
Two friends and colleagues of Verwood Hub employee Jackie Smith have really gone the extra mile. Denise Craddock and Vicki Gower recently ran the New Forest Marathon, raising money on behalf of Jackie’s granddaughter Josie for the Piam Brown Oncology and Haemotology Centre in Southampton. Josie is currently in remission, after six months of salvage…
Moors Valley Country Park and Forest is appealing anyone who has used the park since it first opened to send them their photographs. They will be used to compile a fascinating social history of the park since it opened 25 years ago, back in 1988.
Hundreds of Sherborne business owners and residents took to the streets of the picturesque Dorset market town this week to fight proposals for an out of town Tesco superstore on the site of The Sherborne Hotel on the A30. Led by local celebrity Valerie Singleton, protestors carried placards denouncing the plans as they marched from…
Members of the Bournemouth Gilbert & Sullivan Society went carol singing in December at various functions in Bournemouth and Poole. They do this every year to support Macmillan caring locally, and particularly the Macmillan Unit at Christchurch Hospital. Their most recent efforts raised £4270, making a total over the last 20 years in excess of £60,000. The money, which was presented recently, will be used for ongoing refurbishments at the unit.
Martyn Underhill, the newly elected Dorset Police and Crime Commissioner, will be the guest speaker at the East Dorset Crime Prevention Panel’s 2013 AGM. The meeting will take place at the council chamber, East Dorset District Council, Furzehill, Wimborne at 11.15am on Friday 15 March. The meeting is open to all East Dorset residents.
Last year’s entries in the mags4dorset Creative Writing Awards were so outstanding that as well as the winner of the short story competition, the judges, Carol Rivers and Martin Baum, chose two highly commended stories. Here is one of them: ‘In Sickness and in Health’ by Phyllis Higgins from Frome. In Sickness and in Health…
INDIANA JONES wants a prestigious estate car to whisk his priceless antiques away from glory hunters and into museums – but which one? I suspect he goes weak at the knees for the top of the range Volkswagen Passat Alltrack. Why? Because its cargo capacity is 603-litres rising to 1,731-litres when the rear seats are…
Flagship store raises standard Costa Coffee in Wimborne was opened in February 2007 and has just undergone a major refurbishment. The Wimborne store was opened by local Costa franchisees Mark and Jane Brown. At the time it was their third Costa store and the business has now grown to 11 locations throughout the area, from…
mags4dorset Charity of the year – The Osborne Centre Dear Readers, Hi again from the Osborne Centre and our branch at West Parley. Last month I told you about the facilities available to people whose lives are affected by MS, and also about our eight wheelchair adapted vehicles that transport our members to and from…
