Bedroooms – Bathrooms – Studies I have lived and worked in the Fordingbridge area since 1979. Some 17 years ago a sudden illness left me partially disabled which meant I had to change my career. Since that time I have been designing kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms and studies overseeing their fitting and installation. The kitchen, whether…
Sole winners of National Footwear Award The local chain of independent, family-run, children’s boutiques, Belle Enfants, were given the great accolade of being voted National winners of Best Independent Children’s Footwear Retailer for 2013. Amanda and Hannah Arkell – mother and daughter co-owners – were joined by Store Managers, Emma Butler and Lauren Richards, at…
Detectives in Dorset are urging potential victims to come forward after a street entertainer was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for rape and assault. Steven Beeks, a 50-year-old man of no fixed abode, was found guilty by a jury at Caernarfon Crown Court in Wales on Thursday 14 February 2013. Beeks worked as a street…
Highcliffe Community association hosted a debate at the Methodist Church hall on the proposed Windfarm off the Dorset coast and people turned up in their hundreds. Many had to stand outside the room, which had seating for 125. They heard the case for the development from the Navitus Bay Development Company and against the proposal…
After a seamless performance and with all of the soloists executing their pieces with flare and precision, Verwood Concert Brass’ A Band scooped 3rd place in the 1st section of the West of England Regional Finals in Torquay. The band came from behind having not scored well in the last two regional finals and there…
Mel Sellings AKA “The Jammy Bodger” from Swanage is celebrating after winning gold for her Seville Orange Marmalade at The World’s Original Marmalade Awards. Over 1000 jars of marmalade from as far afield as Australia and the Philippines were judged by -amongst others- Pam Corbin of River Cottage fame, Tim Came, MD of Thursday Cottage,…
A Bournemouth man who robbed a woman in her own home is behind bars after being found guilty. Christopher Sims, 36, forced entry to a house on Browning Avenue in Bournemouth while the occupant was asleep inside during the early hours of Christmas Eve 2012. The victim, a 57-year-old Bournemouth woman, awoke to find Sims rifling through her handbag in her bedroom. He then…
The spectacular Solent Dog Display Team will be appearing at the Friends of the Strays of Greece annual family fun dog show this year. As well as the Solent dogs, there will be 20 classes to enter including Best 6 Legs, Best Rescue, Best Trick, Fastest Dog and Fancy Dress combining dog and handler, Best…
The annual folk festival in the Dorset town of Wimborne Minster will be held over the weekend of 7, 8, 9 June 2013. It promises three days of ‘folk, family and fun’, with the much-loved mix of dance displays, family activities, workshops and stalls returning to the historic minster town’s streets.
Will the admittance of garden gnomes into the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower show for the first time in 100 years make them the number one garden ornament this year?