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The community came together recently for the official opening of new play area on Eastwood Road in Verwood.

As it celebrates 50 years of volunteer work in the county, Dorset Countryside Volunteers is hoping to attract more people to continue its work.

An outline planning application has been made to Dorset Council to build 55 houses on green belt land in Wimborne.

Items discarded at recycling centres in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole are now being sold at the ‘new to you’ shop in Cabot Lane.

Julia’s House children’s hospice has raised £17,229 in donations from its record breaking Christmas tree collection.

More than £18,000 was raised in support of a vital local hospice charity by a Christmas tree collection service that recycled 1000 trees.

Such was the volume of rain last week that Dorset Council’s highway crews were called out 82 times in less than 24 hours.

A ‘treecycling’ initiative that benefits the environment and local charities will turn hundreds of Christmas trees into compost in the New Year.

Dubbed the ‘Human Fish’, Oly Rush has made it into the 2024 Guinness book of world records for his staggering 60-mile swim around Grand Cayman.

Declared dead in 2023, a historic oak tree has been saved from being felled to the ground and will remain in the New Forest for many more years.