Last year, the Dorset Waste Partnership (DWP) removed bring banks across Dorset for materials that can now be recycled at the kerbside, such as glass, paper, cans and plastics.
It’s two weeks until the Mayor of Bournemouth Edward Coope joins up with Emma Heath and Mikala James from local charity Faithworks Wessex to wing walk to raise funds for the local community.
Michael Tomlinson, MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole, visited Tops Day Nursery to mark National Apprenticeship Week and hear plans to provide 30 hours free childcare to three- and four-year-old children in Dorset from April.
Cllr David Flagg has been appointed as Acting Leader for Christchurch Borough Council after vote of no confidence held in the former leadership team.
A hole in a wall has marked the significant first step in the project to build the £7m Ringwood Arts Centre.
A Dorset resident was recently issued a fixed penalty notice after their waste was fly-tipped, despite the fact that they didn’t dump the rubbish themselves.
Councils have been divided over their decision about a proposal for a major shake up in Dorset.
East Dorset District Council is the only council so far to have voted against the proposal to make a submission to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government requesting that Dorset’s nine councils should be replaced by two new unitary councils.
The likelihood of Dorset’s nine councils being replaced by two new unitary authorities is a step closer, after Dorset County Council voted for change.
Concerned businessmen who are opposing potential plans to build a huge waste recycling plant next door to Tower Park met with Poole MP Robert Syms.