Coping with CHAOS play sessions are back
Coping with CHAOS, the children’s service provided by Diverse Abilities, has returned to Dorset for the summer holidays with social distancing rules in place.
Coping with CHAOS, the children’s service provided by Diverse Abilities, has returned to Dorset for the summer holidays with social distancing rules in place.
Two people sadly died following a collision on Blandford Road near Kingston Lacy involving a white BMW 114i and a white Skoda Fabia.
Holidays are so important to all of us – especially children and young people with complex physical and learning disabilities, who can often be excluded from clubs unable to cater with their complex needs.
With demand for ambulances increasing noticeably in the past month, South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) is reminding people only to call 999 in a medical emergency when someone is seriously ill or injured and their life is at risk.
Douch Family Funeral Directors were disappointed that because of the coronavirus they had to cancel their celebrations into what they thought was their 110-year anniversary – but in fact they should have marked the occasion last year.
We mustn’t be complacent, but figures just released by Public Health Dorset show that Dorset and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Councils are experiencing low numbers of COVID-19 cases compared with many other areas in England.
Staff at Blackmore Vale Magazine have been overwhelmed with the huge number of kind messages from readers, following the announcement from the owners, Reach PLC, that the much-loved magazine, which suspended publication in March, will not be returning.
Resurfacing work has started on 50 roads in Ashley Heath, Colehill, Ferndown, Upton, Verwood, West Moors, West Parley, Beaminster, Charminster and Child Okeford – identified as Dorset Council’s most damaged residential streets.
It’s going to be hot, hot, hot this weekend, and inevitably people will be planning to visit Dorset’s coastal towns and beaches.
The accounts for Dorset Council in its first year of operation reveal that its most expensive redundancy cost the authority £980,000.