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MBE for former Ferndown mayor

Cllr Terry Cordery, the former mayor of Ferndown, has been honoured with an MBE for his services to the Dorset Fire Fighters Charity, Dorset Schools Football Association and to the community in Ferndown. He and his wife and two of their three children moved to Ferndown in 1978 and he was co-opted onto Ferndown Town…

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£2,000 knockout

A charity boxing night raised a knockout £2,000 for the Royal Bournemouth Hospital’s new Jigsaw building. The Bransgore Rotary Club’s fundraising boxing night was held at the Carrington Hotel in December 2013. Guests enjoyed a Bournemouth Amateur Boxing Association inter-county boxing match and three course meal with money raised from ticket sales, a raffle and…

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Wow! Railway fundraising record

Lewis-Manning Hospice in Poole celebrated smashing its own fundraising record at Luscombe Valley Railway last weekend (21/22 December). The charity, which offers free palliative nursing care to hundreds of local people living with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses, raised over £10,000 over the course of the year at the popular local attraction, beating their 2010…

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Dorset news

Extra bus services over Christmas & New Years

Morebus Service For Christmas Day To Hospitals Morebus has confirmed that it will be running a more extensive service on the bank holiday dates over the festive season. For the first time On a Christmas day the M1 service will operate between 9am and 8pm from Poole to both Poole Hospital and the Royal Bournemouth…

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Storms lash Dorset

BBC News has reported that fire crews in Dorset have rescued 25 people trapped in their cars by flood water after strong winds and torrential rain overnight.
Firefighters helped people in Sturminster Newton, Blandford, Shaftesbury, Sherborne and Wimborne.

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Hit and run in Poole, £1,000 reward offered

Police are renewing their appeal for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward following a fatal fail to stop collision – with details and an image of a vehicle they are keen to trace being released and a reward being offered. Officers were called at 7.25pm on Friday 13 December to the collision at…

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Dorset news

Pensioner victim of aggravated burglary

A West Moors pensioner in her 70s became trapped when a burglar pushed her wheelchair over and she fell out. A man got into her home on Heathfield Way between 6pm and 9.40pm on Friday 20 December and attacked her. He pushed her over when she confronted him and left her on the floor and…

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