Month: March 2013

A toadstool for children to jump over has sprouted at Endfield Road play area on Jumpers Common thanks to Fields in Trust and the customers and staff of ASDA Castlepoint.

Following the postponement of the ‘Formula 1’ event that should have taken place in Wimborne’s Square last Saturday an ‘impromptu’ display (or was it a performance-art event?) was organised instead. A large white ‘Stig-bunny’ riding his own shiny bright red child’s racing car promoted the Easter Bunny Run that will see bunnies in West Street…

Christchurch primary school pupils are being encouraged to look at Fair Trade products in a competition being run by the Christchurch Food Festival Education Trust. The competition asks pupils to come up with a healthy recipe using at least three Fair Trade products and then illustrate it on paper or card. Pupils who have produced…

March is National Veggie Month, and Bournemouth artist, Kathy Livick, has produced a series of bold paintings called Songs from a Slaughterhouse, in the hope of raising awareness of the suffering of animals killed for the dinner table. The six canvases, painted in acrylic, depict a hen and her chicks, a pig, calf, goat, lamb and…

Bob Walter MP for North Dorset visited Oakdene Care Home at Three Legged Cross, on Friday 15 March to help celebrate Oakdene’s ‘Beacon’ status Gold Standard award.  Oakdene received the Beacon Status award, the highest of three possible levels, in the Gold Standards Framework (GSF) for End of Life Care for Care Homes, on 7 March…

Parley Under 8s football team has a brand new kit, thanks to sponsorship from DWP Housing Partnership. Lee Mountford, father of one of the team, works for the company and asked Managing Director Steve Wells for help. He provided funds that kitted the nine youngsters out during their second season together. Their blue shirts proudly…

Following on from the success of last year’s Bake Day, the Christchurch Food and Wine Festival is launching the ‘Great Christchurch Bake Weekend and Fete’. On Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 May, Christchurch Quay (The Quomps) will be transformed into the scene of a typical English fete, with white marquees, a giant helter-skelter and a…

The Juniper Centre for adults with learning disabilities in Christchurch has benefited from a competition for the best Christmas lights won by Christchurch Council. The Council entered photos of the Christmas lights into the competition, run by South & South East in Bloom, and was declared joint winner with Ash in Surrey. As the prize…

Until Easter, students at Sherborne Girls in Dorset will be able to explore what Lent means to them in their very own ‘God Pod’  – a wooden shed on wheels that mysteriously moves around the school grounds and provides girls of all ages with a quiet place to ponder and pray. Currently decorated as a…

Detectives in Christchurch are appealing for help from the public after two purses were recovered in the town.  On Friday 8 March 2013, officers arrested a man on suspicion of theft. Police Constable David Williams, of Christchurch police, said: “As a result of this arrest two women’s purses were recovered. “One of the items is…