A meeting of Dorset County Council will be held next week to decide the on-going leadership of the authority. This follows Cllr Spencer Flower’s decision to step aside as leader after he was charged by the police over alleged failures to declare an interest in a property company. Last week Cllr Flower handed over leadership…
The ‘Bug Busting’ team visited Year 2 pupils at Oakhurst Community First School to deliver a unique workshop in the hope local schoolchildren will learn how to stop common infections such as coughs and colds spreading, causing sickness and absence from school.
Almost 100 people attended the St Cecilia Celebration in Wimborne Minster on Saturday evening, 22 November. Deirdre Ashton, deputy churchwarden and a member of the small committee which organised the informal evening of seasonal words and music from local performers said, “it was wonderful to see so many people supporting the Minster on a wet November evening.”…
Dorset Police has joined the nationwide awareness week to involve the public in preventing terrorism and keeping the country safe. Every police force in the UK is involved in promoting awareness of terrorism in their area and engaging with their communities to make them mindful of reporting suspicious behaviour. To effectively combat the threat of…
The ground works have been prepared and Poole’s new junior school, Ocean Academy Poole, will begin to take shape this week as 45 bespoke modular units are delivered to the Constitution Hill Road site. The modules were constructed by McAvoy Group in their Northern Ireland factory, before being shipped to Poole. Modular construction was successfully…
The Mayor of Ferndown, Cllr Mike Parkes, visited the Haskins Garden Centre at Longham to thank the general manager Matt Hill for supporting central Ferndown traders by sponsoring a Christmas tree on Ringwood Road.
Police are becoming increasingly concerned for the welfare of a missing man. Paul Smith, aged 49 and of Saltburn-by-the-Sea in Cleveland, was last seen at his parents’ home on Portland on Friday 7 November when he said he was going to find somewhere to live in the Bournemouth area. He was reported missing on Wednesday…
The occupants of a house in Poole were attacked with metal bars on Saturday (22 November) while asleep. The woman in her 50s and a man in his 20s suffered injuries as a result and required hospital treatment for head wounds. Detectives investigating the aggravated burglary said it took place at around 3am at an…
With Father Christmas and his helpers on board, the Swanage Railway ‘Santa Specials’ will be spreading festive cheer every weekend during the run-up to Christmas Day and also on 22, 23 and 24 December, 2014.
Pupils from Langside, a special school for children aged two to 19 with profound disabilities run by Diverse Abilities, have designed a range of Christmas cards to help raise funds for the charity that provides a lifetime of support to children and adults with disabilities in Dorset. James, Amelia, Gabby, Angel, Alicia and Isaac all…
