Hertfordshire based construction company Willmott Dixon formally handed over an £11m Bournemouth & Poole College extension at North Road, Poole, to principal Lawrence Vincent this week. This completed a new milestone in the 100 year history of the college.
Highcliffe celebrated its first food festival in high style on 16 May. With events for all the family including cake competitions, ice-cream, cakes, hog roasts, bouncy castles, beer, a town crier and locally run businesses showing their wares, as well as those from further afield in Hampshire and the rest of Dorset, the event was deemed…
A 24-hour long BioBlitz will be held on Brownsea Island from midday on Friday 12 June in order to record coastal wildlife at the site. The outdoor event is one of 25 interactive wildlife surveys happening across National Trust coastal sites in England, Wales and Northern Ireland this summer. Over 24 hours, the charity’s wildlife experts…
Police are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward following an assault in West Moors. At around 9.45am on Friday 29 May 2015, a collision took place on Station Road between two cyclists. After the initial collision, the offender grabbed the victim, a 31-year-old man from Three Legged Cross, by the throat…
A Bournemouth man has been jailed for 33 months for selling legal highs that contained controlled drugs.
John Richard Isaacs, 45, was sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court on Tuesday 19 May after pleading guilty the same day to possession with intent to supply class B and C drugs.
Detectives investigating the death of Phillip Nicholson in Boscombe have charged a man and a woman with his murder. At around midday on Tuesday 26 May police were called to a flat in Mallard Grange on Sea Road and discovered the body of the 22-year-old.
Officers investigating a fatal collision near Horton are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward. At 9.20pm on Sunday 31 May, a serious single vehicle road traffic collision occurred on the B3078 Wimborne to Cranborne road at Didlington. A blue MG car, containing five occupants, was travelling from Horton toward Wimborne when…
A disabled man has been robbed in Bournemouth The local man in his 40s was removing items from a parked car at around 5.45pm on Wednesday 27 May 2015 in a car park on Duck Lane. He felt the car door pushed into his back followed by someone’s hands which pushed him to the ground. A…
Now in its third year, Beaulieu’s family fun event, TRUCKMANIA, a super-sized celebration of all things truck-related, featured hundreds of trucks and a wide variety of trucking activities. Over 10,000 visitors and participants, 2,000 up on 2014, enjoyed the two-day show held in the attraction’s parkland over the May Bank Holiday weekend, with even bigger…
Lawrences’ popular auction in Crewkerne of Militaria, Coins and Medals on the 21 May, attracted a great deal of interest. Within the militaria, an Indian Katar dagger sliced through its estimate to make £1950. A brace of military flintlock pistols with intriguing marks for the Nazim of Hyderabad’s bodyguard shot to £2070; and a Lang…
