Award for helping to catch thieves
Matthew Hughes, Public Safety Officer at Bournemouth’s Castlepoint Shopping Park, has received recognition for helping the police arrest two car thieves.
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Diverse Abilities to Take Over Dorset to Celebrate 60th Birthday
For one day only, Diverse Abilities, Dorset’s disability charity, is celebrating its 60th birthday on 12 June in a town near you! The charity is inviting the local community to come and say hello, find out what the charity does and make a donation to help reach its £600,000 target during its diamond anniversary year.…
Apply for funding available to make Dorset safer
Dorset’s Police & Crime Commissioner has announced that round four of the Safer Dorset Fund is open for applications until 6 July. The Safer Dorset Fund has been created to support community projects that make Dorset safer and feel safer in line with the police and crime plan priorities These priorities are: Reduce the number of victims…
Mahler’s Eighth at Lighthouse, Poole
One of the largest-scale choral works in the classical concert repertoire, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony was performed by more than 1,000 musicians and singers at its premiere in 1910. Now, 105 years later the combined choirs of the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, the Bath Minerva Choir, the Bournemouth Symphony Youth Chorus and the Amadeus Orchestra, with a…
Counterfeit £50 warning
Police are warning that in the past week there has been a few reported incidents of two young males attempting to use counterfeit £50 notes at shops and businesses in the East Dorset area. The first male is described as white, approximately 16 years old, average build, with black short hair. The second male is…
Website for Verwood Memorial Hall
Verwood Memorial Hall has now set up its own website whereby booking requests can now be made by email as well as the answerphone. This will help the volunteer booking officer who also has a full-time job and family. Bookings are currently being taken for 2017. Volunteers are currently upgrading the heating in order to…
Random Acts of Kindness
When Dorset-based A One Insurance heard about the Random Acts of Kindness initiative being launched by Westbourne Trader’s Association and supported by the Bournemouth Coastal BID, they decided to go all out to be involved
Monty’s Pool proves a hit
The new swimming pool in Montacute School in Poole is proving a hit. It forms part of the rebuilt Montacute School, and offers fresh changing rooms, showers and toilets, an 8m x 12m swimming pool and a hot pool. All facilities are fully accessible to users with additional needs, with changing beds, hoists and tracks…
See André Rieu’s 2015 Maastricht Concert on the big screen
Affectionately known as ‘The King of Waltz’, André performs every year in front of thousands of fans set amongst the beautiful medieval backdrop of his beautiful home town of Maastricht, in The Netherlands. As always, André is joined by his famous Johann Strauss Orchestra, his sopranos, tenors and some very special guests. The Maastricht concerts…
Boscombe murder – two arrested
Following the discovery of the body of a 22-year-old local man in a flat in Mallard Grange, Sea Road at around midday on Tuesday 26 May, police have arrested a 25-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman, both from Bournemouth on suspicion of murder. They were arrested at 3.50pm the same day in Weymouth and are…
