Due to a severe weather warning for tomorrow the Holocaust Memorial event planned for Christchurch Quay at 10am tomorrow morning will now take place in the Starboard Suite at The Captains Club Hotel. The programme will include prayers by the Vicar of Christchurch, The Reverend Canon Charles Stewart and Rabbi Jesner from the Bournemouth Hebrew…
An election has been called on Thursday 3 March 2016 to fill the vacancy on East Dorset District Council following the resignation of Cllr Ian Monks. Anyone interested in standing as a candidate should contact the Elections Team who can send a candidate’s pack. The deadline for nominations to be put forward as a candidate…
A lady who went from having just £10 left in her purse to becoming a Secret Millionaire on Channel 4’s popular TV series, is to be Guest Speaker at Lewis-Manning Hospice’s Ladies Afternoon Tea event at The Sandbanks Hotel on 11 March to celebrate International Women’s Day.
Two bikes were stolen in a burglary in Winston Avenue in Poole. Between 11.30pm on Thursday 14 January and 9.30am on Friday 15 January, thieves gained access to a shed at the property by tipping it on its side and ripping off the roof.
A team of indoor rowers from a Colehill school has raised more than £300 for the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB). This ‘oarsome’ effort saw the team of eight boys from St Michael’s Middle School row the equivalent of 8km. The team - Scott Lever, Robert Cooper, Cameron Lowes, Harley Richardson, Ryan Atkins,…
Officers in Lyme Regis are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward after a charity box was stolen from outside a shop in the town.
Award-winning family attractions, The Ark, and sister restaurant The Kitchen, in Poole Park, are going green with the installation of state-of-the-art solar electricity systems. Following significant investment, the family-owned business has installed the renewable energy systems as part of an ongoing environmental strategy. Supplied by local family run company NGPS Ltd, the new solar PV…
The Police and Crime Commissioner for Dorset, Martyn Underhill, met with vulnerable individuals who have been the victims of cuckooing to talk with them about their experience during his recent community day held in Weymouth. Cuckooing is the term used to describe how a persons’ home can be taken over by drug dealers to provide…
Police in Poole are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward following a fail-to-stop collision where a motorcyclist collided with a teenage boy. The incident happened at around 4.25pm on Thursday 21 January along Methuen Road. The 13-year-old boy was knocked off his bicycle during the incident. He suffered injuries to his…
Drum legend Ginger Baker, and top singer Jacqui Dankworth are just two of the names featuring in an expanded 2016 Bournemouth Jazz Festival launched earlier today (25 January) at the Miramar Hotel.
