Patients will benefit from state-of-the-art new X-ray facilities following the completion of a major revamp project at Blandford Community Hospital. Dorset HealthCare has invested £250,000 to transform the hospital’s radiology department, installing new digital X-ray equipment and creating a dedicated clinical ultrasound room.
Officers in Bournemouth have released a CCTV image of a suspect in connection with a theft in the town. The incident happened at around 11.35am on Monday 11 April in the Post Office on Christchurch Road. The victim, a local man aged in his 80s, was withdrawing money in the post office when a man…
A Specialist Plant Fair is being held at Wimborne’s Knoll Gardens on Saturday 23 April. Hosted by the award-winning ornamental grass specialist this is a spring plant fair with a difference, featuring a selection of locally grown plants from nationally recognised nurseries. It offers plant lovers the opportunity to meet up with expert growers, see…
Gareth Malone OBE, choirmaster and broadcaster recently took some time off to visit at Moors Valley Country Park and Forest with his family. Gareth, an ex-pupil of Bournemouth Grammar School, took to the trees on Go Ape, the park’s award-winning tree-top adventure experience as well as hiring bikes to get away from the crowds and explore some of the 800-acre forest site.
Fish has proved to be a popular choice for students from Christchurch secondary schools who are taking part in this year’s Food Festival cookery challenge, organised by Christchurch Food Festival Education Trust. The cook-offs, run in each of the borough’s secondary schools, produced three finalists who all cooked fish. Sponsored by Christchurch Rotary Club, the…
The countdown is already underway to this year’s P1 Bournemouth Grand Prix of the Sea in early September, which will be the Grand Finale to the five-venue P1 SuperStock and AquaX national championships, and P1 will be unveiling its plans at a special event at the Hallmark Hotel West Cliff this Thursday evening (14 April).…
The Durlston Country Park rangers are asking people to help clean Swanage Beach, as part of the Great Dorset Beach Clean 2016 and the ‘Litter Free Coast and Sea’ campaign. This event aims to keep beaches tidy, improving the shore and marine environments for the enjoyment of residents, visitors and wildlife. It’s a great opportunity…
School administrator Jayne Adamson is about to make a big tick on her ‘bucket list’ by taking part in this month’s London Marathon. Mrs Adamson has been the lead administrator at Tregonwell Academy’s Nigel Bowes campus in Ensbury Avenue, Bournemouth, for 16 years and also celebrates her 60th birthday this year. On 24 April she…
History has been made during the Swanage Railway’s Spring Steam Gala when the first timetabled passenger train ran over four miles of newly restored line towards Wareham – for the first time in 44 years.
A man has been jailed for 12 years for raping a woman in the grounds of a Bournemouth church. Jason Robert Rogers, 26 and of no fixed abode, was sentenced yesterday, Monday 11 April, at Bournemouth Crown Court for one count of rape. Rogers had also been charged with robbery but was found not guilty at a trial in January. He was found guilty of rape following a retrial at the same court in March.
