A Bournemouth dealer has been prosecuted for selling unsafe mattresses which did not meet fire safety standards. Patrick Furlong (41) of Portchester Road, Bournemouth was found guilty by Bournemouth magistrates’ court of supplying two mattresses and possessing 213 mattresses for sale which did not meet the requirements of the British Standard for fire safety. He…
A unique art exhibition will showcase the creative talents of local mental health patients later this month. The prestigious Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, on Bournemouth’s East Cliff, will host ‘The Art of Wellbeing’ from 19 April to 8 May. Organised by Dorset HealthCare’s Bournemouth East Community Mental Health Team, the exhibition will feature contributions…
Bournemouth is one of the latest towns to receive the prestigious ‘Coach Friendly’ towns, cities and villages status from the Confederation of Passenger Transport UK (CPT).
Students from schools across Bournemouth are helping the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (RBCH) shape plans for the future care of young people.
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…
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).…
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…
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.
Here’s something to brighten your Bournemouth bus journey. Yellow Buses has introduced the History Bus and the AFC Bournemouth Bus. These join the award-winning Gallery Bus that has been on the road for more than a year.
Detectives have launched a murder investigation following the death of a baby boy from Boscombe – with one man being arrested. At around 3.30pm on Friday 8 April, police received a report from the ambulance service that a baby had been taken seriously ill at a flat along Carysfort Road. A three-month-old boy had sustained…
