Christchurch Christmas Festival will take place this Saturday (28 November) and one of the highlights will be the live reindeer parade at 4pm. The day’s events start at 9.30am with a Charity Santa Run from Christchurch Rowing Club on the Quay, following a mile long course. Entries cost £16 for adults and £11 for children, which…
Poole Projects celebrated the official launch of its new natural play feature ‘The Castle’ at Talbot View with residents coming together for coffee, cake and a ribbon cutting last month.
A sculpture by award winning artist Zac Greening entitled ‘Ten Million’ has been installed on the top of the National Trust’s Golden Cap, West Dorset, and highlights the issue of pollution around our coast.
A Dorset waste composting company has been ordered to pay £11,848 in fines and costs for polluting a ditch and river with leachate. The case was brought by the Environment Agency.
Five men have been handed jail terms totalling 67 years and eight months for their part in ammonia attacks in Dorset that left two men permanently blinded in one eye.
Monthly dementia-friendly daytime screenings of classic movies are set to become a regular feature of the film programme at Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts thanks to a new initiative created in partnership with Borough of Poole. The screenings, although not exclusively for people with dementia, are particularly suitable for people affected by the condition,…
AFC Bournemouth Chairman Jeff Mostyn is celebrating a new signing – after becoming a patron of the Dorset Cancer Care Foundation (DCCF).
Mr Mostyn, who has spearheaded the Cherries’ meteoric rise to the Premiership, is now the figurehead of the DCCF, a local charity which helps tackle the financial burdens of cancer patients throughout Dorset.
Langside School, a charity run special school for pupils aged two to 19 with profound and multiple disabilities run by Diverse Abilities, are getting in the festive spirit on Saturday 28 November by hosting a Christmas Fayre from 2-4pm, and would like to invite the local community to join them in a day of festive-fuelled fun!…
There may be a problem this Christmas – some of Santa’s reindeer are missing! The Teddy Bear Museum in Dorchester, which is Britain’s only museum devoted entirely to teddy bears, has been delightfully decorated for a vintage Christmas celebration, complete with a special Christmas story to guide visitors around the house. But, the teddy bears…
Connie Moody proved a big shot when her care home hosted a visit from Poole Field Gun Display team.
The 89-year-old was invited to load a handmade, full-size replica of a Royal Navy field gun, which was being shown off to residents at Colten Care’s Amberwood House in Ferndown.
