Actor Martin Clunes and designer Jasper Conran are the stars of a Christmas spectacular being organised by Julia’s House at Wimborne Minster on Wednesday, 9 December. The pair will be taking part in Carols by Candlelight, a festive evening of poetry, prose, music and traditional carols. Martin, who is patron of the children’s hospice charity and…
Dorset Police are warning parents and children to remain vigilant following two suspicious incidents involving a man approaching schoolchildren in Poole and Wimborne. The first happened at around 3.30pm on Tuesday 3 November on Sopers Lane, Poole, close to Parkstone Grammar School. A man on a bicycle approached a 12-year-old girl and asked her to…
Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance landed on the King George V Playing Fields in Ferndown at 12noon today (Thursday 5 November) and left an hour later, taking a man to Southampton General Hospital for treatment.
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is looking for a group of volunteers to help move 15 tonnes of gravel into the Bere Stream on Saturday 7 November.
The next New Forest Seasonal Snaps photo has been launched giving people the chance to win great prizes for their autumnal photos.
A woman in her 80s had her handbag stolen after two men came into her home in Sherwood Drive, Verwood on Tuesday 3 November. She opened her door to a young man at around 7.30pm after he claimed to be working at a nearby property. A second man arrived and they both entered the house.…
A 93-year-old World War II veteran who uses a mobility scooter has been mugged in Ferndown. Jim Day, who served in the Royal Navy and Royal Marines at Dunkirk and Burma was travelling home from the shops on his scooter when he was grabbed from behind and pushed to the floor. The offender then took…
The Edwardian Marsham Court Hotel stands on Bournemouth’s East Cliff and won silver in the Venue & Business Tourism category of this year’s Dorset Tourism awards.
Ferndown Rotary Club is delighted to report that long-standing member and past-president Alan Dean has been appointed by the President of France to the rank of Chevalier in the Ordre national de la Legion d’honneur. The award, notified by the French Ambassador in London, acknowledges Alan’s military engagement and steadfast involvement in the liberation of France…
Santa Claus will be reunited with the six reindeer owned by the Stewarts family at Stewarts Garden Centres in time for Christmas. Arriving on a horse-drawn sleigh, Father Christmas will meet the reindeer in Christchurch on Saturday 28 November at 10.30am, and on the same day at Broom Hill in Wimborne at 1.30pm. Button, Comet, Dasher, Jingle, Snowy and Twinkle will be waiting to greet him and will remain at the centres with Santa until Christmas Eve.
