The Mayor of Ferndown, Cllr Mrs Julie Robinson, and other local business and civic leaders, went back to their school days when they tried out fun activities for primary school children at the launch of the Knoll Gardens Foundations new education programme at Knoll Gardens near Wimborne on 4 August.
Diverse Abilities, Dorset’s disability charity, is looking for local people to take part in an exhilarating 450ft zip wire challenge across the Ageas Bowl – the home of Hampshire Cricket – in Southampton on 18 October and is urging willing participants to sign up now.
Congratulations to Angela and Adrian Owens from Ferndown who won the Weber barbecue featured in July 4Dorset plus £60 worth of meat.
Three Legged Cross First School bid for a grant to create a quiet sensory garden in their grounds and were given £3000 from the 3LX Community Benefit Fund. The children love to use the new area and are already helping to maintain it by weeding the flower beds. 3LX Community Benefit Fund is donated by…
A woman entered the Cooperative Food store on Smugglers Lane, Wimborne at around 7.30pm on Saturday 25 July and stole nine bottles of wine. She went to the refrigerated wine display and placed the items in a large leather-style handbag and a Waitrose bag then left without making any attempt to pay. Police Constable Adam…
Castlepoint’s General Manager Peter Matthews, 65, has completed a 30 mile tri-horseathon in eight hours
Bournemouth’s Pink Champagne Breast Cancer Dragon Boat Team is to be Castlepoint Sainsburys’ charity of 2016.
Fourteen fearless volunteers took part in a skydive, or ‘Jump with the Tigers’, early on Sunday 2 August at Airfield Camp Netheravon, raising more than £3,500 for the John Thornton Young Achievers Foundation (JTYAF).
4 August 2015 People looking for the best cycle routes in the New Forest can now hire a bike with a free Garmin cycling computer to guide them. The New Forest National Park Authority has teamed up with Garmin and local bike hire companies to provide cyclists with free GPS navigation devices to help them…
Britain in Bloom judges arrived in Wimborne Minster this morning on Tuesday 4 August to decide the fate of the town’s place in the 2015 finals. The two judges, Jeff Bates and Sue Wood, were greeted by the Mayor and members of the Wimborne in Bloom Committee at the Town Hall in West Borough before commencing their two and a half hour tour of the town and its well-tended foliage.
