Category: Dorset

Sensei Jordan Lee was promoted to his adult brown belt at Ferndown Jitsu on Wednesday 3 June at Ferndown Ju-Jitsu Club.

Pupils at a Dorset school heard about the importance of being water-wise in a special interactive session.
Life Education Wessex (LEW) visited Christchurch Infants School on behalf of Bournemouth Water which supplies drinking water to approximately half a million people.

Grooves on the Green has announced that talented singer songwriter Toby Thorne is a late addition to this year’s 15th anniversary line up replacing Sunstone Collective after their recent split.

For any legal firm creating, managing, sharing and distributing documents effectively is a crucial part of their workflow and service delivery. MJP Law, the law firm, with offices in Ferndown, Kinson, Verwood and Wimborne, have welcomed new technology into their lives, they have removed their filing cabinets and now have a paper-less policy in place, in all of their offices.

There was a record turnout for Ferndown Rotary’s Charity Golf day.
More than 130 golfers took to Canford Magna Golf Course to help raise £6000 that was split equally between two local charities LEAF (Leukaemia Education and Funding) and the Forest Holme hospice.

Dorset Police is warning motorists of the dangers of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs as the summer drink and drug drive campaign gets underway.

Celebrating 50 years of its coastal fundraising campaign, the National Trust has made its first coastal acquisition in the South West this year. It will now care for almost 23 acres of Black Down heathland below the Hardy Monument in Dorset – an area of great natural and historical importance.

A former Bournemouth schoolteacher who downloaded indecent images of children has been sentenced to ten months in prison.

The chewed end of a fat cigar that Winston Churchill smoked in his hospital bed is to go under the hammer at auction and could fetch £1,000. In 1962 the great war leader who enjoyed a drink was recuperating from a fractured hip after tumbling from his bed. Unrestricted by health and safety legislation he…