Councillors in Poole have voted to provide an additional £250,000 to help deliver a new rail crossing in Lower Hamworthy. Borough of Poole can now enter into an agreement with DB Schenker, freight train operator who have been granted a 125 year lease of the Hamworthy Branch Line, and appoint a civil engineering contractor. The…
Police have issued CCTV images of a suspect after a number of arson attacks in Boscombe. At 2.13am on Thursday 19 February 2015, police were called to reports of a wheelie bin being set alight inside a wooden shed in Boscombe Spa Road. Approximately 20 minutes later, two more bins were set alight in Manor…
The Friends of the Priest’s House Museum invite you to a talk on the ‘Caves of the Thousand Buddhas: Archaeology on the Eastern Silk Road’ by Dr Alastair Morrison on Thursday 12 March, 7.30pm in the Hilda Coles Open Learning Centre at the Priest’s House Museum & Garden in Wimborne Minster. The cultures along the…
Royal Marine John Thornton was sadly killed in Afghanistan in 2008 and would have been 30 years old on 12 April. Here at the John Thornton Young Achievers Foundation we thought that it would be a fitting tribute to take on a 30 mile challenge in his memory. The final test on the Royal Marine…
Philip Moses and Clive Rutland celebrated their rebranding as Moses Rutland Chartered Surveyors at a launch party on 25 February.
A few precious drops of blood that were taken from Sir Winston Churchill have emerged for sale at auction.
The sample was collected in 1962 when the ‘blood, toil, tears and sweat’ orator was at The Middlesex Hospital being treated for a fractured hip.
Bournemouth and Poole are the first towns in the world to have achieved Sustainable Fish City status. Some of the most important and iconic caterers and restaurants have committed to serving only verifiably sustainable fish, impacting on more than 3.6 million fish meals a year throughout the towns. The campaign, run by the Sustainable Food City…
Both Christchurch Borough Council and East Dorset District Council have each agreed a small increase of 1.95 per cent on their element of the Council Tax for 2015/16. The increase equates to around 7p per week for a Band D property and comes in the face of a reduction in government funding for the coming…
Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance is set to benefit from a £5 million fund from Libor fines which will support air ambulance charities across the UK. The charity is to receive £250,000 from the fund in addition to further savings from the relief of VAT paid by the charity.
Police have issued at CCTV image of a suspect after a shoplifting offence in Poole. At 10.20am on Monday 23 February 2015 a man went into the John Lewis at Home store in Redlands Retail Park and selected a pair of Beats by Dr Dre headphones. He was challenged by a member of staff but…
