CIVIC planners have blasted a Bournemouth school for felling several trees in its grounds including five mature oaks. Planning board chairman David Kelsey described the removal of the trees at Oakmead College of Technology in Duck Lane as “a disgraceful
ONE of the favourites of Bournemouth Air Festival is facing another battle to keep flying. Vulcan to the Sky Trust needs to raise £300,000 by the end of March to keep the Cold War bomber in the air. It currently has around £70,000 and
OUT of America, but from the heart of Bohemia, Dvorak’s Symphony No9 ‘From the New World’ has the Slavic idiom brushed with the palette of new colours. Benjamin Wallfisch directed the BSO in a warmly appreciative account, driving home the first movement
A YOUNG boy’s battle against leukaemia has inspired staff at his after school club to become blood donors. Five-year-old Billy who lives with his mum in Swanage, has already had six life-saving blood transfusions in his young life. He is nearly half-way
A DORSET-based company has been credited with creating a surge in funds for Cancer Research UK. P-PR Media Solutions, based in Wimborne, is behind the Help Harry Help Others Campaign, which has spread to Europe and America. The firm
A TYPICAL day for Nick Beck and Melisa Collett is to feel the gentle swell of the English Channel beneath them, to taste salt air on their lips, have a force three at their sails, a wooden deck at their feet – and the company of like-minded people to
PLANS for a multi-million pound community health hub have been unveiled for the Christchurch Hospital site. Hospital chiefs revealed the scheme will secure current services at the hospital while adding new facilities for the local community
