FLAT owners who normally pay Bournemouth council between £200 to £250 a year to maintain their blocks were horrified when £2,000 bills arrived on their doormats. Gardener Danny Vinton, 55, who has owned a former local authority property at Verney Road
IF THE devil has all the best tunes, someone forgot to tell a popular beat combo from Dorset that is steadily growing in scope and popularity. Dogs Without Collars are a five-piece band made up of vicars from parishes in the north and east of the county
BOURNEMOUTH Concert Brass will be competing in a competition later this year that takes place at the Royal Albert Hall. The band competed in the Championship section of the West of England Brass Band Contest for the first time in five years
A ‘MIRACLE dog’ from Poole is recovering from a deadly virus that’s claimed pets’ lives in the county. Six-month-old Olly started vomiting violently after contracting the highly contagious parvovirus, despite having had his jabs. Owner
AN expert on leading English Victorian painter Frederic, Lord Leighton will be giving a talk at Bournemouth’s Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum on the evening of March 29. Daniel Robbins will be discussing Leighton’s life, career, methods
PLUCKY pensioner June Richards is celebrating approaching her 70th birthday by zipping across a river valley. The adventurous Upton great-gran’s latest money-raising venture was to take part in a superheroes-themed zip wire event in Somerset to raise
A REFURBISHED day centre for adults with physical and learning disabilities has been given a £1.4million makeover. Poole’s re-modelled Sea View Centre was opened by the town’s mayor, Cllr Graham Wilson on Thursday. Council leader Elaine
A POOLE businessman has overcome his fear of heights by leaping out of an aeroplane at 12,000ft and freefalling for 45 seconds. Daniel Medhurst undertook his skydive for charity in memory of his brother Jamie, who died from a brain tumour at
RETAIL giant Tesco has been unable to finalise a deal to build a new Bournemouth store and a new planning application will need to be resubmitted. The store was going to be built on the site of a former shopping parade in Kinson after a developer
