AROUND 20 square metres of vegetation caught fire along an embankment on Swanage Railway on Sunday afternoon. Firefighters from the town were called to the site near Corfe Castle at 4.30pm and put out the fire with beaters and water. A spokesman for
ANGRY residents say a council error denied them the chance to properly protest against double yellow lines on their road. Neighbours from sixteen of the 20 households on Churchill Gardens, in Parkstone, signed a petition objecting to the proposals.
A £1,130 donation from a Poole retailer to Waggy Tails Rescue came at just the right time for the charity. John Lewis at home, Branksome, handed over the cheque, raised through their Community Matters programme, in the same week as the rescue
A GROUP of ambitious young people spent time with AFC Bournemouth in preparation for a career in football. Six Dorset-based teens spent four days at the Seward Stadium learning from industry experts as part of the What’s Your Goal? scheme, run by Football
QUIRKY celebrations for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee will be taking place in Christchurch over the weekend of festivities. As well as many street parties and community celebrations, Christchurch council’s countryside service has organised a
AN OVERTURNED horse box has caused major delays on the Bournemouth-bound A338 Spur Road. The accident caused all Bournemouth-bound traffic to be stopped from 12noon until 12.50pm as tourists headed for the coast on one of the hottest days of the year
FIRST she gave away a kidney, then her crowning glory. Jenny Dale, of Iford, who was the first person in the county to donate a kidney for the sake of a complete stranger last year, had her tresses trimmed for charity last week. The 47-year-old crime
PART of the A35 Christchurch bypass will be closed for four nights from Monday to replace a footbridge. The A35 bypass at Burton Road will be closed while the old bridge is replaced with a new single span bridge, which will be open in mid-June
RESIDENTS in Christchurch and parts of East Dorset are receiving information about impending changes to their recycling and rubbish collections. The Dorset Waste Partnership (DWP) is writing to all households proposed to change to the new ‘recycle for
IT WAS best foot forward for a team of fundraisers as they braved the rain to walk from Swanage to Hengistbury Head. The eight walkers collectively walked 201.2km as part of the Gold Challenge’s 2012 national Olympic legacy initiative. Each member of
DISABLED campaigners from Poole say a trip to the shops can often feel like an “Olympic training course for the slalom”. A dozen residents from The Grange – a Leonard Cheshire Disability home in Mount Road, Parkstone – took a top government official
MANY moons ago, Mrs Thatcher famously told Bob Geldof that it wasn’t that easy, feeding the starving people of Africa. In his inimitable manner, Sir Bob said it was. All they had to do was get the food, get it on a boat and get it to the people. This
BOURNEMOUTH is selling itself short in welcoming visitors, a meeting was told. Businesspeople, councillors and members of the town’s hospitality industry have been updated on plans to overhaul Bournemouth’s way-finding system – including signs and maps
A SPECTACULAR glass-bottomed kayak safari at one of the Dorset coast’s most beautiful wildlife hotspots is on offer this summer. Kimmeridge Bay teems with a dazzling array of species and Dorset Wildlife Trust launched the kayak safaris last year. It
