THE online luxury magazine Hot Brands Cool Places (hotbrandscoolplaces.co.uk) has awarded Poole seaside restaurant Branksome Beach with the "Cool Place" accolade.

Branksome Beach has been chosen to receive the Cool Place award for April, and is in good company, with March's winner being Jamie Oliver's Fifteen restaurant.

Branksome Beach general manager Nadine Frost said: "When we were told that we had won a Cool Place award from Hot Brands Cool Places we were over the moon!"