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A traditional Iron Age roundhouse that will help bring to life the people who lived at Hengistbury Head some 2,000 years ago is set to be built this year. The building work is part of the Living in the Round project, which aims to educate and reconnect people with Hengistbury...
Some very humorous, tongue-in-cheek observations by 66 year old American, Scott Waters, after a visit to the UK I was in England again a few weeks ago, mostly in small towns, but here’s some of what I learned: * Almost everyone is very polite * The food is generally outstanding * There are...

What became of Gillian

Gillian is a seven-year-old girl who cannot sit still in school. She continually gets up, gets distracted, flies with thoughts, and doesn't follow lessons. Her teachers worry about her, punish her, scold her, reward the few times that she is attentive, but nothing. Gillian does not know how to sit...
A herdswoman living in Dorset has had her memoir published. When Mary Buchan, from Marnhull, left school in the early 1950s, she went straight into the male dominated world of farming and applied for a job at Chapel Farm. Now, her collection of fascinating letters to her mother, have been published...

DISNEY100 : THE CONCERT

BIC THURSDAY 8 JUNE 2023 CELEBRATING DISNEY’S 100TH ANNIVERSARY JANETTE MANRARA ANNOUNCED AS HOST  SHOW FEATURES SEMINAL DISNEY MUSICAL MOMENTS PERFORMED BY LIVE ORCHESTRA AND GUEST SINGERS, SET TO ICONIC SCENES SHOWN ON THE BIG SCREEN FANS AND FAMILIES OF ALL AGES CAN RELIVE THEIR BELOVED DISNEY MEMORIES TICKETS ON SALE NOW Further details have been announced for Disney100: The Concert, the UK arena tour that celebrates Disney’s seminal music and...
I go on and on being amazed by 'Highway 61 Revisited'. How could someone that young have produced such images, feelings, sounds, cadences, ideas…? It's also taught me to swerve away from trying to analyse each word-use, each image, each sequence in terms of meaning but instead to focus...
S Club 7's Paul Cattermole has died at the age of 46. Cattermole's death comes just weeks after the group announced it was going on a major reunion tour. A statement from his family and S Club 7 said: "It is with great sadness that we announce the unexpected passing of...
According to GB Spews: Britain's Eurovision entrant is a Left-wing activist who hates Boris Johnson, it has emerged as the BBC is accused of having a lack of “common sense” for choosing her to represent the UK. Mae Muller, who is set to perform her track I Wrote A Song next...

Art of Poetry Come To Poole

The Gallery Upstairs, Upton Country Park, Poole. 23 March – 3 April 2023 (10am-4pm).   Admission Free An exciting and innovative exhibition of art works, inspired by poems, opened at the Gallery Upstairs, Upton Country Park, Poole on March 23rd.  Open to the public until April 3rd, it features 50 original poems by 10 members of the...
Despite Richard Drax and his apologists not getting it the land behind 'The Great Wall of Dorset' is only in Drax's ownership because of what many Barbadians call the 'Black Death'. White rich people dotted around the planet living off the proceeds of exploitation and the murder of slaves. The...