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Thursday, December 26, 2024
Mr Bumble's Thought Emporium: PODCAST It’s easy to think of a person with mental health issues as never having been ‘normal’; merely a sad part of the scenery – and therefore accepted, or worse: stepped over and ignored. This dramatised reading is designed to provide a wake-up call to the very...
Skies above the south coast were filled with speed, sound and awe-inspiring aerobatics, day and night, this weekend as the 12th Bournemouth Air Festival swooped in to thrill crowds across the resort fuelled by its biggest ever jet line up!   The 2019 star aircraft included debuts from the incredible Saab...
Friday 28 – Sunday 30 June, St Peter’s Church, Bournemouth Friday 5 – Sunday 7 July, Sherborne Abbey Friday 12 – Sunday 14 July, Nothe Fort, Weymouth Free www.dorsetmoon.com Over the last three weekends more than 41,000 people enjoyed Luke Jerram’s monumental Museum of the Moon installation in three stunning locations –...
The new unitary authorities of Dorset Council and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council have signed the Dorset Armed Forces covenant. The covenant is a pledge to treat those who serve or who have served in the armed forces and their families with fairness and respect in their communities, economy and...
The work of a local tapestry artist has been selected for a prestigious international exhibition in London and Nottingham. Tapestry weaver Christine Paine from Christchurch, Dorset has had ‘Call Me’ selected for Heallreaf 2019 where there are 40 exhibitors from all over the world. The exhibition runs from September 7...
What induces a US President to keep the sins of his predecessors a secret? 'My Fellow Americans' is the story of William Cutter: a popular President who pays for the truth dearly. Before a tragedy that shocks the world, he leaves White House intern, Rose O’Carey vital information to incriminate...
Stephanie Wyatt, 19, from Dorset was crowned the new Miss Earth England on Saturday the 22nd June 2019 at the Arden Hotel in Birmingham who was sponsored by Millennium Balti in Leamington Spa. Stephanie not only walked away as the winner of Miss Earth England where she will later...
Volunteers are needed to help newly-arrived refugee families from Syria get used to life in Dorset. Under the Syrian Resettlement Programme, 15 families and 35 children have so far begun new lives in Dorset. Volunteers are needed to help them settle in, perhaps by taking them shopping, playing with children...
Gail Aldwin’s novel, The String Games, gains an award as finalist in the Best Cover Design Category of the 2019 International Book Awards. The catalyst for the story is the abduction and murder of a young boy but the focus of events remains on his elder sister as she...
Local schoolboy Oliver Gill, 10, is set to return to the stage at Lighthouse, Poole’s centre for the arts, having landed a part in English Touring Opera’s production of Verdi’s Macbeth on Friday 31 May. Oliver, a chorister at Christchurch Priory, who performed the iconic solo of The Snowman at...