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Saturday, December 14, 2024
Bournemouth Highcliff Marriott Hotel, an iconic British seaside retreat, marks its 150th anniversary on Friday 13th December 2024, with a remarkable onsite event celebrating its rich heritage and legacy since opening in 1874.  Guests were transported through 150 years of history with displays of period archives and historic property imagery...
Checking out at the supermarket recently, the young cashier suggested I should bring my own bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. I apologised and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days". the cashier responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not...

Stir To Action

Stir to Action is the international online magazine set up by Jonathan Gordon Farleigh and his partner Abby McFlynn. Jonathan from Dorchester and Abby from Colorado now reside in South London. Stir is a magazine for activists and those with an interest in social change. Whether it is growing...

Who is Batman?

I know he is Clark Kent, sorry, Bruce Wayne, but who is he really? A multibillionaire who protects good from evil! Really, is that still fashionable in 2012? Do people still swallow this premise, and if so, why? In a wonderfully insightful article by Elliott Prasse-Freeman and Sayres Rudy...
American novelist Jacquelyn Mitchard reaches out to support a debut novelist who is attending the London Book Fair 12–14 March 2019  Dorchester novelist, Gail Aldwin will be at the London Book Fair with Victorina Press the publisher of her debut novel The String Games. This is the story of the abduction of...
The Westbourne Tea Party organised by Bournemouth Coastal BID and Westbourne Business Association drew hundreds of people to WestbourneArcade for a day of royal fun. Hundreds of Westbourne residents and visitors from the wider conurbation of Bournemouth attended the Coastal Businesses Improvement District (BID) and the Westbourne Business Association’s Summer...
Dialectics, as a method of understanding history, is rooted in the philosophical frameworks of G.W.F. Hegel and later adapted by Karl Marx. This approach offers a dynamic and relational way of interpreting historical developments, focusing on the interplay of contradictions, conflicts, and resolutions that drive progression. Examining past events...
The Mayor of Christchurch, Councillor Lesley Dedman, is leading a sincere message of condolence from the council to the borough’s twinned town in New Zealand. Christchurch in Dorset has been twinned with Christchurch, New Zealand since 1975 and the two places share a strong history. Cllr Lesley Dedman, Mayor of...
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 –...
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...