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Dorset
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Between 3pm on 4 January and the morning of 5 January 2024, our highways crews were called out 82 times to deal with issues relating to the significant rainfall across our area. Our multi-skilled crews, each typically comprising two people, cleared gullies and drains blocked with debris washed and blown...
Bournemouth’s new local radio has launched, playing the best songs on the radio and providing a local news and information service 24 hours a day. Bournemouth One is now live with non-stop music sequences and a team of journalists providing updates on local news, weather, traffic, sports, and what’s on...
Tonight, through tomorrow, and into Thursday, Dorset is bracing itself for possibly the biggest storm of the year so far. Rain will then continue to be light and heavy until at least the end of next week. With temperatures rising to record levels for this time of year, snow...

Ben Elton is coming to Poole

Phil McIntyre proudly presents   BEN ELTON AUTHENTIC STUPIDITY Age guidance: 14+ SATURDAY 19 OCTOBER 2024  7.30pm (CONCERT HALL)   Tickets and information 01202 280000   www.lighthousepoole.co.uk    Lighthouse is delighted to announce Ben Elton is set to return to Poole on Saturday 19 October 2024.  Following the huge success of Ben Elton’s critically acclaimed sold-out UK tour in 2019, which marked...
Bournemouth’s Christmas Tree Wonderland and Poole Christmas Maritime Light Festival, organised and managed by BCP Council, both return in 2023, providing spectacular illuminations and fun for all the family. Christchuch is also looking festive, with atmospheric light displays throughout the town centre and down to the Quay. The local BIDs (Business...
A coalition of local Environmental Groups will assemble at Bournemouth Pier Approach on Saturday 9th December from 11am for activities including placard making. At midday, they will slowly march, with their Rhythms Band, through Bournemouth Gardens and up to the Triangle for a rally. They are demanding action on...
Lighthouse is delighted to announce the legendary Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve are to visit Poole as part of a 15-date tour or the UK and Ireland on Wednesday 18 September 2024.  Together they will be playing selections from a songbook that is fifty years long and twice as deep.  It’s...
On Monday 4 December from 8:45 a.m. until 10 a.m., a group of Dorset residents will join about 500 others around the country holding signs outside Bournemouth Crown Court, as part of the growing public campaign Defend Our Juries. Their signs display the centuries-old principle of ‘jury equity’, ie the...

Paul Weller is coming to Poole

THURSDAY 4 APRIL 2024 7.30pm (CONCERT HALL) Age guidance: 14+ standing, under 18s to be accompanied by an adult  Tickets and information 01202 280000   www.lighthousepoole.co.uk    Lighthouse is delighted to announce PAUL WELLER will open his UK tour in Poole on Thursday 4 April 2024.  This year has seen Paul’s tour schedule taken up with extensive travels...
ALADDINPoole’s magical family pantomime   THURSDAY 7 – SUNDAY 31 DECEMBER  Various times (THEATRE)   Tickets and information 01202 280000   www.lighthousepoole.co.uk    For a plain speaking North Yorkshire woman like Ionica Adriana, playing a feisty panto princess with a bit of bite is right up her street.  "Oh definitely, but I have no expectation at all apart from...