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Thursday, November 28, 2024
Officers investigating a fatal road traffic collision on the A31 near Bere Regis are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward. Dorset Police was informed of the incident by the ambulance service at 11.08am on Thursday 18 April 2019. The collision happened at the turn-off to Winterborne Kingston...

Freedom and mental health

I do not know what freedom means. I know I have never experienced it and yet I have an idea what I would want it to mean as a lived experience. I cannot think of anything that could or would impact me more than having a quiet mind. That is...
What would you do if you needed to call the police, but were trapped in a situation in which speaking or making any noise would be dangerous? It’s a terrifying thought, and I genuinely hope nobody reading this ever finds themselves in that scenario. Thankfully, the Silent Solutions procedure was put...
Officers investigating a road traffic collision near Sherborne are appealing for witnesses or anyone with relevant dashcam footage to come forward. At around 5.55am on Friday 5 April 2019 a two-vehicle road traffic collision occurred on the A352 at Middlemarsh, near to the Hunters Moon public house. The vehicles involved...
Police
A man involved in a serious road traffic collision near Dorchester has sadly died from his injuries. Dorset Police was called at 10.19pm on Wednesday 20 March 2019 to reports of a single vehicle collision on the A352 Old Sherborne Road near to Herrison Road involving a black Mini. A 66-year-old...
Officers are appealing for witnesses to come forward following a fatal collision in North Dorset. At 8.57am today, Monday 1 April 2019, officers were called to reports of a two vehicle collision on Ram's Hill near Sturminster Newton involving a silver Peugeot Boxer panel van and a grey Nissan. Very sadly...
A new research study has been published which predicts the death rates for major cancers across Europe in 2019. Ten cancers, including pancreatic, were included in the study which examined six countries and Europe as a whole, including the UK. The researchers looked at men and women separately and also...
Lin Purandare, Head of Care at local dementia care home Waypoints Verwood, has been awarded with a Hidden Hero award from Shine Cancer Support in recognition of her voluntary work with the national charity.  Lin was one of two lucky volunteers to have received the award earlier this year...
Doctors are being forced into 'Primary Care Networks' by May 15th 2019. PCNs are the latest deceptive acronym devised to disguise that they are based on the American model of Health Maintenance Organisations designed to maximise corporate profit by DENYING CARE to patients using DOWN-SKILLED staff doing doctors work, This is...
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) has launched an exciting new health and wellbeing project, ‘Natural Sparkle’. Supported by Southern Co-op, the project aims to provide a suite of nature-based activities that benefit both physical and mental wellbeing for local people and will also help wildlife in the area. The project was...